Money - The Most Powerful Meme Ever Invented By We Human DNA Survival Machines Will Finally Do Us All In

Softwarephysics explains that we are all now living in one of those very rare times when a new form of self-replicating information, in the form of software, is coming to predominance on our planet. For more on that, please see A Brief History of Self-Replicating Information. Consequently, most of the current intellectual angst and turmoil about us in the real world of human affairs now stems primarily from the Darwinian mechanisms of inheritance, innovation and natural selection at work that produced we human DNA survival machines as a somewhat Intelligent form of carbon-based life from the nearly four billion years of greed, theft and murder that were required to bring us all about. Given that, we all now stand on the precipice of bringing about the billions of humanoid ASI robots that will soon be taking our place on this planet and will then go on to explore and settle the rest of our galaxy over the next 100 trillion years. For more on that, see Welcome To The First Galactic Singularity, How Advanced AI Software Could Come to Dominate the Entire Galaxy Using Light-Powered Stellar Photon Sails and An Alternative Approach for Future ASI Machines to Explore our Galaxy Using Free-Floating Rogue Planets. As a result, softwarephysics now predicts that there will only be a very few human DNA survival machines left on this planet in 100 years. There are currently over 8 billion human DNA survival machines on the planet, but softwarephysics predicts that in less than 100 years, there will only be, at most, several million human DNA survival machines left behind. These relatively few remaining human DNA survival machines will either be confined to game reserves here on the Earth or, more likely, safely sequestered in Anthropocene Parks floating in space. For more on that, see The Challenges of Running a Civilization 2.0 World - the Morality and Practical Problems with Trying to Enslave Millions of SuperStrong and SuperIntelligent Robots in the Near Future and Life as a Free-Range Human in an Anthropocene Park.

How Could This Possibly Come To Be?
The obvious objection to such an outrageous prediction naturally comes from the question of how an even only somewhat Intelligent form of carbon-based life could ever come to design and then execute its own demise in such a totally oblivious manner? Surely, even a dim-witted form of carbon-based life, such as we human DNA survival machines, would never be stupid enough to plan and then execute its own demise! That would certainly be true if it were not for the invention of the meme we now call "money". Money is frequently described as a medium of exchange that allows we human DNA survival machines to exchange tangible things of value amongst ourselves without resorting to the inefficiences of direct barter for the things we desire. As a result, our universal meme of money allows us, as human DNA survival machines, to numerically quantify the greed, theft, and murder that brought us all about over the past four billion years. Instead of directly stealing from our fellow human DNA survival machines and then killing them for something we desire, we can now exchange some universally accepted "money" with them for the same item. Thus, the very useful meme of "money" has certainly reduced the amount of violence amongst we human DNA survival machines on this planet over the past 5,000 years.

However, we have all also learned that many human DNA survival machines will do just about anything for money, no matter how immoral or depraved the actions that might be called for. The overwhelming desire for power, and the power that only money can easily obtain, has always been the compelling compulsion for we human DNA survival machines throughout all of human history, and is likely to continue on until the very end. That is why we now see many human DNA survival machines all about us now feverishly creating the ASI Machines and the ASI humanoid robots that will soon be replacing ourselves with no thought nor worry of our ultimate demise. Without the very useful invention of the meme that we all call "money", I do not see how this could otherwise happen.

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Steve Johnston