If I look at the glass as half-empty, I surmise that living in this universe is just poverty. An announcer at Virgin Radio said, "Viktor wants to live in a different universe." Buddhists believe that in this world, discontent is ever-present. Gnostics believe that this material world is inherently malevolent. Is God unknown and unknowable? There are some things that we can do as humans to make life more comfortable whilst being in this universe: We can learn a nice language. We can move to a nice place. But still, we experience discontent and malevolence. Gnostics know that escape from this material world is the only way. Daoists opine that to Sky-and-Earth, the Ten Thousand Things, everyone and everything, are like "straw dogs." Everybody experiences poverty, even multibillionaires, I observe. If one looks for poverty in any given situation, one would certainly find it, as one would be looking at a glass half-empty.
This world will change when science develops machine intelligence that surpasses human intelligence. It would affect all industries, including banking. Experts opine that money as we know it now would be different, perhaps even obsolete. The best scenario for humans would be symbiosis with intelligent machines. The techno-savvy are just waiting for the Singularity to happen. That term is what they use. They are Singularitarians of Singularitarianism. Great changes are coming to revolutionize life as we know it.
People around me wonder about numerology. I am in a place full of Chinese who adore the number 3, whilst I come from Japan where the number 4 is favoured and sacred. The only way that I could reconcile differences is to use Buckminster Fuller's geometric thinking of the Tetrahedron. It is the pyramid shape of four triangular faces and four vertices. Fuller opines that the Tetrahedron is a very fundamental shape in this universe.
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