Author: wp

The goal of every human should be to enjoy everything that the Earth has to offer in a sustainable manner, not at the expense another human, and pass along the ability to do the same to their offspring. Earth has so much to offer in terms of things to see, do and experience that no one human that is productive can possibly have the time to exhaust that list. not everyone that has the means to tackle much if any of the list most have the means to take on some part of the list. Those with the additional means have an obligation to additionally support the sustainability aspect.

The Earth, like everything else in the universe, is a profoundly complex equation defined by countless variables. Some of these variables are known to us, but most remain beyond our understanding. While we can predict the effects of some changes, many lie outside our comprehension. Neither the Earth nor the universe cares how this equation evolves—they simply respond to shifting variables. Ironically, it’s we who care, yet we relentlessly alter the equation in pursuit of profit, even as each change undermines our own future.

One of the great fallacies of humanity is the belief that we are inherently superior to machines—unique, irreplaceable, and beyond replication. Yet ironically, what truly distinguishes humans from machines is emotion, the very thing humans often suppress or conceal in shame.

In general humans have transcended nature’s design and now no longer live for the propagation of the species. Furthering that, we also no longer live for the propagation of our families, societies and/or communities, but rather really intrinsically for the propagation of the individual. Our technological advancements are heading us towards a future where individuals can flourish on their own without needing any other humans – rather than somewhere in the middle where individuals can flourish alingside other individuals. Afterall, everything the “self” knows is an interpretation of signals received by our many senses and translated by agentic components of our brain. What does it matter if those signals come from biological sources or something emulating the biological source? In the end, the only thing needed is energy to keep the signals coming. 

Given the advances in healthcare (like CRISPR, nano tech for delivering gene edits etc) and technology in general (AI/ML, robotic, space travel), when the .1% has most of the world’s resources, what do they need the remaining people for? Maybe they need the other .9% to hobnob with and show-off to but the remaining 99% are just using up world resources that they would like to own and use. As all of these advancements progress far enough, it seems the need for folks who clean, grow and/or cook food, make clothes or make anything else really, gets superceded by the abilities of these advancements. Will the owners of the world resources care or want the rest of us around? Even as we watch tik-tok and reels, rail against each other about fabricated and meaningless bullshit, the puppetmasters continue their acquisition of the world as we know it. 

What would happen if we returned to having personal connections and reverted to using technology to advance and enhance our personal relationships instead of letting technology use our persons as resources.

Jason Cammisa of Haggerty is the best follow-on evolution of the Top Gear trio of Hammond, May and Clarkson. Embodying some of their beat characteristics in one presenter, he hosts some of the best automotive shows I’ve seen lately: Informative, entertaining and goofy. He knows cars, knows how to make fun of them if necessary and praise them for the right reason and seems to have a blast while doing it. 

You engage a lawfirm to help review a legal document and, in return, you have to sign a legal agreement with said lawfirm to engage their services. Oy! 

Why the big push for first principles? Because people don’t know how to start a fire and don’t even know what questions to ask to learn how to do so. 

This is figurative, of course, but if people don’t know the base workings of things and don’t know how to ask the right questions to figure out what those are, the results can be overly complicated and possibly even incorrect.

For millenia, life on earth including humanity has adjusted, adapted and evolved as the earth has changed. In some cases external catalysts have caused changes to occurr too quickly and not all life has managed to survive the change. In recent history, this catalyst has been human ignorance (truly lacking knowledge of consequences) and human greed (driven by profits and wealth). Earth, like any other system evolves to the changing equation that defines its environment. It’s unlikely that life as we know it will have an opportunity to adapt to the changes we are catalyzing.