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Another thing I heard an expert mentioning, which could be an indication of capitalism starting to fail, is that the stock markets have recently become detached from the actual values of the companies listed on the stock markets. Especially during the coronavirus situation money has flowed into stockmarkets when investments in other areas have dried up, he said. Someone else said, probably as a joke but there could be some kernel of truth to it, that Elon Musk can say anything in a public statement, even that their business is failing, and the Tesla stock value skyrockets, haha.

I'm actually a fan of free market economy and entrepreneurship. I also want a strong social safety net and regulations for businesses. It's just that as I see it, capitalism which has been very useful for thousands of years is quickly, historically speaking, losing steam. Capitalism is getting too clunky and inefficient in the information age where value is moving towards people's attention with money serving more as a centralized middleman function for legacy reasons.

Ironically it looks like China is going to destroy the old capitalism with a new kind of capitalism that is in bed with the Chinese government. It's super efficient! I predict that Chinese tech within the next few years will make Tesla cars and iPhones look like stone age technology in comparison. The Chinese approach is massive integration of technology across all of society. This includes horrible Orwellian control and surveillance systems. I do however believe that we in the west will get a lot of that kind of surveillance and control systems too, because it's necessary in order to keep the increasingly powerful technologies safe for public use.

In this presentation Peter Joseph explains what's wrong with capitalism. I disagree with his idea of a centralized system and believe more in decentralized systems, but I find it interesting that he says that a society without money is possible.

Donald Trump believes that jobs are important. That's absolutely stupid in my opinion. What is important is helicopter money until automation has replaced most of the jobs and made money obsolete. To cling to the old job model is like clinging on to the industrial revolution. Clarification: I'm exaggerating my statement here to make a contrasting point. Jobs will of course be necessary for many years to come, and Trump and Biden need to promote job politics. My main point is that change in society is really starting to speed up. It's not like 10,000 years ago when the same kind of plows were used over thousands of years without much change. It's not even like in the industrial age where things remained stable for decades.

New satsang video by Roger Castillo where he talks about how expectations of outcomes are a result of the thinking mind mistaking itself as being a doer. And it measures personal success in terms of achievements. That's a fallacy! I found that an interesting point. Successes and failures are immaterial possessions treated as separate objects. From a nondual perspective those separations are illusions.

@neutralempty That's actually what Ray Kurzweil has said. That there will be both free open source and commercial 3D pay-for printing models to download. But I'm starting to have doubts about what level of access the general public will have to these kinds of technologies. The 3D printers available today are fairly crude although this big one is interesting:

There are also dangers with exponential technological progress. Technologies such as nanotech and biotech can easily become horrible weapons and with terrorists having access to advanced AI they can use it to unleash bio and nano weapons. And even advanced 3D printing in the hands of ordinary citizens is a danger since that allows for the 3D printing of weapons and other dangerous items. What may happen is that advanced technologies like that will be used by industries and corporations and that they will keep it away from the public. Not only because of government regulations but also to maintain their own survival. For example what would Nike do if people were able to 3D print superior shoes and clothes themselves?

One big obstacle to healing is the death drive (thanatos). That's not healing. That's biological aging, disease and death. So the idea of automatic healing is an enormous shift of perspective. And it's hard to even take the idea seriously, but I will at least experiment with it for a while.

@neutralempty I think AI will start to develop AI. That is the start of the so-called intelligence explosion. And even before that happens (if it happens) AI can learn by interacting with the real world. First mainly on the internet probably but then later in the real world. I believe that we humans will remain on top of the power and AI will be used as a tool to extend our capabilities. For example we humans are good at using high level abstractions and AI can be used for doing the heavy lifting and then present results to us in high level forms such as in images and natural language. There may also be overestimations of the power of early AI. For example self-driving cars might be much more difficult to become fully automatic than many experts believe. There are millions of edge cases in traffic that need to be managed safely.

@Keyhole One difficulty I noticed is that I quickly forgot about the idea of automatic healing. The conditioning is so heavy that such radical idea needs to be repeated to get into the subconscious probably. I will try to remind myself of it.

In this new video Shunyamurti is saying something similar to Neville Goddard that Christmas is about Christ being born in ourselves.

Automation may look clunky and inefficient today, but the trick with exponential progress is that it improves at an accelerating rate. Compare the early video game Pong with today's video games for example. Then what about computer programmers? I found this amazing video describing how an AI programmed (developed/created) a Pac-Man game by just looking at it being played! Very crude program, but again, exponential progress has to be taken into account.

Here I found an even more relevant video with Said Dawlabani. I will compare it to my amateurish ideas.

@louhad Interesting, I hadn't heard of Said Dawlabani before. 20 years seems too optimistic to me considering the huge inertia in society, but say in 30 years I think that automation has replaced the vast majority of jobs. I found this short video where he talks about Spiral Dynamics applied to economics:

@datamonster My point is that capitalism has been useful but that it now is starting to become obsolete. I diluted my claim a bit and modified it to saying that capitalism is getting obsolete as the dominant power of production. The main driver for this trend is the exponential (accelerating) progress of technology. Basically products and services are getting dirt cheap while the performance increases. I learned this from Ray Kurzweil. He believes that there will still be enough jobs in the future. Maybe true for the next decade but after that I see automation increasingly taking over basically all jobs!

I think that the lawsuit is about Pennsylvania changing laws in unlawful ways. That could be important for the U.S. Supreme Court I now think! Because if allowed to continue it could result in all kinds of similar outside law changes in the future throughout all U.S. states. Not good. And as I understand it, the U.S. Supreme Court is generally interested in those kinds of overarching and big national issues.

Finally Trump files a lawsuit with the U.S. Supreme Court. (Is it correct to write 'with' here? sounds odd, lol) It seems to be a lame lawsuit to me, but I don't know much about legal matters. I will check out this video which seems to be more bullish about it:

I have a new a very simple and radical idea about healing. Reality is always in perfect order. So we are already healed. All that is needed is a shift of perspective, a complete recontexualization of healing. The idea is that lack of healing is a result of the belief that healing is necessary! Change the idea and healing will be automatic. That's the idea. I will experiment with it for a while to see if the idea is true.

Aaron Abke has this new video about hell. Before I check it out I want to revisit my take on it. My current view is that the second death means death of the personal stage! And born again means the awakening of the transpersonal stage. And the lake of burning sulfur is the suffering at the personal stage. And we can't remain in that state forever. So to me hell means being trapped in the personal stage forever, which cannot happen since that's just a temporary stage needed for growth and development. All will be saved so to speak. Notice in that Bible verse "all liars". Who hasn't ever lied? See? It's not about some place called hell, it's about the personal stage where lies happen.

It seems that at the personal stage we are prevented from inner peace, because that would make us passive, inactive and lazy, like being drugged on opium. As a permanent state that's bad, but as a transition from the personal to the transpersonal stage it might be something useful. My idea is that allowing inner peace is useful for melting the crystallized ego and allowing a transformation into the transpersonal stage. And being passive and lazy can then be allowed consciously as a part of that process. Out of the passivity a new kind of action will arise, that of the transpersonal stage.

Hmm... Does the NSA have technology that is far ahead of what we have in the public society? Richard Dolan was told by an NSA agent, maybe former, that the NSA had microchips, CPUs back in the 60s that were around 35 years ahead of their time in terms of clock speed. And in the interview with Binney he said that the NSA scans devices and looks at the software before they put any of those into their system. How can they simply 'scan' a device and know that it's secure? Sounds like Star Trek tech, lol.

William Binney is former NSA officer, and he has presented information that may be proven true. He tweeted recently that there were more total votes in the U.S. 2020 presidential election than there are actually voters. Could be true! Anyway, I found this interview which I will check out:

Galactic consciousness, that might sound like incredible woo woo, but it actually explains Fermi's paradox, why we haven't seen any space aliens officially yet. My idea is that advanced civilizations form a transpersonal galactic consciousness. This means that they are one huge organism. Not like the Borg in Star Trek, but with personal individuality preserved. Several experts have pointed out that Earth is in a state of quarantine. I think that's absolutely correct. We are a very young civilization and our wars are like children fighting in a sandbox. Conflicts within one organism is called a disease. So are the advanced civilizations all peaceful, like Steven Greer has suggested? Yes, I think that Star Wars like scenarios may be going on in the galaxy BUT that those are for entertainment and for creativity. Members of advanced civilizations can't really be harmed. So it's a transcend and include of conflicts.

Is it then possible to change the world from consciousness? In my view, no, nothing can change anything. Then what about volition and free will? To me it seems that the sense of free will is a very high level of development and should be both included and transcended in an integral way. One excellent idea of how to include free will in an automatic scenario is what Stephen Wolfram has coined computational irreducibility. It's impossible, even in theory, to fully predict the future. And our sense of free will is a part of reality having to actually perform actions and choices as a part of manifesting reality. So there will be a sense of free will even at the transpersonal stage I believe. The same with individuality and personality. My idea is that consciousness expands by emerging into higher levels of organization, from prepersonal, to personal and then to transpersonal. And even within the transpersonal stage there are different levels, such as collective consciousness, planetary consciousness, galactic consciousness and so on.