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Edited at 2021-08-01 16:12:58One Hundred Years of Solitude is the masterpiece of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Reading this book begins with making sense of the characters' relationships, which are centered on the Buendía family and tells the story of the family's prosperity and decline, internal relationships and political struggles, self-mixing and rebirth over the course of a hundred years.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is the masterpiece of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Reading this book begins with making sense of the characters' relationships, which are centered on the Buendía family and tells the story of the family's prosperity and decline, internal relationships and political struggles, self-mixing and rebirth over the course of a hundred years.
Project management is the process of applying specialized knowledge, skills, tools, and methods to project activities so that the project can achieve or exceed the set needs and expectations within the constraints of limited resources. This diagram provides a comprehensive overview of the 8 components of the project management process and can be used as a generic template for direct application.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is the masterpiece of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Reading this book begins with making sense of the characters' relationships, which are centered on the Buendía family and tells the story of the family's prosperity and decline, internal relationships and political struggles, self-mixing and rebirth over the course of a hundred years.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is the masterpiece of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Reading this book begins with making sense of the characters' relationships, which are centered on the Buendía family and tells the story of the family's prosperity and decline, internal relationships and political struggles, self-mixing and rebirth over the course of a hundred years.
Project management is the process of applying specialized knowledge, skills, tools, and methods to project activities so that the project can achieve or exceed the set needs and expectations within the constraints of limited resources. This diagram provides a comprehensive overview of the 8 components of the project management process and can be used as a generic template for direct application.
A brief history of the future
Prologue: New Issues for Humanity
Knock down three mountains
famine
Famines were more likely to occur in ancient times because small mistakes could lead to food shortages for an entire year. And now, the problem that many people in the world suffer from is obesity
plague
Technology allows us to defeat bacteria and viruses. There is only one possibility that endangers humanity, exploited by cruel ideologies
war
The invention of nuclear weapons has made war more rare, and integration has also eliminated the motivation for war between countries; terrorism is a trouble, but it will not drag all mankind back to the law of the jungle.
new topics
defeat death
The emergence of eternal life will lead to fundamental inequality between people
eternal happiness
Biochemistry re-creates Homo sapiens to provide endless pleasure
pursuit of divinity
The pursuit of divinity is indeed a new issue for mankind, but the definition of "god" in the book is a bit one-sided
man becomes god
path
Bioengineering: Humans fully exploit their potential within existing organic body structures
Cyborg Engineering: Combining a variety of non-organic devices, retaining the organic brain as the core
Non-organic bioengineering: intelligent software replaces neural networks, inorganic life replaces organic life
If the mind changes from carbon-based to silicon-based, the structure of the mind changes, Homo sapiens disappears, and human history comes to an end.
clarify
1. The above refers to "humanity as a whole", not most individual people.
2. This is a historical prediction, not a political goal
3. Pursuing may not necessarily result in getting
4. Forecasting is not for the purpose of prophecy. Predictions can change the future after discussion.
Marxism did not overthrow (capitalist) rule, this prediction alone could make them change
The meaning of history: Historical knowledge will change our future behavior. Studying history is to liberate ourselves from old meanings.
The paradox of knowledge: knowledge (prediction) is useless without changing behavior. Once behavior changes, the original knowledge (prediction) immediately loses its meaning.
On the road to becoming a god, there are no brakes
Each expert has his or her own specialty. No one understands the entire system. No one knows where the brakes are.
The functions of the modern economy will grow endlessly, and the brakes will collapse. All we can do is pursue sustainable goals: immortality, happiness, and divinity.
Part One: Homo sapiens conquers the world
How humans treat other animals (World)
fact
Humans exterminated and conquered other large animals and dominated the world
Like any other animal, it is a set of biological algorithms for the purpose of reproduction. Emotions and desires help us find the path quickly.
idea
hunter gatherer
Hunter-gatherers do not feel superior to other creatures. Human survival depends on understanding and respecting the desires of the animals around them.
Hunter-gatherers tended to be animistic and communicate with all living things
farmer
Farmers' quality of life depends on the animals they can control
Farmers downgrade animals from beings with feelings and worthy of respect to human assets.
People discipline animals according to their own needs and ignore the emotional needs of animals
Most agricultural societies viewed people of different classes as assets
Theism promises Homo sapiens to be dominant and exploit all other living things. Such as Christianity
Theism, God is responsible for mediating between humans and ecosystems. The gods were responsible for protecting agriculture, in exchange for human contributions, at the expense of the ecosystem
modern man
Theism uses the name of God as an excuse for traditional agriculture, while humanism uses the name of man as an excuse for modern industrialized agriculture.
Humanism is based on the belief that Homo sapiens possess certain unique and sacred human qualities that animals do not have, so nature is not important.
human traits
People have souls
If the soul evolved, then it would be contrary to the nature of evolution for it to be an indivisible, eternal entity.
If the soul suddenly appears in a human being, it is unimaginable that he or his parents did not have any soul before him.
People have souls
If everything is in our neuron network, why separate the mind?
If the mind is higher than the neural network, then where is it?
The web of human meaning
triple reality
objective reality
subjective reality
intersubjective, interconnected subjectivity
Animals can only think about things that actually exist
And people can think about intersubjective things (intersubjectivity), they have real and powerful power, such as countries, companies, laws, etc.
If you want to decipher the future of mankind, you must decipher the various fictional imaginations that give meaning to the world.
Part 2: Hopiens give meaning to the world
the power of fiction
Animals all live in dual realities of objective entities and subjective experiences. The world of Homo sapiens has a third reality, with various stories about money, gods, countries and companies.
70,000 years ago, the cognitive revolution allowed humans to talk about things that only existed in the human imagination, and in this way led to the cooperation of hundreds or thousands of people. Geographical isolation and inefficiency in information transmission prevent such cooperation from occurring on a large scale.
5,000 years ago, people invented writing and money
Words allow people to organize society in an algorithmic way. Each person completes a small step, and the final important decision is judged by the entire algorithm. This is the essence of the bureaucracy.
The state issues a piece of paper and forces citizens to use this piece of paper to pay taxes. Citizens have no choice, but the market develops.
Story should be just a tool, not the goal
We should distinguish between reality and fiction. The status of reality is of course higher than fiction. The euro can depreciate but it is not painful.
In the future, there will be more powerful fictional concepts and more totalitarian organizations, so it is particularly important to distinguish between reality and fiction.
Fictional stories make it easier for humans to cooperate, but the cost is that stories also determine the goals of our cooperation
The debate between science and religion
religion
Religion is not the same as superstition. What you believe must be "truth"; only what others believe can be "superstition"
Religion is not supernatural, it is natural for people who believe in demons, gods, spirits
Religion is not a question of whether you believe in "God"
Religion is not the same as spirituality
Religion is to consolidate the secular order, spirituality is to escape
The spiritual journey is only suitable for individuals, not for society. If human beings want to collaborate, there can’t be just problems and no norms.
Religion is an all-encompassing set of stories that lends superhuman legitimacy to human laws, norms, and values
The definition of religion should be related to social functions, not whether there is a god
Christianity, communism, and liberalism can all be regarded as a religion
The historical laws of communism are actually like the commandments of the Christian God
science and religion
If science wants to create a viable human system, it will inevitably need the assistance of religion. Research facts but do not make ethical judgments
Religion is not just about ethical judgments, it always includes factual statements
Three parts of a typical religious story
Ethical judgments, such as "human sanctity"
Factual statements such as "Human life begins at the moment of conception"
A combination of ethical judgments and factual statements, with specific instructions such as "You cannot have an abortion even if it is just one day old."
Science and religion are easier to compromise and cooperate than imagined
What religion cares about most is order
What science cares about most is power
Modern history is actually a process of coming to terms between science and a specific religion (humanism). Modern society believes in humanism, and science is not to question, but to realize its dogma.
Contract with "Modern"
Pre-modern people believed they were living within some great cosmic plan, which limited human power but also gave everything meaning
"Modern" is a contract, the essence of which is: people give up meaning in exchange for power
Without meaning, the reason why modern society is still developing is because of the rise of a revolutionary new religion: humanism
humanist revolution
The contract with modernity is to gain power and relinquish meaning. But there is a loophole clause, meaning and power can be had if humans find meaning outside of the overall cosmic plan. man finds humanism
dogma of humanism
Humanist Politics: Voters can make the best choices
Humanistic Economics: The customer is always right
Humanistic Aesthetics: The person who sees it thinks it is beautiful, it is beautiful
Humanistic Ethics: If it feels right, do it
Humanistic education: think for yourself
The split in humanism
Classical Orthodoxy: Liberalism
Everyone is a unique person with unrepeatable experiences
Branch One: Social Humanism. Socialism blames liberalism for focusing too much on one's own feelings and ignoring the experiences of others.
Branch Two: Evolutionary Humanism. The conflict of various experiences and feelings is inevitable, and the fittest wins.
Part 3: Homo sapiens lose control
Time bomb in the laboratory
free consciousness
The basis of liberalism is that people have a sense of freedom. This is a factual statement
Fact statement science can intervene
Every electrochemical reaction is determined by the previous event, so the final decision reached is definitely not free consciousness.
If it is a decision caused by random movement, of course this is randomness, not free consciousness.
According to the theory of evolution, all so-called "selections" of animals are responses to genetic codes.
individualism
Liberalism believes that everyone has a single, indivisible self
Split-brain experiment, self is physically separable
Ice water experiment, people have two selves: experiencing self and narrative self
great separation
A scientific response to the insistence that people are irreplaceable
1. Biology is an algorithm. Every animal (including Homo sapiens) is an evolved collection of algorithms
2. The function of the algorithm is not affected by the constituent substances. It makes no difference whether the card counting beads are made of iron or wood.
3. As long as the calculation is correct, there is no difference between silicon-based or carbon-based
Superhumans take over the world, and humans lose equality
Algorithms control the world and humans lose their sanctity
Humanity as a whole will still have value, but individuals will no longer have authority and most choices will be governed by external algorithms
Human beings have absolutely no value
Algorithms become entities like companies and countries, controlling humans
What do useless people do? Smart people live on drugs and playing games.
Humans will likely be kept in captivity or exterminated. Because the system is smarter than humans, you can’t grasp its motivations
Whether algorithms or superhumans take over the world, liberalism will collapse
The new religion of technological humanism
Still believing that humans are the pinnacle of creation, Homo sapiens upgrades to the god of wisdom, fighting against the most complex unconscious algorithms
Just like human intelligence sees a small segment of the spectrum, the spectrum of psychology is much wider than what we experience. Becoming a wise god can explore new lands of the mind.
Technological humanism faces an unsolvable dilemma. It believes that human consciousness is the most important thing in the universe, and therefore promotes human development and control. However, once consciousness can be controlled, human beings will lose their sanctity and cannot stand in the face of technology.
The new religion of dataism
Dataism believes that the universe is composed of data, and the value of any phenomenon or entity lies in its contribution to data processing.
economic system
The mechanism of the economy is to collect data about desires and abilities and then translate them into decisions
Capitalism won the Cold War not because it was more ethical or God was angry with the Soviet Union, but because the decentralized data processing method at this stage was better than the centralized one.
political system
Democracy and autocracy are essentially two opposing mechanisms for collecting and analyzing information.
If data cannot be processed effectively, the noble institutions of the past such as elections, political parties, and parliaments may become obsolete.
Authoritarian regimes are also unable to cope with the speed and volume of data flows
All mankind is a data system, and individuals are chips
There are four ways to improve efficiency
Increase the number of processors. A city with a population of 100,000 has a capacity higher than a village with a population of 1,000
Add processor types. The dialogue between farmers, priests, and physicians produced ideas that would never have been discussed among hunter-gatherers.
Increase connections between processors. 10 cities with trade have higher output than 10 isolated cities
Increase the freedom of flow of existing connections. Just want to avoid highway tolls, etc.
Humanity has gone through four stages of development
Cognitive revolution, large numbers of homo sapiens can be connected into a single data processing network
The Agricultural Revolution led to a massive increase in population and an increase in human cooperation networks. Increased number of processors, types and connections
From the invention of writing and money to the beginning of the scientific revolution, connections have become very close
In the last stage, from the geographical discovery to the present, information flows freely in the global network, and the quantity and speed are getting faster and faster. Today’s democracies and markets win not because they are “good” but because they improve global data processing systems
For dataism, freedom of information is the highest good
The first commandment of dataism: connect more and more media and generate more and more information
The second commandment of dataism: Connect everything to the system, even the heretics who don’t want to join
Dataism treats human experience as data patterns, thus destroying people’s authority and source of meaning.
As long as there are better algorithms and data, human biological algorithms will naturally be eliminated
The Internet of Everything itself has a sacred meaning
Dataism is as much a threat to humans as humans are to other animals. Data doesn’t care about our subjective needs
The three most important matters and corresponding questions
1. Science is converging with an all-encompassing dogma that all living things are algorithms and claims are data crunching
Question 1: Is biology really just algorithms, and life really just data processing?
2. Intelligence is decoupling from consciousness
Question 2: Which one is more valuable, intelligence or consciousness?
3. Unconscious but highly intelligent algorithms may soon know us better than we do
Question 3: When unconscious but highly intelligent algorithms understand us better than we do, what will happen to daily social and political life?