Reward scientific geniuses, not useless psychopathic grifters.

I don't mind #freemarket wealth so long as it does something really useful and alleviates suffering by way of science.

These people - Sunak and the royal family - are nothing like that. And no - the existence of the Royal Society does not mean I have made a mistake. Were our society and Western civilization right in the head, the Royal Society would have different patrons altogether and would likely make even more progress.

While I am not, strictly speaking, anti-capitalist I do think that the hard left is right about #billionaires. Nobody is worth that much compared to others, and most billionaires are like these two who deserve it way less than:

- Every Nobel prize-winning scientist ever

- Every inventor of revolutionary medical technology

- Every skilled bioscientist working on stem cell and organ technologies

- Most brilliant Asian women scientists I have met

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Our civilisation has things largely backwards and is still trying to emerge from the Dark Ages in many ways, but science is turning it around. Scientism is the much-maligned right answer. It's vastly more ethical than megacults like Christianity and Islam, and has more short term and long term utility by far.

Power of beneficial social functioning of the kind delivered by engineering and science matters most, and only science can and does deliver this. Everything else is pretense and snake oil. Politically and ideologically scientific progressivism - and scientistic progressivism - are the only way to proceed now.

#Elon doesn't deserve billions either, but he deserves it several hundred times more than Lord Chuck. For that much money there must be merit to match, and these people don't have it. It's all smoke and mirrors.

The main problem with capitalist economies and with almost all of our contemporary political systems is that it they do not reward merit and innovation at all. Certainly not first and foremost which is the only way that it should be. They reward skill at working the capitalist machinery and CEO-type psychopathy. Assertions to the contrary or are and always have been a royal hoax.

Our entrenched memetic cultural narratives are a big problem. Economics and the movement of finance have become the primary tools of warfare in the information age. In truth they always were a big part of warfare but now economists and financiers are essentially the warrior chieftains of our tribes (certainly World War Two was ultimately won by financiers.) This is why politicians and social planners are afraid not to reward them dramatically beyond what is reasonable. We are literally being held hostage as societies by bipartisan psychopaths who operate the same way in each nation and in fact transnationally support and sustain each other's efforts. But it's a misperception that we really need them for beneficial globalism anyway. What we need is mutually beneficial scientific competition.

The arrival of sixth generation general purpose robots and CRIPSR cas9 technology signify something very important. They signify that science and scientific innovation now outpower every other cultural and social institution, technology and artifact that we have. And they do so by an enormous margin. We may not have reached the technological singularity in terms of artificial intelligence becoming somehow smarter than us but we have reached the technological singularity in the sense that science and scientific innovation have become unsurpassably powerful.

The economic conflict model and narrative needs to be supplanted by the scientific competition model and narrative.

It's refreshing when someone like Musk refuses to buy the political narratives that attack China and continues to work with them as an economic partner. However, of course, this is primarily profit-driven. It's more that for Musk the transnational megacorporation trumps government.

We can't afford to sustain the grift of bullshitters like King Charles and the royal sham-ily any longer. Both they and the ridiculous megacult doctrines and institutions that they wave around must be supplanted by modern, scientific progressive institutions and social structures. That's why people trained in business, finance, and economics whose intellectual and innovation scores are dramatically lower than those of the Elizabeth Blackburns of the world are still wrongly lionised in our societies (and if you don't know who Blackburn is but you know who King Charles, Kanye, and Kim Kardashian are, then you're part of the nasty-arsed problem.)

Utilitarian anti-suffering-ism will not turn us all into couch potatoes. Much the opposite. Suffering gets in the way of progress because it blocks intellectual flourishing by way of constant and overwhelming imposition of deleterious stressors. The primary benefit of accruing wealth in our societies is that it allows one to avoid these kinds of stressors. Somewhat, ironically this is why business and so called business acumen get elevated above all other kinds of acumen in the evaluation of what is worthy and worthwhile in our societies. Certainly if financial outcomes are anything to measure by: and they are.

This is why I keep stating that we should stop breeding miserable, suffering, undereducated, under-intelligent human beings and start building 7th generation general purpose robots. And yes I mean it. We need to start behaving like denizens of the information age in 2023. (I'm tired of hearing about your imaginary friend and your rotten megacult of which King Charles - or some other nasty grifter - is the head. You need psychiatric treatment for paranoid delusions and King Charles needs to be in jail. Isn't about 10,000 years worth of the same delusional, ridiculous bullshit enough? I've certainly had enough of it.)

Such fraudsters as Chuck and his Mum have done precisely nothing for society and civilisation beyond perpetuate their own immense wealth and power for their own benefit. This is so obvious that it's both astonishing and frightening how easily people are able to be duped about it en-masse. It's got nothing to do with Marxism. It's about what and who is going to solve problems and stop suffering versus what and whom is going to perpetuate both. That is why we need to stop breeding people who can be so easily thus duped and so easily used by these malevolent grifters.

Everything we know about social stressors tells us we must change our existing political and social systems. We must change the memetic cultural narratives that have been dragging us down for millennia. I was reminded of this only yesterday when attending the UTS Centre for Social Justice & Inclusion event about the recent overturning of Gillard government legislation to end single mother payments when their children reached age 8.

Now in Australia - like the US - one must be aware that politicking is often done on behalf of people's large megacult interest groups. It's evolved human nature to try to benefit one's social in-group. For example in Australia - just as it is in the US - there have always been lines of division between Catholic and Protestant, and Catholic and Freemason, and Catholic and various other kinds of megacult sectarian group (and these are just a few examples). It's often the case that social groups are led by people whose seminaries are at odds with each other.

Sometimes if you want to know what's motivating people you have to find out which megacult group they belong to and who they have coffee with on a Sunday. Often it's people from their religious high school. Yet even the hardened left-wing democratic activists of the UTS Centre for Social Justice & Inclusion are clearly aware that single mothers - for example - undergo immense social and financial stressors that damage their mental and physical health: not to mention that of their children.

Certainly the human organism has evolved to respond productively to certain kinds of stress and stressors. Yet for the most part stressors in our society and culture are deleterious to our health. There are too many of them and they are of the wrong kind. Scientifically wrought innovation and technology is the only thing that has ever made a real and measurable positive difference to this status quo. Of course science and technology can be used to induce the opposite effect - but the idea is not to do that.

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