ULTIMATELY ONLY KNOWLEDGE IS VALUABLE.…

ULTIMATELY ONLY KNOWLEDGE IS VALUABLE.

We have universal computers. They are called "Turing Complete". They can run any program that can be run in our universe.

We can make these computers faster, and give them more memory, but that is an incremental improvement, not an improvement in kind.

We have achieved universality in computing.

We have not yet made a universal constructor (other than ourselves).

A universal constructor is a device that can make any physical thing that can be made in our universe. It could arrange subatomic particles into any possible arrangement. Subatomic particles are fungible, so once you can construct one thing from them, you can create perfectly identical copies. The constructor becomes "universal."

We have not yet achieved universality in construction.

When you have universal computers, and universal constructors, what becomes valuable?

1. Energy.

2. Knowledge.

You will always need energy to run these devices. You have to fight entropy.

Knowledge is a specific type of information. Information is just any random pattern of bits.

Some pattern of bits however contain knowledge, for example: "the pattern of bits or 'program' to run in the universal constructor or computer to give you the results you want."

A program that you can put into a universal constructor that allows it to create a more efficient computer contains new knowledge.

Imagine 2 people who have universal constructors and some energy.

The person who has the knowledge of HOW to make more efficient universal constructor wins the race.

Ultimately, what is valuable to people is new knowledge. It isn't physical things, they become commodities in a world with universal constructors.

This process isn't all or nothing. We will see over our lives knowledge becoming more and more valuable with respect to physical things.

If we want to play the long game with #nostr and use first principle thinking, we make #nostr the place where new knowledge is created.