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- "What's your go to market plan?"
+ "And tagged air is safe?"
+
+ "Scientifically proven. We conducted a rigorous 3 month controlled experiment and observed no harmful effects. Actually, our results are about to be published in Nature."
+
+ "Brilliant. What's your go to market plan?"
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+ title MODO: A Method to Increase Truth
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+ To understand something is to be able to mentally visualize it in motion in your head. Let's call this a truthful model.
+
+ endSnippet
+
+ People try to communicate these models in words. At best, these models will be lossy. Often, they are downright fraudulent.
+
+ There is a _ton_ of hard earned truth out there, unfortunately it's unevenly distributed and often buried under lies.
+
+ Whether the model you are given is a story made of words, or a film documentary, or a 3D simulation, how can you gauge its accuracy?
+
+ I developed a technique that is very simple and works very well.
+
+ It involves writing down simple facts in a simple way that easily converts to a spreadsheet.
+
+ No matter what the thing you are trying to understand is, the trick to getting closer to truth is to build a spreadsheet with:
+
+ *M*ore:
+ 1. *O*bservations
+ 2. *D*imensions
+ 3. *O*rthoganality
+
+ # More Observations
+
+ Observations are the rows in your spreadsheet.
+
+ Let's say you are trying to understand the moon. If you only took 1 "shape" observation in the middle of a lunar cycle, you might say the moon is a half circle.
+
+ If you take multiple observations your model of its shape will get closer to a true model.
+
+ # More Dimensions
+
+ Dimensions are the columns in your spreadsheet.
+
+ If you not only measure the moon's shape but also it's position in the sky you will get closer to a true model.
+
+ # More Orthogonality
+
+ Orthogonality is a measure of how much redundancy there is in your observations.
+
+ If you measure the moon's shape at 100 slightly different times a day from 100 slightly different locations, you've increased the observations and dimensions a lot without increasing your understanding much.
+
+ If you were to plant a temperature sensor on the moon or add images from a high powered telescope, you are adding orthogonal data that improves the truthiness of your model.
+
+ The idea is you want to not just make many measurements from many angles, but you also want to look at things from _wildly_ different angles. These different perspectives can often be critical for preventing cherry-picked datasets that present overly simplified or misleading models.
+
+ ***
+
+ You can use this method to build a model to understand anything, no matter how complex.
+
+ Of course, the human brain has a limited context window and you can only work on a little bit of your model at one time. To solve this we developed a technology called ScrollSets that let's you chip away at building a model of anything. ScrollSets let's you incrementally build a model, adding as many or as few concepts and measurements at once as you want. Everything is simple plain text, fully tracked by version control, and compiles to a spreadsheet. When a new idea strikes for increasing the orthogonality of your model, it's very easy to add.
+ link scrollsets.html ScrollSets
+
+ ****
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- "This is a government's dream. Imagine laws requiring masks. No one can take a breathe without the government knowing about it. Total control of the air."
+ "A government's dream! Imagine laws requiring masks. No one can take a breathe without the government knowing about it. Total control of the air."
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- "Get the government as a partner. Pass laws requiring the masks."
+ "Tagged air for safety?"
- "Precisely. We also happen to forecast that untagged air will increasingly become more and more dangerous. We expect poisonings and other tragedies. I wouldn't be surprised if someday the only ones breathing untagged air are terrorists."
+ "Yes! We forecast that untagged air will increasingly be blamed for more and more incidents. We expect poisonings and other tragedies. I wouldn't be surprised if someday the only ones breathing untagged air are terrorists."
+
+ "Is this something governments would support?"
+
+ "This is a government's dream. Imagine laws requiring masks. No one can take a breathe without the government knowing about it. Total control of the air."
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- "Royalties for generations."
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- "Move fast. Create a frenzy. 'Right now 99.99% of air is unowned. Tag your share, before someone else does.' We let people know there hasn't been a land grab like this since the Great Western Expansion."
+ "Move fast. Create a frenzy. 'Right now 99.99% of oxygen is unowned. Tag your share, before someone else does.' We let people know there hasn't been a land grab like this since the Great Western Expansion."
- "A few decades, tops. It will go slow at first, but once it catches on we expect people will travel to the ends of the earth to find unencoded neutrons."
+ "A few decades. It will go slow at first, but once it catches on we expect people will travel to the ends of the earth to find wild neutrons."
- "You earn royalties on the air you own, you pay for the air you don't. We add a 5% transaction fee."
+ "You get paid when someone breathes your oxygen; you pay when you breathe someone else's. We add a transaction fee on top. The mask tracks it all. We send you a statement each month."
- "So some people will be turning a profit?"
+ "So some people will turn a profit?"
- "Just a few. We've modeled it out. Air rights are reassignable, of course, so we expect most breathers will actually sell their rights to us quite early, and quite cheap."
+ "Just a few heavy breathers, yes. We've modeled it out. Oxygen rights are reassignable, of course, so we expect most breathers will actually sell their rights to us quite early, and quite cheap."
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+ "How much information in each neutron?"
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+
+ "It's more comfortable than it looks."
+
+ "And this just v1. By v10 it will be as lightweight as a surgical mask."
+
+ "And how long does the gluon encoding last?"
+
+ "Thousands of years. Once you've tagged an atom, it's yours for life."
+
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+
+ "And the lives of my ancestors."
+
+ "Royalties for generations."
+
+ "And how high can you get the coverage?"
+
+ "In theory, above 99 percent. The model you're wearing now is doing 5%."
+
+ "Incredible. So how many atoms am I claiming right now?"
+
+ "Fifty quintillion. Every time you breathe out, the nanopores in the mask gluon-encode fifty quintillion atoms."
+
+ "Hey, I'm working hard to make this CO2, I should get paid for it."
+
+ "And now you will."
+
+ "How much information is being stored"
+
+ "256 bits. Enough to fit a wallet id.
+
+ "I've been waiting years for a business like this."
+
+ "Well we've finally built it."
+
+ "What's your go to market plan?"
+
+ "Move fast. Create a frenzy. 'Right now 99.99% of air is unowned. Tag your share, before someone else does.' We let people know there hasn't been a land grab like this since the Great Western Expansion."
+
+ "How long until the whole atmosphere is tagged?"
+
+ "A few decades, tops. It will go slow at first, but once it catches on we expect people will travel to the ends of the earth to find unencoded neutrons."
+
+ "And the revenue model?"
+
+ "You earn royalties on the air you own, you pay for the air you don't. We add a 5% transaction fee."
+
+ "So some people will be turning a profit?"
+
+ "Just a few. We've modeled it out. Air rights are reassignable, of course, so we expect most breathers will actually sell their rights to us quite early, and quite cheap."
+
+ "So eventually we'll own all of the air?"
+
+ "Most of it anyway. Someday we'll monetize almost every breathe. Everyone will be a subscriber, eventually. The greatest business model ever invented."
+
+ "But once people are paying more than they're making, what's to stop them from just taking off their masks?"
+
+ "We'll make that very hard. Huge PR campaigns. We'll promote the superiority of tagged air versus untagged air. Film, shows, books, schools especially, we'll ensure everyone is taught from an early age that tagged air is the way to go. It will be ubiquitous yet subtle."
+
+ "You can also make it capitalism vs communism."
+
+ "Absolutely. Shared air is a communist idea. If you're against tagged air, you're against property rights."
+
+ "Get the government as a partner. Pass laws requiring the masks."
+
+ "Precisely. We also happen to forecast that untagged air will increasingly become more and more dangerous. We expect poisonings and other tragedies. I wouldn't be surprised if someday the only ones breathing untagged air are terrorists."
+
+ "Amazing."
+
+ "Tagged air will save the world."
+
+ "I'll be honest, this is the best presentation I've seen in my career. I'm in. Let's talk valuation."
+
+ "Great to have you aboard."
+
+ "Do you mind if I keep this one?"
+
+ "Not at all. You're earning money on your investment already."
+
+ "Marvelous!"
+
+ ****
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- Now some modern day heroes are clandestine Information Cleaners, building and expanding projects like LibGen and Anna's Archive. These people are secretly keeping civilization from tumbling into a dark age.
+ Now some modern day heroes are clandestine Information Cleaners, building and expanding projects like LibGen and Anna's Archive and archive.today. These people are secretly keeping civilization from tumbling into a dark age.
+ https://archive.vn/ archive.today
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- An Information Cleaner is a person who takes in all the material being published into our information atmosphere and cleanses it: they make it transformable, searchable, modifiable, accessible, free of ads and trackers, auditable, connected to other information where relevant, and so on.
+ An Information Cleaner is a person who takes in all the material being published in our information atmosphere and cleanses it: they make it transformable, searchable, modifiable, accessible, free of ads and trackers, auditable, connected to other information where relevant, and so on.
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis Libgen
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+ Clean information is bits encoded as simply and noise-free as technology allows. Clean information is easy to move and to copy. Clean information is easy to search. It is easy to dice and remix. Clean information has had all toxins removed, such as ads and trackers (or at the least, it is in a form where those can be easily removed). Clean information comes with provenance information. It comes with hashed change information.
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- Clean information is not Netflix. It is not Prime Video. It is not Disney Plus or Nature.com or The New York Times. All of those are _unclean_ information. Are _toxic information_. Anything with DRM, any thing claiming to be under "license", anything with a paywall, anything without source code. All of that is toxic. And Americans should be allowed to clean it up.
+ Clean information is not Netflix. It is not Prime Video. It is not Disney Plus or Nature.com or The New York Times. All of those are _dirty_ information. Information with DRM; information claiming to be "licensed"; information with a paywall; information without source code; all of this is dirty information. And Americans should be allowed to clean it up.
- Now some modern day heroes are clandestine Information Cleaners, building and expanding projects like Libgen and Anna's Archive. These people are secretly keeping civilization from tumbling into a dark age, and we all owe them a huge debt of thanks.
+ Now some modern day heroes are clandestine Information Cleaners, building and expanding projects like LibGen and Anna's Archive. These people are secretly keeping civilization from tumbling into a dark age.
+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis Libgen
+ https://annas-archive.org/ Anna's Archive
- While those brave souls risk their lives and liberty to prevent civilization from collapsing into an information-controlled dystopia, some of us need to be proselytizing in public and making the case as to why Information Cleaning should be a root right, enshrined in the Constitution and revered at the same level as freedom of speech; freedom of the press; freedom of religion.
+ While they risk their lives and liberty to prevent civilization from collapsing into an information-controlled dystopia, some of us need to be proselytizing in public and making the case as to why Information Cleaning should be a root right, enshrined in the Constitution and revered at the same level as freedom of speech; freedom of the press; freedom of religion.
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- There is currently a job that is illegal in the United States, to the great detriment of our citizens. That is the job of "Information Cleaner."
+ There is a job that is currently illegal in the United States, to the great detriment of our citizens. That is the job of "Information Cleaner."
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- This is a hard and _extremely_ important job, and it's currently made illegal by copyright law. As a result, our information environment is like an aquarium with no filter: opaque and toxic.
+ This is a hard and _extremely_ important job, and it's currently made illegal by copyright law. As a result, our information environment is as dirty and toxic as an aquarium with no filter.
+
+ toxic.jpg
+ caption Our information environment is as dirty and toxic as an aquarium with no filter.
+ // Image generated by Grok
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+
+ There is currently a job that is illegal in the United States, to the great detriment of our citizens. That is the job of "Information Cleaner."
+
+ An Information Cleaner is a person who takes in all the material being published into our information atmosphere and cleanses it: they make it transformable, searchable, modifiable, accessible, free of ads and trackers, auditable, connected to other information where relevant, and so on.
+
+ These people are not primarily focused on the production of new information, but rather on cleaning and enhancing the information that has already been produced.
+
+ This is a hard and _extremely_ important job, and it's currently made illegal by copyright law. As a result, our information environment is like an aquarium with no filter: opaque and toxic.
+
+ ***
+
+ # Clean information
+
+ Clean information is bits encoded as simply and noise-free as technology allows. Clean information is easy to move and to copy. Clean information is easy to search. It is easy to dice and remix. Clean information has had all toxins removed, such as ads and trackers (or at the least, it is in a form where those can be easily removed). Clean information comes with provenance information. It is tracked by hashed change control.
+
+ Clean information is not Netflix. It is not Prime Video. It is not Disney Plus or Nature.com or The New York Times. All of those are _unclean_ information. Are _toxic information_. Anything with DRM, any thing claiming to be under "license", anything with a paywall, anything without source code. All of that is toxic. And Americans should be allowed to clean it up.
+
+ ***
+
+ # The Underground Information Cleaners
+
+ Now some modern day heroes are clandestine Information Cleaners, building and expanding projects like Libgen and Anna's Archive. These people are secretly keeping civilization from tumbling into a dark age, and we all owe them a huge debt of thanks.
+
+ While those brave souls risk their lives and liberty to prevent civilization from collapsing into an information-controlled dystopia, some of us need to be proselytizing in public and making the case as to why Information Cleaning should be a root right, enshrined in the Constitution and revered at the same level as freedom of speech; freedom of the press; freedom of religion.
+
+ ***
+
+ # Information does not lead to a better world; Clean information does
+
+ In the past 50 years Americans were misled to think it was the quantity of information that was the thing to optimize for. This is false. The thing to optimize for is the _cleanliness_ of information. It is far better to have the infrastructure in place to clean information, rather than to produce information. It is vastly easier to produce valuable new information once you've cleaned up all existing information.
+
+ In that sense, the way to properly incentivize the production of new information is to make legal the cleaning of old information.
+
+ If we want to make our air clean, if we want to make our food clean, if we want to make our bodies clean, we first have to make our information clean.
+
+ ****
+
+ # Related posts
+
+ printRelated IntellectualFreedom
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- If your language has no restrictions, than there are no parsers for your readers to memorize, and messages in your language don't trigger anything specific at all. Every reading would trigger a random effect in the reader.
+ If your language has no restrictions, then there are no parsers for your readers to memorize, and messages in your language don't trigger anything specific at all. Every reading would trigger a random effect in the reader.
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- Likewise, you can't read something not composed of things you've read before. So your brain is composed of a large number of parsers, of memories, that are like the restrictions of a defined language.
+ Likewise, you can't read something unlesss it's composed of things you've read before. So your brain is composed of a large number of parsers, of memories, that are like the restrictions of a defined language.
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- Likewise, you can't read something not composed of things you've never read before. So your brain is composed of a large number of parsers, of memories, that are like the restrictions of a defined language.
+ Likewise, you can't read something not composed of things you've read before. So your brain is composed of a large number of parsers, of memories, that are like the restrictions of a defined language.
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- You can't parse something you've never seen before. At the very least, it has to be at least composed of things you've seen before.
+ You can't see something you've never seen before. At the very least, it has to be at least composed of things you've seen before.
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- You can't see something you've never seen before. At the very least, it has to be at least composed of things you've seen before.
+ You can't parse something you've never seen before. At the very least, it has to be at least composed of things you've seen before.
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- If you want to communicate something specific to your reader, you need to understand what parsers they are going to parser you writing with.
+ If you want to communicate something specific to your reader, you need to understand what parsers they are going to parse your writing with.
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+ # Further reading
+ - Characteristica universalis
+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristica_universalis
+ - Encyclopedia_Galactica
+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_Galactica
+
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+ If a pedestrian on the sidewalk is hit by a falling branch from a decaying tree on your property you are liable.
+
+ ***
+
+ If those who insist on calling copyrights and patents "Intellectual Property" wish to continue to do that, I say we make them embrace all the responsibilities of property as well.
+
+ - If © TV programs carry ads for sugary drinks, and sugar turns out to cause many diseases, those TV networks are also liable.
+ - If actors and actresses star in those © ads, they are also liable.
+ - If newspaper © pages have ads for painkillers that turn out to be far more addictive than advertised, the paper is also liable.
+ - If a © textbook contains a model of health that turns out to be inaccurate and harmful, then the publisher(s) and author(s) are also liable.
+ - If a © song is played on a radio station in between ads for products that turn out to cause harm, the station and the musician(s) are also liable.
+ - If a non-public domain search engine shows ads for products that turn out to cause harm, that search engine is also liable.
+ - If a © software program causes its users to lose a signficant amount of time or resources, the software maker is also liable.
+ - If anyone claiming © over some media fails to update that media as soon as mistakes are discovered, they are liable.
+
+ ***
+
+ Or do they just want all of the benefits of property rights, with none of the responsibilities?
+
+ ****
+
+ # Related posts
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- caption The model proposed here. Mania is too many mitochondria; depression too few. We predict it is possible to detect mood state from optical images of certain cells and counting stained mitochondria.
+ caption The model proposed here. Mania is too much mitochondria; depression too little. We predict it is possible to detect mood state from optical images of certain cells and counting mitochondrial volume.
- Mania is too many mitochondria; depression too few.
+ Mania is too much mitochondria; depression too little.
- *Mitolevel* is mitochondrial count divided by cell count ($ML$ = $M/C$).
+ *Mitolevel* is mitochondrial volume divided by cell volume ($ML$ = $M/C$).
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- Individuals who experience severe depression take a long time to recover, which matches a model where the cell is filled with debris (likely from dead mitochondria from a manic episode) preventing the restoration of a healthy mitolevel.
+ Individuals who experience severe depression take a long time to recover, which matches a model where the cell is depleted of mitochondria (likely from dead mitochondria from resource exhausition during a manic episode) preventing the restoration of a healthy mitolevel.
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- quote New: let's get to work! Join the subreddit
+ > New: let's get to work! Join the subreddit
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+ quote New: let's get to work! Join the subreddit
+ https://www.reddit.com/r/AaronsAmendment/ subreddit
+
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- caption I failed Aaron two times. The first when I was working with him to run his Python scripts at Duke (I was a new programmer at the time and pinged him with many questions). The second was when I did nothing when he was being prosecuted for liberating ideas to liberate minds.
+ caption I failed Aaron two times. The first when I was working with him to run his Python scripts at Duke (I was a new programmer at the time and pinged him with many questions). The second was when I did nothing when he was being prosecuted for liberating ideas to liberate minds. I will not fail him a third time.
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- When the debate is on details like what is the ideal length of monopolies, or when illogical terms like "Intellectual Property" are used, you've already conceded too much, and are fighting for local maxima.
+ When the debate is on details like what is the ideal length of monopolies, or when illogical terms like "Intellectual Property" are used, you've already conceded too much, and are giving up your strongest weapon: truth.
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- It would be intellectually dishonest of me to say that.
+ It would be intellectually dishonest of me to say that. I am always open to intelligent experiments that would show otherwise.
- But I am highly confident it would be a huge improvement based on empirical evidence and theoretical math.
+ But at this point I am _99% confident_ it would be the single most massive positive improvement we can make in our world, based on empirical evidence and theoretical math.
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- The below proposal is 213 characters.
+ The below proposal is 34 words.
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+ caption I failed Aaron two times. The first when I was working with him to run his Python scripts at Duke (I was a new programmer at the time and pinged him with many questions). The second was when I did nothing when he was being prosecuted for liberating ideas to liberate minds.
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+ date 2025-02-07
+ // originally posted 2021-05-12 as "Intellectual Freedom Amendment"
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- I suggest we organize around a simple long-term vision of passing a new Intellectual Freedom Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ending patents and copyrights once and for all.
+ I suggest we organize around a simple long-term vision of passing a new Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ending patents and copyrights once and for all.
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- I suggest we rally around a simple long-term vision of passing a new Intellectual Freedom Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ending patents and copyrights once and for all.
+ I suggest we organize around a simple long-term vision of passing a new Intellectual Freedom Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ending patents and copyrights once and for all.
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+ If our government is going to make laws governing information, then we should optimize for truth and signal, over lies and noise.
+
+ The objective should not be maximizing the ability to make money off of information. Nature provides natural incentives for discovering new truths, we don't need any unnatural ones. In fact, the unnatural incentives on information production actually incentivize lying and noise, rather than truth generation.
+ whyDoWeSubsidizeLies.html incentivize lying and noise
+
+ I'm surprised this is such a minority opinion, but very few people are with me on this (those that already are---❤️).
+
+ ***
+
+ What kind of a system maximizes truth?
+
+ Well, what is truth?
+
+ Truth is when someone publishes a set of symbols with the claim that they accurately predict something about the world and then later sensors verify that those symbols did accurately predict it.
+
+ These truths are extremely helpful. They give us warm buildings, useful electricity, cures for disease, lenses to see more, safe transportation, and so on.
+
+ There are also kinds of information that might not necessarily make accurate predictions about the world but don't pretend to. Fictional stories or songs or jokes meant to amuse. These are fine and also have natural incentives (the love and admiration from your peers, for example).
+
+ Then there are lies. These are symbols that claim to predict things about the world that don't, in fact, hold up when the sensor data comes in. Much of advertising falls in this category.
+
+ Finally, there is also noise. Noise is often truths repackaged in extremely verbose, obfuscated, or scrambled order that wastes people's time and can mislead.
+
+ ***
+
+ Other than total censorship, I cannot think of a worse information policy than the one we currently have in this country, where it is not legal for someone to edit published information and republish their edited versions. Where it is illegal for someone to create a repository of maximal truth.
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+ We need smart people to delete all this noise, to distill all the signal, and deliver truthful, efficient information to the public. This needs to be legal, not illegal.
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+ Truth needs to be the thing to optimize for, not royalties.
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+ It's time for the IFA.
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- If you've thought deeply about copyrights and patents, you've probably figured out that they are bad for progress and deeply unjust. This post is for you.
- dateline
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- (If you are new to this issues, you might be more interested in my other posts on Intellectual Freedom)
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-
- ***
-
- # A Proposal
-
- I suggest we rally around a simple long-term vision of passing a new Intellectual Freedom Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ending patents and copyrights once and for all.
- https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution/blob/master/Constitution.md U.S. Constitution
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- The below proposal is 213 characters.
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- quote
- Section 1. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of this Constitution is hereby repealed.
- Section 2. Congress shall make no law granting monopolies on ideas, knowledge, or inventions, or prohibiting the free use thereof.
-
- I have only passed a handful of Amendments to the U.S. Constitution in my lifetime 😉, so discussion welcome.
-
- ****
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- # Notes
-
- I am not 100% certain that if we abolished copyright and patent systems the world would be a better place.
-
- It would be intellectually dishonest of me to say that.
-
- But I am highly confident it would be a huge improvement based on empirical evidence and theoretical math.
- eta.html theoretical math
- https://cds.cern.ch/record/1164399/ empirical evidence
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- It would take a lot of thought to do it right, but I know we could pull the transition off without as much disruption as people fear.
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- The bigger problem is this debate is not being had.
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- The problem is our side needs a better starting position.
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- When the debate is on details like what is the ideal length of monopolies, or when illogical terms like "Intellectual Property" are used, you've already conceded too much, and are fighting for local maxima.
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- A stronger and more logical place to have the debate is upstream of that: debate whether we should have these systems at all.
-
- I think the Amendment Strategy is clear enough, concrete enough, simple enough that you could get critical mass and start moving the debate upstream.
-
- _The best defense is a good offense_. It's an adage, but there's usually some truth to adages.
-
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- https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/bill-of-rights The Bill of Rights
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- The kind of people I think may be ready to organize would be lovers of open source, Linux, Sci-Hub, the Internet Archive, OG Napster; the followers of Aaron Swartz, Alexandra Elbakian and Stephan Kinsella; and all that truly love ideas and believe every human should get their own copy of humanity's most intelligent information.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub Sci-Hub
- https://archive.org/ the Internet Archive
- http://aaronsw.com/ Aaron Swartz
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napster Napster
- https://www.kernel.org/ Linux
- https://x.com/ringo_ring Alexandra Elbakian
- https://www.stephankinsella.com/ Stephan Kinsella
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+ title The Intellectual Freedom Amendment
+
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+
+ If you've thought deeply about copyrights and patents, you've probably figured out that they are bad for progress and deeply unjust. This post is for you.
+ dateline
+
+ (If you are new to this issues, you might be more interested in my other posts on Intellectual Freedom)
+ freedom.html Intellectual Freedom
+
+ ***
+
+ # A Proposal
+
+ I suggest we rally around a simple long-term vision of passing a new Intellectual Freedom Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ending patents and copyrights once and for all.
+ https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution/blob/master/Constitution.md U.S. Constitution
+
+ The below proposal is 213 characters.
+
+ quote
+ Section 1. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of this Constitution is hereby repealed.
+ Section 2. Congress shall make no law granting monopolies on ideas, knowledge, or inventions, or prohibiting the free use thereof.
+
+ I have only passed a handful of Amendments to the U.S. Constitution in my lifetime 😉, so discussion welcome.
+
+ ****
+
+ # Notes
+
+ I am not 100% certain that if we abolished copyright and patent systems the world would be a better place.
+
+ It would be intellectually dishonest of me to say that.
+
+ But I am highly confident it would be a huge improvement based on empirical evidence and theoretical math.
+ eta.html theoretical math
+ https://cds.cern.ch/record/1164399/ empirical evidence
+
+ It would take a lot of thought to do it right, but I know we could pull the transition off without as much disruption as people fear.
+
+ The bigger problem is this debate is not being had.
+
+ The problem is our side needs a better starting position.
+
+ When the debate is on details like what is the ideal length of monopolies, or when illogical terms like "Intellectual Property" are used, you've already conceded too much, and are fighting for local maxima.
+
+ A stronger and more logical place to have the debate is upstream of that: debate whether we should have these systems at all.
+
+ I think the Amendment Strategy is clear enough, concrete enough, simple enough that you could get critical mass and start moving the debate upstream.
+
+ _The best defense is a good offense_. It's an adage, but there's usually some truth to adages.
+
+ billOfRights.jpg
+ caption You can honestly say The Bill of Rights outlaws copyright, but let's pass the IFA just to be clear.
+ https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/bill-of-rights The Bill of Rights
+
+ ***
+
+ The kind of people I think may be ready to organize would be lovers of open source, Linux, Sci-Hub, the Internet Archive, OG Napster; the followers of Aaron Swartz, Alexandra Elbakian and Stephan Kinsella; and all that truly love ideas and believe every human should get their own copy of humanity's most intelligent information.
+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub Sci-Hub
+ https://archive.org/ the Internet Archive
+ http://aaronsw.com/ Aaron Swartz
+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napster Napster
+ https://www.kernel.org/ Linux
+ https://x.com/ringo_ring Alexandra Elbakian
+ https://www.stephankinsella.com/ Stephan Kinsella
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- Here is my best idea so far. What is yours? Ideas and criticisms encouraged!
- https://x.com/breckyunits/status/1882203191640830270 Ideas and criticisms encouraged
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- Humans should be able to copy what you generate to ink and paper for long term robust storage.
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- It should define symbol encodings by listing binary sequences with their matching symbol.
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- It should define atomic concepts out of those symbols.
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- It should contain knowledge to maximize what it can predict in real world observations (like location of a planet), and not worry about predicting symbolic world observations (like winning lottery numbers or name of a pop star).
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- Everything should have coordinates in a 4D space.
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- Continually refine your encyclopedia until it is encodes all knowledge in as few bits as possible.
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+ If you could have an AI running continuously on one prompt, what would it be?
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+ Here is my best idea so far. What is yours? Ideas and criticisms encouraged!
+ https://x.com/breckyunits/status/1882203191640830270 Ideas and criticisms encouraged
+
+ ***
+
+ Your job is to build an encyclopedia of all knowledge.
+
+ Humans should be able to copy what you generate to ink and paper for long term robust storage.
+
+ It should define symbol encodings by listing binary sequences with their matching symbol.
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+ It should define atomic concepts out of those symbols.
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+ It should define higher level parser concepts by listing patterns that match against and transform rules.
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+ It should define 2D, 3D, and 4D bitmap formats that resemble phenomena humans observe in nature and link those to the defined concepts.
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+ It should contain knowledge to maximize what it can predict in real world observations (like location of a planet), and not worry about predicting symbolic world observations (like winning lottery numbers or name of a pop star).
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+ Everything should have coordinates in a 4D space.
+
+ Continually refine your encyclopedia until it is encodes all knowledge in as few bits as possible.
+
+ ****
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+ # Related Posts
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- https://x.com/breckyunits/status/1882200287823425780 Ideas/suggestions/criticisms welcome
+ Here is my best idea so far. What is yours? Ideas and criticisms encouraged!
+ https://x.com/breckyunits/status/1882200287823425780 Ideas and criticisms encouraged
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+ Here is my idea so far. This is a v0. Ideas/suggestions/criticisms welcome!
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+ Humans should be able to copy what you generate to ink and paper for long term robust storage.
+
+ It should define symbol encodings by listing binary sequences with their matching symbol.
+
+ It should define atomic concepts out of those symbols.
+
+ It should define higher level parser concepts by listing patterns that match against and transform rules.
+
+ It should define 2D, 3D, and 4D bitmap formats that resemble phenomena humans observe in nature and link those to the defined concepts.
+
+ Use this system to define all knowledge in as few bits as possible.
+
+ It should contain knowledge to maximize what it can predict in real world observations (like location of a planet), and not worry about predicting symbolic world observations (like winning lottery numbers or name of a pop star).
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+ Everything should have coordinates in a 4D space.
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- I suggest we rally around a simple long-term vision of passing a new Intellectual Freedom Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
+ I suggest we rally around a simple long-term vision of passing a new Intellectual Freedom Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ending patents and copyrights once and for all.
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- The kind of people I think may be ready to organize would be lovers of open source, Linux, Sci-Hub, the Internet Archive, OG Napster; to the followers of Aaron Swartz, Alexandra Elbakian and Stephan Kinsella; to all of you that truly love ideas and believe every human should get their own copy of humanity's most intelligent information; I present the idea for a new political strategy.
+ The kind of people I think may be ready to organize would be lovers of open source, Linux, Sci-Hub, the Internet Archive, OG Napster; the followers of Aaron Swartz, Alexandra Elbakian and Stephan Kinsella; and all that truly love ideas and believe every human should get their own copy of humanity's most intelligent information.
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- To the lovers of open source, Linux, Sci-Hub, the Internet Archive, OG Napster; to the followers of Aaron Swartz, Alexandra Elbakian and Stephan Kinsella; to all of you that truly love ideas and believe every human should get their own copy of humanity's most intelligent information; I present the idea for a new political strategy.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub Sci-Hub
- https://archive.org/ the Internet Archive
- http://aaronsw.com/ Aaron Swartz
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napster Napster
- https://www.kernel.org/ Linux
- https://x.com/ringo_ring Alexandra Elbakian
- https://www.stephankinsella.com/ Stephan Kinsella
-
- ***
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+ The kind of people I think may be ready to organize would be lovers of open source, Linux, Sci-Hub, the Internet Archive, OG Napster; to the followers of Aaron Swartz, Alexandra Elbakian and Stephan Kinsella; to all of you that truly love ideas and believe every human should get their own copy of humanity's most intelligent information; I present the idea for a new political strategy.
+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub Sci-Hub
+ https://archive.org/ the Internet Archive
+ http://aaronsw.com/ Aaron Swartz
+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napster Napster
+ https://www.kernel.org/ Linux
+ https://x.com/ringo_ring Alexandra Elbakian
+ https://www.stephankinsella.com/ Stephan Kinsella
+
+
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+ If you've thought deeply about copyrights and patents, you've probably figured out that they are bad for progress and deeply unjust. This post is for you.
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- Section 2. Congress shall make no law granting monopolies on the publication or implementation of ideas.
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+ And our ancestors built a magnificent palace, over thousands of years, layer by layer, with space for all, and our brother added a coat of paint, and said "This is my property now.
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+ God is at the gate.
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+ "Your research shall determine whether you may enter."
- Newton is up first.
+ Newton goes first.
- He shows God "Principia".
+ He hands over _Principia_.
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+ God reads Newton's description of gravity and smiles.
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