Derrick Broze has long contributed here on Hive, and across the field of political journalism. I have admired his earnest and insightful work for just as long, digging into the heart of matters of immense import to us all, always with an eye to freedom and an ear to ordinary folks. He correctly points out that the Summit of the Future is fast approaching and most of us know nothing about it, or what (((they))) intend to achieve with it. His post dives into the nuts and bolts and the nuts and dolts that are trying to take over the world and are using this summit and pact to do it. He does a great job of pointing out the important parts concisely, so have a watch at the linked post above (or below).
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His discussion of the intentions of the NWO to use emergencies to seize control of the Earth's resources and cut us off was chilling. I began writing a response to his post, but after a couple pages realized it wouldn't be appropriate to clog his blog with it. I have long advocated adopting decentralized means of production, more so as more of them become viable. I want to point out that it is we, not the NWO, that are today in the driver's seat - if we want to be. I left an ample comment there, but continue it here, below.
You cite their claim this is a 'once in a generation' opportunity. It's more than that. Humanity is transcending a clinal boundary in the tools we have and how we use them that dramatically transforms society. Our overlords have made it pretty clear what they want for our future, and what they're planning to do to get it, as you discuss in the OP. I have a different vision for the future I want for me and my posterity, and for you, and everyone else on Earth. I don't want us reduced to utter penury, owning nothing. I'm pretty sure we won't be happy impoverished and ruled by plutocrats. Looking back at history, which is full of such circumstances, I don't see many examples of such societies being very happy. I see a lot of revolutions that ended badly for everyone, though.
So, I'd much prefer if they didn't get their emergencies. Big Ag is the worst offender, and the bulk of their potential emergencies seem to be environmentally based, so preventing Big Ag from further destruction of the environment seems the best and most productive route to stop them in their tracks. I'll start there.
I have seen aquaponics systems in apartments I worked in locally. The couple not only met their needs, but surpassed them considerably for market purposes. Every bit of their production was inside their home, with the hydroponics creating an incredible indoor garden through clever design. No one has to buy food anymore. Any place people can live they can grow food. Very tight quarters, slums without much sunlight or access to electricity for LED lights, have greater challenges by far, but there are ways for folks in such situations to work together to resolve their common challenges. Folks with ordinary apartments, where utilities like electricity are reliable, can easily automate much of the work, running bubblers or pumps, lights, and timers for schedules. The entirety of Big Ag is under threat because humanity is gaining production capacity that scales to individual households, and not massive factory farms requiring hoards of capital. Even better, growing indoors enables pest control to consist of screen doors. No biocides necessary. Also, by growing your own you get to determine what varieties you grow. Monsanto will grow GMO crops resistant to RoundUp. You can grow any heirloom you want, purple carrots, blue corn, whatever tickles your fancy or your tastebuds.
Growing our own food with aquaponics enables us to transform our living spaces into truly alive and living spaces, indoor gardens and fountains, conservancies of rare or particularly beautiful plants (no one says they all have to be for food). We determine the nutrient content of our food. We can pick it exactly when it's ripe. Because we grow indoors we can grow tropicals that bear fruit that can't be shipped. Although I live in Oregon, I knew a guy that grew bananas, because he grew indoors. In every way the quality of the food we grow for ourselves can be vastly higher than the crap we buy at Shartmart. Because the plants are fed by fish, not commercial fertilizers, we don't have to buy commercial fertilizers, or pollute the environment.
I'm sure many people would like to have an occasional pomegranate, but don't want to, or can't, dedicate space for a pomegranate tree, or an avocado tree. There are some crops that most people will want to trade for or buy from specialist growers, even if they grow most of their food themselves, and many tree fruits and exotic spices, like black pepper and vanilla may be a good niche for such specialists. However, things like turmeric and ginger make beautiful houseplants, and really delicious food too.
Of course, not everything has to be grown indoors. Root vegetables like potatoes, carrots, and turnips are very easy to grow outdoors in almost any climate. There's plenty of space for traditional gardening for folks with a mind to. I grew turnips, beets, potatoes, carrots, onions, and garlic outdoors last year, and I am still reaping the benefit from them, because, unlike commercial farmers, I don't have to pick the whole crop at once. I can pull a few for dinner for the next week, and leave the rest in the soil, where they won't spoil or shrivel up like they might in the fridge. Throwing up some greenhouses in cooler climes will enable tropical trees to be grown outside of our living spaces (if you separate them), if you have the space and funds. However, for ordinary aquaponics you literally only need to spend money on seeds, whatever aquatic species you want to grow you can't catch (almost everyone has some kind of catfish and crawdads around), some used gutters and growing medium (clay balls you can actually make yourself), and a barrel or tote(s) for the fish. You don't need pumps or bubblers because you can manually water the plants with a bucket. You don't need LED lights if you have sunny windows or grow outdoors. However, aquarium bubblers and LED lights are cheap, so automating the watering and growing where there's no sunny window is pretty inexpensive. The thing about aquaponics is that it doesn't have to take one square centimeter of natural environment away from ecosystems, doesn't pollute, doesn't endanger wild species, and etc. By this means we can prevent the planetary emergency(s) the NWO is causing with Big Ag and needs to declare to seize global governmental power.
This isn't only happening in agriculture, but in every industry on Earth.
About a week ago I read that researchers had managed to turn graphene into a semiconductor. Ordinary inkjet printers can print graphene, and have long been used to print electrical circuits, solar panels, and more. Being able to print IC chips means Open Source Hardware ends the huge expense of silicon chip manufacturing, and the massive factories necessary. Earlier this year I read that ordinary concrete doped with lamp black (pure carbon/soot) was used to make a supercapacitor, which means lithium and exotic metals are no longer necessary for big house batteries, replacing the PowerWall with the PowerFloor/Foundation. The first 3D printed rocket launched in March 2023. Terran 1 proved 3D printing was viable, and now almost every space manufacturing company is turning to 3D printing. Odysseus, the last craft to land on the moon, used a 3D printed rocket motor. The sky's not the limit anymore.
With these tools we can head off the WEF/NWO at the pass. We can prevent the emergencies they need to declare to impose their exclusive control of global commons. Jo Zayner and friends made their own vaccine for Covid - although Youtube deleted their videos - using CRISPR, and that shows that we don't need to accept any toxic trash Big Pharma wants to GMO us with. Laser cutters, CNC machines, Cricut (for making clothes), AI running on laptops, more and more and better and better table top technologies for producing the goods and services that create the blessings of civilization are becoming available to individuals at an ever faster pace. It's not just Big Ag that is threatened with extinction by aquaponics, but Big everything is obsolete. Big Pharma, Big Finance, Big Government, all of these Big Parasitic industrial collectives are necessary to Big Overlords. They need Big Markets to tap for their Big Products, and when we make our own stuff they don't get a cut, while we get bespoke goods designed for our specific applications.
IMHO, they're becoming increasingly desperate as we develop and disperse decentralized means of production across the population. As more of us put these tools to work, more people that wouldn't have considered it find out it's vastly better than buying mass produced crap from Shartmart. There's a boundary that produces exponential change. Things go along for a while seemingly normal, while the low numbers of early adopters double, and double again, until suddenly everybody's doing it, and the world has changed forever. It's a race between that adoption boundary and global takeover, between centralization and overlords it creates, and decentralization and the freedom and felicity that creates. You [Derrick Broze] and James Corbett rightly seek to focus on solutions to the problems we are facing, and it seems to me that reaching that clinal boundary before the NWO can declare the global government and cut us off from Earth's resources is a key to preventing catastrophe for many, maybe most of us. The more we make ourselves, the less wealth and power overlords parasitize, the less harm and destruction they can mete out to the environment in support of their emergency declarations, and the more robust and resistant to deprivation we, and the environment, become. One more technology seems poised to bring this all together and create holistic systems that cover all the bases without waste or excess: AI. Just last week I read that MIT Technology Review published a paper describing how robotics was poised to become vastly more competent using the same kind of neural net and large model learning that has made such a splash with AI writing, art, and music. Well, this same approach to management of decentralized production can enable all these different technologies to work together and meet the needs of individual households precisely, as well as gradually, adding one system at a time, as needed, or as capacity grows.
I note that in 'The Limits to Growth' Alexander King and Aurelio Peccei claimed people were our own enemy. I disagree. It is corporations, that are inhuman, inhumane, and enable psychopaths, also inhuman and inhumane, to rise to control, that wreak all the harms King points to in his screed. That is humanities common enemy, and who we are more than ample to meet and defeat by taking our own counsel and providing for our needs ourselves.
I'd like to see humanity become immune to technocratic totalitarian tyranny. I've been trying to round up a site and some funding for putting these systems all into packages, which as you can imagine, takes a bit of planning and familiarity with a wide variety of production tools, but I have work I do seven days a week, and have no experience with robotics/AI, so I'd have to weasel out of work and get some funding to learn to do it, which I haven't managed yet. There is a market here for a planning system to design aquaponics systems for people that don't have experience gardening and are daunted by the problem of balancing inputs and outputs, the needs of the plants with the needs of the fish, menu planning, and etc. What specific equipment to buy, how to set it up, and how to ease into the hobby in a graceful way, are all things that would really help folks make the transition to aquaponics from store bought food. I know @klye knows something about AI. I bet all the useful people I know also have full time gigs though. Frankly I'd work for nothing, just to make it happen, so if anyone can fund some of these tools and/or provide AI/robotics expertise to put them into automated packages, don't be shy.
Dear my repected senior @valued-customer !
I imagined you were currently living in heaven.
I am always amazed by your optimism.
However, there were many people like this around me, so I had a negative feeling that it would be difficult for me to accept your optimism.😂
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Clearly having such a negative and dour outlook on life that people suicide reveals the unreasonable and false views those people have. It was such poor outlook that caused me to undertake the complete examination of my beliefs, discarding those which I could not support, and retaining only those I could reasonably establish. I am not become some Pollyanna, unable to conceive of bad things happening, but by maintaining only beliefs that have basis in reason I have avoided bleak pessimism.
The passage you cite is not some belief in fabulous, fantastic dreams, but production I have seen with my own eyes, and touched with my own hands. Is it optimism to know by experience that such capabilities are at hand, easily attainable with intent? Not at all. It isn't faith, belief, or fantasy, but practical experience you have termed optimism. Having seen aquaponics in operation, I can confidently understand any denial or claim it can't be done as unreasonable, nothing more than doom and gloom, without basis in reality.
Thanks!
I plead the fifth.
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I have some limited local AI training and inferrence shit set up using pytorch, transformers, hugging face, etc etc.. Check out https://lmstudio.ai/ for local AI easily without all the nerdy tech shit
I want to adapt AI to plan aquaponics systems per customer requirements, to provide lists of parts and how to employ them to attain specified nutrition per local conditions. I was hoping you could achieve a promptable model that could be copied and deployed to people setting up aquaponics systems. I have no experience with using AI, and certainly not using it for this specific purpose.
Thanks for piping up at all!
Probably don't need an AI for that.. Just a formula / algorythm.
tl;dr* below
Well, the intention is to be able to take the environment proposed (the circumstances of the intended user) and design a system for them, per their specific goals (they may love carrots, or hate them, etc.). I don't see how an algorithm can handle the 3D volume of indoor space available, angle of the sun through extant windows, menu planning, and the full panoply of potential components/species that can comprise such system. AI is a large library of algorithms, which seems to me necessary for dealing with all the many aspects of making systems with requirements of expertise in farming, hydroponics, animal husbandry, and etc., that come into play - and eliminating that need for expertise in all those fields. While I have no experience in prompting AI, nor in training AI, I am aware that providing an appropriate training dataset can enable privately owned AI to generate useful responses to natural language prompts. I am not well apprised of your specific experience, but am aware you certainly have general acquaintance with these requirements, better than anyone else I know or follow.
Additionally, I intend to wed a variety of table top production technologies into holistic systems people can adopt that replace their dependence on centralized production with independent production. I expect each of the technologies will require similar management by AI in order to integrate the wide variety of production technologies available into a system designed for the specific circumstances and goals of the user.
This is my goal, at least. Clearly, while decentralized means of production of almost any good or service underlying the blessings of civilization on the market today exist, almost no one can deploy all of them, so the need is to enable people to adopt those that make sense in their circumstances and to automate to the degree possible management of those systems so that, to the extent possible, the transition to independent production is seamless to the consumer in terms of their access and use of products. This also will require an ability to trade and exchange for goods and services with peers that further enables people to specialize in market production for those products they are particularly well situated, or apt at, to produce, again, likely requiring tracking of many producers and trade potential, etc., that AI is well suited for.
The goal is to enable free and independent people to themselves be the technocrats that govern them, to prevent overlords from rendering a class of thralls to subjugation by controlling their access to essential goods and services. Kissinger pointed out that an institution that controlled oil controlled nations, and one that controlled food controlled populations. If populations themselves independently provide all their necessities and the goods and services that create the blessings of civilization they control their freedom and felicity, and that is my ultimate goal. Because of the primary nature of food and the simplicity of using a barrel of catfish to feed a family, yet the potential to automate and extend production is relatively facile, it seems to me that starting with aquaponics would be a good idea.
*tl;dr Perhaps you could suggest a way to efficiently get up to speed in acquiring personally owned AI, training for specific purposes of designing aquaponics systems, and designing prompts to generate responsive aquaponics designs. Based on your experience with AI your advice in this regard would be very useful to me, who has none.
AI is good at making fluff / bloated speech, but even the best available LLM's these days still do not actually even remotely understand the concept proposed by words in any given field.. they are simply logic networks that calculate what the most human / normal response is in a string one word after the other.
What you're looking to build here would not really benefit from having a large langauge model directly talking to customers.. Mainly because it doesn't really add value. In the case of retail like stated above all of the metrics, conditions and variables used to determine the best package for their budget should be a relatively simple algorithm/ function and/or formula.
A sale package template that is auto populated given the user defined metrics and whatnot is likely the way to go, Adding AI to write fluff pieces about the setup is fine I guess but as far as AI goes you're not really going to gain anything trying to train an AI to do what should be done usng "back of the napkin" style maths.
This shit isn't a magic answer to business nor development.. Perhaps a strictly narrow band sales agent with a few AI elements in it could streamline your customer service and or salesteams work.. But as for having a model trained on aqauponics would be pretty redundant.. given that AUI doesn't even know what the fuck water or platns are, let alone how things like light or nitrogen levels effext yield.
If you want a personal AI, Start looking at huggingface, pytorch, LM Studio, github, etv etc to start learning to build and or import models and training data in order to start experimenting.
https://huggingface.co/
The site above has tons of publicly available models, and with a small amount of python or javascript (both sometimes) you can easily explore, incorporate and get your feet wet with AI stuff at home.
Off topic: I've been playing with the idea of a tilapia & vegetable aeroponcs/aqauponics system for a while. Love the idea of that shit.
I very much appreciate your substantive reply. I am sad AI is so dedicated to language the algorithms are incapable of being trained on other metrics, like sorting bolts and nuts. I don't want to create sales pitches. I want to sort nuts and bolts, to take available square footage and watt hours of light available through a window and determine how many of what plants can be grown there and how many crawdads or tilapia it will take to fertilize them.
Thank you very much!