Soft Ware for Hard Power

I learned Photoshop as an autistic youth who wanted to make logos and background graphics for friends' gaming YouTube channels. Thousands of hours of skill development there transferred to every graphic design software I've come across since (Illustrator, GIMP, Sketch, Figma, etc.).

Having generalized graphic design ability has served me well at points, but it didn't give me any hard power. Same story with generalized web coding ability. I call things like this 'soft ware for soft power'. In recent years, hard power became way more interesting to me, and I'm starting to feel out what 'soft ware for hard power' is.

For example: over the past few months, I've been recreating my youth pursuit but for mechanical CAD. I can definitely say that generalized mechanical object creation ability is on a different level from something like graphic design. Generalized PCB creation ability is, I believe, on the same level as mechanical object creation. Another guess is genetic engineering (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_TAHxPBqKY). These things can absolutely get you bonafide Abrahamic Virtue if applied correctly (read: in harmony with the plans and laws of God and nature).

In short, I think 'soft ware for hard power' is the noble modern equivalent of the skillsets mentioned in
>>884
and of central importance for a viable plan out of the suicide cult. I'll end with some questions:
1. What other types of 'soft ware for hard power' exist? What are the best applications?
2. Is there a complete set? If so, what is it? (seems related to different areas of physics, i.e. mechanics vs e&m vs chemistry)
3. It's a shame that the best applications in these domains are usually very expensive. Could someone buy the companies that produce Rhinoceros 3D, Altium Designer, Benchling, etc. and open-source them?
4. This framing makes 'innawoods shell scripting + writing' computing look pretty soft. Is there a better computing paradigm that consists in part of bundling these together for use by all the 6sigma R1bers?
5. Degenerate soyjack 'hacker' cultures already exist for mechanical object creation, PCB creation, and genetic engineering. They're making things like LED dresses for transvestites and spider silk from yeast. Why haven't we co-opted these as of yet?
6. In recent years we've seen a reclamation of the means of production for mechanical object creation (CNCs, 3D printers, laser cutters, etc.), but even that domain can't be done totally independent of society. PCB creation is worse, and genetic engineering is worse still. How much of the stack needs to be independent to be effective in the case of an early schism from suicide cult? How much in the case of parasitism until takeoff?

Cheers

> 892

Ha, my cousin is the Mayor Pro Tem of El Segundo. I think that means something like the chairman of the city council. It also means you can easily guess who I am if you search, so I won't say anything else in this post. :)

>>897
He does look like you. See this is why its better that we turned off the samefag detector. Without it, anything else you would say in this thread would be instantly tied to your dox. As is, you can speak frankly about other things in other posts without doxing yourself.

The #1 question in my mind when contemplating this issue is what the right scale is. Hard power means defending land. Is this your neighborhood? A village? A small town? A city? A city-state / special economic zone? You probably want to scale over time, but on what timescale?

I think that hard power extends much more through communication and the organization of action than advanced manufacturing or [your favorite computing paradigm here]. The latter are necessary components of hard power, but I'm skeptical of treating them as the tip of the spear: you can obtain a lot of power without needing them.

>>903
>I'm skeptical of treating them as the tip of the spear: you can obtain a lot of power without needing them.

Exactly. Read old stories of princes walking in with gallantry and some claim on legitimacy (eg theseus) and it becomes clear that gallantry and some claim of legitimacy is basically sufficient. Of course you have to treat people well to prove your nobility and build up network of allies, but at no point to agriculturalist dhimmis suddenly become something else.

>>892
I agree with this in that as a means on its own, material means won't get you out, but I think that for some, bad material conditions can prevent you from achieving anything else.

>>908
rn I'm in the early design process for designing a keyboard that isn't insane. learning CAD for 3d printing

>>918
Looks unrelated. Post unrelated links as their own thread.

>>935
R1b is one of the Y haplogroups associated with the Aryan expansion. Six sigma means six stadard deviations above the mean in (in this case genetic) quality. Pic related.

>>943
Like evolutionary "fitness", genetic quality one of those things we cannot have perfect knowledge of because it actually refers to a holistic value judgement by nature or nature's god. At best we can guess at it and speak of it informally. That said, there are interesting metrics like "mutational load" which measures the amount of damage a genome has relative to the modal or idealized genome for that population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_load#Mutational_load

OP was punning colloquial ways of describing high IQ with the "six sigma" manufacturing methodology which aims to eliminate defects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Sigma

>>945
It's not. OP was making a joke and you are being autistic.

>>890
>Generalized PCB creation ability is, I believe, on the same level as mechanical object creation.

As someone with very limited hardware ability, I'm curious to hear this point expanded further. How can theorycels better understand the points made by OP? Why is it that US made hardware is so bad and Ukraine is snapping up DJI drones? Can a psyop be executed on the degenerate soyjack cultures?

>>1940

To refresh, I (OP) was saying that there are classes of software applications that enable access to hard power, and they are hidden in plain sight among vastly less useful applications. Think Blender (real) vs Figma (fake). I was also saying the general shape of the industrial landscape is similar. There are many perfectly sharp tools and people waiting to be plucked from the gutter and applied towards something True or Good or Beautiful. What America lacks is clarity of vision, not resources. Elon's life is a partial realization of this point, but I don't think he has tapped more than a few bips of what's out there.

Drones are a great illustration of what I mean. Here is a South African father/son duo that built the world's current fastest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoSSaSkOTTc. What industrial stack did they need to pull it off? I'd say (A) is Chinese parts, things like motors, cameras, LiPo batteries — essentially any component that you'd want to buy off-the-shelf. (B) is a 6sigma R1ber tradition of knowledge. No matter how terrific your (A), it doesn't matter without (B).

I'm excited about the vast amount of dormant (B) in global society because for the first time in human history we have a dirt-cheap additive and subtractive manufacturing stack which can be production-scaled linearly. I can buy a 4-axis CNC that will mill mild steel for $5K and fit on my desk, and a professional-grade 3D printer that will create ~arbitrary 3D shapes from plastic for $2.5K and also fit on my desk. I could also buy 40 of each. As we see with the South Africans, you can create truly dangerous weaponry very easily if you've got The Right Stuff. I add that you can create a lot of it. Dangerous weaponry is one form of hard power, but the total possibility space is much larger. Why psyop the degenerate soyjacks when you can just try to channel the will of God?

>>2056
> Chinese parts

I agree with (B), insofar as it has enabled technical knowledge to be available to a large segment of the global society. I will say one thing about (A), however. One of the reasons that these Chinese parts are so cheap, is because the PRC essentially uses slave labor to create these parts. For instance, the Shiukwan (Shaoguan) factory dispute between Uyghurs and Han Chinese in 2009 was due false allegations of the sexual assault of a Han Chinese woman. Shumchun (Shenzhen) has seen massive Han Chinese immigration in the last 30 years, as the PRC has attempted to blockade the culture industry of Hongkong (Hong Kong) and additionally threaten Hongkong with various hard power munitions, most recently drones.

The First World Government must not stand for this and allow Cantonia to be used as a base for further Chinese expansion into Southeast Asia (i.e. Jungle Asia, including subtropical and tropical rainforest). One first order of business is to liberate Little Toishan from Chinese occupation with an AI-enforced narrative, facilitated by current language support for Cantonese. We will channel the will of God, revere the emperor, and expel the barbarian. First in Lesser San Francisco (Gold Mountain), then Greater San Francisco (Gold Mountain), then Lesser America, then Greater America.

> Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
> And this be our motto—"In God is our Trust;"
> And the star-spangled Banner in triumph shall wave,
> O'er the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

>>2056

In the US, manufacturing dangerous weaponry at your desk doesn't give you hard power, it just makes you a target for federal weapons charges. Hard power in the current US context is gained by making yourself indispensable to the system, and one way to do that that is related to the OP (note: there are other ways, some of which have been mentioned) is by building companies that do things the government wants or needs and can't do itself, the legal if creative way, which requires being able to pinch your nose and deal with a lot of lawyers and paperwork, in addition to knowing how to hack and innovate to do things better and more cheaply. It's different in South Africa, where there is much less state capacity and citizens can actually patrol and defend their communities without being arrested as vigilantes.

This post from another thread puts it correctly >2055, it's a different conversation but the same applies here:

>>Consumers should not be buying drone swarms or even thinking about it. The question is whether hackers are building novel stuff and then getting into manufacturing, and then whether the manufacturing ecosystem is good enough to support scale-up to useful levels of production.

Maybe you can scale-up your desk CNC and 3D printers to a factory, I don't know. It seems like what you really want is more open access to R&D tools in all the major hard science and engineering domains and a hacker culture around these that isn't soy. The real hard part, as you say, is vision, or knowing where the gaps are and what you can get away with trying.

Even with all that said, I do wonder how much hard power people like Elon actually have. Maybe in other places there is more opportunity. Maybe it's a matter of building a community with those noble skills and biding your time, but you could be waiting a while.

Note, it looks like >>884 mentioned in the OP now 404s, anyone know what those skillsets listed were?

>>2058
Elon has the power to do much of what he wants, which is take humanity to Mars, make electric cars, etc. Ambitious anons would do well to apply their ambition in such ways. But probably he has other wants, like wanting the conscious, civilization-capable, philosophy-capable subset of "humanity" to grow in power, quality, and number. He's not getting that. But nobody has that power right now. That's going to take something else, some kind of visionary political leader to fight for that and change something fundamental about our society. Even if he applied himself there, I don't think Elon could do it.

Anyways you're right that the way to get power today is to provide some essential service to the overall ecosystem of power. Maybe this has always been true. Companies can be part of that, but I wonder what we're missing by being specialized culturally around capitalist enterprise.

In particular I think the ability of people to think independent thoughts, live well, and organize themselves around their common interests seems very underbuilt in our time.

One of my old friends from Berkeley wanted to design a new power supply for an amp. He designed it from scratch, used open source PCB design software and had it printed for him by a company specializing in such things.

Unbelievable that a "generalist" can now make their own one-off 'electronics' these days