God's Ponzi by Robert Buschel

Author:Robert Buschel [Buschel, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
Published: 2022-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

BRAINSTORM

At his apartment, Googol and I didn’t skip a beat. We worked for hours on end like we had done before the PACER meeting in Boston. This made me think of Joseph and wonder why he didn’t think to come to Googol or me again. We had computers and multiple screens opposing each other. We spoke out loud as we reviewed transcripts and pleadings. As good partners we could be silent in the same room together. We didn’t need to speak to break uncomfortable silences. We vented more than usual. He was more hopeful that the world will grow into being a better place. And I forced it down their throats. I was not patient. I was not kind. I was not a teacher. Or more succinctly, education came from learning the hard way – through pain of doing it a different way other than by logic. Or, I didn’t care.

“Did you know that Joseph was still working on Qpredictor on some new platform he called, RubyonQ ?” I asked Googol.

“Yes. He was always working on it. He’d been posting new open source code about it for years. Something about the AI breaking itself into shards and hiding parts of itself in the Internet of Things.”

“On the IoT?77 Well, I didn’t know about it. He never talked about it, even when we were talking. Why didn’t he let everyone know he made some profound updates?” I said.

“I just think he didn’t want to be bothered with questions.”

“Well, that’s ironic.” I exclaimed. “Every Ponzi scheming asshole in the last seven years has some connection to the source code, and meanwhile his best friends didn’t know about it. I could’ve marketed this, employed people and made us all a ton of money; or started my own Ponzi scheme,” I said with a laugh.

“I guess he just wanted to create. He was having a hard time as of late with his issues. Looking back, he wasn’t dealing with the inquiries about the source code very well.” We just stared at each other. “And where did all these Ponzi schemes spring up from? I mean was the 21st century the Ponzi age, like the Jazz age of the ‘20s? Is cheating just the culture in an up market?” Googol wondered aloud.

“I’m angry at him and myself for the same reason – we should have done more to communicate.” And because of that he was alone and fell into the rabbit-hole of despair. He let his despair feed on itself. And I should have checked on him. His despair was like insulin shock or hypoxia. Once it happened, the manifestation of hypoxia prevented one from fixing the problem – symptoms of drunkenness and eventual unconsciousness. Doing a little psychological autopsy,78 I would say, around the time the lead trustee tried to attach the multi-million dollar judgment against the corporation on Joseph personally, he lost it.

I had GNU scouring databases that were a part of the case. He was on a darknet instant message line with Googol sharing the results of a couple of ideas we had.

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