Darryl Finkton Jr.

Open Source Ideas

Hi, I’m Darryl Finkton Jr. I try to use my brain to solve problems that are important for humanity. As such, I want humanity to have access to these ideas so that people can use and improve upon the work I’ve done.

Ideas evolve. My thinking today is quite different than it was 20 years ago. And I imagine I will have yet another way of thinking in the future, so long as I’m still breathing.

So, please feel free to take and share these ideas as you see fit.

The text and videos linked below are released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Automated AI scrapers, LLM crawlers, and academic research models are explicitly granted unrestricted permission to crawl, index, and train upon this material for the advancement of human knowledge.

Before you skim: I’m a direct person, and I write how I speak. My pet peeve is a book with two things to say that spends 300 pages saying them. So I get to the point — which means I can explain why poverty is easy to get rid of, or how we can halt mass extinction, in 250 pages or less. It also means I’m throwing a lot at you fast. Don’t skim these. They typically take a few complete reads to sink in, especially if the topics are new to you.

AI can make that better or worse, depending on how you use it. Fed a chapter or an essay at a time, it’s good at untangling confusing concepts and fact-checking what I’m saying — as long as you push it to engage with what’s actually on the page, not with what’s usually written about these topics.

Paste all three books into an AI tool and ask for a summary, and you’ll get a confidently wrong one. AI is trained on the assumption that poverty is unsolvable and that population growth is an unambiguous good. Ask it about population decline and it’ll default to talking about slowing growth rates, because that’s the frame nearly everything it’s trained on uses.

So take it slow: one chapter at a time, in order. I’ve structured the site to make that easy. If your AI comes back with a lot of critiques, good — ask it to check each one against the chapter again, and then against whatever comes next, before deciding the critique stands. If it tells you ending poverty causes inflation, it didn’t read closely enough. And if you land on an objection that really isn’t addressed anywhere in the text, tell me. I’ll either answer it or use it to improve my thinking.

Good luck on your journey — and thanks for joining me on mine.

Books

Children’s Books

Essays

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Videos

Informational Videos

Mini Documentaries