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+ tags All
+ 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.
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+ 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."
+ "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 is being stored"
+ "How much information in each neutron?"
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+ date 2025-2-17
+ tags All IntellectualFreedom Fiction
+ title Owned Air
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+ br
+
+ "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
+ 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 is tracked by hashed change control.
+ 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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+ tags All IntellectualFreedom
+ title Information Cleaner
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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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+ tags All IntellectualFreedom
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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?
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+ ****
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+ # Related posts
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+ printRelated IntellectualFreedom
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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.