{"id":1529,"date":"2005-03-06T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-06T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/wordpress\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2005-03-06T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-06T18:45:00","slug":"lazlo-and-opt-in-utopia-for-6-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/lazlo-and-opt-in-utopia-for-6-billion","title":{"rendered":"Lazlo, and opt-in utopia for 6 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my playing with lazlo has lead to something that you might almost call a application. THat&#8217;s probably being overgenerous, but you all can decide for yourself <a HREF=http:\/\/www.sheer.us:8880\/lps-2.2.1\/my-apps\/mc.lzx?type=html>here<\/a>. Please bear in mind that I&#8217;ve only been writing the script for a couple of days, and there is a bit of a learning curve involved.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the real trick, on another topic, of designing a utopia is that you have to design it for 6 billion people &#8211; *AND* it has to be opt-in. After all, it&#8217;s not much of a utopia if you&#8217;re forced to go there \/ participate in it. So, how does one manage to:<\/p>\n<p>a: give 6 billion people everything they want<br \/>\nb: permit Earth to return to a stable state &#8211; while being able to support those 6 billion people<br \/>\nc: not permit any of them to infringe on the rights of any others<br \/>\nd: Permit them to communicate and share art and creations and whatnot<\/p>\n<p>Hm.<\/p>\n<p>This is harder than it looks.<\/p>\n<p>I would observe that one thing that might help is if we had a &#8216;bill of rights for sentient creatures of Earth&#8217;. Of course, then we&#8217;d all have to ahve a argument over who is sentient. Is a dog sentient with protected rights? How about a dolphin? And when we get done having six million wars over that..<\/p>\n<p>oh, brother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my playing with lazlo has lead to something that you might almost call a application. THat&#8217;s probably being overgenerous, but you all can decide for yourself here. Please bear in mind that I&#8217;ve only been writing the script for a couple of days, and there is a bit of a learning curve involved. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}