Optimization Revealed

Dude, you hit the nail on the head with this video! Haha! Except the size of that room for that many people isn't very Optimal. That plus the court procedures wouldn't have taken nearly as long as this. So much dribbling debate.

Termination!

Good find my friend :)
 
How do you deduce I am a hypocrite from what I said? I said what happens to her before Optimization is irrelevent because it hasn't taken place so nothing is being Optimized, and even when the assimilation is finished, everything beforehand would be overlooked provided she continued to perform Optimally. She is fixed, she is "normal" now with the exception of no belly button, and what did happen to her was not genetic it was environmental. Optimization will start as soon as I can perfect the assimilation process and the proper opportunity presents itself. Of course Optimization should apply to my daughter, where did I say it shouldn't? Hopefully she would perform Optimally and continue to further the movement.

So in other words, she's a perfectly fine human being, but in your perfect world, she wouldn't have been born.

Man, that's harsh
 
Dude, you hit the nail on the head with this video! Haha! Except the size of that room for that many people isn't very Optimal. That plus the court procedures wouldn't have taken nearly as long as this. So much dribbling debate.

Termination!

Good find my friend :)
Then you must be gratified you would die in the first few minutes of your utopia's existance.
 
So in other words, she's a perfectly fine human being, but in your perfect world, she wouldn't have been born.

Man, that's harsh

Yes.

Then you must be gratified you would die in the first few minutes of your utopia's existance.

Heh, you are just upset so you can't post any logical debate. It's allright phleg I still like you.
 
Are you implying that I would not attempt to make Optimization a reality? I'm still confused on where the hypocrite part comes into play.

Change "I would not attempt" to "I'm not attempting" and you'll have what I imply.

First of all, living an Optimized life as an individual or even a small group is ******** because the time and resources required to complete and maintain Optimization would in no way be justified for what would be gained from it.

If optimization is so expensive to complete and maintain how on earth can it be optimal? Also why couldn't small optimized group grow eventually into revolution if it 1) has and produces better people, 2) gets better education, 3) is more productive and 4) with its success draws more and more of humanity's cream to its arms?

If small optimized group is ******** and impossible then the whole optimization is such because expecting an ideology or movement to burst from non-existence straight into world superpower is insane.

As far as "waiting like a coward for an opportunity", well let me just go grab a gun and kick in the front door of the whitehouse, because we all know it's just that easy right? Please.

There are actions between craven passivity and suicide. I assume even you're aware of that.

...what you are trying to get at is that because I let the government pay for a surgical procedure on my daughter I somehow am a huge hypocrite...

Yes.

...and if Optimization ever succeeded I would be the exception to it.

Not in the way you probably imply. I'm just saying that you're blind to how optimization would affect you.

Wrong, why wouldn't I continue to live in the society already present, doing the best I can given the situation, and strike when the goal is obtainable?

Best you can but best for what? Not for realizing optimization but for having a good life for you.

What do you want me to stick my head in the ground and pull it out every 5 years and yell "Surprise!" and hope somehow things happened the way I wanted them to?

Well, that pretty much fits to your description of what you're doing for this optimization of yours.

Without the assimilation process perfected and a proper opportunity I don't know what to do, do you?

It's not my revolution so I don't need to have a clue. To me it just seems that your optimizing the world in discussion forums (i.e. doing nothing).

Why not leech off systems of government you are attempting to change anyways? Sounds ignorant not to.

Serving the government that I would assimilate in a heartbeat is the best course of action I can think of to get me to my personal goals.

Because 1) you're showing bad example (like you're full of crap and just looking for personal profit) and 2) you're violating your own values (by pursuing personal agenda on society's money). How do you think people would buy your optimization if they see you just as another charlatan?

Well, when it reaches this point, I will be doing everything I can for Optimization, I'm not just going to get a group of 15 guys and go door to door and start shooting people if they refuse, if this were to succeed it would have to be done with some sort of common sense and tactics, neither of which you have applied to your accusations.

Or you lack the common sense to get my accusations. Again you're telling you won't start small - when this begins it'll be huge. Don't you see that you must start small. I've never implied that I expect you to charge the white house but I'm 100% sure that without a small beginning optimization will never become reality (with small beginning I'm only 99.99...% sure).

I don't see how it can be conceived as slavery if you accept the system.

Fair enough, I'll rephrase. Why do you want to give up your personal agendas? Why do you feel it would be better if government would rule your life 24/7? Why do you believe others are more apt at making decisions for you?
 
You argue for a system where your daughter would not be born into, and would be killed if she was.

You argue for a system where there is no choice in career, no free will, just automated programming

We humans tend to act like we have free will. Taking the choice away, well, just look at societies where choice was taken away. North Korea, swell place.
 
Now, Chazumi, does your wife agree with you?

I dare you, let her read this thread.

Do you think she will still see you as an loving husband and father?
 
Dear Chazumi, you are simply wrong from the start: You think that the purpose of society is to grow, produce more, or make more "scientific discoveries", and you are very alone with those beliefs. People want to live a happy life, and they want society to support them in that. Production, research and everything are there just to aid people being happy, they aren't end themselves.

Here's an analogy: You can spend your whole life trying to make as much money you can. You will live in the cheapest apartment you can find, eat cheapest food and use cheapest chlothes. You won't have any friends, wife or children, because instead of socializing with them you can do some money. You won't have fancy cars, girls or holidays in Bahamas, because they make you poorer. In the end you will die very rich, and your life has been perfect. The thing is that money is just a tool for happiness.

In your ideal society what would be the aim of all that "optimizing"? Why should people try to produce as much as possible?

And yeah, you are right if you claim it to be subjective fact that society is there to promote peoples' happiness, but it is very popular subjective fact, and that's why you will never get enough support to make your society real.

Now, I think that is enough to refute your position, but also your ideal society is just naive and empty scifi-fantasy. Why on earth you talk about some mathematical equations, if they have not yet been formulated? It's like Rand's over-optimistic belief that she (he?) can derive the rules of ideal society from the law of identity. Or fantasies about predicting politics with physics ("as laws of physics determine our thoughts and actions, I can predict what people will vote and what the prime minister will do, and all of the future history!"): In theory it could be possible, and even admitting this is stretching the word "theory"*. But all together they are just fantasies. Just like you can't build your society on time travelling or colonizing Alfa Centauri, you can't build it on some equation that "will be formulated".**

Sorry if these words were a bit harsh, but I'm trying to impose reality on you. Instead of those thoughts, why don't you have a little vacation. Be with your wife and your kid. Have fun, go out. Do something you enjoy. Take it easy for a while. Maybe you'll notice that it's the kind of life you want to live. You can go on with your fantasies about that "optimized society", but wouldn't you rather be happy than trying to make that society real?





*Even if it we knew the laws governing thoughts, or that there were any (and we really do not know that there are), it would most probably be impossible computaional-wise.

**Or the other possibilty is that this equation is trivial: "If P>C you won't be terminated". Then why all those fancy words and pictures? Why don't you just say "If you produce less than you consume you will be terminated"?
 
Chazumi, would the most optimized humans basically be robots since they are pretty much the most efficient conversion of resources to labor?
If so, wouldn't you be creating a race of robot-like beings?
This system is to benefit people the very most, right?
How is everyone being basically turned into a human robot benefit everyone?
 
If you have to change human physiology and nature to obtain this system to prolong and advance the human race, wouldn't you have destroyed the human race?
 
So you are essentially suggesting that the government enslave everyone and force them to work at an optimal level, or be shot, oh excuse me, "terminated" along with the 'defective' and old.
The obvious question is: why?
 
Eventually, when faced with a join or die decision, those that join will be taken care of. Once they are in they will probably be very bitter about their lack of options, though serious counseling and therapy, massive amounts of retraining and propoganda, their mindset will change, and they will continue the efforts of Optimization. And talent is replaceable.
They will be bitter, and they will find other ways to fight. How will your society function in the case of a massive strike, for example? How many people can you terminate? 50%? 75%? 98%? How many until you have to start accomodating the strikers in order to avoid the human race losing so much genetic material as to risk extinction?

Talent is not replaceable, if you have no one to teach it. You're a military man, Chazumi, you know as well as I do - probably better - that good tacticians are hard to train. The same is true of every specialised discipline. You'll be using more resources replacing people you've terminated than you'll be bringing in.

With a terrorist organization destroying several major cities, and perhaps attempting to plant counter-intelligence to show it was another nation that had defense pacts, the massive retalliation would be at nations not the organization. Besides, massive retalliation against such a small group wouldn't come in the form of nukes or bioweapons. Bioweapons take longer to kill, and could potentially spread into areas that you wouldn't want harmed, and perhaps even cause an epidemic that beats you to every place you go.
This is not a Tom clancy novel. What you're proposing would involve a positively massive conspiracy, with a huge organisational structure. The larger the organisation, the greater the chance of it being infiltrated, or betrayed from within.

It doesn't matter where the massive retaliation is directed. Do you really think you can survive a nuclear holocaust? If so, you must be as crazy as those of Stalin's generals that planned to nuke Western europe and drive the tanks through the radiation clouds with no ill effects. Bioweapons are easy to direct, if you know how. They're also a hell of a lot easier to get your hands on than nukes.

I don't know how the drugs of the future will work I'm sure they would be pretty advanced to avoid this problem. And again, not if the powerful enemies suspect someone else. Start WWIII and sit back, and then afterwards pick up the ball and run towards the end zone.
Not if Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman have anything to say about it. Your organisation would be compromised long before it could do something like this.

I know, I never claimed progress wouldn't nearly be halted for awhile, once Optimization picks up and the rebuilding occurs, it would flourish though. Kind of like setting a forrest on fire, it's great for the new plants that grow.
Just like how China did not stagnate one bit, during its entire history. In situations where there is no outside competition, there must be artificial competition - capitalism - to promote advancement. Your system would not have that.
 
So you are essentially suggesting that the government enslave everyone and force them to work at an optimal level, or be shot, oh excuse me, "terminated" along with the 'defective' and old.
The obvious question is: why?
Because it's the optimal government, of course, it produces the optimum amount of stuff!
 
If optimization is so expensive to complete and maintain how on earth can it be optimal? Also why couldn't small optimized group grow eventually into revolution if it 1) has and produces better people, 2) gets better education, 3) is more productive and 4) with its success draws more and more of humanity's cream to its arms?

Starting with such a small group is non optimal, what you are talking about is making a group of fifty or less into an Optimized system of government, which is just wrong. Optimization starts with a group of fifty, and their main concern is assimilation. At this point, starting an Optimized system of government is ludacris because each person in Optimization has one specific task, and a government can't run on 50 specific tasks, therefore, until the group becomes at least hundreds, maybe thousands, the Optimal thing to do is to assimilate, which will produce the thousands of procedures necessary to start an Optimized government.

If small optimized group is ******** and impossible then the whole optimization is such because expecting an ideology or movement to burst from non-existence straight into world superpower is insane.

I answered that in the previous question. Optimization starts with a small group, moves to mass assimilation, and then moves to physical action such as forcible assimilation and terminations. It can't happen before then. So I don't deny that a small group "starting" Optimization is stupid, because it is, the small group spreads the idea like the plague, and then takes action.

Not in the way you probably imply. I'm just saying that you're blind to how optimization would affect you.

I am not blind to how Optimization affects me, because Optimization the beginning movemet and Optimization the end effect 200 or so years from now are totally different. When Optimization affects me it will be a full time job of conducting propoganda movements and mass terminations, military strategy and cunning "right time and right place" movements. Not the problems of future leaders of Optimization, so, I guess you are right that I am blind to how it would affect me, because the end result won't affect me at all compared to the issues with the Optimization initiator of the future.

Best you can but best for what? Not for realizing optimization but for having a good life for you.

Not having a good life for me, though I enjoy life in all it's forms. Best for me in the sense of preparing myself for such a postion, preparing myself for "education in all facets", preparing myself as a leader for a radical movement group? Sure!

It's not my revolution so I don't need to have a clue. To me it just seems that your optimizing the world in discussion forums (i.e. doing nothing).

To each his own. I don't see you doing much to start your own movement though, although you are perhaps one of those mindless that thinks the world as-is is good enough for you. For me it's not. I think spreading the ideology, taking a stance on different positions, preparing for negative arguments is good enough at this point, though you may think differently.

Because 1) you're showing bad example (like you're full of crap and just looking for personal profit) and 2) you're violating your own values (by pursuing personal agenda on society's money). How do you think people would buy your optimization if they see you just as another charlatan?

If I remember right, George Washington once served the British Army, yet he somehow managed to become the first president of the United States, which grew to become the most powerful force to be reconed with. Both militarily and in the sense of government goes. So.... I don't understand why you are implicating me of being a fool, for serving something that may, AND WILL, come to pass. Unless you still consider George Washington to be full of crap following a personal agenda for personal profit, or, being a charlatan.

Or you lack the common sense to get my accusations. Again you're telling you won't start small - when this begins it'll be huge. Don't you see that you must start small. I've never implied that I expect you to charge the white house but I'm 100% sure that without a small beginning optimization will never become reality (with small beginning I'm only 99.99...% sure).

I won't "start" small. At least in a tangible sense. It spreads as an ideology, then spreads to a tangible movement. Think of it like this: in the movie Fight Club, he didn't start blowing crap up after his first fight in the alley, he continued to be crazy and spread that concept to others, eventually after he developed thousands of cells that worked together, and made it a universal concept he struck, blowing up everything that a capitalistic society would need, therefore, of course I won't start with a group of drunks in the alley. Although the ideology of Optimization and the tactics employed are not entirely based off the movie Fight Club.

Fair enough, I'll rephrase. Why do you want to give up your personal agendas? Why do you feel it would be better if government would rule your life 24/7? Why do you believe others are more apt at making decisions for you?

I don't want to give up my personal agendas, my personal agenda is to create Optimization, so if anything I will be serving it. I feel the government ruling every aspect of EVERYONES LIFE, unified under one flag and one ideology, is much better compared to thousands of political agendas being followed at the same time, along with presidents, prime ministers, dictators, monarchs, kings, tribal leaders, pimps, mob bosses, religious leaders and what not, all leading a small section of humans into different paths of expansion, with different threats to one another, versus eliminating all of them without mercy, without compassion, and without hesitation, much better than continuing on the current course.

Sharwood said:
Just like how China did not stagnate one bit, during its entire history. In situations where there is no outside competition, there must be artificial competition - capitalism - to promote advancement. Your system would not have that.

The artificial competition is continued education, propoganda, and individualized training which would continue to improve itself over time. The threat of termination would drive individuals to accomplish more, if not, termination. It's like a crossroads, though either way the system benefits because it is always becoming more efficient in all aspects.

Not if Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman have anything to say about it. Your organisation would be compromised long before it could do something like this

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The novel is also known to have influenced the movies Alien and Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Optimization has about 1/3 of it's roots stationed in a book I read in middle school, just "Optimized" by theories of my own and other outside influences, so I think Morgan Freeman would have something to say about it. I terminated the name for conversations sake ;)

This is not a Tom clancy novel. What you're proposing would involve a positively massive conspiracy, with a huge organisational structure. The larger the organisation, the greater the chance of it being infiltrated, or betrayed from within.

It doesn't matter where the massive retaliation is directed. Do you really think you can survive a nuclear holocaust? If so, you must be as crazy as those of Stalin's generals that planned to nuke Western europe and drive the tanks through the radiation clouds with no ill effects. Bioweapons are easy to direct, if you know how. They're also a hell of a lot easier to get your hands on than nukes.

I don't think or know whether I could, regardless it would destroy most forms of government as we know it and require them to be rebuilt, on ideology from the 21st century not that of outdated ideology. As far as BioWeapons go, with your claims of easy to acquire and control, I don't think so, I would like to hear your examples of what these might be, because I carry in my personal equipment a biological/chemical mask, anti-chemical cloths and materials, also an atropine injector. I also can dawn a pro-mask (Anti-Bio/Chemical) mask in less than 9 seconds given proper signals, and am immune to Antrhax. Unless you have a bunker 12 feet deep concrete bunker I don't see how you would have much of a chance of surviving a nuclear explosion. Sure you might survive the blast, but the radiation would get you. Regardless, my heart would stop seeing the sun explode down the street, and seeing people die with nasty things crawling out their eyes isn't really that disturbing. At least IMO. Nukes are the way to go. I still say if it was an EXTREMELY effective bio weapon, it would grow out of your control quickly.


They will be bitter, and they will find other ways to fight. How will your society function in the case of a massive strike, for example? How many people can you terminate? 50%? 75%? 98%? How many until you have to start accomodating the strikers in order to avoid the human race losing so much genetic material as to risk extinction?

Talent is not replaceable, if you have no one to teach it. You're a military man, Chazumi, you know as well as I do - probably better - that good tacticians are hard to train. The same is true of every specialised discipline. You'll be using more resources replacing people you've terminated than you'll be bringing in.

Again, this conflicts with what I know about the assimilation process. I DO NOT KNOW WHERE ASSIMILATION WILL LEAD OR HOW EFFECTIVE IT WILL BE. I am not a one man revolution, I need help with this, thus the reason I am propogating the concept. The promise of certain things will persuay a lot of people, regardless if the promises are met or not. I am a firm believer in the quote "The masses will fall more easily to a big lie, than a small one", ironically part of the game that brought most of us here. Initially the genetic concept will not be the biggest concern of Optimization, Optimizations main goal initially is to eliminate competetion, and spread the propaganda and ideology required to sustain it, until then, minor genetic complications like ADHD and trivial things like non-Optimal Vision (I'm just pulling that out of the hat, think small), be addressed. Eventually when nothing exists but the governing body does such things be addressed, enforced, and maintained.
 
Edit: Double post, Eliminated for Optimization.
 
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