Jenni and I are back home again in Baltimore, and I’m starting my new job of fixing the economy.
Honestly, I’ve been thinking about assassination. I’m setting out to become a peacemaker and peacemakers don’t live for very long. Gandhi managed to make it to 78, but he wasn’t messing with radical Christianity or Islam.
A guy walked into a children’s play in a Unitarian Church in Knoxville and opened fire with a shotgun. There’s just to much crazy in the world for me to ever really mitigate the possibility that someone is going to decide I’m the Antichrist and want to save the world by taking me out.
I retooled the plan a bit while in India. The goal is simple: transition the world economy to a contract-based distribution system with entrepreneurship capital singly pooled and democratically allocated.
Fundamentally shift the distribution systems to leverage computers to optimize for self-reported satisfaction. Computers will not take over decision making, but they will manage most of the logistics.
To prevent abuse of this system, the data will be completely open. Anyone who thinks there’s a problem with the current recommendations and wants to try their hand at putting another option into the world can do so.
Unlike our current system, it does not rely on individuals to be selfless to not slowly grow more and more unfair. There is no central authority to grow corrupt. It is resistant to paradigm shifts and fundamentally ecologically sound.
The idea makes sense and it ought to catch on. This is why I am so frustrated about the whole assassination thing. I’ve had the sense for a while I’m going to get shot by a conservative Christian who thinks I’m the Antichrist at 38.
The system is going to essentially assign unique identifiers to everyone on the planet. I will be the charismatic inventor and spokesman for this paradigm-altering technology. All it takes is 0.01% of evangelical preachers to decide I’m the devil in disguise and I’ll end up murdered.
I’ve been thinking I’ll focus on making a very public request that any preachers who would like to denounce me should come and meet my wife and parents before doing so. These are the people who will be sad if they get me killed and if they can’t see me as a real person, maybe they can see them.
Otherwise, when their followers believe this new economy is evil and won’t participate, they’ll lose their jobs as things transition to short-term contracts with interviews recommended by artificial intelligences. They won’t put in funding ideas for new businesses, so they’ll stay minimally employed because they’re competing with millions of other applicants from around the globe.
They’ll be increasing marginalized from a world which is using technology to organize their social lives effectively. Eventually, they’re torn between a cornerstone of their faith and their connection to the world. Their church has been telling them Satan is in the world and responsible for what sucks in their life, so when looking for someone to place blame on, I’m going to be an excellent candidate.
I’m in a very Field of Dreams, “if you build it, they will come,” sort of place with respect to this project. I understand the idea well enough now that I’m 85% sure it will work, because I can explain it in terms simply enough to build the social momentum needed to get it going. All it really needs is a spokesperson (a job that carries a unfortunately high risk of death).
Oh well, I suppose I’ve always got my immortal soul. I just really want to get to have kids…
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Yeah any peorson who would want to kill you for trying to fix the global economy, but your idea does fit rather closely to those radical evangelicals out there. But most of those people would be afraid to hurt you if thy thought you were the AntiChrist, because most of them should believe that someone will have to try to kill the would be “Beast”(or at least his face is injured somehow, and magically heals) before he has the chance to come into power, at which point the person’s body will be possessed by Satan, and thus become the Beast.(or somehing along those lines) So, if you were going to be the AntiChrist, you wouldn’t know it. NO ONE WOULD, and no crazy extremist should want to even think about harming you. Just don’t start chipping or marking people on the right hand, arm or forehead, and no one will go apeshit when you give unique identity to people.(as if current biometrics and memory aren’t good enough. We want to end the mayhem right?
We have the technology to do this without pissing people off. If is uses more storage space to identify a person, who cares? it’s not like it wil make everything much slower. I love the idea of making the world a better place, and you have a good idea. It just doesn’t seem entirely original.
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