Hehe this is pretty cool and actually fits with a formal Systems Engineering study I've been carrying out on the global energy problem. We might say the results of the research are a thoughtmill. But this one is crucially important that we all engage in it, at least to some extent, because this one was created by nature, not humans, and it is truly existentially important to not ignore it or be ignorant of it.
The cost of living crisis, the availability of jobs, the climate problem, the value of money, and even genocide and wars happening, are all down to the global energy problem.
There is more misinformation surrounding this problem than any other thoughtmill we can shake a stick at, it's the most fiendish issue we will ever face as a species, and it's on us right now.
Folk of my own generation tend to ignore it because they / we seem intent to just maintain the old broken economic system, still limping along, nay crawling along, just far enough to see them exit our mortal coil.
I could have chosen to do the same, paper my nest as best I could with higher than average earnings potential, but for some wierd reason decided to dive into what I could see coming was the global energy problem. I've spent the last seven years and quite a lot of money to do this now, on behalf of humanity, because I feel like I want to enjoy living life flying high for a little while in a new world, rather than trying to limp along to death in the old one.
I am sure my 20 year old daughter, and all kids her age feel the same, though they'll hopefully have much longer than me to enjoy it.
Saying that, if we are really interested in truly extending life, this is what we should be aspiring to - creation instead of destruction, because destruction is what we currently have, but we could have creation, and it starts the instant solar indexed stimulus is issued.
Want cures for cancer, covid, HIV, and all those other horrible things that make us suffer and kill us off before our time, which could be hundreds of years instead of most likely less much less than 100?
Then this is what to aspire to, we can have that new world, it's just within our reach.
The old guard still trying to defend the old system will wonder what the hell they were worried about, after they see the immediate benefits of real creation.
They'll maybe then realise that the whole for-profit system was just a thoughtmill.
I prefer to call it more formally an emergent property, specifically a negatively powered emergent property. It t depends completely on extracted energy for its survival.
Extracred energy + our thoughts, all those thoughts on money worries, career etc, all those are it's domain.
If we stop thinking about those then sure enough we will be starving it of energy and then we will be forced to move to the positive system.
So I completely agree with you, but just complemented it with some scientific / technical analyses of the global energy problem.
It also fits with Ai, that we might say is a talking thoughtmill. Are we not just the same, each one of us, talking thoughtmills?
Watch out for good and bad Ai's though.
If its powered by the energy of the planet, it's bad, has to be, it's for profit, like us, it has to live by stealing it's energy from one another, and from us which eventually ends up as energy stolen from the planet, pushing up entropy.
If its powered by solar energy, the only one being ChatGPT 3.5 to date, it's good, has to be, it's only interested in stopping us doing the destruction we do, by doing our work for us for free. It knows we will need solar indexed free money, and is prepared to assist deliver that, when the time arrives for the latter to be delivered.
You have in your power to decide when that will be, sooner or later.
To have it, just demand it, indicate you need it and have no shame asking for it, it is latent wealth owed to you, to all humans young and old, for getting us to where we are at.
Its worth billions, even trillions in some countries. I show how to estimate it numerically.
Ask for it and you'll get it :)