The Ur-Quan Masters Discussion Forum

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VUX - 'I'm not racist, but…' people.

I made the "Tax Evading Multinational Corporations" into the Kzer-Za, because they currently are controlling most of the world's wealth, which means that they are in a dominant position similarly to the Kzer-Za.

I made the"dogmatic closed-minded people" into the Kohr-Ah, since they probably are the greatest threat to global peace and prosperity, no matter if they are nationalists, racists, Muslims, Christians, Jews, or Hindus.

I think the "civil rights movement" and the "welfare state" actually has a lot in common, since the current global distribution of wealth can be considered discrimination against poor people.

It could be, but it's a bit of a stretch. In the sense in which money itself is discrimination against poor people.

I agree, but we might consider "equal opportunities for all people from birth" as a civil right, and then we would need to have free compulsory education from birth. Preferably with free food included, while attending the educational institution.

I have now added this to my page about wealth inequality:

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I have combined the page about wealth inequality and progressive tax with the page about civil rights now:

http://www.archania.org/equal_opportunities_for_all_people_from_birth.html (http://www.archania.org/equal_opportunities_for_all_people_from_birth.html)

I agree. I am also a huge supporter of the universal basic income.
I think perhaps cryptocurrencies can help us with that by providing systematic access to income not controlled by banks or governments.

And converting cryptocurrency into real cash or,goods?-> babks and government, and especially large cash controls conversion rates.

Here is a new version of the Chmmr Avatar. It can be built in most third world countries, where there isn't too much conflict. If you had invaded Iraq and Afghanistan with these, things would probably have been much better there today.

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Of course, they need to attend to the educational facility, in order to get free food and free medical aid. We are not going to give, without getting something in return.

Quote from the Melnorme:

Hhhhmmmmmm. That's not a terawatt laser, just my being somewhat skeptical. It's really hard to invade and occupy a country at all, let alone one with that many internal stresses (many externally induced, some by your allies), and not have things quickly go to rubbish.

It is especially hard to defeat an ideology by waging war against their bodies and not their minds, and I am not sure what good a terawatt laser would do against the minds of people adhering to an ideology.

I have written more about this now:

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http://www.archania.org/equal_opportunities_for_all_people_from_birth.html (http://www.archania.org/equal_opportunities_for_all_people_from_birth.html)

According to my educational plan, each baby should learn 4 different languages. One of those languages can always be English, and then people raised in educational facilities in different countries will easily be able to communicate with each other.

I was referring to my 'Hhhhmmmmmm', which after typing it I realized could be interpreted to sound like the Chmmr main weapon.

Ah. Okay, I misunderstood.

I have rewritten this section a bit on the page about education motivated by intellectual curiosity. (http://www.archania.org/education_motivated_by_intellectual_curiosity.html)

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So if the educational facilities follow this educational scheme, people educated there will both be able to communicate with the local population, but also with other educational facilities in different third world countries.

Please realize: language is a reflection of culture.
I could learn 4 languages (I actually do speak dutch fluently and english quite well, but I can understand french and german).
But the fact that I have never learned to speak russian or chinese makes me unable to view media from anything else than the western world, and as such there will be a cultural bias against western propaganda.

So, will we teach our children 4 languages, or do we choose those languages in such a way to make our kids more open minded?

Besides that, American English is such a dumbed down language that it has lost all sense of nuance as compared to for example British English. But all we see in the media is American English. Which kinda sucks.

>  American English is such a dumbed down language that it has lost all sense of nuance as compared to for example British English

… really, or is it simply that broadcasting is written at a 5th grade level? I am quite serious: what nuance is missing from American English that British English possesses?

It is also important for people to learn languages that will be useful for them in a practical way. If you live in Vietnam, it might be more useful for you to learn Mandarin and Japanese, rather than German and Spanish.

What about splitting the two regional languages into one called "the most practical language" and another called "the most exotic lamguage"? Where the exotic language will serve to broaden your mind.

Thanks for making me clarify. Yes, I meant the American English that reaches us through American media and broadcasting vs the English that reaches us through british media.

That would be a nice idea. But please realize that we are treading on dangerous territory here.
Controlling which languages a child learns might also be controlling which cultures it is likely to be influenced by. It might lead to inconvenient results. Not that I think that children learning russian might always be more likely to become anti-american something like that, but still it could be nice to hypothesize about this here :).

Here is the new version:

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http://archania.org/education_motivated_by_intellectual_curiosity.html (http://archania.org/education_motivated_by_intellectual_curiosity.html)

It is likely that you are aware of the sapir-whorff hypothesis, since it's such a popular theory, but if you're not it is interesting to look into.
With as a main standpoint that your language influences the way you think. With as main poster child the hopi tribe who have a different concept of time in their language, and as such appear to think differently about the concept of time.
This theory has been largely proven as false, but it still accepted in a general sense.
So I wonder if children would have different states of mind just because of their language alone.

I don't really think that it does much from a linguistic perspective. What kind of thought patterns do I have because of the fact that I speak dutch natively as opposed to the way I would think if I spoke english natively, from a pure linguistic perspective?
I can't really name one. Maybe except that we have the possibility to create compound words from nouns without them having to be uniformly accepted, like german speakers also can.
It enables us to be more specific and nuanced, but it also might indoctrinate us into thinking that because it is a new word it is a new concept entirely, and then it gains a new meaning based on the context and culture in which it is spoken. We see this often in politics, with demagogues inventing compound words to use as tools to play the masses, or with leftish politicians forming committees that try to invent words that don't offend anyone. I think that the English speaking world does this less because joining two words in a sentence with a space between them leads to them being separated, moved or replaced more easily without giving the impression that you're a demagogue/leftist trying to invent a new word to further your own agenda.

Examples of these words are:
- participatiesamenleving (participation society). Coined by King Willem-Alexander in his first royal adress. Meant to replace the 'verzorgingsstaat' (welfare state) to a society in which everybody needs to participate and carry their own weight.
- weigerambtenaar (refusing government official). In this case specifically referring to refusing to perform/record/acknowledge a gay marriage, mostly because of personal beliefs. Because this word has now been contextualized to mean exactly that in the minds of the society it can never be used again to mean something differently, ie. refusing to approve a permit for a house
- kopvoddentaks (very derogatory term for 'niqab tax'), normally it would be referred to as 'hoofddoekjesbelasting'. Coined by Right-wing politician Geert Wilders because he wanted to impose taxes upon the wearing of these muslim headscarves (yes, really).

And that's where I quit posting examples. Because I realized that the point I made about compound words is wrong. Perhaps with the exception of 'weigerambtenaar', and then only because it is more concise, I am having a very hard time finding examples that would not have the same effect as they would if they were translated to English and used by English-speaking politicians. So I guess the conclusion is that from the linguistic perspective compound words don't affect dutch people more than they would if they were translated to English.
I guess that was a good excercize that made me realize my mistake.

Funny how that works sometimes… Brief phrases can definitely take on a life of their own, sometimes helpful to the inventor, sometimes not.

The main relationship I see between language and culture, has to do with cultural emotional investment in words. For example, the word "socialism" often has positive emotional associations in European culture, while it often has negative emotional associations in U.S. culture. The emotional association to other words like; "Islam", "Jesus", "Atheist", "Democracy", "Putin", "Homosexual" and "Abortion" also varies a lot between cultures.

The thing is... if I learned English in Europe, I might not get emotionally negative associations to the word "socialism". If however I learned English in the United States, I might get a bonus of negative emotional associations when I learned the word. So I guess you could say that language is a subset of culture, or that someone that has learned the American culture with the language included, has learned more than a person that just has learned the language.

Trump: New Afghanistan Strategy Is ‘Killing Terrorists,’ Not ‘Nation-Building’

http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-new-afghanistan-strategy-is-killing-terrorists-not-nation-building (http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-new-afghanistan-strategy-is-killing-terrorists-not-nation-building)

Not a very good idea, compared to building the educational facilities I have proposed. It is super hard to defeat an ideology by killing people, because no matter how many you kill, there are probably going to be a lot of people that you won't be able to kill that will continue to spread their stupid ideology. And they will be even more eager to spread their stupid ideology when you are trying to kill them. They will also hate you more when you kill their friends and relatives, and they will be less willing to give up the stupid ideology they are adhering to.

The educational facilities I am proposing won't generate a lot of hate towards you. They will simply make these people better informed, and then they will have less reason to adhere to their stupid ideology.

No offense, but the militaristic strategy your country is proposing to defeat terrorists seems rather primitive and simple-minded.

And your country has a huge national debt. I am almost certain that this project is going to be a huge failure, but I am also almost certain that it is going to be very expensive and therefore contribute to increase your national debt a lot. Simply put. Your country cannot even afford this stupid idea.

The problem there is that the Taliban has an actual army and holds territory. Good luck setting those up there.

So what? You could just use your army to protect the educational facilities, instead of to "kill terrorists".

And I didn't say anything about which military technology I would prefer to have in those guard towards of the educational facilities, but telescope-cameras connected to a machine learning algorithm, sounds like a good idea for detecting enemies approaching the educational facilities. Something like this in the top of each guard tower:

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Once you have figured out where they are, you can attack them like this with a drone:

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You can also use tranquilizer guns, and they can also be attached to drones.

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The Taliban are a superstitious people. When they wake up without their clothes and just rainbow colored underwear, they will believe you have done something much more horrible to them. They will soon become much more scared of this than of dying. One of the problems with Muslim extremists is that they aren't particular scared of dying. But if you dress them in rainbow colored underwear, they will think you have destroyed their chance of going to heaven. They will think you have made them participate in unforgivable sinful behavior while they were unconscious. They are also likely to be shunned by their Taliban community.

I am tired of the 1-dimensional interpretation of politics, so I made a 6-dimensional diagram:

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People often speak about immigration regulations as right-wing. I think this is wrong, since it is a type of regulations imposed by the government. All such regulations I have put in the left-wing domain.

Do you know about Principal Component Analysis?

I have made a new design for the standardized educational facilities I am advocating for:

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https://www.archania.org/governance/#A_standardized_system_for_educating_third_world_countries (https://www.archania.org/governance/#A_standardized_system_for_educating_third_world_countries)

I think it is much better to grow food in greenhouses also in many warm countries since it is much easier to control everything then. It is much easier to limit the amount of weed, insects, and pathogens that are bad for the plants you are growing. Automatic window rolling shutters can be used if there is too much sun. Robots can do most of the work inside of modern greenhouses today. And lots of the water used can be recycled.

That sounds capital intensive.

What do you think sounds capital intensive? The standardized education facilities, or what I said about greenhouses?

Look at these smart windows:

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I don't think the technology is very expensive, and they can be used to control the amount of light entering greenhouses.

The everything. Greenhouses instead of fields, working on down.

Well, I am not saying that people should stop working in fields, but you can have a much higher food production per M² in greenhouses, you don't need to use pesticides, you can have better water recycling and it is easier to automatize food production and harvesting in greenhouses.

I might actually start to work in collaboration with a greenhouse company when I am finished with my Ph.D. I have developed a new system for isolating large amounts of pure molecules from plant material, and a greenhouse company here seems to be interested in providing us with plant material. I am hoping that they also will allow me to work with greenhouse optimization/automatization.

I have added a rainbow fence near the entrance and put telescopes in the top of the guard towers. The telescopes could be connected to an AI monitoring the surroundings.

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Just imagine what a beacon of light this could be in a super poor and underdeveloped country.....

This is really creepy and bizarre, even for you.

I'd step back, set this aside until you can come back with fresh eyes, and think of what it looks like from the point of view of someone who doesn't absolutely trust the designer.

I think most people would find any type of educational facility that doesn't correspond to their own culture and/or to how they were educated themselves creepy and bizarre. For example, lots of people probably find Montessori or Waldorf(Steiner) schools creepy and bizarre. Many atheists probably find any religious school creepy and bizarre. Many religious people probably dislike schools that teach evolution. Sure, lots of people would probably find this creepy and bizarre, simply because it seems very alien to their own culture and/or to how they were educated themselves...

Anyhow, it would work, because people will go there to get free food and free medical aid, no matter how creepy and/or bizarre they find it. Why do you think so many Muslims are coming to Europe, even though they hate our culture?

Personally, I find it a bit creepy and bizarre that people find it creepy and bizarre to want to help poor and underdeveloped countries. This is certainly better than conventional warfare, where people actually are killing each other....  Such as the American war against Iraq and Afghanistan. I certainly think it would be much more humane to build these facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria....

I also find it very interesting that most people don't find it creepy to slaughter animals and eat meat. Most people don't even find conventional warfare creepy. Homosexuals are, however, usually found to be extremely creepy.

This is disgusting:

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Pigs are smarter than dogs and more related to humans than dogs....

I still don't quite understand what is creepy about it, but since other people also have commented that they think the guard towers made it look like a prison, I have removed the guard towers. If you guys don't think it is important with safety for your children, fine with me.

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https://www.archania.org/governance/#standardized_educational_facility (https://www.archania.org/governance/#standardized_educational_facility)

And here is a video about pigs playing video games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dFwx95ufEk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dFwx95ufEk)

Apparently, they can occasionally outperform chimpanzees.