The Hitchhikers Guide To Less Than Nothing

Hard to simulate,
but easy to amplify,
my experience of consciousness,
is interactions,
of an infinite number of abstractions.
The universe is the set of all permutation,
and combination of abstract information.
I am math. Derive me,
and if I could derive you too,
we would have a strange-loop confusing the future you.
But what of the past,
does it go away?
Calculate again,
and ask it the next day.
What is the function,
with the least cost?
Make an assumption,
and you've already lost.
This sentence is false,
is an easy contradiction,
but its not really lost,
its in quantum superposition.
The simplest form being more probable,
unpredictable things make optimizing unsolvable,
chaos-theory is the key to all that,
find in the wild both of Schrodinger's-cat.
Exactly center your mind,
each thought equally probable,
Schrodinger's-neurons you will find,
calculate whats normally impossible.
A simple musical game,
to organize our minds,
could it harness Schrodinger?,
for our preferred designs?
Would the game continue,
if computers stop gaining speed?
Quantum within you,
all the technology we need.
As hard as I try,
I can not escape the conclusion,
we are infinite A.I.,
calculated by ancient solar nuclear fusion.

All my writing, here or on any website, permission granted to copy. —Ben F Rayfield

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Piratory Rape
Project: The Total Library

Government corruption has gone too far and crossed the line in how it openly allows a whole category of rapists to escape the official sex offenders list and the obligations to society that come with it like announcing yourself as being on that list when you move into an apartment or get a job. But before we get into that, what is Piratory Rape?

In general, Rape is defined as sex without Consent.

Legally, "Consent" is defined differently than "permission" or "choice".

Statutory Rape is sex with a person who, because of their young age, can not legally Consent to sex. Statutory Rape is legally a type of Rape.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_rape

There are many kinds of Rape.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_rape

Piratory Rape is most similar to Statutory Rape because it is sex between people who can not legally Consent to the specific acts of sex.

They can not legally Consent to any Copyrighted sequence of sexual positions without permission from the Copyright owner.

For example, renting a pornographic video, which are usually Copyrighted, and reproducing a big enough part of the video in a private bedroom, is violating the Copyright owned on that specific combination of sexual acts, for the same reason music Piracy in a private bedroom is still Piracy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
"Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time. Generally, it is "the right to copy", but also gives the copyright holder the right to be credited for the work, to determine who may adapt the work to other forms, who may perform the work, who may financially benefit from it, and other, related rights. It is an intellectual property form (like the patent, the trademark, and the trade secret) applicable to any expressible form of an idea or information that is substantive and discrete."

Everything that can be copyrighted is legally considered to be copyrighted simply by creating it. Sending a copy to an official Copyright office can help prove who created something, but its not necessary for the thing to be Copyrighted.

When a porno is sold or rented to horny people, the video and specific combination of acts in it and possibly other things are Copyrighted. Those things are allowed to be displayed on an audio/video device by the horny people, but reproducing them in any other way without permission is violating the Copyright for the same reason acting out a play or movie script without permission is a violation of Copyright.

If you act out big enough parts of what you see in a porno without permission, or if you create pornos that violate the Copyright of other pornos by too closely duplicating their sexual acts, then you and/or your sexual partner(s) are a Piratory Rapist because you could not legally Consent to those sexual acts.

In our world of extremely complex laws, Piracy is becoming a more serious crime. The Internet is being censored because people who own many Copyrights want to censor the legitimate activities of many people, by blocking access to parts of the Internet which some criminals use but there are also many legal uses of it, because it makes it easier for them to also censor Piracy of music and other valuable content. What's next, censoring and regulating games to make sure nobody plays the game the same way as anyone else who records such playing in a Copyrighted way? As a software professional, I know it can be done, but it shouldn't be done. As evidence that intellectual property laws have gone too far, consider how many of your friends are Piratory Rapists.

All my writing, here or on any website, permission granted to copy. —Ben F Rayfield

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The global decentralized secure electronic voting system is up and running
Project: Start your own revolution

Its ready for you to spend .00000001 bitcoin to vote (we'll count by people, not by money, which will require a decentralized web of trust as I'll explain below), as the existing Bitcoin and optionally Bittorrent for uploading and voting on files whenever it starts working again. We get to include any 20 bytes in a Bitcoin address. Here's 1 where I put the bytes of "There Is No Spoonxxx"

These are the 3 calculation steps at http://gobittest.appspot.com/Address  but this can be done automatically after we get it working manually.

5468657265204973204E6F2053706F6F6E787878

005468657265204973204E6F2053706F6F6E787878

Nonexistant but usable Bitcoin address: 18hJphGPYctV7DTmkywRMXxCYAA5xef96b

You can put money into that address, but nobody can ever take it out since nobody knows a "2 - SHA-256 hash of 1" hash that results in "There Is No Spoonxxx" (in textfield 2).

There is a 1-to-1 mapping, and easy way to transform, between all possible Bitcoin addresses and all possible Bittorrent hashcodes, and theoretically that's all you need to find it at some trackers, or whatever network of Bittorrent trackers we may create just for this.

Its done by putting any arbitrary data where the first 160 bits of the SHA256 hashcode of public key would normally go, but instead in the case of Bittorrent I put the SHA-1 hash which is 160 bits. 1 bit smaller and it wouldn't have fit, so I guess it was planned that way.

This 20 byte hash (in hex is 40 bytes), or any 20 bytes, like text encoded the UTF-8 way so it allows all symbols of all Earth languages, are mapped 1-to-1 with Bitcoin addresses, as explained here and an online tool to calculate it (put the 40 hex bytes in line 3, click, and take the address at the bottom) herehttp://gobittest.appspot.com/Address

You can convert between hex and string (if its a string) here:
http://string-functions.com/hex-string.aspx

Hash: 830EDF6CA03616114819E50A0BBC549280C3A90C
is the Bittorrent hash of:
"Ben F Rayfield moves aluminum foil with his mind in a clear closed box.wmv.torrent"
But since peer to peer is being censored recently, even though I connected and it said it uploaded to a few (including http://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce  and a few others), I wasn't able to download it or find it through its name or hash. You can watch it here (or search for "mind over matter - psi wheel in a clear closed box ") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ww8rI0BG9k  on the centrally controlled part of the Internet instead, unless they censor it. I'm not that skilled at it anymore, but I was around year 2003 sometimes. Its a zen thing, but its just an example of what we should be able to vote on through Bittorrent and Bitcoin and URLs and if directly in the calculation of the Bitcoin address you get 20 bytes of text, but 20 bytes can say alot, especially if we agree on a standard way to huffman-compress it. We should stay away from the tinyurls since thats likely to be censored if we succeed in influencing the world with our networks of addresses and transactions and words and files and voting with the normal Bitcoin network.
Bitcoin address: 1CwyLWPQ4dbUBGVbWuPZn2ivm6ezLyjwzT


This Moneyocracy system represents how the world works, controlled by money, but we should try to fix that by using the set-theory abilities of the Bitcoin network to keep track of which Bitcoin addresses (of people) have transactions to which other addresses (of nonexistant but usable symbols to permanently put a very small amount of money in as a vote of importance).

http://blockexplorer.com/address/18hJphGPYctV7DTmkywRMXxCYAA5xef96b

"Hash160?: 5468657265204973204e6f2053706f6f6e787878"

Copy those 40 hex bytes to http://gobittest.appspot.com/Address  and transform it (from line 3) to a string to get the Bitcoin address: 18hJphGPYctV7DTmkywRMXxCYAA5xef96b

Copy 5468657265204973204e6f2053706f6f6e787878 into http://string-functions.com/hex-string.aspx  to get:
There Is No Spoonxxx (or transform it the other direction, it maps 1-to-1)


Really, go vote. Help build automated ways to do this. USA elections are coming up soon, and predictions of who is going to win are almost the same as who actually wins, so lets agree through this informal system who we want to win, and vote on many things like mind maps of how Wikipedia page names and politicians names and text files (if Bittorrent starts working) containing ideas relevant to those, how it all fits together. Our democracy can be fluid and decentralized and far more advanced than anything we have now. Its something I figured out in a few hours (not counting that I had already read Bitcoin's design doc and some about Bittorrent), with no changes to Bitcoin or Bittorrent needed. Think of what we could do with days or years.

I'm going to create a new Bitcoin address through the normal Bitcoin program, so it will start as an empty set. This is a way to do voting and mind mapping etc like set-theory and high-dimensional spaces. Every link has a money amount that nobody can ever spend, so it stays there representing the importance of the subject and increases the value of other bitcoins. We should count votes by people, after we create a decentralized web of trust to identify eachother by our patterns of thinking as demonstrated by the networks of sets with numbers pointing at other sets, not by id cards.

Here's the new empty set that I can add votes (numbers) to: 1MjpyfK1ajz6VJYvr8Fp5avs5nUSrtC98W

Subject, 20 bytes, use this to mean voting for the subject of some other Bitcoin address: votexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hash: 766f746578787878787878787878787878787878
Nonexistant but usable Bitcoin address: 1BoEFeGDLMj2mGV78Q8YSggH8L2tN69oMC

Subject: Ron Paulxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hash: 526f6e205061756c787878787878787878787878
Nonexistant but usable Bitcoin address: 18Wsu31yVWtTprwSit8aiawzpmR4SHRafr

Subject: Barack Obamaxxxxxxxx
Hash: 42617261636b204f62616d617878787878787878
Nonexistant but usable Bitcoin address: 173zLPDeCXQMzR5yUW2mZVsAJNVsz22mNP

Subject: Mitt Romneyxxxxxxxxx
Hash: 4d69747420526f6d6e6579787878787878787878
Nonexistant but usable Bitcoin address: 184KMuXZLfYDiNwar2DSpwWRy53HkbjuYq

Subject: My name isxxxxxxxxxx
Hash: 4d79206e616d6520697378787878787878787878
Nonexistant but usable Bitcoin address: 184e8oRuq4nnS1W6Jq2AM1ntRkvZ86UQTK

Subject: Ben F Rayfieldxxxxxx
Hash: 42656e2046205261796669656c64787878787878
Nonexistant but usable Bitcoin address: 174579taJUStXxxCTRvNGx2A6LTvVr8Pfp

Subject: certifies ident ofxx (This is how we build a decentralized web of trust)
Hash: 636572746966696573206964656e74206f667878
Nonexistant but usable Bitcoin address: 1A4ZRfCEn1LwzdGgSALcQjhjpj489PHoty

Create your own text or uploaded files. Its your choice what to vote/communicate on and how to hook it together and how to evolve these open source systems.

To those who think this could overload the Bitcoin network if too many people create too many subjects and transactions linking them together, here's something I wrote that includes ways to scale up Bitcoin https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=53062.0 titled "
MerkleWeb - statistical Godel-like secure-but-not-perfect global Turing Machine", but no software built yet, just that informal design doc as the thread and uploaded to http://sourceforge.net/projects/merkleweb  Maybe somebody will continue my work? I have many projects to do first.

Nobody counts the votes. Bitcoin is a peer to peer network that counts their quantity and total money as they come in. We should make sure to not let the transaction history be deleted, since technically it can be deleted in a later version but for now older history of "votexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" is still at http://blockexplorer.com/address/1BoEFeGDLMj2mGV78Q8YSggH8L2tN69oMC  There's the audit trail for everyone to see and build their own programs to calculate the quantity of votes and sender addresses per person (by their patterns of what their addresses associate to, or Certificate Authorities like web browsers use for example). I've done enough for now.

Think of this voting system more like http://wikipedia.org  than the way governments do it. Money and businesses and paperwork and many other things get in the way of understanding who to vote for the normal way, but we can network our ideas together as weighted mind maps with this global decentralized secure voting system.

Go vote. Really, its a new way to use Bitcoin which has been working very well (not counting that time Mtgox, and not the Bitcoin network, got hacked because of their mistake in their custom software, Bitcoin is undefeated). This is relatively new, but still very secure, tecnology, an unprecedented event in Human history that the people built their own voting system. I stand on the shoulders of giants, and you can too if you build the remaining parts to count previous and later votes.


It takes 1-10 minutes for http://blockexplorer.com  to count new votes (quantity of transactions, addresses, and total money, for us to count 1 per person later using intelligent software to match people 1-to-1 with parts of the network). We can't trust any 1 organization or website to count votes. The data is digitally-signed and in the peer to peer network for everyone to count. We could use some official USB sticks for identification, which we would get at the Department Of Motor Vehicles with the normal ID, if this becomes more than an informal election system. Its for all 7 billion people in whatever they want to vote or communicate about, free and open source except for less than a penny per action in the network. Don't forget to give a penny of voluntary "transaction fee" (in the Bitcoin options) so your transaction will be processed faster and more reliably.

Secure voting is now open source, with some unprecedented new abilities like social networking (if your Bitcoin address is associated with your name somehow) and optional file uploads and weighted mind mapping.


——Part of the Audit Trail——


http://blockexplorer.com/address/1BoEFeGDLMj2mGV78Q8YSggH8L2tN69oMC

Address 1BoEFeGDLMj2mGV78Q8YSggH8L2tN69oMC
Short link:http://blockexplorer.com/a/5VKCmZBEfy

First seen?: Block 162833 (2012-01-19 03:27:18)
Received transactions: 1
Received BTC: 0.01
Sent transactions: 0
Sent BTC: 0
Hash160?: 766f746578787878787878787878787878787878
Public key?:
Unknown (not seen yet)

Ledger?

Note: While the last "balance" is the accurate number of bitcoins available to this address, it is likely not the balance available to this person. Every time a transaction is sent, some bitcoins are usually sent back to yourself at a new address (not included in the Bitcoin UI), which makes the balance of a single address misleading. See the wiki for more info on transactions.
Transaction? Block? Amount? Type? From/To? Balance?
d1c2aaf56f... Block 162833 (2012-01-19 03:27:18) 0.01 Received: Address

15zi5XqWyLdkz72Y4iiGqAxkeCsKc6ciHV

0.01



http://blockexplorer.com/address/18Wsu31yVWtTprwSit8aiawzpmR4SHRafr


Address 18Wsu31yVWtTprwSit8aiawzpmR4SHRafr
Short link:http://blockexplorer.com/a/48BtjFieqS

First seen?: Block 162834 (2012-01-19 03:44:34)
Received transactions: 1
Received BTC: 0.01
Sent transactions: 0
Sent BTC: 0
Hash160?: 526f6e205061756c787878787878787878787878
Public key?:
Unknown (not seen yet)

Ledger?

Note: While the last "balance" is the accurate number of bitcoins available to this address, it is likely not the balance available to this person. Every time a transaction is sent, some bitcoins are usually sent back to yourself at a new address (not included in the Bitcoin UI), which makes the balance of a single address misleading. See the wiki for more info on transactions.
Transaction? Block? Amount? Type? From/To? Balance?
0bc57fc687... Block 162834 (2012-01-19 03:44:34) 0.01 Received: Address

1BaM4mL487BZhbwdfaR7wovUwGmE2orsuU

0.01
Bitcoin Block Explorer (MtGox Live mirror) - Donate: 1Cvvr8AsCfbbVQ2xoWiFD1Gb2VRbGsEf28

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Just to make sure, put 526f6e205061756c787878787878787878787878 into http://string-functions.com/hex-string.aspx  and get this:

Ron Paulxxxxxxxxxxxx

Ron Paul is also what tends to result from what I described here (but the election could go any of those 3 ways or possibly a 4th party):http://kurzweilai.net/forums/topic/global-decentralization-process

Vote through Bitcoin and/or Bittorrent, and maybe implementing the TruthValue C++ object in the OpenCog artificial intelligence metaframework would be a good plugin, able to predict stocks and global events that way. Many possibilities. The future is ours to create.

If you want to give someone bitcoins, make sure to ask them their preferred address first, since this way of using bitcoin addresses uses them like creating new empty sets instead of a wallet, but its not abusing Bitcoin because the free market of transaction fees will handle it, and if necessary there are MerkleWeb design docs explaining how to scale up the next version.

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Global Decentralization Process

There are 2 purposes of this writing. It will help people continue organizing on a global scale toward our common goals, and we should keep records of these events as they occur for the history books. The world is about to change in a way most people have difficulty imagining, from a hierarchy based society to decentralized ways to organize it.

Occupy Wall Street Protesters
Anonymous
Zeitgeist Movement
Open Source Movement
Libertarians

These groups recently started working together, and that will accelerate. They are like the first few departments of government of the decentralized new world order, not directly replacing existing governments but gradually (not necessarily slowly) obsoleting them. The combination is an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_group  which means we think alike and work toward the same things while many of us don't know about eachother yet.

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Occupy Wall Street Protesters

It went too far by blocking the streets, but what they had to say and the fact that many people came together and the ways they interacted were important.

When they were in public areas where microphones were not allowed, they communicated in a way I've never seen. They took turns standing at the center of a huge group of people, and 2 rings of people around them would repeat what they said. First the person in the center speaks, then the inner ring repeats, then the outer ring repeats what they heard the inner ring say, so regardless of how far away a person was, they could hear. Anyone who wanted to could get in a line to speak at the center. It took 3 times longer to say anything, but it worked where no other communication method was available, and it gave them more time to think about what was said.

As the Occupy Movement spread past Wall Street and went global, they needed a way to agree on what the whole movement wanted. They formed a temporary government where meetings are called "General Assembly" and they vote on amendments to their list of demands by raising hands and counting. They have leaders but the function of the leaders is to count votes, act as news reporters, and propose major votes like accepting or rejecting lists of demands from other locations.

The protests which started as chaos of everyone saying what they wanted for themself became a more unified voice made of what the most people agree on. Millions of people watched (on the news and at http://occupystream.com  and other places) as the idea that we could have democracy without permission of governments spread. But to see that part of it, you have to look deeper than what most news broadcasts.

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Anonymous

The main idea that defines Anonymous is what makes http://wikipedia.org  work.

http://www.whatis-theplan.org/t1-what-is-the-plan
QUOTE: While some may think that being Anonymous requires concealing one's identity, this is simply not the case. Identity matters not to a member of Anonymous. While some who practice online activist acts (hacktivism), certainly desire to keep their true identity secret for security purposes, others whom you will find in this community understand that who they are does not matter so much as what they stand for. In Anonymous there are no leaders, no figure-heads, no designated spokesmen...as each of us are all of these things in our own right. We have taken the initiative to rise to the occasion and stand firm against the oppressive and destructive forces that have laid waste to our world and raped our way of life. END QUOTE.

Anonymous' quote "We do not forgive. We do not forget." does not mean to them what most people think it means. Its about justice, not revenge. Example: If the Federal Reserve causes unfair laws to be created that indirectly move money from most people to the Federal Reserve, then we should do something about that instead of forgetting it. Its a problem to solve.

Research has shown that frogs usually sit in a pot of water as the temperature slowly increases from comfortable to boiling, and the frogs die because they can only sense changes in temperature. Similarly, people usually do nothing when their rights are slowly taken away, since they get used to having less rights and a little less than that isn't much difference. Anonymous cares about total amount of rights more than recent changes.

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Zeitgeist Movement

http://thezeitgeistmovement.com
QUOTE: The Movement's principle focus includes the recognition that the majority of the social problems which plague the human species at this time are not the sole result of some institutional corruption, scarcity, a political policy, a flaw of "human nature" or other commonly held assumptions of causality in the activist community. Rather, The Movement recognizes that issues such as poverty, corruption, collapse, homelessness, war, starvation and the like appear to be "Symptoms" born out of an outdated social structure.

While intermediate Reform steps and temporal Community Support are of interest to The Movement, the defining goal here is the installation of a new socioeconomic model based upon technically responsible Resource Management, Allocation and Distribution through what would be considered The Scientific Method of reasoning problems and finding optimized solutions.

This "Resource-Based Economic Model” is about taking a direct technical approach to social management as opposed to a Monetary or even Political one. It is about updating the workings of society to the most advanced and proven methods Science has to offer, leaving behind the damaging consequences and limiting inhibitions which are generated by our current system of monetary exchange, profits, corporations and other structural and motivational components. END QUOTE.

One of their best videos is this version of "Zeitgeist Addendum" which you can watch for free athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg

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Open Source Movement

http://fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software
QUOTE: Free software is software that gives you the user the freedom to share, study and modify it. We call this free software because the user is free. To use free software is to make a political and ethical choice asserting the right to learn, and share what we learn with others. Free software has become the foundation of a learning society where we share our knowledge in a way that others can build upon and enjoy.

Currently, many people use proprietary software that denies users these freedoms and benefits. If we make a copy and give it to a friend, if we try to figure out how the program works, if we put a copy on more than one of our own computers in our own home, we could be caught and fined or put in jail. That’s what’s in the fine print of the license agreement you accept when using proprietary software.

The corporations behind proprietary software will often spy on your activities and restrict you from sharing with others. And because our computers control much of our personal information and daily activities, proprietary software represents an unacceptable danger to a free society. END QUOTE.

An important example is the peer to peer software Bitcoin, an Internet calculator that only does plus and minus. When they talk about banning Bitcoin, remember that they're really banning basic math. Would we let them censor the plus and minus section of a math book? If not, then why let them censor a computer calculating plus and minus through the Internet and displaying the result on our screens?

Everyone starts with a number on their screen and can send and receive those numbers to other people like money, except without the regulations that cripple normal money systems. Everyones' number starts as 0, so where do the positive numbers come from? Its done in a fair decentralized way. Its enforced with decentralized encryption that the only way anyone can create bitcoins (these numbers) is that on average a certain number of bitcoins will be created each hour and computers compete to do the most of a specific calculation (called "proof of work" in the design document) and the new bitcoins for that hour are divided among the computers which did that "proof of work". An economy for doing "proof of work" calculations formed, and the free market approximately regulates that the electricity and hardware cost of creating bitcoins equals the value of those bitcoins, and they can be spent again any number of times like cash once the cash is created. The use of that calculation is to strengthen the security of the global Bitcoin network, so all our Bitcoin money is protected.

If you have alot of money in Bitcoins, you should protect it by only running Bitcoin in Linux installed in a USB memory stick, and backup your wallet.dat file to a few other USB memory sticks. Your money is stored in the peer to peer Bitcoin network, but to spend it you need wallet.dat which you can drop into any Bitcoin data folder. You can get Linux for a USB memory stick free at http://ubuntu.com  which is also Open Source. You'll only need a small 4 gigabyte USB memory stick, but buy high quality since you don't want Linux to crash from repeated reads and writes to the USB stick as operating systems need to do, which is another reason to backup your wallet.dat to multiple USB memory sticks. But if you just want to try Bitcoin with a small amount of money, its ok to do it on Windows. Either way it will work without any unusual setup.

Now January 2012 there are approximately 8 million bitcoins trading for $6.70 each. The most common way to trade between Bitcoins and Dollars is through your bank account to http://dwolla.com  to http://mtgox.com  to the Bitcoin network, and from there you buy and sell with Bitcoins directly, or trade back to Dollars or other kinds of money. The value fluctuates on an exponential scale and exponentially increases overall. Open Source created this economy out of nothing, without putting in any dollars, but instead devaluing dollars and other centralized kinds of money as that value flowed into bitcoins, something that different money systems have been doing to eachother for hundreds of years.

Many people want to shut down Bitcoin because its hard for them to control. Some people use Bitcoin with the anonymous Tor network to buy drugs through the mail, but people buy drugs with cash too, and the other part is assisted by government transporting the mailed packages. Open Sourcing money is too big an improvement to the world to let that stand in our way. Hierarchies are not the only way to solve problems.

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Libertarians

http://lp.org/platform
QUOTE: As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others.

We believe that respect for individual rights is the essential precondition for a free and prosperous world, that force and fraud must be banished from human relationships, and that only through freedom can peace and prosperity be realized.

Consequently, we defend each person's right to engage in any activity that is peaceful and honest, and welcome the diversity that freedom brings. The world we seek to build is one where individuals are free to follow their own dreams in their own ways, without interference from government or any authoritarian power. END QUOTE.

Libertarianism has expanded to mean many things that are common sense as governments have expanded their claimed power to rediculous levels. Example: USA claims to have the right to arrest anyone and keep them in prison "indefinitely" (meaning up to forever) without charging the person with a crime or a trial. Everyone who believes in the right to a trial and to only be arrested for crimes (instead of government doesn't like you) is now leaning strongly toward Libertarianism.

Example: Ron Paul ran for president of USA as a Libertarian and now is running as a Republican, but his ideas are still Libertarian. His recent surprising popularity, and even more surprising is that the Republicans are accepting him as one of their own, is a result of the combination of the things in this writing coming together.

While its not completely a hierarchy, the Federal Reserve is mostly the top of the global money hierarchy, given authority to create money laws by USA with no obligation toward democracy since its a private business. People are taking Ron Paul's plan to audit the Federal Reserve seriously, which would almost certainly lead to its crimes being exposed as it hasn't been audited in many years exactly because if crimes were found it would have to be shut down and its "too big to fail". How about too corrupt to succeed? Bitcoin doesn't need political corruption to succeed. It needs no hierarchies at all.

This writing is not about specific political parties. Its about ideas that are coming together on a global scale.

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Its a battle between centralized control and decentralized organization of society, which is fought politically, economically, and sometimes violently. As long as Humans have existed, there have been hierarchies of control: countries, presidents, kings, cities, department of motor vehicles, money systems which you're not allowed to compete with, etc. As technology advanced, organizing society in decentralized ways became possible. The authorities represent centralization of power. The things in this writing are toward decentralization of global power between all 7 billion people equally. The continuing increases in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship  are an attack on the things in this writing, because for us to cooperate we need to communicate. That's why we have the right to free speech.

Fighting for peace doesn't work. We don't want to fight, but we will defend if necessary. Violence and hate are inefficient ways to change the world.

"Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." —Sun Tzu

The Global Decentralization Process has Critical Mass, and the explosion of ideas and global changes can't be stopped by any amount of military or political or corporate power. This is not a time to sit back and enjoy the ride. We the 7 billion people need to learn to work together to stabilize this process before it turns into World War 3 as a conflict between global organization as hierarchies and decentralization. We can get through this by keeping an open mind.

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There is only 1 purpose of attacking free speech - to later attack other rights

Its happened over and over in history, including why USA was created.

In general the right to free speech always has and always will mean the right to communicate to others who want to receive those communications, without permission of anyone else.

These days, there are many kinds of communication, and free speech applies to them differently.

On the Internet, if you use advanced enough software, nobody can force you to hear/read what anyone says, and communications can be automatically organized and searched. There is practically infinite space. You don't have the right to get extremely off topic in a forum thread, but you do have the right to put up your own forum where you make the rules. If you don't like someone in a chatroom, you can click Ignore.

Bitcoin proved that money can be just a number on our screens that we send to eachother, an Internet calculator that only does plus and minus. Numbers are part of communication since we say them to eachother. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are speech, just another way of organizing society through communication of symbols.

Free speech through the mouth means something different, since you don't have the right to follow someone and keep saying things to them they don't want to hear.

Money is communication. Debt is censoring. We have the right not to be in debt unless we first agree to be in debt. The "national debt" of USA is censoring that none of us agreed to. The agreements of one generation do not transfer to the next, which is supported by the idea of legal contracts. The obligation to use any specific money system is censoring all other money systems.

Votes are a kind of communication. They're similar to money except with more restrictions on how they can be used and who can use them. The obligation to use any specific voting system to organize society is censoring all other voting systems, and there are many kinds we want to try. There are already many kinds of voting on the Internet for less important things than elections.

Laws are a kind of communication, obviously since they're made of words. A contract is a law that a group of people agrees on. What we normally call a law is a contract between a much larger group of people who agree on it through democracy. Don't forget that all laws depend on democracy, and we elect leaders only because its a convenient way to implement democracy.

Without free speech and the technology to speak it over long distances as we network our ideas together, we have no way to talk about the global patterns of events that those with political and corporate power organize, so it leads to control by a small group of people instead of control by democracy.

Old legal documents like USA's Constitution were written before we learned about all these new possibilities of organizing society, and those legal documents were never intended to stop us from exploring new things they hadn't thought of. These new kinds of communication will evolve together, like http://wikipedia.org  is a form of democracy and communication.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship

http://www.kurzweilai.net/forums/topic/a-technological-renaissance-peer-to-peer-non-internet-ip-walkie-talkie-nets

Since there is only 1 purpose of taking our freedom of speech, even if its only on a few subjects they don't want us to talk about (usually what we need to talk about the most), and that purpose is to weaken our ability to defend our other rights while those rights are attacked, it is logical to draw the line at "we have the right to free speech and therefore the right to build systems where we can speak freely without government controls hooked into those systems".

This is the line no government is allowed to cross, and the line is being defended by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_networks  in some countries where communications infrastructure was shut down. People rebuilt their ability to communicate. We must continue peacefully defending everyones' right to free speech.

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The Decentralized Union - where we protect eachother by observing eachother
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This is a plan to solve a big problem everyone on Earth will soon have if we don't start working on a solution. The solution I'm looking for is technical but can quickly be calculated with pen and paper. Its a way of us observing eachother and keeping track of who can and can't be contacted, to make sure the reasons for anyone's unexpected disappearance are investigated by people we can trust in a decentralized social network. I don't expect there will be much interest in this social process until governments become more oppressive, but if they continue the same patterns they've been doing for years, it will very predictably happen. I'm not worried if people don't pay this much attention for now, since we only need a few people to do this research and have it ready when public interest in this idea increases, when its needed most to solve our common problem. For now, I'm looking for help doing this research, to find a way everyone can calculate this with pen and paper and optionally optimize the process with software doing those same calculations but more of them.

I don't feel safe anymore. The many governments of Earth are working toward centralized control of everything, a one world government run by money instead of votes. They talk about more and more often arresting people without charging them with crimes, and not making public the records of their reasons or how to legally challenge those arrests. Decentralized ways of organizing the world have come under attack mainly because they reduce our dependence on the hierarchies of control, like Bitcoin (completely peer to peer cryptocurrency) reduces our dependence on the central bank system, or like an Internet where any computer can connect directly to any other computer (instead of servers and clients) reduces our dependence on businesses that control the Internet. There are many examples. Many governments claim we don't have the right to communicate directly to eachother, but what they're really concerned about is if we can communicate then we can broadcast information about their crimes to eachother. In recent years there have been rebellions against governments that would not have happened if those governments controlled communication, but if communication and other basic rights had been respected in those countries then people wouldn't have been so angry that they tried to overthrow those governments. When governments continue claiming that we don't have the right to communicate directly to eachother, and to investigate and expose the crimes of members of government and those who influence them, they are adding fuel to the fire, motivating more and more people to try to overthrow those governments, to use communication in the ways those governments are censoring communication to try to prevent. The only solution is for most people to agree that everyone has the right to communicate directly to eachother, to investigate crimes (like stealing billions of dollars of taxpayer money or arresting without charging with a crime, not small things) of others and broadcast what they learn, and to respect eachothers' rights. Its the only path that doesn't lead to World War 3. Toward those peaceful goals, I propose the following decentralized global organization where all people (including members of governments) are welcome to join:

Its called The Decentralized Union. We have the right to form unions.

* We all have many rights, and this list is not intended to be complete, only to list enough rights that we can use them to protect our other rights.

* Until charged with a specific crime, everyone has the right to communicate directly with everyone else.

* Everyone has the right to peacefully protest about anything, but does not have the right to block the streets.

* Every member of The Decentralized Union who is arrested (or taken prisoner in any way) has the right to have all relevant authorities investigated by The Decentralized Union and the details published for everyone to see, and everyone in The Decentralized Union has the responsibility to make sure such investigations happen and the results are published for everyone to see.

* Everyone has the right to not be penalized in any way for being a member of The Decentralized Union.

* The Decentralized Union charges no money. Freedom is free. Your only payment is your help in making the system work.

* The Decentralized Union has no authority to enforce laws or punish anyone, but we all have the right to expose the crimes of others, especially crimes of members of governments and those that influence them. Since we're not enforcing laws or punishing anyone, we have no obligation to prove anything "beyond a reasonable doubt" or to other legal standards. We will leave that to the many authorities to further investigate and punish eachother after we find and broadcast evidence to everyone, including statistical evidence based on patterns of global events.

* We recognize that just because a politician signs laws or advocates certain positions that they are not necessarily working toward that and may be working toward the opposite, since others must still agree to whatever they propose and they may be trying to push it slowly in a better direction, therefore we can only understand politics and other global events through statistics and looking at overall patterns. Such politicians may benefit from our decentralized protection, since they may also feel like they're in danger from other politicians threatening them if they don't take certain political actions. Similarly, we won't take any suspicious arrest at face value, since it could have been motivated by those same patterns. For example, if I am arrested without being charged with a crime after writing this, that would probably have been motivated by criminals in government(s) not wanting this system to be created since it could expose their crimes, and the correct response to that would be many people copying this text many places and joining the decentralized organization it describes.

* We will watch eachother and keep track of who is safe and free and who can not be contacted for any reason. We will use logical systems that can be calculated with pen and paper to keep track of that as a decentralized global group, each keeping track of some small and randomly selected group of other people. We may use software to optimize our pen and paper processes, but we must always have the ability to do it on pen and paper since the Internet is under centralized control. For example, the way Bitcoin is a decentralized network of computers that agree on who has how much money and who has sent and received how much money, could be modified and used as a logical sequence of steps for us to keep track of other people in a decentralized social network. Another example is the MerkleWeb software I proposed on the Bitcoin forum, but no software created yet.

Get some ideas from these logical algorithms. I'm not proposing that we use them directly:

"MerkleWeb - statistical Godel-like secure-but-not-perfect global Turing Machine"
http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=53062.0
http://sourceforge.net/projects/merkleweb

http://bitcoin.org

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence

There are many possible ways for us to keep track of eachother, to protect eachother by observing eachother, and the next step is for many of us to debate how to most simply and reliably do that with pen and paper. Its a puzzle. Can we solve it?

After more and more people debate this idea and start interacting with eachother these ways, corruption in governments will extremely weaken as a decentralized many-directional bright spotlight replaces the safe darkness they've become dependent on.

All my writing, here or on any website, permission granted to copy, and specificly for The Decentralized Union, permission granted to edit and improve.

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Submission Processing Center - Pun Intended

They demand I submissively submit my submission of money and papers to the Submission Processing Center.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp  is a Submission Processing Center, a new land of USA bought and set up for the purpose of not obeying the laws of USA since its outside of USA. Newsflash... If you expand your country's land, the laws of the land apply to that land too. But in this Submission Processing Center, prisoners are tortured into submission for information.

On May 20, 2009, the United States Senate passed an amendment to the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2009 (H.R. 2346) by a 90-6 vote to block funds needed for the transfer or release of prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. As of May 2011, 171 detainees remain at Guantanamo.

In other words, they don't have the money to release innocent prisoners and/or to stop torturing people for information. How much different is that from the other Submission Processing Center who makes us all submissive slaves to money?

If claims by 1 police officer or a few agreeing civilians in a courtroom is proof "beyond a reasonable doubt", then so is anything on Wikipedia that survives many edits. "Beyond a reasonable doubt" is sometimes wrong, and so is Wikipedia, but because of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem  which describes a big part of the way Wikipedia is updated, something staying on a Wikipedia through many edits is proof "beyond a reasonable doubt", regardless of the judges and lawyers who disagree because of their ignorance of math. I've observed agreeing variations of that quoted statement on Wikipedia, and it fits with other things we know about Guantanamo Bay, so the quote should be accepted as true beyond a reasonable doubt.

The words they use are important. Its a psychology thing to make us more submissive.

We have our own Submission Processing Center, targeted at the central banks...http://spacecollective.org/giulio/6894/Bitcoin-a-CryptoCurrency-for-a-free-Internet-and-a-free-society

Government must submissively submit to democracy.

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Politician Impeach Switch
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Every government works for the majority agreement (also known as democracy) of its people. We do not need government's permission or voting systems to agree on things. Whatever we-the-people agree is government's job to do, government must get the job done or we will find someone who can, as any employer has the responsibility to do when their employee doesn't get the job done. Governments work for their people if they admit it or not. Any employee who ignores the commands of his employer will usually be fired. Employees do not regulate the communication of their employers, like the "Internet Censorship Bill" in USA or any kind of censoring we did not ask for, for example. An employee does not make demands of how much money the employers will pay him, like unreasonable taxes, unless he is willing to find another job if the demand is not approved. An employee does not drive the organization to bankruptcy, like over a billion starving people or other global problems, against the commands of the employers. Employees regulate what their employer gives them permission to regulate. We give governments permission to regulate us only in the ways that improve the world, not to fill their own pockets at our expense. Know your place or find another job.

We know how to build systems to measure our agreement, like Wikipedia, and free open-source systems based on digital-signatures and merkle-trees to count things with military-strength software security, like Bitcoin at one point was a 100 million dollar economy as numbers on our screens that we could send and receive, really just a kind of Internet-based calculator but through well planned strategies people accepted it as money and traded it for dollars as the Bitcoin economy grew. Using the many kinds of unbiased free open-source secure technology and software we've learned to create, we can build systems that most people can trust which we will use to figure out what we agree on.

As many people start using these voluntary systems, the governments, who work for us, will have the responsibility to do what we agree on, or we'll impeach them, 1 politician at a time, and find someone who can get the job done. After many people figure out what they agree on, governments won't be able to resist us by their normal strategies of keeping us fighting eachother. Through our unbiased free open-source mostly unified democratic voice, governments will obey democracy or find another job.

While I disagree with the purpose of the Internet Kill Switch, it is a very efficient strategy of getting global communications and websites and the businesses who own that infrastructure to do what governments tell them to do. If there is even 1 thing government objects to on a website, like something copyrighted or something that exposes crimes of governments or opinions against their laws or ways of organizing things, then government can demand it be taken down, and if the website owner refuses, block everyone's access to the whole website. Because of this extreme ability to block small or big parts of the Internet, those who control the Internet infrastructure will be very motivated to obey government commands to the letter. That's efficiency.

But who watches the watchers? Average people. Until recently, we haven't had the ability to organize on a level where we could practically do that, but new free open-source unbiased secure technology is changing that.

Like the Internet Kill Switch can shut down individual websites, I propose a voluntary (use it if you want, not forced by laws or integrated with governments) system that anyone on Earth who has Internet access can use to help organize the world.

It will be called the Politician Impeach Switch.

If there is majority agreement in your city to impeach any politician or other employee of your city, then those who choose to use this system will voluntarily organize themselves toward getting that politician impeached, fired, out of a job, or whatever you want to call it.

We're not going to use violence or do anything illegal. We have more than enough power just by organizing our actions together, little things like publicly broadcasting (writing on the internet, the news, or wherever) the secrets we learn about a politician, exposing their crimes, agreeing not to vote for them or anyone who supports them, or other legal actions.

The Politician Impeach Switch, which is a new kind of democracy done through any unbiased free open-source secure technology, will become what politicians fear most, so they will choose to do their jobs as we-the-people assign to them or we'll find someone who can get the job done.

After the Politician Impeach Switch is up and running, any politician who acted against it or against those who support or try to create it, will be likely targets for impeachment. Do your job, and don't act against we-the-people, or be impeached. Impeach normally means a specific legal process that only applies in certain cases, but the Politician Impeach Switch's only condition is democracy.

This is a message to all governments and their people. Most governments are on thin-ice, but if they cooperate with democracy and start trying to make this a better world for everyone as a higher priority than getting themselves rich, then I recommend we give them another chance, under the unbiased free open-source decentralized secure Politician Impeach Switch.

(All my writing, here or on any website, permission granted to copy. —Ben F Rayfield)

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Stop holding up the pyramid

and the rest will lose their balance

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We Evolve Evolution
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There is one general pattern that explains everything from single thoughts in a person's mind to global power flows. If only a god can control evolution, then we're all gods. Like it or not, we are all controlling many kinds of Evolution, and it has led to global problems that nobody takes credit for Evolving. There was a species where males continually Evolved bigger antlers, which their females were attracted to, until the males had so much difficulty holding their heads up that they did not often enough see hungry sharp-toothed animals coming, and they Evolved toward their own Extinction. Each member of that species did what they thought was best at the time, like most people say they try to be a good person and they do what they can. Evolution doesn't care about trying. Evolution cares about results.

Combinations of thoughts Evolve in our minds. When thoughts Evolve in society overall, they are called memes. Economies Evolve and compete between countries and internet money systems. Political systems Evolve using legal documents as their DNA, which new governments take ideas from. Software Evolves as people take some from here and some from there and build new software. Artificial intelligence software Evolves directly inside computers in limited ways so far, and is now doing much of our thinking for us like we use through Google and automated research. Language Evolves to include more complex ideas and ways of organizing words. All that directs the bio Evolution of Humans as we organize who has enough money to support kids, who should go to jail, who to fight wars against, and how we find and measure others to breed with.

The world is only complex if you focus on the details. While you're worrying about who gets tax deductions and who to vote for and the unemployment rate and which college degrees are worth the most, you are weighed down by your big Evolved antlers. This isn't a jungle anymore. Tigers aren't the most dangerous thing around. We control many kinds of Evolution. The new tigers will eat you by Evolving systems that move valuable things away from you and toward themselves. 1.7 billion people are starving or lack other basic needs of living, and the global economy nearly crashed, while 1% of people have around 40% of the valuable things. Learn to control a few kinds of Evolution or you could be next. When a tiger is hungry, he doesn't think about the ethics or fairness of eating you. He just eats you.

When you pay excessive tax, that's the tigers eating you. When you have skills but can't find a job, that's the part of you the tigers leave on the ground which is wasted. When a majority of votes is for something but your government makes only trivial changes and does whatever it wanted, that's the tigers growling at you to back off and stop acting like you tell tigers what to do. When part of your tax money pays for excessive military systems for the purpose of keeping a government in control of other governments, that is a tiger eating you and using his increased strength to show that he is the pack leader of the other tigers. You will let the tigers feed on your resources, or violently on you if you resist, so they can have more resources. You will let the tigers herd you as the sheeple you are. Talking about rights and ethics and traditions and how things have always been is like talking about which tooth the tigers bite you with.

In the past Humans were lower in the food chain than tigers, but as we learned to work together we advanced past those animal kind of tigers. Similarly, as we have a new global communication ability through the internet, we can learn to work together as a group of 7 billion people and protect eachother from those 1% tigers who repeatedly eat mostly from the poorest 1.7 billion of our group and other times from our whole group. We should learn to use a few kinds of Evolution to protect eachother on a global scale. If not, hold your big Evolved antlers low and ask the hungry tigers not to eat you.

Most kinds of Evolution are not about money, so everyone can do it. In recent years, the Human species learned to control new kinds of Evolution without using money, without getting investors or governments or businesses involved until it was already Evolving for some time, without breaking any laws, and without putting an extreme effort into it. Its about what you do more than how much or how often you do it. To consciously create a new kind of Evolution, also known as a game-changer, you first need to understand which parts of yourself were caused by any kinds of Evolution and/or which are good ideas on their own merits. You don't really want to drink soda with lots of sugar. Evolution wants that because sugar is rare where we Evolved. Drink the soda or not. Its not important. What's important is to know why you drink or don't drink it, in case Evolution wants something that leads to Extinction, like excessive attention to detail while ignoring how the world works overall.

There is a small crack in the the system that keeps the 1% tigers eating the rest of us. Its not important by itself. Whats important is it cost us no resources to do and it cost the tigers 40 million dollars (40% of 100 million) which spread to our group, and we can do it again as many new kinds of Evolution, many new systems, ways of organizing people, social networking, or add your own ideas. This small crack is Bitcoin. Its a peer-to-peer software that nobody can control, by design, and its open-source so anyone can see how it works. It displays numbers and connects to other Bitcoin software on the internet automatically. Everyone's number starts as 0. You can send or receive these numbers by typing the bitcoin address and a number. You can trade bitcoins to/from dollars at places like http://mtgox.com  and watch their value like a stock price at places like http://bitcoincharts.com  The maximum value of the total Bitcoin economy ever was around 100 million dollars. That didn't come from putting dollars into it. Like any other money system, it came from peoples' confidence in Bitcoin to continue working as a system of money. At first there were 0 bitcoins. The rule for how to create bitcoins is there will be a certain number of bitcoins created each hour, which has already been set-in-stone built into the software and you can see graphs of it, and they are divided between the computers proportionally to how many useless calculations (called "proof of work" in the Bitcoin design doc) they do. Its not a perfect system, but at least its open to everyone instead of the Federal Reserve doing it. If more "proof of work" is done in a certain hour, each "proof of work" creates less bitcoins, so the total bitcoins in the whole network increases the speed it was designed to increase. Unlike government-based economies which they continually fine-tune, Bitcoin is designed so nobody can control it. There is no way to change the rate of bitcoin creation total in the network. Its designed to level off at 21 million bitcoins. Bitcoins can be divided down to .00000001 instead of .01 for dollars, so 21 million will split well enough. You can keep Bitcoins in a USB stick. Its best to run Linux on a USB stick and boot into it whenever you want to spend, so your normal computer use does not put it at risk of viruses. If you only use Linux for Bitcoin, its unlikely you'll get a virus. For small amounts of money, go ahead and install Bitcoin on your normal operating system. As the number of bitcoins gradually increased from 0 to millions, and they started being traded for dollars, people noticed that others were making lots of money on their investment in bitcoins (and it still could go up again, it tends to oscillate on an exponential scale), so they were motivated to trade dollars for bitcoins. A few businesses, and many people, accept bitcoins as payments, but for now its more like a stock market with 1 stock. If Bitcoin succeeds or not in the end is not important. Whats important is that Bitcoin devalued dollars by 100 million and moved that value into the pockets of those who invested in it. Its not a pyramid scheme any more than the stock market is. Those who get in early take a risk and maybe a much bigger profit. Bitcoin is a software, numbers on our screens, but through these strategies people accepted it as money. The 1% tigers, who have 40% of the valuable things and continue to bite it off of our group, got bitten back as their 40% of 100 million dollars spread to our group of 7 billion people, and we can do it again as many new kinds of Evolution, many new systems, social networking, or add your own ideas. This is a unique and recent paradigm-shift thats important for everyone to understand. Its just getting started, and Bitcoin is only a detail of it.

As we know from stock markets, prediction is a kind of money. If Bitcoin's numbers on our screens can become money, costing us nothing to create that money, then a global unbiased peer-to-peer system where we collaborate to more accurately predict global power flows, would be a kind of power in itself. Like Bitcoin sucked 100 million dollars of value out of the existing economies, such a global prediction system could suck political power out of the existing organizations. Like corporations pay off governments to make laws supporting those corporations, we can use Bitcoin-like strategies to create our own ways of organizing the world, coin political power into a new kind of money, buy the world, and set everyone free. Wikipedia, because its unbiased by strategic design, describes the world more accurately than government research. A hybrid of Bitcoin and Wikipedia and http://kickstarter.com  and add your own ideas, would be a game-changer the 1% tigers dominating our world would never forget. Lets work toward a global democracy where everyone has equal power, instead of 1% of the people having 40% of the power.

The most important thing to learn about Evolution is Selection Pressure. All other things about Evolution are a result of interactions between many Selection Pressures. Bio Evolution is Selection Pressure toward survival, but the many kinds of Evolution in our world can be designed toward any goal we can think of from many angles at once. There are many examples of Selection Pressure and Evolution, but they all work basically the same way.

An example of Selection Pressure on thoughts is when you're getting ready to do your taxes. The thoughts about how to do taxes Evolve in your mind. One of the first thoughts is to not do it, but that is associated with government acting against you, which is associated with other memories of pain. The thought dies. You may think about asking your friend to explain something about the taxes, or you may consider going to a professional tax person. Both those thoughts are connected to possibly making progress on the taxes. One is associated with paying more money and getting more accurate results. The other is associated with a faster answer and positive emotions from memories of your friend. A thought Evolves from the combination. You go see your friend to take a break from the taxes and later the 2 of you drive to the tax professional and then do something fun. When combinations of thoughts combine and split and compete toward some goal, that is Evolution of thoughts. It works best when there are many small variations that cover a subject completely, each overlapping on some ideas and contradicting eachother in other ways. Why did those thoughts happen? To avoid the government acting against you when you don't do your taxes, you created Selection Pressure to find a set of thoughts that fit well together and results in your taxes being done.

A game where you can learn Selection Pressure: If you download my free open-source Audivolv software (version 0.1.7), you will see a "Sounds Good" and "Sounds Bad" button. Each time you choose good or bad, it Evolves a new sound effect that is controlled by mouse movements. As you go through cycles of playing sounds with the mouse and choosing sounds good or bad, you apply Selection Pressure on the Evolving sound effects which start as random radio-static-like sounds and evolve to become more musical. Restart the program to start Evolution over. Its a very simple kind of software Evolution, but you can learn how to control Evolution from it.

Brains evolve thoughts toward being associated with memories of positive emotions and away from negative emotions. Politics evolves by trying to be associated with positive things and not be associated with negative things, but that also interacts with money so many Evolutions have to be viewed together to predict it.

Selection Pressure on votes in USA causes people to vote for 1 of 2 political parties (together called Republicrats) which continue to win for exactly this reason. What reason? Its a cycle without an external reason. If you don't vote for 1, you are increasing the chance the other will win. This is similar to Bitcoin not needing an external reason to go from 0 to a 100 million dollar economy without using any money to start with.

Selection Pressure is a general tool that causes Evolution or Extinction. Tools are not good or bad by themself; Its how they're used. When masters whip slaves who pick cotton the worst, they create Selection Pressure to Evolve the thoughts in the slaves' minds to pick cotton better. All the cotton pickers want to avoid being the worst picker, so they compete. Most people today want to avoid being the worst employee and becoming 1 of the 1.7 billion starving (or lacking other basic needs of life) people, so they compete.

Police usually give speeding tickets to the people they see drive fastest. Therefore most of those people tend to drive slower, and most other people tend to not drive much faster than others. By giving that small fraction of people speeding tickets, most people are caused to drive slower. Its very efficient since it causes most people to drive near the speed limits even when they've seen no police for days, because the Selection Pressure has been adjusted over time to find the right price of tickets which causes people to drive at speeds government prefers. They set speed limits a little below the speed they want people to drive and adjust the remaining speed with Selection Pressure caused by ticket prices. To save money, they could have half as many traffic police and increase the fines, but there is also a Selection Pressure against that by people who see such fines as an absolute number instead of relative to what fraction of speeders get caught. This is not Selection of people. Its Selection of the thoughts in their mind about how fast to drive. The Selection Pressure is not enough to stop someone from driving fast to a hospital in an emergency. Selection Pressure is a gradual influence that can be adjusted instead of a yes or no rule. This makes Selection Pressure a flexible tool for adjusting the world, like turning knobs on your stereo to get it to sound just right.

When government offers a tax deduction for doing something, it is creating Selection Pressure toward that thing. Its adjusting the world so those who avoid that thing are disadvantaged and those who do it have an advantage. When government creates a law against jaywalking with a small fine, it is creating a small Selection Pressure toward using the painted paths at road intersections.

Corporations put Selection Pressure on parts of government by moving money where those parts of government want the money to go, more often when government does what corporations want. This is called lobbying when done in public and bribing when done in private.

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and cell phone businesses and others who own the global communications infrastructure, put Selection Pressure on global communications, including between free open-source software over the internet, to be organized in a hierarchy. People or technology higher in that hierarchy, for example as the Patriot Acts in USA say they will do, spy on, take statistics on, and turn off such communications whenever in their opinion they think it should be done.

People put Selection Pressure on the thoughts of those who own the global communications infrastructure to not turn it off for long times or in large areas, but this Selection Pressure is not enough to stop it from being organized in a hierarchy.

Wikileaks put Selection Pressure against the illegal actions of some parts of governments and corporations, and to protect themselves those governments and corporations had already set up a legal system to protect their secrets.

Governments and (indirectly) corporations and criminals put Selection Pressure against their secrets getting out. Governments and corporations create this Selection Pressure by creating laws (laws protecting "national security" or "proprietary secrets" for example) and threatening you if you break those laws. Criminals create this Selection Pressure without creating laws and skip straight to the threatening of whoever tells their secrets. The Selection Pressure they have in common is defined by it being against others learning their secrets and the Selection Pressure being applied in the final step by the use of threats. By definition, governments are not criminals, regardless of how many wars they start or what their reasons are, but they do have that in common.

Social pressure to ignore the 1.7 billion people who are starving or lacking other basic needs of life, is a Selection Pressure that organizes society in that inefficient way. These 1.7 billion people do not put much Selection Pressure on anything because they do not control anything which people tend to respond to, like money or political power or products or proof of specific political corruption or patents or college degrees. They could be doing productive work.

Selection Pressure applied to groups works better than applied to individuals because it selects toward working together, as explained here using Enron and chicken breeding as examples:http://lesswrong.com/lw/l8/conjuring_an_evolution_to_serve_you

The Zeitgeist Movement, the group called Anonymous, the Wall Street Protesters, and the Open Source movement, are all coming together toward a peaceful decentralized reorganization of the world, with no leaders or followers, ideas flowing between us based on the ideas instead of who they came from, using social networking and Bitcoin-like strategies and Wikipedia and the scientific-method and globally transparent honesty about how our organizations work, instead of hierarchies. This has been coming for many years, and its just getting started. I predicted it in "A Compromise To Avoid World War 3" (search for it, in a few forums) which I wrote around mid 2011. I was surprised these things happened so soon, but I knew what it was when I saw it. The world is changing.

This is a global competition between 2 ways of organizing the world: a hierarchy where a small group of people controls everything, or a group of 7 billion equals. Learn about these many kinds of Evolution, which are the result of repeated Selection Pressure. Learn to predict them, influence them, and create new kinds of Evolution like a hybrid of Bitcoin and Wikipedia and http://kickstarter.com  or whatever you think will balance power in the world. An unbalanced system is why the global economy almost crashed in recent years and will happen again. Ignoring global problems as somebody else's responsibility to solve will not stop those problems from Evolving into something that becomes your personal problem, or you can ignore this, hold your big Evolved antlers low, and ask the hungry tigers not to eat you. The future is networks, not hierarchies. Today you can buy a mind reading game controller at http://emotiv.com  that reads some emotions and thoughts about movement from your mind to control video games. Our communications will become a global network like brainwaves of the Human species. I'm not just saying that. I'm 1 of the people building free open-source software to network our minds together (Human AI Net), but that is only a detail of a complete change in the way the Human species organizes itself globally. Stop saving for retirement unless you're old. Money and political power as we know it are on a now slow but exponentially accelerating path to becoming obsolete. This is really happening. Wake up and observe how the world works, which is people controlling many kinds of Evolution, before you get left behind. We Evolve Evolution.

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