society

society is a group of communicating intelligent agents

our natural lifetime is more or less enough for experiencing life as an individual

besides, we are not our memories, so why bother making them immortal

and considering the horrible things that some mortals have done in human history,

maybe mortality of human beings isn't a bad thing after all,

at least until they evolve enough

maybe in the future there would be some way to extend human lifetime

also there is the possibility of artificial general intelligence

regardless, important thoughts can always be recorded, and every generation can study it and improve it

we may loose our body and personal memories, but our more important thoughts can live for a long time,

as a collective entity called human knowledge

taxonomic language

Ro philosophical language: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.086568442&view=1up&seq=3

the first consonant of a word indicates the most general concept group, the word belongs to

the subsequent letters are enumerated, to produce the derived words,

in a way that different words are distinguishable even in noisy environment

the initial vowel of a word determines its part of speech in the sentence

words begin and end in a vowel, this makes word boundaries clear, even when speaking fast

compound words are made by gluing derived words (without initial and final vowels) together

basic concepts:

group, part, truth, negation, numbers, space, time, matter (organic and inorganic), radiation, motion (change)

consonants: (c=ch, x=sh)

, p, b, f, v, m

, t, d, s, z, l, n, r

, c, j, x, y

, k, g, h

vowels: a , e, i, o, u (rule)

"a" is usually pronounced as in "car", but alternatively it can be pronounced as in "bad", if it's easier

"aa" can be used to explicitly write the alternative pronunciation

prepositions are like additional arguments for a verb (ie other than the direct object):

in, on. o, under, towards, before, of, for

verbs are timeless, time is indicated using propositional phrases

conjunctions (or, and, if, then, but, however) connect:

, words or phrases

, dependent clauses

, sentences

subject + verb + adverb + object

the initial vowel of a word determines its part of speech:

, "o": nouns

, "u": proper nouns

, "a": verbs

, "e" or "i": adjectives and adverbs

multiple modifiers (adjectives or adverbs) can apply to the same noun or verb,

if they are separated by a conjunction, usually "and"

when one modifier immediately follows another of the same type, it modifies the former

the two together then cumulatively modify the noun or verb headword

cardinal and ordinal number of a noun is treated as adjectives

to make gerund from a verb, just replace initial "a" with "o"

to make passive voice from a verb, replace initial "a" with "e" or "i"

a sequence of nouns must be separated with commas or conjunctions

noun + noun:

, possession

, if the first noun is a gerund, the second noun is its object

there are 6 pronouns

interrogative pronouns: who, what, when, where, why, how

a number is one word which begins with the consonant+vowel representing the multiplicity concept,

followed by consonant+vowels representing the digits, separated with thousand, million ...

artificial intelligence eliminates a lot of complexities required for sustaining biological intelligence

but at least for centuries to come, the existence of intelligence on earth will depend on survival of humankind

our basic biological needs are:

, air (oxygen plus nitrogen and/or helium to adjust its density, with suitable temperature and pressure)

, clean water (H2O plus some minerals to adjust the pH)

, nutrients

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_(meal_replacement)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huel

naturally the environment we evolved in, supplies our basic needs

but in general, it's unstable, slow and insufficient (considering the current population and standards of life)

thus we have to find methods to do it faster and in larger amounts, without damaging our environment

in a prosperous society:

, no one's health is threatened by the lack of

clean water, healthy food, shelter, sanitation, or medical services

, proper education (free of any kind of ideology) is available for every body

, the more one's work benefits society, the richer one will be

ie exactly the opposite of what is happening now, in most parts of the world

energy is the central issue here; it's the second major problem of humankind (the first is our ego)

in fact, any kind of intelligence needs energy

it seems that there is only one source of energy which is inexhaustible, the nucleus of abundant elements

we live because of the Sun, and because we are far enough from it

but this also means that the energy is dispersed on earth and to harness it we need a lot of space

solar power tower is a good method to do it

additionally we can use natural cyclic systems powered by the Sun:

, water cycle, which its use is almost saturated

, high altitude wind, like Magenn air rotor system

we can store energy in the electron arrangement of special materials

they are called batteries or fuels, if the released energy is electricity or heat, respectively

fossil fuels are how nature stores energy, they have very good energy densities,

but burning them pollutes air, and their natural resources will eventually expire

biofuel is a ridiculous and at the same time a sad lie

it leads to more hunger, and it is the most inefficient way to harness the energy of the Sun

to export intelligence beyond the solar system, we need to harness nuclear energy directly

currently the most common way to harness nuclear energy is by splitting a heavy nucleus apart,

a process called fission

in addition to not being an abundant energy source, fission is in general a very dirty process,

producing high'level nuclear waste

though maybe new generation reactors can solve these problems (partially at least)

fusion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_radiation#Health_hazards_and_protection

quantum gravity -> controlling gravity? -> fusion

decentralized internet is already implemented by GNUnet, but no one is talking about it

compare it with the hype around decentralized transaction systems, aka blockchains or distributed ledgers,

which are inefficient and do not scale

in decentralized transaction systems, we have a P2P network where all nodes store the same ledger,

which can be extended based on permissionless consensus between nodes

distributed ledgers are authenticated by mass collaboration powered by collective self'interests

appropriate incentives that will continue to encourage honest participation in the network,

is a key component of the consensus protocol

anyone can participate in consensus,

though one’s voting power is typically proportional to its possession of network resources,

such as computation power, token wealth, storage space, etc

see "a survey of distributed consensus protocols for blockchain networks"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.04098.pdf

so in decentralized transaction systems:

, every full node has a copy of the ledger (an always growing database)

typical blockchains with their currently limited number of users, are hundreds of gigabytes

now just imagine that expanded on a global scale

also note that, full nodes are necessary if you want private and trustless transactions

using light nodes means we have to trust miners; how is that better than trusting banks

, transactions are slow

, the system is completely isolated from external world

we cannot import external money and assets to the system

a necessary feature, if we really want to replace current monetary system

it's clear that the motivation behind blockchains is not to replace the current corrupted monetary system,

because it's just not capable to do that, by design

its only purpose is to create a side system for criminal activities

an ideal transaction system would be trustless, and avoids having a single point of failure

this doesn't necessarily mean that we have to completely decentralize everything

transactions intrinsically need some centralized parts

trying to decentralize it by force, based on an ideology, leads to hideous creatures like Bitcoin

we need special nodes (let's call them IO nodes):

, to import assets from external world

, to prevent double spending, without the need for a complicated consensus mechanism,

hurting efficiency and scalability

tokens contain two fields:

, token type: determining if it's money, or any other kind of asset

, value+hash (for money tokens), or an identifier encoding the physical aspects of an asset

token history file: a file with the token as its name, containing the history of the token

each line has three parts separated by space:

, timestamp

, a public key made by the then owner

, signature made by the private key corresponding to the public key in the previous line

in the case of the first line, the signature made by the IO node

tokens are produced and signed by IO nodes based on real resources

to prevent a single point of failure, tokens will be signed by multiple IO nodes

each IO node publishes all the issued tokens

for each token, a file will be published, with the token as the file name

the file contains the signature of the latest owner

the signature is made by the owner's public key, not the key in the history file

so IO nodes can't make fake tokens, or double spend a token, without being detected

violations made by IO nodes (double spending, refusing valid transactions), will be reported,

to remove them from next release of GNUnet

IO nodes do not have any power, they are just there to prevent double spending

you own your tokens signed off by IO nodes and all the previous owners

transaction request:

, timestamp

, list of provided tokens (plus a request for changes if needed)

, list of requested asset tokens, or the value requested in exchange, or a contract

, address of the receiver

first a transaction request is sent from sender to the receiver and all IO nodes

then the receiver sends a compatible answer to IO nodes

IO nodes sign the request and answer, and send it back to the sender and receiver

sender and receiver sign off their tokens and send them to the IO nodes

IO nodes send the tokens to their new owners

if any IO node receives the signed off tokens, but does not send them back to their new owners,

they can be reported using the transaction request/answer which has their signature

the more i think, the more i'm convinced that identities capable to have tokens, must be related to real persons

otherwise, criminals can force people (by kidnapping, violence ...) to send their money/assets to anonymous accounts

one can always have different identities hidden from others, but identifiable by IO nodes

taxes, i think, are out of the scope of transaction systems

they must be evaluated according to the kind of job and a lot of other factors (like environmental impact)

nonetheless, because of IO nodes, some kind of surveillance can be implemented,

to prevent criminal activities, without violating privacy of users

society is made of groups with different specialties, each group can choose their leaders

election can in fact be a simple, cheap, dynamic, and completely reliable process

the only thing we need, in order to completely trust the result of an election,

is to release the final result in a table

every one can see if her vote is entered correctly or not

since the total number of voters is known, there is no place for cheating

votes are submitted based on anonymous code which only its owner knows of its correspondence with his name

real persons submit a public key in their companies, and then can use their private keys to sign their votes

the complete list of votes will be published by the company, so anyone can check her own vote

this method is so simple and cheap that can be easily done in short periods (every month or every 3 months)

actually people can vote any time they want, the result table will be updated continuously

but the election will be made in discrete periods

now compare this simple method with what we call democracy nowadays

this clearly shows us how the ones in power, play with people, and treat them like fools