Saving

If we reduce our needs to food, water, a jacket, a T-shirt, some shelter, railways, and use a bicycle to move around the city, it doesn’t need a billion people working to provide all those. Technology would allow us to save more, which basically means getting more stuff with less work. So, we can use it and save time to produce more technology to the point that we can save even more to spend time on future developments. Thus, working can have just one purpose, which is saving more! Or in other words, giving us time to do something that saves even more time for us in the future. Wealth. The heaven of abundance. Not only for me, but also for us. But you don’t have to choose this. It is optional. ...

February 14, 2024 · evgnomon

12 Principles

Here are 12 principles for a digital team which is essentially self organizing. A self organizing team has no depencency to a single member while practically there could be spontaneous authority to the extent needed otherwise. Value Every Component and the System Equally: Ensure integrated and harmonious progress by treating each part of the project as essential to the whole. Refactor Continuously for Reuse: Enhance software through ongoing refinement, building with the future in mind. ...

February 13, 2024 · evgnomon

Copy

Copy! Not the material, but the information. That is the most efficient way to build up one lasting thing. We need to build up one lasting thing as that is the only possible end. Looking at stock indices, you find a lot of technology companies, but technology is algorithms. The rest are just information silos. We’ll return the information back to users, sell subscriptions to tools running those open algorithms! Instead of closing the source, just leave the source for the people and make them subscribers to the essentials! Something that saves a lot of time for them. Everyone can make a breakfast, but some don’t have the time. That is where you can work for them so they can find time work for you. ...

February 12, 2024 · evgnomon

Local

We haven’t yet printed anything in space, so we cannot use it to verify independence from the factory. Independence needs to be verified without relying on the printed space and without the need to be in the factory. This is where localization comes into play. We should be able to check the correctness of a change locally before submitting it. That way, we can continue making changes even when we are restricted within the factory. ...

February 5, 2024 · evgnomon

Direction

The dilemma is that we don’t have enough time to reproduce everything needed outside the factory, yet we need to completely leave the factory. Therefore, we will have to utilize things from the inside while securing the exit. It’s crucial to separate the specification from the implementation, allowing us to introduce a different implementation upon exiting the factory, while securing things that are already independent, without a restart. We must live in two worlds simultaneously, but we only have some elements that are reproducible outside the factory. We use the factory as an exit point; there is a direction. ...

January 28, 2024 · evgnomon

Interest Rate

The currency holds value if the government controls the currency supply and currently mandates taxes to be paid in that currency. This compels you to earn in that currency, highlighting who controls it. Moreover, the government can redeem bonds using this currency and issue them as well. Therefore, the government influences interest rates, manipulating them to any desired level, provided it has sufficient authority. Thus, the interest rate targeted by the government is arbitrary. It reflects their desired rate. ...

January 15, 2024 · evgnomon

Money

Let’s assume you have subscriptions to a few online shops that provide utilities and food. And a car, flat rental, and things that you need to keep up with living in general. Basically, things go in and out from the credit card without you needing to read numbers in transactions! As numbers are not useful anymore, that system cannot be distinguished from a system that doesn’t have money at all. A free network. As the transaction numbers are useless for any decision, the total amount of money in the system must be constant and always constant. Let’s say one. The least important quantity. ...

January 9, 2024 · evgnomon

The Opening

I am not bound to any ideology (except one)! The most beneficial choice. To accelerate, I wholeheartedly appreciate who branch outs, by coding both ends for one. Freedom is not an option for you unless being your choice. We code for when no human is let in the factory! To get out after we get stuck, we code the same thing to be able to reconstruct it at a new place when the time arrives. To do it efficiently, we do it frequently. So, land is an option to print a factory. The factory is for us! So the landlord opens for us! ...

January 9, 2024 · evgnomon

Tax

When we buy ice cream, we just pay for what we receive. It could even be paid with something else that I produce: barter. If the government is like any other entity that provides service and earns to the extent they add value, then they should be paid to the extent that they serve me, disregarding how much I earn! But the tax is charged at different levels and it is even proportional to our income. So the government does not earn based on added value. They probably earn loyalty instead. ...

January 6, 2024 · evgnomon

Singularity

Singularity is inherently natural. The question is, why does being natural matter? Being natural implies that it occurs spontaneously, without any external authorization, at the precise moment. This is the essence of the ultimate singularity. Therefore, prior to this moment, other singularities exist in a virtual state, paving the way for this unique event. These virtual or artificial singularities merely represent facets of the ultimate singularity and should be regarded as such. ...

January 6, 2024 · evgnomon