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This is a great article. How it ended up on HN I don't know, but can somebody please start submitting more like this, and fewer techno-babble thinkpieces by junior javascript contractors who host their own mail?
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> In the future we’ll pull people up to the floor, but that doesn’t require attaching a ceiling. It absolutely does, right up until the exact future moment when EVERYONE is pulled up above (well above) the (bottom) floor. In other words no one should be at liberty to seek the ceiling until EVERYONE is out of the basement. > The will never be a successful society that substantially punishes achievement above a certain…
> In other words no one should be at liberty to seek the ceiling until EVERYONE is out of the basement. Can you explain your reasoning?
One if the worst parts of poverty is that it steals all of your time! All your time is devoted to just surviving, so you can never really better you situation. You want to improve your situation? Not happening, you gotta work 60 hours this week so you cant study for that AWS cert or medical coding cert. Then the job you work is most likely dead end with no advancement or fake advancement. So you live pay check to pay…
What you said has been my lived experience since I graduated from college in 1999. I'm coming up on 25 years of living month to month, with nearly all of my hopes and dreams dashed by the necessity of having to pull the yoke in the workaday world. I was one of the gifted kids who probably should have worked at NASA, but nobody warned me that I'd grow up to be a people-pleaser due to ADHD symptoms. I didn't know how i…
That was a little too woo-woo. What I was trying to say is, I no longer believe that time is linear, but relative and based on observation. Consciousness perceives time as a series of moments, where each moment comprises a reality (a life). So the time when I posted my comment and the time that you read it are the same instant in conscious time, when our potential realities collapsed into shared reality.
Why would I subscribe to such a roundabout explanation of time? Because it provides a lifeline out of the matrix. If one can entertain the idea that consciousness transcends 4D spacetime, then it's not such a stretch to think of possible future outcomes as their own realities neighboring ours in the multiverse at this instant in time (because it's always now).
Consciousness influences probability by shifting into the reality where a desired outcome occurs, which is called manifestation (how conscious awareness co-creates evolution for its own existence). So free will can't be detected by experiments running in any single reality, because they only record what happens in the old reality that consciousness just left, not the new reality that consciousness is entering. That's why many scientists believe that free will doesn't exist, even though it obviously does (they just can't explain it).
Which has implications for reincarnation, because when we witness someone passing on, we can't see what they experienced. From their perspective, they either shift into a neighboring reality where they're still alive because they dodged the incident that took their life, or their soul evolves a new body that supports perception. Which may take millions of years or even happen on a "past" timeline on the long tail of probability, but no time passes for their soul, since that requires conscious awareness. They just wake up as someone else without their memories and we don't get to be with them anymore.
And if one is willing to entertain those ideas, then one of the conclusions is that our souls are connected through source consciousness, meaning that we are all one. We're all the same observer witnessing every aspect of the universe throughout all of time. Part of God, the universe and everything fracturing itself into infinite observers so that it can experience connection, rather than being alone in some singularity on the number line of all possible outcomes. In other words, we are all divine as aspects of the creator (or creation).
Which challenges organized religion and authoritarian power structures. Nobody wants to be reminded that the meat they're eating is an aspect of themselves in another life. Or that they'll be the person they're exploiting in their next life.
My words are imperfect. The rabbit hole of ascension ends in playing the fool. This nonsensical babble is no more descriptive than simply pondering existence in a meditative state of Zen. But I believe it provides a useful framework for understanding how our current course of colonization, slavery, exploitation, profit, wealth inequality, etc etc etc create a living hell for billions of us so that the ego-driven ones can rule it. When we could have heaven on Earth if we prioritized optimal individual experience for every person and all living things.
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If the people who ran that study were really as smart as they pretend to be, as they are from Harvard, they would understand how even their own thoughts, the language they speak and so on, all happened because they were lucky. Let me repeat to you, as you seem unable to read and comprehend what I have previously written, it can be reading comprehension issue, so I won't judge you negatively like Harvard, an elitist s…
I grant you all of this (for argument's sake). However, none of it actually addresses the merits of the "zero-sum" claim about capitalism or the claim that economic disparity will in the future be regarded in the same way as racism. Also maybe I'm blind, but I don't think we've interacted before.
I've been browsing here for a very long time. Anecdotally I've noticed a pickup in the lack of progress, or degradation in threads, especially when it comes to economic systems and the corresponding bias that comes with it. I don't necessarily agree or disagree with you, but you've followed the HN guidelines, being insulted several times along the way.
Old HN there was of course some bias and debate, but it hardly ever resolved to petty insults about reading comprehension.
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What you said has been my lived experience since I graduated from college in 1999. I'm coming up on 25 years of living month to month, with nearly all of my hopes and dreams dashed by the necessity of having to pull the yoke in the workaday world. I was one of the gifted kids who probably should have worked at NASA, but nobody warned me that I'd grow up to be a people-pleaser due to ADHD symptoms. I didn't know how i…
(where we are now at the time of this writing) That was a little too woo-woo. What I was trying to say is, I no longer believe that time is linear, but relative and based on observation. Consciousness perceives time as a series of moments, where each moment comprises a reality (a life). So the time when I posted my comment and the time that you read it are the same instant in conscious time, when our potential realit…
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cause/effect mechanic science action knowledge intelligence productivity/success
vs:
manifestation miracle magic perception awareness wisdom consciousness
Modern technology is becoming indistinguishable from magic. So "modern" approaches applying intelligence are finding themselves trailing "ancient" practices divining wisdom.
I think that moving from objective reason to subjective meaning could heal much of what is wrong with the world.
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You don't need to resort to extremely basic non-real world examples to show how capitalism works out when we live in a world full of capitalism. Just because something seems like it _should_ be possible, doesn't mean that other worse consequences won't manifest.
This is an exceptionally real example. People invent things all the time and build companies around their ideas. It's not "should", it's "is". This is happening, all over the place, right now.
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This is an exceptionally real example. People invent things all the time and build companies around their ideas. It's not "should", it's "is". This is happening, all over the place, right now.
I'm afraid I fundamentally disagree with your rose tinted view of capitalism.
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I'm afraid I fundamentally disagree with your rose tinted view of capitalism.
You disagree with reality then, because what I'm writing is descriptive and not subject to opinion.
All the best.
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You disagree with reality then, because what I'm writing is descriptive and not subject to opinion.
My earlier statement re. whether or not you're delusional stands then. All the best.