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| Professor Robin Hansen is an economist at George Mason University who's done a great deal of writing about possible future mind types. | |
| So the content of this video regarding transhumanism and future mind types, if not outright stolen from him, is strongly, strongly inspired by his writings. | |
| If you have any questions or want to look more into it, a link to his blog, Overcoming Bias, is down below. | |
| He was also one of the founding members of the Lesseron community and is an excellent critic of the medical industry. | |
| So, future mind types. | |
| The nature of the universe is quite simply that which does not improve itself, that that which does not increase and expand inevitably contracts and dies out. | |
| So the future of humanity lies either in extinction or in expansion. | |
| There is no middle ground, middle state possibility. | |
| That's not how the universe works. | |
| For the very basic principle that if you take two different types of minds, one mind that is prone to expanding and increasing reproducing, and another that wants to maintain a steady state, that which expands and reproduces is going to out-compete the one that remains constant. | |
| And furthermore, there's nothing sacred about meat. | |
| Our brains run on meat hardware right now, but there's nothing sacred about it. | |
| There's advancing experiments constantly in transferring minds to a digital silicon format. | |
| There's the Blue Brain Project, there's a few others. | |
| I don't know what the latest research is on it, but sooner or later, we'll either discover that we are too stupid to transfer a human brain to silicon, in which case we're going to go extinct, or we will do so. | |
| So the question becomes then, once we do upload the human brain, and presumably, hopefully, increase our intelligence, what will minds look like in the future? | |
| Now, an important consideration for an advanced mind to try and understand what this mind would seem like to us base-level humans, was a comment left in my last video. | |
| In that video, I was talking about an intersection of physics and philosophy, and the implications that come from it. | |
| Now, to understand our current perception of reality, our current limited perception of what reality is, think of a chessboard. | |
| Think of a creature, a chess-playing computer, that can only conceive of reality as a chessboard. | |
| Now, chess only has a few dozen rules. | |
| It's not an incredibly complex game to learn, but it is an impossible game to perfectly master. | |
| There's an infinitude of different maneuvers that you can do. | |
| Nearly, nearly. | |
| There is nearly an infinite number of maneuvers possible in chess. | |
| And even the computers we have now, though they've recently become superior to the humans that play the game, it's still a narrow margin. | |
| And they do it, they have some very interesting algorithms that go through it. | |
| So, compare that chess-playing computer to a human that plays chess. | |
| And even if that computer is in that one realm, superior, its perceived universe is so much more limited and so much more basic than that of even a low IQ human being. | |
| And that's the way you should think of future minds. | |
| They are going to be so much more advanced than us that we can't really begin to understand them. | |
| And yet there's going to be certain consistencies. | |
| There's certain elements of tactics and strategy that the chess-playing computer is going to employ that are exactly the same for a human trying to navigate a complex political situation, utterly beyond the chess-playing computer's capacity, but the basic principles are going to remain the same. | |
| And so, while we can't accurately describe what a future mind state is going to look like, we can make some basic assumptions about them with a very high probability of being correct. | |
| There are certain ways that the universe moves which are consistent, even if they get very, very complex and incomprehensible at the higher levels. | |
| So, first of all, it's important to realize that mind duplication will no longer be a problem. | |
| Right now, we're locked into the hardware. | |
| Your brain is your mind. | |
| But in the future, when we move to a silicone base or any sort of electronic medium, it's going to be possible to duplicate brains. | |
| It's going to be possible to duplicate them temporarily. | |
| And so, these duplicate brains, well, ask yourself, what sort of brains are we as a species, as a collective mentality, what sort of brain types are we going to replicate? | |
| It's not going to be the hedonism bot that we continue replicating. | |
| The future uploaded world where two-thirds of humanity disappear into some mix of 4chan and world of war craft where they have constant unending sex with brand new sexual organs. | |
| Those aren't going to be the minds we're replicating. | |
| We're going to be replicating frugal minds, hardworking minds, minds that are happy to spend 10 years straight studying a mathematical theorem looking for a solution. | |
| Productive minds are going to be the most important. | |
| And there will be an optimization process to pick out which minds are best at things. | |
| And those different minds are going to be the most common. | |
| There will be, of course, a threat of monopoly, of one universal mind with no differentiation, but I think just as current free market economics discourages monopoly, I also believe that the needs of survival, the needs of interacting in different environments, will also create a multitude of minds. | |
| But they will all be very hardworking and extremely frugal. | |
| In fact, one of the consequences that Hansen points out, we are probably the most luxurious minds that will ever exist. | |
| We are still living in dream time, as Hanson calls it. | |
| We don't remember, we don't remember all of our own lives, let alone all of what goes on in the world. | |
| Even with the reporting that we have, there's constant conspiracy theories of various merit coming up, because the news is never reported accurately. | |
| It's all filtered through bad heuristics, misremembered, misreported, and even when we read it, it's a dominant story, a narrative that we understand, not the truth, not the actual physical truth of what occurred. | |
| At the same time, we are more wealthy, more luxurious than future brain states are going to be. | |
| A future mind state, a future brain, is going to be optimized towards exploration, towards mathematical research, towards scientific experiments. | |
| The vast majority of its energy, if not all of its energy, is going to be dedicated to these topics, as opposed to us, where even our greatest minds take time off to watch a movie, to have a beer, | |
| enjoy themselves so these future minds although perhaps their subjective their their quantifiable wealth will be a great deal above our own because they simply have more processing power more resources than we do their subjective luxury will be far, far less. | |
| And when Hansen pointed this out, he made it sound quite frightening about a very minimalist existence, a Spartan existence of constant warfare, of constant struggle. | |
| That's the mind of the future. | |
| The mind that spends all of its time in masturbation, whether it be solitary or with the group, is not going to be the mind that's duplicated, that we devote lots of processing power towards. | |
| It's going to be the hardworking, frugal mind. | |
| And I don't have anything wrong with that. | |
| The frugal, hard-working mind is the right-wing mind. | |
| When we talk about the separation of left and right, the left seeks out entertainment. | |
| It wants unlimited license to play and masturbate and engage in ridiculous political struggles to see who's the coolest one around. | |
| While the right isn't attracted to that. | |
| We don't do well in politics. | |
| I have a couple of friends that run in politics and they find it distasteful. | |
| They do it because they're morally committed men trying to change the world, trying to keep this world together long enough that the transhumanist era might actually hit. | |
| But they don't like the game. | |
| It pains them to do it. | |
| Whereas for the liberal, nothing could be more natural than trying to fit in, trying to manipulate the discourse, to get into popularity contests. | |
| That's how they think. | |
| They are the bonabo masturbation society. | |
| We are the builders and the planners. | |
| And so when you talk about a brain like this, a brain that's dedicated to hard work, that's very, very stark. | |
| Well, it's a little bit intimidating at first. | |
| Certainly, when I joined the military, the military is a Spartan, hard-working, stark organization like that. | |
| You don't get a lot of pleasure. | |
| Pleasure in the army is having a brew, is heating up a pot of water and putting some coffee, some cocoa mix, and whatever else that you have saved up into it and sharing it with your mates. | |
| That's the height of pleasure in the military. | |
| As opposed to going to some fancy bar with $50 steaks and plush leather seating. | |
| And so there's always that question. | |
| Am I up to this challenge? | |
| And certainly, when we talk about these minds that are going to be completely dedicated to scientific research, exploration, none of us are up to that task. | |
| We're still half-monkey ourselves. | |
| How many times have you been in the situation where you want to want to study, but what you actually are wanting to do is to screw around with a video game or watch a TV show or something else that's equally non-productive. | |
| It's inevitable with our race, with our species. | |
| We are still monkeys on the inside, even if we've managed to overcome the worst of those traits. | |
| Certainly, I try and discipline myself to reading and watching and enjoying media that have some cathartic value to them. | |
| But at the same time, I wish there was something I could do to my brain, aside from hard work and dedication, that would make me a harder worker. | |
| Hard work and dedication help. | |
| You can train yourself to be more productive, and you will get more productive as you age. | |
| But ultimately, I wish I could be that productive right now, rather than having to reprogram my brain in such an inefficient manner. | |
| Us on the right should not be afraid of the emulation world, of the future brain states of transhumanism. | |
| It is the planners and the doers and the builders and the warriors that are going to succeed long term. | |
| We are men of war, men of reality. | |
| We can survive without creature comforts. | |
| And quite frankly, we tend to like ourselves a lot better when we aren't surrounded by soft plushness. | |
| Now, of course, all of this begs the question: if the right-wing mind is so fundamentally superior to the left-wing mind, why does the left dominate? | |
| And there is an answer for that. | |
| As I said, we live in the richest, most wealthy time that has ever existed in history. | |
| We are the richest, most opulent human beings that have ever lived. | |
| All the more disgusting then that we spend our time, we devote all our energy to Hollywood movies and video games and the pornification of the bar culture and the quick bonobo masturbation society. | |
| That we've given up on the space program, we've given up on advanced research, on educating ourselves when we have the most powerful media tool, the most powerful education tool available to us for basically free. | |
| We all have the internet, and people, your average person probably spends more time on a porn site than they do on Wikipedia. | |
| Now, part of this wealth is the zero scarcity economy. | |
| Because it's so easy to transmit media, it's basically free to transmit media, most media has become zero scarcity. | |
| Music is zero scarcity. | |
| Every single one of us in this group, all of you guys listening, myself included, we have more music on our personal hard drives than a hardcore audiophile had in 1985. | |
| The sort of guy that had a leather chair designed for a pair of giant headphones, we have more music than that guy did because music is zero scarcity. | |
| TV, movies, and sad to say, writing, is largely zero scarcity again. | |
| These videos. | |
| It used to be you had to have a theater, you used to have a TV station to transmit ideas like this. | |
| You used to have 30, 40 people all working to film the newscaster, plus all the effort that goes into building the building, building the video cameras, etc. | |
| Whereas nowadays, I can do this for basically free. | |
| All I need is a laptop, which is not that expensive, and I can do these videos. | |
| So part of our wealth is zero scarcity. | |
| That technology is so powerful that it only takes the flick of a finger to move something as massive as an automobile. | |
| But the automobile doesn't work on technology alone. | |
| A huge factor in our present wealth is fossil fuels. | |
| In fact, we're probably going to have more fossil fuels in the very near future, and energy is going to get even cheaper. | |
| This energy is an accelerant upon the economy. | |
| And in fact, it causes massive problems. | |
| There's a blog post I'm going to be writing going into a bit more detail about that in the near future. | |
| But essentially, a great deal of our modern economy is artificial. | |
| We ship all of our manufacturing over to third world countries where they're still industrializing. | |
| As a consequence, starting up your own business, doing something physical and productive, you might offer a better product than China, but when it costs $5 over there and you charge $50 just to be viable, no one's going to buy. | |
| We have this energy accelerant, vastly increasing our wealth and opulence levels. | |
| And yet, while being opulent, we are oddly some of the poorest people who ever existed. | |
| We are utterly dependent upon our corporate jobs, upon the economy not changing. | |
| A sudden shock to this economy is going to put lots and lots of people out on the streets. | |
| We live paycheck to paycheck, vainly buying new clothing every month to try and keep up with our social peers, so desperate to appear wealthy that we have no savings in the bank, no equity. | |
| So, that's the beautiful, horrible contradiction of our modern times. | |
| The most opulent people have ever existed and the most desperately poor. | |
| A farmer may not be rich, but he knows his farm is going to make food next year. | |
| Whereas we, without our jobs, without that fiat currency flowing through our banks, without that low interest rate, without all that credit card debt, we'd be out on the streets. | |
| This great wealth that we have right now, in the form of free energy, this energy coming out of the ground and acting like the tide lifting all boats, is what empowers the liberal. | |
| Liberalism is predicated upon the African savannah, upon the never-ending summer, upon the abundant fruit, the abundant food, and a world where you don't need to work to earn a living. | |
| What you need to do is be the coolest one, or else you don't breed. | |
| And it's this free energy that makes this environment available. | |
| So, of course, the liberal dominates in this world. | |
| And when the liberal dominates, they go out of their way to make it difficult, nigh on impossible for the productive right-wing member to survive in society. | |
| Earlier, I said that free market capitalism tends to be opposed to monopolies. | |
| Standard Oil was falling apart long before the antitrust legislation was passed, and OPEC only lasted for about 15, 20 years before becoming irrelevant. | |
| The nature of the free market is that it's very opposed to cartels. | |
| It's very opposed to monopolies. | |
| The only way you can maintain a monopoly on the free market is by providing extremely high-quality goods at cheap prices. | |
| If you're doing it better than all of your any potential competitor could do it, then you'll keep the monopoly. | |
| The instant you start abusing that privilege, a competitor will arise and destroy you. | |
| And yet, we have nothing but monopolies nowadays. | |
| We have companies like Walmart shutting down everybody else. | |
| And it's not because they're better or wiser at using the free market to be productive. | |
| Companies like Walmart, they just happened to luck into a loosening of trade regulations, an elimination of protectionism. | |
| They were the right company at the right time to benefit from a random occurrence. | |
| But with others, it's protectionism. | |
| It's the union of government force and corporate wealth that causes these monopolies. | |
| Certainly anybody starting up a small business will see this, that to start your business, you need to be approved, for almost all of them, by some trade association that's backed up by government. | |
| We have all these government unions choking the life out of companies that are not a free market union, but that are government mandated. | |
| The big controversy right now in the United States is whether you should be forced at government gunpoint to join a union when you work for a company. | |
| These violent thug liberals are assaulting people over the principle that they can force you to live this way. | |
| It's the wealth that creates this world. | |
| This liberal, degenerate, left-wing world. | |
| And although none of us enjoy privation, none of us particularly want to be poorer than we are right now, I would suggest that a hard economic reset, while it is going to be painful, will ultimately be a world that the right wing will survive in, where all of a sudden our ability to plan, our ability to work hard, | |
| our love of hard work, accomplishment, and knowledge above pornography, masturbation, and status seeking in empty social circles will see us through. | |
| In a real world, in a real economy, where starvation is a very real threat, you will see the hardworking right-wing mind survive. | |
| In a post-human, transhumanist reality, you will see brilliant, hard-working, and intellectually curious minds surviving. | |
| Instead of an unlimited amount of candy for culture, we will have the occasional Swiss chocolate. | |
| Instead of pornography and cheap sitcom, reality TV television, we will have actual deep dramas that require investment and study to understand. | |
| Instead of bubblegum pop music, that's nothing but a driving drumbeat that goes straight to the loin, we'll have complex, mathematically challenging music. | |
| We just have to survive through these dark, dysgenic times ahead. | |
| Keep strong, brothers, and zig when they zag. |