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Some of the very best moments of my life have come from those moments when I feel like I a part of something bigger than myself. Act in a play. Be the 30th pers

Some of the very best moments of my life have come from those moments when I feel like I a part of something bigger than myself. Act in a play. Be the 30th person in a start up. Sing in a choir. Ring a bell. It appears to me that far from enhancing these moments, in general the internet has inhibited them. The focus of our current internet is Me. Instagram where you can show people how beautiful you are. Facebook, where the important thing is what you like. And who you follow. Me. Me. Me. So it seems natural that the "next big thing" is something that will make the internet even less hospitable for a sense of community - for the We. No doorbell, just an AI. But maybe that is a good thing? This internet with all the tracking and lack of civility can become just a place where AI's can spend hours tracking and targeting other AI's. Far out! We can build something else.

morphle 2y ago
"It is the destiny of computers to become interactive intellectual amplifiers for all people pervasively networked worldwide." JCR Licklider initially called it the intergalactic network, now know as the internet. >We can build something else Some of us tried (with internet fish swimming around) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXGLOiZUZ2U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXGLOiZUZ2U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9ldlqhVkM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9ldlqhVkM https://tinlizzie.org/VPRIPapers/tr2003001_croq_collab.pdf https://tinlizzie.org/VPRIPapers/tr2003001_croq_collab.pdf
- talkingtab 2y ago
  Far Out! Thanks. We could use some Complex Adaptive System architecture to create galaxies. Or we could call them Gestalts instead of CAS. In gestalts entities, use rules to interact with a read/write message bus. Ants. Pheromone trails. Write when you find food, not if you don't. We have the pieces for this. Entities - people. We have a r/w bus - the internet. What we don't have are rules. We can think of rules - the kind Wolfram talks about in NKofS - instead as a language. A language in the sense of Sapir-Whorf. "Twitter and Tear Gas" (Zeynep Tufecki) is a good illustration of Sapir-Whorf in internet languages. (Available as a pdf I think) That language is the missing link. In Real Life there is a language for collaboration. Perhaps the task is to understand the elements of IRL collaboration and then transpose it. One could make some guesses about fundamentals. As we have all discovered, one fundamental is trust. IRL Trust is identity and reputation based. With many caveats. Perhaps we could start by considering A New Kind of Identity. ?

morphle 2y ago

"It is the destiny of computers to become interactive intellectual amplifiers for all people pervasively networked worldwide." JCR Licklider initially called it the intergalactic network, now know as the internet. >We can build something else Some of us tried (with internet fish swimming around) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXGLOiZUZ2U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXGLOiZUZ2U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9ldlqhVkM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9ldlqhVkM https://tinlizzie.org/VPRIPapers/tr2003001_croq_collab.pdf https://tinlizzie.org/VPRIPapers/tr2003001_croq_collab.pdf

talkingtab 2y ago
Far Out! Thanks. We could use some Complex Adaptive System architecture to create galaxies. Or we could call them Gestalts instead of CAS. In gestalts entities, use rules to interact with a read/write message bus. Ants. Pheromone trails. Write when you find food, not if you don't. We have the pieces for this. Entities - people. We have a r/w bus - the internet. What we don't have are rules. We can think of rules - the kind Wolfram talks about in NKofS - instead as a language. A language in the sense of Sapir-Whorf. "Twitter and Tear Gas" (Zeynep Tufecki) is a good illustration of Sapir-Whorf in internet languages. (Available as a pdf I think) That language is the missing link. In Real Life there is a language for collaboration. Perhaps the task is to understand the elements of IRL collaboration and then transpose it. One could make some guesses about fundamentals. As we have all discovered, one fundamental is trust. IRL Trust is identity and reputation based. With many caveats. Perhaps we could start by considering A New Kind of Identity. ?