Ecological Economics, Basic Universal Income, AI and Robotics

 I saw an interesting article on the pace of AI job dislocation and the need for Universal basic income here; https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5713876-ai-displacement-and-ubi/

  I've written about the need for Universal basic income and ecological economic transition for some years; with additional ideas about a need to change to ecological economics and to bring democracy in so people can vote on what sort of no net loss of ecosphere and entropy increase minimizing production businesses they want to allow to be capitalized.

One would need a cap on individual capital assets in order to keep democracy effective for wealth has political power with it. Yet society could vote for public capital to be allocated to business ventures to scale up proven models when they integrate well into overall social land-use and economic structures.

It is questionable if human workers will be needed for any jobs within ten or twenty years, and the ecosphere will need recovery from the economic maladjustments that have trimmed its health the last couple of centuries with pre-ecological economic knowledge methods. Voters may choose to elect representatives to manage AI created ecological economic planning and business models to actualize.

The form of an economic system that is created and operated by AI and robots may be separable, with sobriety, from democracy and the question of government management of the economy through the choices voters choose in their state and nation to field with AI, robots and natural resources. International relations to allocate resources to various business developments operated by AI and robots will be important- the asymmetric distribution of natural resources will mean that the standard of living in some nations and states may tend to depend upon their natural resources and the surplus value more efficient ecologically sustainable economic planning operated by A.I. may be able to create.

If there is a lot of efficiency such that export surpluses may be created without significant economic harm to sustainability then even resource poor nations may experience a substantial rise in their standard of living simply from a principle of sharing excess wealth.

An advanced peaceful civilization’s economy operated by A.I. and robotics may not be said to be capitalist or socialist antinomies; those terms tend more toward anachronism when an advanced ecological economic social structure and political economy become necessity and actually become a natural function of the environment people inhabit.

Final Thoughts on J.F.K.'s and Donald Trump's Shootings

The shooting attempt on the life of President Trump prompted me to wonder how a fellow missed a shot from approximately 130 yards and compare that with Lee Harvey Oswald’s shot from the Dallas book repository into J.F.K.’s head in a moving car. I saw the J.F.K. shooting replayed a minute after it happened while visiting a large department store television section on a dozen T.V. screens as a kid so that image has stayed with me.

I am not a weapons expert, yet I know that any veteran of the Army or Marines can hit a 130 yard distant target without trouble from a prone position. Alternatively Air Force veterans might not hit a target at 50 yards given enough tries- until they drop a 1000 pound bomb on it after moving to a safe distance.

L.H.O. was a Marine qualified as a sharpshooter before he migrated to Russia. Living in Russia for 2.5 years, he lived a few blocks away from where Cubans and others were trained by the K.G.B. in shooting. He was also a member of a hunting club and practiced shooting there. Fellow shooters when asked later, of course said he was a terrible shot. Politically Oswald identified as "a Marxist and socialist". Gemini said; " His political views were radical, leading him to support communism and engage in activities for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee rather than mainstream American politics. "

It is possible that Oswald had some specialized training concealed by clandestine services to improve his marksmanship skills- he was from Dallas after all, and L.B.J. the Vice President, was also from Texas. Kennedy visiting Dallas before the next campaign in a Presidential motorcade was somewhat predictable. Returning a great shooting assassination candidate for a fish-in-a-barrel opportunity to avenge the Cuban Missile Crisis opponent who forced Nikita Khrushchev to terminate the effort to install missiles in Cuba pointed at the U.S.A. might have been too practical to miss.

Lee Harvey Oswald lived in Fort Worth before joining the Marines. His decision to return to the United States in 1962 ‘becoming disillusioned with the Soviet Union’ is a predictable legend to create to place a crack rifle shot into a position to kill President Kennedy without creating suspicion.

The F.B.I. however were not too sharp on following up threats then. L.H.O. sent a note to an F.B.I. agent Hosty two weeks before the killing saying that if he didn’t stop harassing his wife he would take legal steps and perhaps blow up the F.B.I. as well. Nothing was done about the note that Oswald sent. It was not interpreted as a credible threat. The note was destroyed by the F.B.I. supervisor after the assassination so they wouldn’t get blamed for incompetence. They confessed that after a leaker told the media about that a dozen years later.

President Trump’s attempted killer was 120-130 yards distant and not well trained in rifle shooting. He only needed one well placed shot with a high velocity bolt action rifle and a good scope. He had an AR-15 and was off target. Some have mentioned that he might have thought he’d be killed in a second so was shaky. Who knows?

The singular point about the incident most notable is the Secret Service inefficiency at protecting a presidential candidate from anyone getting in so close. Someplace I had read or encountered the idea that no direct avenue avenues of attack were allowed for a mile to a mile and a half these days because there a numerous people with all of the excellent tech available that can shoot something like a thousand yards accurately. The secret service just doesn’t let people get inside that perimeter unnoticed. Maybe they are moving on to drone attack defense now.

Poland is set to spend 4.5 billion dollars on anti-drone defenses in case Russia attacks, and it won’t obviously unless Euro-N.A.T.O. becomes so large and powerful and war breaks out un Ukraine and the EU invades Russia and Russia counterattacks. The entire European idiocy at developing a better version of a perennial COld War should be ended ASAP and militarization funds diverted to ecological economics and all of the great new technology regarding energy efficiency, batteries and so forth. There are many civilians that can’t afford that stuff and perhaps could use peace and prosperity more so than war and destruction of cities unless of course the purpose is to create ripe conditions for massive urban renewal for all of Europe and Western Russia.

I did consider an alternative theory explaining the Kennedy assasination (J.F.K.) that is could be a live eternal recurrence on an extra dimensional Netflix style station. I asked Gemini about that and got a response- not so imaginative regarding extra dimensions of course because it replied with a relativistic paradigm for space time recurrence that doesn’t recognize the possibility of televising that live event as a live event from extra dimensions beyond the 4-D space-time continuum of the known Universe cosmology. Obviously I was enjoying writing a little fiction paradigm, still, it could have done better.

Gary– Could aliens have an eternal recurrence event for JFK's shooting because it is live in extra dimensions on an alien version of Netflix?

Gemini-“While that sounds like a wild plot for a sci-fi series, your idea actually bridges several real scientific and philosophical concepts:

• Eternal Recurrence (Philosophy): This is a concept, famously explored by Friedrich Nietzsche, which suggests that time is cyclical and all events will repeat exactly as they happened, infinitely.
• Extra Dimensions (Physics): Theoretical physics, such as string theory, suggests our universe has more than the three spatial dimensions we experience. Some theories propose “brane worlds” where our 4D universe is just a slice of a larger, higher-dimensional “bulk”.
• Aliens as Observers (The “Zoo Hypothesis”): In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, the Zoo Hypothesis suggests advanced aliens might be observing Earth from a distance without interfering, much like we watch animals in a nature preserve.
• Historical “Playback” and Light Waves: Scientifically, if an observer were far enough away in space, they could literally watch the JFK shooting “live” today. Because light takes time to travel, an alien telescope 62 light-years away would just now be seeing the events of 1963.
• Pop Culture Parallels:
  • The idea of aliens or “watchers” from other dimensions is a common trope in shows like The X-Files.
  • Netflix even has a series, 11.22.63, based on a Stephen King novel, where a man uses a “time portal” to try and prevent the assassination, effectively “replaying” the event until he gets it right.

So, while there’s no evidence of an “Alien Netflix,” physics does allow for the possibility of higher dimensions and the literal observation of our past from deep space.