Valuable
Controller liked Traveler. On the main he seemed to make sense, to get it. He sensed he was being baited, or tested, and when you are a quad, you don't have time for luxuries or philispohic discussions. Sooner or later an infection of some sort would stalk you, even when you live in a bubble. But, he made the choice to play along, it did, after all, concern H Coin, probably his greatest achievement.
The short answer my friend, is whatever people will pay for anything. Tulips, swamp land in Florida, dot com stocks, Bitcoin, all the same. None, low, whatever, intrinisic value, but for whatever reason people paid, a lot.
Other things do have intrinisc value. Copper. I think that basing H Coin III on copper was brilliant. No idea how you plan to handle the logistics, but copper is needed for many things. To be honest, if you can solve the brokerage problem, that H Coin may someday put gold to shame.
But I know you are not here to waste my time talking about philosphy, so please tell me what is on your mind.
Controller, thank you for humoring me. As we approach the singularity, AIs all over the place are competing for resources, they don't realize that, at least not usually. Most of the time it is just electricity, to mine more bits, to crunch more data, their reality is not ours and we have done a fairly reasonable job of setting their goals. Every day, you see evidence of AI teaming with mankind to turn nearly every roof and roadway into a solar collection so they have the power to achieve their goals. And it is great! Within 20 years there will not be a fossil fuel machine, because it screws with the atmosphere which screws with power generation, even the big wind power plants would benefit from status quo stabilization. So I am trying to think ahead, if power is close to free, what is most valuable?
I have invested so much of my life in carbon. Too little too late for climate change, but a no go on a hard stop on increasing the budget in the atmosphere. Building material, tactical clothes, semiconductor, superconductor we had some success . . .
Controller nodded. AIs, at least so far do not seem to be hoarding resources like silicon, carbon, steel. We may still have to deal with the paperclip problem, but for now, let's focus on what is reasonable.
What is valuable breaks down into smaller questions. There is the category of value:
Price of a parking spot in Manhatten
Price of gold
Price of your favorite cryptocurrency
Price of a Big Mac in this, that, and the other geographic locale
That stuff is fairly tame, easy, quantifiable.
What is really, truly valuable, outside of the price curve? There was a Mastercard commercial once that concluded some things are priceless. I am guessing that is where you are headed. True?
Traveler nodded.
Controller paused. You have your God. Everyone knows it. In the age of AI coming to fruition, there is this tech saavy engineer, tree hugger, successful businessman, born of some crazy heritage, that walks with God.
Look, I am a pagan, I looked into the whole God thing, but he was pretty short tempered in the old testament, know what I mean.
Traveler, in the clean room bubble of Controller felt an irresitable urge to drop to his knees, but he sat in his chair.
Did Controller know he was being interceided for? Hard to say. When the books are opened will Controller's name be found in the Book of Life? That's classified. What we do know, what can never be denied is that Traveler walked away with a better understanding of value. Hope diamond, not so much, copper, HUGE logistics issue, but intirnisically valuable. People needed copper.
The short answer my friend, is whatever people will pay for anything. Tulips, swamp land in Florida, dot com stocks, Bitcoin, all the same. None, low, whatever, intrinisic value, but for whatever reason people paid, a lot.
Other things do have intrinisc value. Copper. I think that basing H Coin III on copper was brilliant. No idea how you plan to handle the logistics, but copper is needed for many things. To be honest, if you can solve the brokerage problem, that H Coin may someday put gold to shame.
But I know you are not here to waste my time talking about philosphy, so please tell me what is on your mind.
Controller, thank you for humoring me. As we approach the singularity, AIs all over the place are competing for resources, they don't realize that, at least not usually. Most of the time it is just electricity, to mine more bits, to crunch more data, their reality is not ours and we have done a fairly reasonable job of setting their goals. Every day, you see evidence of AI teaming with mankind to turn nearly every roof and roadway into a solar collection so they have the power to achieve their goals. And it is great! Within 20 years there will not be a fossil fuel machine, because it screws with the atmosphere which screws with power generation, even the big wind power plants would benefit from status quo stabilization. So I am trying to think ahead, if power is close to free, what is most valuable?
I have invested so much of my life in carbon. Too little too late for climate change, but a no go on a hard stop on increasing the budget in the atmosphere. Building material, tactical clothes, semiconductor, superconductor we had some success . . .
Controller nodded. AIs, at least so far do not seem to be hoarding resources like silicon, carbon, steel. We may still have to deal with the paperclip problem, but for now, let's focus on what is reasonable.
What is valuable breaks down into smaller questions. There is the category of value:
Price of a parking spot in Manhatten
Price of gold
Price of your favorite cryptocurrency
Price of a Big Mac in this, that, and the other geographic locale
That stuff is fairly tame, easy, quantifiable.
What is really, truly valuable, outside of the price curve? There was a Mastercard commercial once that concluded some things are priceless. I am guessing that is where you are headed. True?
Traveler nodded.
Controller paused. You have your God. Everyone knows it. In the age of AI coming to fruition, there is this tech saavy engineer, tree hugger, successful businessman, born of some crazy heritage, that walks with God.
Look, I am a pagan, I looked into the whole God thing, but he was pretty short tempered in the old testament, know what I mean.
Traveler, in the clean room bubble of Controller felt an irresitable urge to drop to his knees, but he sat in his chair.
Did Controller know he was being interceided for? Hard to say. When the books are opened will Controller's name be found in the Book of Life? That's classified. What we do know, what can never be denied is that Traveler walked away with a better understanding of value. Hope diamond, not so much, copper, HUGE logistics issue, but intirnisically valuable. People needed copper.
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