Jay W. Forrester "The Common Foundation Underlying Physical and Social Systems" https://youtu.be/ddmygPTRjc0?t=552
That is the guy who motivated me to write Spasim <http://spasim.org/>. Subsequent to his "World Model" (no, not the AI morons' notion of "World Model") I was the first guy to respond to it with a Kardashev II scenario (in Spasim's 1974 3D multiplayer game's macrosocial dynamical world simulation incorporating non-terrestrial "anti-entropyp"). The next guy was J. Peter Vajk January 1, 1978 with his book "Doomsday Has Been Cancelled <https://www.amazon.com/Doomsday-been-cancelled-Peter-Vajk/dp/0915238241>". A decade later, I ended up at Science Applications Inc, occupying an office (Roselle St in La Jolla) that kept receiving mail addressed to Vajk. Sheer coincidence, eh? No simulation winking going on there, eh? Gerard O'Neill beat us both by "asking the right question": "Is the surface of a planet really the right place for an expanding technological civilization?" -- and his book "The High Frontier <https://archive.org/details/highfrontierhuma0000onei_y9i8>" beat Vajk's by a year. Although his response included serious engineering calculations, it did not directly incorporate a system dynamics simulation of space resources. That's why, in 1981, when AT&T and the largest newspaper chain hired me to architect a private sector consumer computer networking service, I became O'Neill's "Local Support Team Leader" in Miami. In 1982, the valedictorian speech at Miami High School was on O'Neill's vision for Kardashev II. You might be interested in looking up who gave that speech. Sheer coincidence, eh? No simulation winking going on there, eh? This is all by way of saying that the longer the "techno-optimists" ignore my call for a Hutter-like Prize for the lossless compression of a wide range of longitudinal macrosocial measures... https://github.com/jabowery/HumesGuillotine ...the more likely they are to smell like fat and happy mesopredators by apex predators. An apex predator could drive a wedge between the entrepreneur mesopredators and rentier mesopredators by unifying Robin Hood with Tax Farming: Collecting from the rentier mesopredators to recompense the entrepreneur mesopredators – keeping a fee for the service provided to the entrepreneur mesopredators. The accounting wouldn’t have to be exact to be effective. The IRS doesn’t care about being exact – otherwise it wouldn’t treat individuals during tax audits as though they had the resources of major corporations to keep track of every last dime spent in every category demanded by the tax code. This has only the appearance of exactitude when in reality it is a massive bias against individuals and on behalf of the government which demands that you prove yourself innocent of charges. So the apex predator goes after *the time integral* of the largest real estate holdings (quite convenient as spoils for young men that can’t attract a mate to sire the next generation) and pays Elon Musk what he otherwise would have had if my 1992 reform had been passed. https://forum.policiesforpeople.com/t/a-net-asset-tax-based-on-the-net-present-value-calculation-and-market-democracy/26153 Oh... did I say something about Trump? You didn't watch the video I linked, did you? ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T37f3215671321e25-Ma600f8b77a5b1537f635de37 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
