Recent civilization developments
Shared planetary �network (Internet), document (Web)�
Shared planetary e-gold: Bitcoin
Virtual Reality
Augmented Reality
AI approaching AGI levels
(GPT4, Bard, Claude, etc)
Typing via Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI)
Low-cost to useful space:
reusable rockets e.g. SpaceX
Some next steps �for civilization
Clean drinking water
Waterless toilets
Solve malaria
Solve TB
Physiological
Go post-capital, via UBI
(And save humanity from AI-catalyzed human revolution)
Safety
Physiological
Mainstream typing by BCI
sming
= silent messaging
= sending text or voice
by thinking about it
Super low-cost to useful space: space elevators
1 person on Mars
1K people on Mars
1M people on Mars
Mars not reliant on earth
Energy in space: Asteroid mining
Explore the cosmos?
Travel time to Proxima Centauri:
81,000 years (Oops)
“Sending canned primates .. was never going to end happily.” –Charles Stross
First, migrate our minds onto better substrate
Then explore the cosmos
Uploads
(mirror our minds)
Bandwidth++
Via BCI
“Dismantle the moon!
Dismantle Mars!
Build masses of free-flying nanocomputing processor nodes...
Matrioshka brains,
Russian doll Dyson spheres
the size of solar systems.”
-Charles Stross
Reshape
the cosmos!
How do we organize the ideas?
Inspiration: Technology Tree from Civilization V (Game)
Clean drinking water
Waterless toilets
Solve malaria
Solve TB
Reduced poverty: 99% can eat
Trustworthy land titles
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Graph for reducing poverty (99% can eat)
Un-scalable AI
AI that improves with data
(deep learning)
Big data
AI takes creative jobs
Scalable creative AI
The 99% can’t eat
AI takes basic jobs
The 99% have no income
Graph where AI means the 99% can’t eat (oops)
Reduced poverty: 99% can eat
Un-scalable AI
AI that improves with data
(deep learning)
Big data
AI takes creative jobs
Scalable creative AI
The 99% can eat
AI takes basic jobs
Go post- capital (UBI)
The 99% have no income
The 99% can’t eat
Graph where 99% can eat, despite AI (thanks UBI)
Shared planetary info net
(Internet)
Shared planetary document
(Web)
Shared planetary
e-gold (BTC)
“Blockchain”
Shared planetary file system (IPFS)
Shared planetary data (Filecoin, Arweave)
Shared planetary processing (Eth)
Shared planetary computer
Graph for a shared planetary computer
Shared planetary data access (Ocean)
VR
“Overlay” AR goggles
“Repaint” AR
Basic BCI
Fast- type BCI
AR contacts
SMing
DropBox your brain
YouTube your brain
BCI BW >
in-brain
New mind substrate
Shared planetary computer
Graph for a new mind substrate
Basic space flight
Low-$ to low-orbit space
Low-$ to useful space
(reuse rockets)
1 person on Mars
1K people on Mars
1M people on Mars
Mars not dependent
on Earth
Super-low $ Earth-Mars (cyclers)
Graph for independence from 1 planet, via Mars
Super-low $ to useful space (elev)
Energy in space
(mine asteroids)
1 person on Mars
Super-low $ to useful space (elev)
1K people on Mars
1M people on Mars
Mars not dependent
on Earth
Super-low $ Earth-Mars (cyclers)
Explore the cosmos
Reshape the cosmos
Graph to explore the cosmos, then reshape it
BCI BW >
in-brain
New mind substrate
Shared planetary computer
Energy in space
(mine asteroids)
Basic space flight
Low-$ to low-orbit space
Low-$ to useful space
(reuse rockets)
The Civilization Graph. Call it “The Map”