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what if every resource was prioritized contrapositive to its usefulness? this is the theory presented by a friend of mine who called all the resources "5-resource types". he is chinese so all the resource types were defined to translate into nothing immediately value.
why use the term contrapositive? because it suggests that both the resource is wrong and the application is wrong.
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so take for example this hydroelectric solarpower plant. the chinese have built a solar power plant on a lake. now surely this is a lot more expensive and probably a lot less reliable than building a solar power plant on land or a hydroelectric plant on water. it's like angelina jolie shot a bullet through your right eye to make a wormhole to your left eye with the stated intent of making a bullet come out of your left eye.
there's nothing, in theory, wrong with this temporal depiction. it simply suggests that the alignment is somehow wrong (if also very smart necessarily uneconomical).
suppose for instance we could build an entire metropolis from the gravity fields of nearby star systems. there's nothing that prevents us from handling things this way, it just isn't what we'd ordinarily do. it would be a very robust metropolis and would almost seem to be energy-shielded in some impossible way (as necessarily the cohesive identity would not exist).
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my point of course is there may not be any limiting these infinitely expansive models. hopefully i'm wrong, but as you can see, if we were drawing architectural advice from patterns of nearby solar systems we could just as well be drawing architectural advice from tectonic plates or speculated regions of the multiverse. there's no reason to ever suppose this universal harmony will be defeated on earth.
the problem, as we see from the pareto optimality question is that nothing of long-term value translates into anything of short-term value. it is all useless. the more complex and interesting the civil architecture becomes, the more useless it is. people are less happy today than they were 30 years ago.
if we are always mortgaging the short-term for the long-term or the long-term for the short-term then we're basically shooting a bullet through our brain. this is really what it means to be human.
i see humans as an inflection point:
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if everything is written correctly here then you would have to be intelligent to read it. if you weren't intelligent it would cause you to kill yourself. but since you wouldn't kill yourself unless you were smart you wouldn't read it in the first place. that's the description of the inflection point. reading this could help you but you won't do it therefore it will kill you whether you read it or not.
in that way this message is like LSD: you should be allowed to kill yourself for better or worse every time you take LSD. this is known as ethics and ethics should kill you. if you are going to die, it should be ethical or agree with ethics. since LSD represents ethics in a specific format it is always better to take LSD.
