Frederick Bott
3 min readOct 15, 2021

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Misinformation, which we now understand much more about, courtesy of science, and technology, is generated more by those misinformed, than those intending any harm, but still it is misinformation, and still real harm is done.
So when we see it, we have a duty to call it out.
Your article here appears misinformed.
There are elements of science, and technoloogy, and information, which tend to do harm, it is those done for profit, one way or another.
Your article looks like it may have been written for profit.
The red flag is ego, where many arguable statements are written as if proven fact, with seeming egoistic satisfaction. We see something similar in all things political, maybe your article is driven by political ambition, who knows, but in any case its wrong, and potentially harmful.
Maybe you would understand this if you had a better understamding of technology.
For example, you cite science to try to justify the argument against technology, but where exactly does science stop, and technology begin?
If we have studied either of them, we know they are the same, technology is applied science.
If we try to separate them out, blaming one but not the other, we quickly run into questions of scientific instruments, scientific vehicles, scientific spacecraft, where does science stop, and technology begin?
If we had none of those, we would not understand anything at all, we would be back to animals.
Technology is what makes humanity different from animals, and it is the vehicle we used to navigate to where we are now as a species.
Of course we navigated to the wrong place, that much everyone seems to understand.
But if we rowed to the wrong place in a boat, should we jump out of the boat to get to the right place?
Of course not, that would be a fatal mistake, anyone convinced to do that would most likely perish.
So our journey, using science and technology must continue.
One very simple but fundamental fault not yet acknowledged by the profit driven scientific community, is our disconnection from the sun.
Plants are the interface between the sun, and all of life.
All of life, including us, is fueled by the sun, via plants. The plants absorb energy from the sun, and distribute that in various forms to all.
In other words there is a simple path of energy flow from the sun to all of life.
Nothing in that chain works to scarcify energy from the other forms of life, except humans.
We do that because scarcity is necessary for profit.
Profit is the act of feeding from one another, by scarcity enforcement.
Those still not genuinely concerned about the environment, those most eager to fight, or compete, enforcing scarcity, rather than collaborating, are those most intent on profit.
We can use technology very simply to mimic the action of plants, enabling humanity to become another interface like plants, between all other life, and the sun, another Earth enhacing force.
But to do it we have to move from the profit driven business model to one of infinite donation, all sourced from the sun.
Money has to become like the energy of the sun, all sourced from the sun, donated to all, scarcified from none.
That is actually already beginning to happen, in the form of solar powered proof of work tokens.
To see it, and understand it, we need to understand technology, but also to understand the harm done by profit.
If interested, more details are in the story about the Bitcoin Kardashev Hinge.

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Frederick Bott
Frederick Bott

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