Is Suicide OK with God? They can talk about God but they go and create more conflict in the name of God. People can write to me and talk about whatever they want. Most normal people see this comment and ask… When you see masses of metadata, and you know you have the means at your fingertips to create something “new” with it, the temptation is almost always too difficult to resist. There is a deep undercurrent in modernity to have “smart” technology. It was there that he met an elder traveller, Shams-i-Tabriz, who became his mentor. There is no shortage of visionary programmers who can imagine niche uses for novel technology. Still, when even a semi-competent programmer sees an interesting dataset of GPS coordinates, cell-phone metadata, Bitcoin transaction data or something else, there often arises an insatiable desire to deploy this dataset in a “clever” and “useful” way. This is even more the case when many evil actors, governments, the media, organized power weaponize “clever” and “useful” projects to actualize private and hidden goals. There are projects and coins for every segment of digital life, including storing and accessing files, watching videos, interacting with the internet of things and more.

As time has gone on and projects such has Ethereum have developed, blockchain technology is employing these public ledgers for an ever wide range of tasks: decentralized computing, contracting and much more… The term “Son of God” is used in the Hebrew Bible as another way to refer to humans who have a special relationship with God. Families often adopt special traditions as a way of making memories. The problem with social media and politics is that way too many people are interested in sharing what they think on social media but very few are interested in having actual, real discussions. People often erroneously think that the “crypto” in cryptocurrency means that information about it is somehow “cryptic” or hidden, but this is just ignorance. Can you imagine reading a piece of news and start calling hundreds, potentially thousands of people simply to share what you think about some news?

With such supreme power and with such a lack of oversight (either by writing closed-source code or otherwise), even the most noble programmer can be easily seduced into flexing their Will-to-Power to do the absurd. Only the most mercenary and depraved programmer sets out to write software to enslave. It doesn’t feel like “lust for power” when you experience it, but there is a very Nietzschean muscle a programmer exercises when he sees a large and exploitable dataset. In 2022 there was a small group of Hindus among the South Asian community. In the late 1800’s, there emerged a group of spiritualists and scammers called Theosophists, principally followers of the eccentric Helena Blavatsky. You’d quickly put your phone on airplane mode because there are only so many random opinions on news you can bear to listen to. Moreover, they follow all the rituals which are followed in Indian society so that particular family can show love and proper respect to their loved one. The greatest threat to good programming, human freedom and humanity itself is the love of technology just for technology’s sake.

I’d love to know what you think about this whole situation though. This is the perfect example of why I think social media is a flawed tool. Do you think some topics should be banned on social platforms? The reason why some people, like Kev, end up with rules like that is because social media is an imperfect tool. The reason that people like Richard Stallman continue ending up sounding prophetic about the dangerous of proprietary software is because they are serious enough to realize that programming is the closest mankind has ever come to wizardry and dark arts. To explain aloud Leonardo’s subtle joke: blockchains, as they come to maturity, are functioning as Akashic Records of our own invention. “What are the Akashic Records? The Akashic Records were their idea of a cosmic repository of all reality, past, present and future. Theosophist psychics tried to “tap into” these records to attain universal and specific knowledge.