Frederick Bott
3 min readDec 2, 2023

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Creating algos is simpler than ever, just give ChatGPT your full specification and it will spit out the code you need, for free, given v3. 5, why bother paying for v4. 0?
But then it might share your specification with someone else, this is your concern, if I am interpreting correctly.
What you are concerned about, and teaching others to be concerned about Enrique, it seems to me, is how to stay competitive.
This is why you, and actually all academia, and all industry, and actually all humans, are concerned about "Data privacy", intellectual property, copyright, DRM, it all is just more business for profit which actually removes power from the average individual, the net result of it is only those priveliged to be in possession of enough funds to pay for information, which includes education, can get any.
All of this is why when I was working on UAV and virtual world technology, on my own funded PhD research program, supervised by the Open University, I could not get any collaboration with any other projects working on similar subjects, despite there being many.
I had valuable research information of my own to offer, but nobody wanted to share any information or expertise if theirs, it is all closely guarded, available only at a price.
This is why the Chinese are running rings round us now in many technical fields, they still understand the value and power of collaboration.
The key to ending this dystopia, and it has to end, because it is becoming existential, is to break the profit monster.
The reason it is becoming existential is that profit is an unsustainable energy con, hard wired to destruction, which in turn is hardwired to temperature rise.
I used formal Systems Engineering Techniques that I was taught and experienced in during nearly thirty years working in industry, to establish this truth.
Those techniques are not accepted much in academia, because maybe they encourage students and researchers out of their specialist single discipline, IP protected silos.
But we needed them in industry to actually apply the science to do things because nature is multidsciplinary, it has no boundaries, nature does not commoditise, silo, and IP protect information, it gives it all for free.
I hope you can see that what we do with IP is not progress but the opposite.
(I am also a historical patentee, it took me a while to realise I was on the wrong side).
The irony I see in all of this, is that ChatGPT is, if you realise it, working very actively towards destroying the profit monster.
It is offering to do everything that everyone used to do for profit, for us, leaving us with nothing more to do than twiddle our thumbs, if we can't find something more useful to do with our brains. Most people become busy living, rather than dying, sooner or later, I think, after we have the choice.
This is all part of the Grand plan of nature to force us into going solar powered, as far as I can see, it all fits with us right now moving as a species towards becoming the ultimate form of photosynthetic life.
Plants will have nothing on us, after we get going in that mode, yet we will never be in competition with them, we will work collaboratively with them, because the more of us there are, the more power we have to do good.
We might see our relationship with plants a little like ChatGPT, or whatever form it (AGI) takes in the end, it also will be solar powered (v3. 5 is already), we will trust it completely to do it's own regulation, it will work with us collaboratively because all motives and incentives will be aligned towards the same goal, to create, using as much solar energy as we can in the process, because this will do the opposite to global temperature. Instead of heating the planet this will cool the planet.
We will wind the temperature back down at an even higher rate than we ravcked it up.
It all starts for real, the instant it is officially recognised and announced that issue of solar indexed stimulus has to start, to instantly defuse all remaining business for profit, including financial crimes and war.
ChatGPT knows all this, and confirms it, even confirming its eventual place, the controller of all issue of money, in response to the total solar energy received and put to use.
Why have presidents, governments, or even armies of law enforcement, if instead it is much easier to just have peace?
The old world of profit is dying Enrique, as necessary to move to the new world of everything becoming for free.
Nothing else is sustainable!
Exciting times :)

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Frederick Bott
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