markm, those clouds of words with links within a website are simply a menu, while I did see one that modified itself as I clicked toward related groups of links, but even then its for navigating existing content. A chatroom/forum where anyone can type in sentences anywhere in the 3d network of other sentences, is the difference between a book and the Internet. Books used to be controlled by publishers, but now anyone can publish their words to whoever wants to read them. Social networking websites are accelerating in popularity and interconnectedness for 1 simple reason: brains are shaped like networks more than hierarchies. It will be a little similar to my
http://mousesearch3d.com (which displays networks of wikipedia page names near those they link to, as I data mined the 10000 most important pages using a simple algorithm of keeping pages with more reverse links than forward links as the set of pages shrank) but unlike that website this 3d chatroom will appear as an endless space of text and will stay mostly the same shape as it vibrates as defined by the physics equations in the program. Connecting words adds gravity between them. The vibrations will be small gravity waves. It would also be a multiverse if connections were between many words at a time instead of just pairs, since the sets of words would overlap eachother like a puzzle sometimes and other times not fit so some other puzzle piece goes there this time, but I'm trying to keep it simple for now.
Later I'd like to set up a second 3d chatroom for a different purpose.... The same way it networks sentences together as people agree on what should be related to what else, I think this could organize people on a level of thinking as 1 mind enough that we could use chess boards as the sentences and links would be moves from one setup of the chess game to the next or previous possible move. There are many paths that lead to the same setup of the board. Its a network, not a tree. And I think if we get enough people playing a global chess game that way, we could win a Humans vs Deep Blue artificial intelligence game and take back the crown from that computer which is far to slow to simulate even 1 Human brain and is just very specialized in chess.
People act very much like artificial intelligence in the way they pursue a number which is controlled by equations that are continuously adjusted based on observations of the world toward the goal of directing those peoples' efforts toward some outcome on the next observations. In general an economy is simply an artificial intelligence designed by people who know so little math they can't balance a budget. When I design an economy, its based on psychology and game-theory and skill in artificial intelligence and many angles of viewing the problem. Its not just whatever works to patch the system. The log factor for the gravity I wrote above comes from natural language research which works best when the log of counts of words are used instead of just the counts directly, in a high dimensional clustering way. Repeating something means less each time. Repeating a million times means 2 times as much as repeating 1000 times. That's a log scale. So I'm thinking the cryptocurrency should generate log amount of gravity instead of the full force, so the ideas flow more evenly and big computing power can't overpower an idea since it would branch to many similar text and flow around the large amount of cryptocurrency/proof-of-work.
Wikipedia has more power than all the militaries of all countries together, since the networks of links and ideas in Wikipedia can cause Egypt to be taken over by its people or cause those people to think the world works a different way and maybe they should leave things as they are. Twitter and other communication systems were only the last few steps of a much bigger network of events. Wikipedia is a democracy of global thoughts flowing together in a consistent way that fits together like a puzzle, and I don't see many pieces missing or not fitting right. Its the core of the global brain except for money and politics, but Wikipedia is more powerful than all of that. I'm not just building a forum/chatroom. I'm building a new piece of that global puzzle that fits between peoples thoughts and Wikipedia pages and Bitcoin addresses and URLs and everything on the Internet that can be referenced with a short text. Its a very specific solution for a very specific piece of the global puzzle thats missing, which is the peoples control of associations between things and to control the amounts of those associations. Brains associate things. The forum/chatroom is the piece of the global puzzle that fits the natural associative ability of brains together with the global infrastructure. Governments, countries, central banks, and other kinds of hierarchies, are the pieces of the global puzzle not fitting with how brains work, as networks instead of hierarchies. When the Human species starts to think more like a global brain, like in social networks and Wikipedia and Bitcoin and this new kind of associative forum/chatroom, there will soon be world peace since war is a side-effect of the global puzzle not fitting together in a way we can understand whats going on or how to change it. The patterns of global events are very predictable using meme theory.
This can be explained in terms of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThermodynamicsCountries and corporations and governments and the central bank system are
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endothermic because they absorb value of our efforts in the form of dollars, thinking in ways they prefer as influenced through centralized media, a paradoxically unsolvable debt system where the total money owed is always more than the total money that exists, regulating communication devices and content (patents, E911 chips in cell phones, Wikileaks' bank account attacked, accountability of an owner of a service for what users communicate through the service if owner does not control such communication after learning of it...), and other ways of communication ability and other forms of value tending to flow up the hierarchies more than down. Those things may be justified or not, but the point is the global hierarchies have endothermic behavior, toward them more than consumers.
"Zeroth law of thermodynamics: If two systems are each in thermal equilibrium with a third, they are also in thermal equilibrium with each other."
In the context of global events and the associative chatroom/forum and cryptocurrency research path, that means those forms of communication and money which the hierarchies do in an endothermic way, if those forms touch eachother, the heat with equalize between those hierarchies and monopolies flow outward toward competition. This is why businesses put much resources toward keeping their proprietary secrets and patenting ideas so nobody else can use them except in the normal endothermic way, with value flowing toward that endothermic system more than outward. Being in thermal equilibrium is bad for business since you only get paid a free market price instead of a monopoly price.
"First law of thermodynamics: A change in the internal energy of a closed thermodynamic system is equal to the difference between the heat supplied to the system and the amount of work done by the system on its surroundings."
If we add "proof of work" to the "associative chatroom/forum and cryptocurrency research path", that allows people to waste heat in the form of useless calculations attached to any pair of short texts. It attaches proof of negative heat to specific ideas.
"Second law of thermodynamics: Heat cannot spontaneously flow from a colder location to a hotter location."
The global hierarchies are endothermic. They suck in heat, a measure of useful productive power, which makes them feel cold to those the heat flows from. So what will they do when a system is created that is colder than them as a result of wasting calculations on "proof of work"? They will be very confused. Heat is flowing into useless calculations instead of their pockets. The negative heat is not flowing randomly. Its accurately associated with pairs of short text, as the users of the chatroom/forum have agreed thats what the "proof of work" calculations mean, that within the network we will share the pairs of text which have the highest "proof of work" associated with them. Its an agreement of which communications will be spread with higher priority. That means we can make any subject we want colder than the endothermic global hierarchies. We don't have enough heat to do that for any large area, but we can target it on very specific subjects and be more endothermic than the global hierarchies. Therefore, by the second law of thermodynamics (which is a mostly reliable pattern but not absolute), heat must flow from the global hierarchies into the associative chatroom/forum, probably in the form of more people starting to use it and writing more associations about how the world works, connecting them more, and draining their heat into the associative chatroom/forum repeatedly until we reach global equilibrium.
Doing "proof of work" calculations made Bitcoin endothermic enough to suck many millions of dollars out of the global economy without putting in that money to trade, just sucking out the value like global hierarchies suck value out of most people more than giving value, and it created a feedback loop that drove its price up exponentially. Similarly, the associative chatroom/forum will use "proof of work" useless calculations to control which ideas become endothermic and create exponential feedback loops. If someone tries to help or fights the associative chatroom/forum, either way they are putting pressure on some idea in that system, and we will mine that pressure like a windmill mines waves in air. Its like a brain. Whichever ways the global power flows, it follows them as a chatroom/forum networking our thoughts together, pointing the windmill whichever directions it needs to be at the time. If they try to censor the Internet, that's what people write about in the associations and we figure out whats causing that global pattern.
It becomes temporarily endothermic (proof of work, wasting heat) in whatever subject is most endothermic of global patterns.
"Zeroth law of thermodynamics: If two systems are each in thermal equilibrium with a third, they are also in thermal equilibrium with each other."
It will give people a way to precisely target and drain power from how the world works today by using "proof of work" to generate feedback loops of attention at anything in the world that gets too powerful. They're not closed systems anymore if we can refer to their combinations with endothermic pointers.
But is this really so different from what businesses and governments and banks do? By creating a feedback loop of exponentially more useless "proof of work" calculations, more and more people join the system and organize around that idea, that whoever does the most useless calculations has strengthened the system of doing useless calculations and calling it money and value and progress. If we attract people away from businesses to instead make their living maintaining the computers to do these useless "proof of work" calculations (really its designed to count how much useless calculations the computer does, a competition of that), then haven't we created jobs?
