The Mad Scientists' Lair

Time to get back to work here. The corona virus outbreak has shown the the US and other countries still have the capability to collectively target the productive value capability of an entire society towards a common goal. This includes everything from exploiting an individuals ability to move muscles to place a mask on ones face all the way to the retooling of some industries to produce such things as masks. Few Lair readers will have seen the phenomena before. Certainly i...t occurred in WWII but after that I struggle to find equivalent examples. To review, productive value capability is the mechanism by which productive value is produced and exchanged with other individuals. I, for example, have the productive value capability to design and run sophisticated SW performance tests while my employer has the productive value capability of cash on hand to pay me to do such. My PVC is very specific in nature. My employers PVC is completely arbitrary... which is because of the amazing societal invention of currency. Furthermore, how do individuals became able to come together and actually exchange productive value, or PV, in the first place? They each exchange information describing their respective PVC, allowing each other to predict what future productive value they will ultimately receive after the exchange. Clearly information is a vital ingredient is such exchanges because if I didn’t actually have such skills and/or my employer was not able to make payroll, such information would dramatically affect any transaction between the two of us. Back to corona, from top to bottom and from side to side individuals PVC is being aligned such that their production of PV fits into the complex supply chain needed to arrive at some particular goal, like a 5 minute test to show infection in individuals or a new set of behavioral guidelines to respond to the previous weeks acceleration of infection. Some countries are doing a better job than others. But some also have an advantage of this being the 2nd time they organized such a response. So it’s not fair to compare the US to S Korea, as they already encountered a pandemic in recent history. Just like they are doing a better job now than with their first response, the US will do better next time around as well. Let’s just hope that isn’t 2Q21.... Lets finish with a quick restatement of some of the model. Individuals in social species need each other to survive. Individuals exchange PV using information to describe the PV and PVC to actually produce the PV. PV can be anything from advice given as a result the the PVC resulting from a law degree all the way to the cash to pay the attorney from the monetary net worth of the receiving individual. Simple. As long as there is perfect information....

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Always worth repeating.

Rehash of an old post. I’ve been dormant too long.

This whole concept is exciting. Recent discoveries and thinking regarding plant species using information to communicate with other parts of themselves (in big distributed growth scenarios) and potentially even to other plant species .... ???? !!!! Exchanging productive value described by information is the basis of our thoughts here. It’s how we survive by cooperating with other members of ours and other species. If we find that forests of trees and even our lawns are pas...sing information around, it will be a huge statement of support that our work is fundamentally correct and on target. The single question arises in the example, however: what does one lawn getting cut receive in return for communicating the productive value that negative transactions may be coming to other lawns on the vicinity? Because it nothing is gained, there’s no incentive for that behavior ( altruism really does not exist folks; we always expect a return on anything we do )

Of course they did. The acquiring of the productive value of sex for males of many species is second only to the maintaining of one’s own complete and entire productive value capability.. their life. So it is no surprise that when, upon gaining the technology of storage of arbitrary productive value (currency), they transact with it for sexual fulfillment. I’m sure in a millennia or two they also will be uttering similar language to, Take my wallet. Just don’t beat me over... the head with that stick. The ability to use an arbitrary form of productive value, like currencies, in productive value exchanges is the huge separator between humans and other species and has been the key to our economic advancement into the complex societies of today, versus the tribes of individuals thousands of years ago .... which were not all the different than the troops of monkeys of today.

Old news we talked about here a year ago. But we also talked about the unknown long term effects of overall dilution of the gene pool caused by keeping anyone and everyone alive at all costs. I have children. As horrifying as the thought is, they might not be here without modern medicine, mainly in the form of antibiotics. But what does that mean in a thousand years species perspective? We’ve had a natural balance with bacterial life form since we both existed, albeit mainl...y from the time of animal domestication onward. But the scales tipped some 100 years ago by mold in a petri dish. When....will... it tip back and how far the other way? And the irony when it comes? ... it was indeed at any and all costs.

Timely WRT to the previous octopus post (see below).

Does the octopus fall into the animals that use tools category by the way it repeatedly got the woman to roll the log over, uncovering the food the octopus was trying to get? Few animals use tools. Fewer still make them ( only some primates I recall ).

No one ever talks about the other side of this. The weakened immune system evolving generation after generation because we get to rely on antibiotics to fend off bacteria. Even more fundamentally, we keep in the gene pool those who were previously factored out for millennia after millennia. And the potential result? A bacterial life form coming into existing that we cannot engineer a defense for... with only those who would have survived something similar a thousand years ago getting that chance again, except of course with the implications mentioned in the first paragraph.

When musicians hit a creativity void the result is often a re-spin of old work (usually a live album) Here’s a post of mine from last year lol.

Seems reasonably explained by evolution and survival of the fittest. Brains that could successfully shut down subconscious thoughts, especially those related to sensory inputs regarding changing environmental conditions would be selected out as their owners would less likely live to procreate: just ignore the thought of that bear over there, everything will be fine. Not. Instead the information you are trying to ignore represents the potential complete loss of all productive value capability you’ve acquired in your life through one involuntary negative profit transaction coming your way. Better not ignore it

I have taken a long break from this work, as all know from my lack of posts. But today this two year old live lecture I did popped up in my memories and for fun I thought I’d listen. Although there has been refinement in the concepts presented here, the base information provided in this old lecture still stands as a good introduction to one of the core tenets of our model. Have a refresher listen. Comment. Motive me off my @&)& to get back to work on this stuff.