[ExI] imaginable wealth

[spike at rainier66.com]

We are told that AI will either kill us all or create unimaginable wealth.

 

I have long thought there are other possibilities, such as creating
imaginable wealth, as previous leaps in technology have done, while neither
killing us nor generating unimaginable wealth.

 

The photo below is a selfie I took of my arm (would that be called an army?)
I am six ft and my arm is nearly vertical, so about 8 ft from the floor.

 

Notice the door is considerably higher, about another 3 ft above my reach.
So that doorway to the restroom is about 11 ft.

 

This photo was taken on a medical building which was erected on the site of
an impoverished metal shop I used to frequent in my cheerfully squandered
youth, about 35 years ago.  The site is now a modern office facility which
likes to show off a bit.  It has everywhere in it indications of how
imaginable wealth is utilized: in showy extravagances, such as buildings on
a 12 foot scale rather than the usual 8 ft.  It costs more to do that of
course, but it feels so cool, makes everything feel modern and forward
looking.

 



 

It somehow reminded me of when I was visiting the grandiose cathedrals of
Europe, which filled me with awe and wonder.

 

In the cathedrals, I thought: AWE man!  WONDER if they would let us have
autonomous rubber-band powered airplane contests in here?

 

It's a very special kind of awe and wonder.  We could set it up to where the
contestants would lose points if they crash into those people praying over
there, for instance.  See if we could rig up miniaturized control systems so
that they could get points by flying around up top, near the expensive
paintings without hitting them, or fly patterns around the statues,
providing the less devout worshippers free entertainment, something to do to
break the boredom, that sorta thing.  The mind boggles.

 

spike

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