It is very wonderful to me that I feel I far better grasp your understanding from this comment. I am consoled that my own isn't all that different in principle. Your lengthy discourse on the body and mind is exactly why I am a carpenter. It requires confidence in my hands, cleverness, hard work, and common sense, which can be all too elusive for someone that focuses so much on what I mostly do.

"You say, you are a carpenter. That seems to be something you are experienced in and your most advanced skill."

No, it's not. I have today spent more than 12 hours reading scientific papers, news articles, posts that caught my eye on message boards around the world, and have just now come round back to Hive to catch up here. That is what I have been doing since I found the internet, more than 30 years ago, so entranced am I with this wonderful conduit of knowledge. I exchange carpentry services to fund my research and writing.

I believe I have an almost unequaled grasp of several fields I am most interested in as a result, despite not being a practitioner of the financially rewarded aspects of those fields. I am not a coder, not an archaeologist, not a politician, and etc., but my grasp of the body of work relevant to understanding AI, evolution of humanity, technology, and society is at the forefront of what is possible to those most accomplished in those fields.

However, you will note I have not approached our discussion from a perspective of someone that considers myself better than anyone else at knowing what is right or factual about it. Rather I have sought to learn from you what you could teach me, while sharing some of the things I have learned.

I have enabled AI software useful to constructing personally possessed AI to be possessed by people I know have acquired suitable hardware for that purpose. That is because I have found where it has been posted by folks intent on making that happen. That's how I know it's happening. From the dozens of papers I have open on this computer right now detailing the archaeology and evolution of humanity, I have a strong grasp of the social, political, and economic implications of technology and how it affects those things.

Before agriculture arose, which was more than ~25kya, and not the ~10kya we read in the official history, people had to make themselves all the things they needed using Stone Age technology. The ability to specialize was very limited as a result. When agriculture enabled surpluses to be amassed, specialization became facile, and that is when centralization was imposed on human societies. I think that began at least by ~40kya from ways in which that influenced our evolution. That's when we were domesticated, and our brains began to shrink, so that's when I think overlords began to conquer us.

Overlords, professional armies, and bureaucracies were not possible before agriculture, and the most cunning seized on centralization almost immediately when it became possible, and began employing armed gangs to conquer and control society, becoming overlords.

That is why the decentralization of means of production being the cutting edge of technological advance in every field of industry today is so significant. When I feed a chicken table scraps and eat the eggs, I keep 100% of my egg production. There is no means by which that production can be taxed. No overlords can parasitize my production. I ate it. Decentralized production eliminates parasitic losses. Overlords only gain wealth and power by parasitizing centralized production, and decentralization eliminates their sole source of wealth.

Those armies used to parasitize us are extremely expensive, and overlords live sybaritic lives, burdening centralization with immense overhead that is all parasitized from our collective production. Decentralization is vastly more profitable to producers. Centralization cannot compete economically. Nothing more than greed is necessary to incentivize us to seize the means of production suitable to our personal circumstances, and eliminate centralization - and the overlords and war it makes possible.

This is occurring today just as we begin to gain access to extraterrestrial resources that are literally unlimited. I am not exaggerating or resorting to hyperbole when I say inconceivable wealth, nor absolute freedom. The only thing I can see that can prevent this transition already ongoing is our extinction. Clever monkeys will tinker, and advance technology, as long as they continue to exist. If we are bombed back to the Stone Age, we will just start again.

This transcendence of centralization happening is impossible to overstate in importance, at least as profound as the advent of agriculture and all the social and political potential that brought. I use the words inconceivable and illimitable completely aware of their meaning, and expect more profound benefits than I could possibly imagine will come from it, in due time.

"One would think that this achievements would have gotten us to a point where actually immense problems do not exist any longer."

Because technology has required centralization to progress from the Stone Age to the Space Age, society has been constrained in the benefits of technology available to it by the rule of overlords, and because of the nature of violence, war, and power that rule has fallen to psychopaths: whomever was willing to commit the worst atrocities has been able to seize power. Today, after aeons of gradual increases in productivity through crude stages of collective industry, overlords capture a greater percentage of that productivity from more people than has ever been possible before, and they are more wealthy and powerful than they have ever been.

However, the most cynical consideration of our world, as is likeliest to reveal why we have not solved the most immense problems, quickly produces that propensity to self-aggrandizement of overlords as that most likely reason. It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil, and I think that's true. Fortunately, money is not wealth, and I predict far more wealth will soon exist in the hands of the good people that create it than could be stolen, precisely because of the nature of the coming diaspora of humanity across space that will make deploying armies to seize wealth impossible.

Not just decentralization and the massive economic advantage it will bring free people, but also the very vastness of space, will multiply exponentially together the difficulty of centralizing wealth parasitically. I am further consoled that this is not a new idea that I alone have arrived at from my research, but the coming paradise has been prophesied thousands of years ago by men who could not have understood 3D printers, AI, or even electricity, but said free and happy people would seize the very stars of the heavens as footstools for their feet.

To me, that lends my meager intellectual understanding great support, even though I'm no Xtian. I can believe something more profound than us is operant, and could give our seers visions of the future, without believing any of the propaganda involved in organized religions, and I do.

There is more to what we look at than we see.

"I do not believe in a defined purpose in life. It can only ever be a mistake, if one believes to have found it."

I am aware of my limitations, and that I cannot decide what my purpose in life is. Such subtleties of control of all that influences me, and perhaps even myself, are beyond me to undertake. But I can note what that purpose is, I think, at this late stage in my life, when most of the possible purposes have either come to fruition, or no longer can. My purpose cannot have been to amass a fortune, because that is pointless. If it was to have sons and raise them, then I have, but that contributes to humanity, so is but an aspect of a greater purpose. I could be wrong, but if I am I will happily err on the side of believing I am here to benefit humanity, rather than in any lesser direction. It is not so singular a thing, indeed, such purpose is common to us all, and I neither can think of anything more noble.

As far as mistakes go, surely that will be the least of those I make, if I am wrong about my purpose.

I am grateful for your substantive considerations and the time it takes you to share them with me.