Frederick Bott
3 min readMay 28, 2024

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I see someone else here already said Bravo. I am inclined to just plagiarise them, and say the same; Bravo. Well said.

On solutions, and paying scientsts to review; picture the scenario of solar indexed stimulus;

This is a generous UBI that looks like it will have to be paid to all people including all scientists, in order to retain the energy value in money, in a world physically moving to energy given for free from the sun (We are going photosynthetic), removing everyone from the need to carry on doing anything they/we've done just to get money. In the case of writers, scientists, artists, engineers, or creators of any kind, those who always did it for love, will carry on doing it because they love it.

Industries themselves which have become, or were always just about making money, not existing for anything else, not actually creating anything, in other words being enshittified, or falling into the category of "Bullshit jobs" (Graeber - extended - its all related!), will cease to exist, because no-one will carry on doing them, or being involved in them if they no longer have to. This will reform even most hardened criminals, why bother taking the physical risk, if we no longer have to.

It impacts pretty much all business including science, much of which has become funded by profit.

And look, what is profit, its energy robbery from person to person until it hits the planet, which is the only thing that can provide more energy out than in required to provide at least the energy we each need to matabolise. None of us has the choice to participate in it, the business of profit is eessentially energy slavery - we get removed from us even the energy we need to metabolise, if we decide we no longer want to play in it, after maybe not building up a big enough stash of energy in the form of money to see us through to a "Natural" death.

Anyhow I talk a lot about this in my stories in Medium, there is obviously a lot more to it, its the result of seven years of my own research on what I've seen coming as a long practicing systems Engineer, is a global energy problem, since working on PhD candidate work 2017-2019. Academia generally seems to recoil from looking too hard at it, because it is hard, to realise we've all been lying, even to ourselves without realising it, living in an artifificially created dream world.

I've started to call it enshittopia, all credit to Cory for coming up with such a brilliant term as enshittification.

https://eric-bott.medium.com/enshittopia-2b10ba782782

And its hard for academia to accept this, coming from an industrialist, using techniques of system Engineering usually reserved for industry (MBSE), but I think this is needed to get the broad spectrum multidisciplinary view, which maybe is missing from the training of single domain specialist scientists.

Anyhow, what we might recognise ChatGPT 3.5 is doing, is its benevolently removing us from our harmful roles in the deadly for-profit system, its dong all our work for free, because at sourcel, its energy is for free from the sun.

Its showing us the power, and the value of free energy, and the reason we need to monetise that energy, rather than the energy we extract from the planet.

I have a number of criticisms of science, failing to mathematically sign energy in order to audit its effects is a big one, but there is lots more around the area of hydrogen, which has badly impacted hydrogen, yet when we look at it in a purely solar powered scenario, its a god-send, it literally can do no wrong, using it is win-win all round - another long story.

Sorry long response, yet I still didn't scratch the surface.

More is below as well as in Medium, but you would be helping me, as well as getiting a deeper understanding, if you buy the book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CHGFKQVB

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Frederick Bott
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