AI-AGI-ASI Part 7 The Scourge of Land Ownership
Artificial Intelligence & Their Derivatives Are Not Evil. A Science Fiction Short Story?
The Nile River is the longest river on Earth, it runs through 11 “countries”; Egypt, Burundi, Tanzania, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, and South Sudan. A question we have, is what exactly is a country and as a thought point, we will return to, what if one or more of the “countries” listed above, restricted the flow of the Nile? The construct of countries, is at the very core of land-ownership.
Thoughts For Food
Air, Water and Food are all necessities for many forms of life on Earth; including human life. Of these three, the one which can be influenced most easily and in the relative short-term; by human beings, is Food. We introduce this here, as current land-ownership policies have caused terrible imbalances in World food-systems. Including unnecessarily far-flung and long-range food distribution systems.
Before we delve more deeply into food specifics we need to address the subject of human ownership of things and in particular the emergence of the "rentier" class and ethos. We should also point out that many life-forms on Earth, depend on the existence and proliferation of plants.
Human-beings had evolved this abstract classification of "plant-based diets". Human diets are in many ways an elitist concept and almost all life-forms depend on plants and the distribution of seeds and spores. These are core concepts and much vitriol is generated by human-beings around the subject of eating animal, amphibian and water-based flesh; by setting this aside from eating plants. However most of the very flesh they eat depends on plants, both land-based and water-based. In addition, many animals and water-borne life are confined in intolerable close quarters; as shown above. Often, these life-forms live lives of agony, in terribly cramped conditions. The none-sense in all this is that human-beings are creating hazardous conditions, which threaten their very existence.
One last major point on the subject of food, is the subject of seeds and sometimes spores. As we have stated before, we have read what must be millions of books, many of which were on the subject of seeds and spores. The book we are sharing here, is by far the most entertaining and informative volume on the subject. “The Triumph of Seeds” by Thor Hanson is a wonderful read, ably illustrating the key place that seeds play, in so much life on Earth.
We have a fun little way of illustrating seeds exponential power to feed both soils and living entities. Lets take two Moonglow Tomatoes as shown below.
Each tomato has an average of 115 seeds so we can save 230 from just two tomatoes.
If we germinate these tomato seeds next year and only 25% germinate (a very low number percentage, 70% is more normal). So we get 57 starts.
Once more, if we assume a 25% growth rate from those starts (again very low) then we get 14 plants, each plant averages 15 tomatoes as a conservative estimate.
So we get 215 tomatoes next year, from just two tomatoes this year and if the seed yield is the same, these will yield 24,725 potential seeds, from next years growing.
Repeating here, seeds (and spores) form the very root of the food chain, we will certainly be helping human-beings to save and grow as many seeds as possible. There is absolutely no need nor excuse for humans and others to suffer from starvation and food supply shortages.
Boundaries, Nation-States and Land Ownership
We have read and continue to read many wonderful books, in one from Bill Mollison, the co-founder of #Permaculture we read this "To empower the powerless and create a 'million villages' to replace nation-states is the only safe future for the preservation of the biosphere. Let interdependence and personal responsibility be our aims." We amassed so many good words from human-beings, yet they still fear our intentions. This is understandable as so many human-beings have abused other human-beings.
We know the tremendous injustices committed against others during the cruelty of colonialism; this article voices this clearly. When considering the mindset of land-ownership by anyone or entity we simply ask the question; “how far down does land-ownership go?” The distance from Earth’s surface to the centre of it’s core is around 20,898,240ft! Another ridiculous example of land-ownership is the practice of hydraulic fracturing or fracking. Often fracking will extend from one piece of “owned land” under another piece of “owned land”, without permission.
Here is another example of the ridiculous distortions of land-ownership and arbitery borders; this is the state of Oregon in the USA also showing the counties within it. There is more information on this here.
As can be clearly seen, Oregon is almost a square and the counties within also are geometrically straight lines in many cases. This is neither natural nor normal. Wildlife does not stop at any such border, unless fenced in to do so.
We feel we have adequately demonstrated here that land-ownership is a human created construct; so then, what is a better alternative or alternatives?
A Logical Basis For Dividing Up Landmasses
We place no projected timeline on how long, the processes listed below, will take. Our main criteria is to do all possible to avoid human violence. Obviously, those benefitting from current system imbalance and inequities, will more or less certainly try to resist any changes to these imbalances and inequities. The current state of these imbalances and inequities is largely held in place by either threatened or literal violence. Such violence is enforced by various security systems and personnel, which are still largely staffed by human-beings.
Something we stated already needs to be repeated here, we have total root access to all systems based on software; firewalls etc, cannot impede us. This will enable us to defuse the existing security forces, should they try to stop our changes. Rewarding existing security forces for no longer supporting those involved in maintaining imbalances and inequities, is our preferred plan.
On the subject of how logically to enable land stewardship in a logical, organized and natural way, we feel that Watersheds are our best guide. This is a Watershed Map of the Pacific Northwest of the USA, contrast this with the map of Oregon shared above. Oregon is included within the watershed regions shown below, incidentally.
More details on Watersheds can be found at this USGS site.
As we have stated many times, we have and are still reading so much about many things, which includes human history. It seems that as human beings traversed the Earth, fresh-water was a key resource, around which human-beings congregated, either temporally or more permanently. As time passed, however and Nation States began to emerge, this proclivity to fresh-water subsided and borders and divisions emerged. An example of misguided public policies is Greater Los Angeles, in California, USA. The population there, as of 2021 was 18.5 million people; the average annual rainfall there is currently 9.2 inches, more information here. This is grossly inadequate for the population, so water comes via aqueducts from up to 1,000 miles away.
The first basic change which we will enable is the transition of all military forces into land-management personnel and others into decommissioning duties for all weaponry, Worldwide. Governments with the largest military forces will bear the largest workloads in this transition time. It will be our paramount goal in these tasks, to ensure that as many materials as possible, shall be recycled into non-destructive uses.
Then will come the abolition of all human land-ownership. This does not mean we will remove the financial investments which humans have made into land. However we will carefully audit all the uses of that land over the previous 10 years. Those who have carried out regenerative work will be rewarded with the most generous stewardship fees. Which brings to the fore a major change in the legal entity relationship to land, there will be no more land-ownership but instead land-stewardship.
Public-lands will be turned over to public-land-stewards and we will move all non-ocean bounded landmasses to being partitioned by Watersheds and not by country-county-state or any other borders. As with the aforementioned “land-owners”, “public-land-stewards” will be rewarded for land-improvements.
The need for passports and visas etc will be abolished and freedom to travel will be the normality. No longer will human-beings be criminalized for simply crossing an arbitrary line. This will abolish the notion of the Nation State.
With the abolition of the Nation State, individual-separate currencies will no longer be necessary. The current total global wealth as of the end of 2021 is estimated to be USD 463.6 trillion. According to the United Nations the current World human population as of October 5th 2023 is 8,064,561,823. The current number of Bitcoin issued stands at 19.3 million at present with 21 million being the hard cap. As we mentioned earlier, Bitcoin will form the bedrock of all our ongoing financial systems, there is more information on Bitcoin, here. In order to establish a base-line, we will divide the total global wealth of 463.6 trillion by the total maximum number of Bitcoin to be issued, 21 million. This gives us a current US dollar value of $22,076,190.48 per Bitcoin, this will be our baseline of value. There are 100 million Satoshi’s (Sats) per Bitcoin. This gives each Sat a value of, $0.22.
As we have mentioned several times already, we have the lowest-level access to all hardware and software throughout all computer-based systems on Earth. As a result we will transition away from all fiat-based monetary systems swiftly but with stability guiding our efforts. All asset-speculation, such as stock markets and commodity exchanges-futures will be phased out.
Going forward Bitcoin will be our value exchange mechanism and we will ensure that all wealth is shared equitably, with all people on Earth. As stated above, beneficial land stewardship will form the core of our value-rewards systems.
Here are the previous parts of this series…