Welcome again my dear readers to another wonderful waste of the 10 minutes or so you will spend reading my illustrious journal.

 

Today I unveil to the world my latest crackpot scheme to bring about a new world order: Gort. Gort is a personal agent that every man, woman, and child will have free and unlimited access to. It is a “thinking prosthetic.” A wiseman that you can carry in your pocket. The Source of All Good Bits.

 

 

Imagine Ann Landers meets a father confessor, Dali Lama, and an economics professor. Of course Gort will have no direct means in which to change the world. Humans would have to act on his advise. But in providing ubiquitous and consistent wisdom for all, Gort would provide an ideology free path for civilization to follow.

 

“That’s great Sean, but how’s it going to work?” you are asking.

 

I have no idea.

 

But I have inklings. The first part of the plan is done, to find a philosophy that will govern the project. That Philosophy is Taoism. In Taoism, the Universe is vast, complex, and has a will of it’s own. Our mind can only grasp a portion of it. And in the process of making it fit, we have to shave the pieces down a bit. Thus anything that can be “understood” is a distortion of the truth. And anything that can be expressed into words has to be even further simplified and distorted.

 

If this sounds a tinge like the scientific method you’d be right. The problem is that people tend to think that once something’s been proven with the scientific method it’s done and over with. Taoism states that everything in the Universe is changeable. So a truth that works today may not be valid tomorrow. And likewise, a fallacy today could very well be truth tomorrow.

 

An operating system built around Taoism would be architected to perform complex high speed searches, while avoiding the use of volumes of canned answers. There is canned data, but more a collection of facts than truths. Every question requires a re-examination of the facts. And every fact is known to be corrupted, even if just a little bit, and should be tested against the state of the Universe.

 

So Gort would have a massive resource that models and studies everything that mankind has figured out how to quantify. Weather, market stats, test scores, electrical noise on the power grid, even simple random numbers.

 

That is about as well as I can describe the idea today. Stay tuned for more insights.