What puzzles me about all citizen movements (for action on climate, social etc) that entice millions to demonstrate on streets against large bureaucratic institutions: Why don't they engage heavily in "bureaucracy jamming"? It's the orgs achilles heel: DDOS them with paperwork.
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Alan Turing, Cybernetics and the Secrets of Life.
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Philosophically, A.I is a totalitarian regime which aims to compress every atom in the universe into a model of it. Based on confused views of signifier/signified & map/territory relations, it naively assumes that the quality of experience & truth increases, the deeper the simulacra.
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Vectorialist Class: "Those who own & control the vectors of information/data":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hacker_Manifesto http://www.publicseminar.org/2016/05/the-sublime-language-of-my-century/ #Ideas #Technology #Politics
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Team Linked to Elon Musk Edges Closer to Brain Computers: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-11/team-linked-to-elon-musk-neuralink-outline-brain-monitor-system #BCI #SE #Military #NeuroScience
Summary: Deranged billionaire & secretive startup, funded by US military, developing "sewing machine", a system for monitoring & stimulating brains, to access thoughts & control behaviour via AI
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#Comedy of the day: https://gizmodo.com/japanese-teen-suspected-of-making-yellowcake-uranium-ma-1833981357 #Military
"Tokyo law enforcement suspect a 16-year-old boy traded online uranium and processed it into uranium ore (yellowcake). But rather than trying to facilitate the creation of nuclear weapons, he may have just been really into chemistry":
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The most terrifying conspiracy theory of all, is that there is no conspiracy at all.
A world governed by pure chance (and maybe some greed & stupidity)"We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?"
- Robert Anton WilsonFacebook accidentally shipped "tens of thousands" of VR controllers with hidden messages like "Big Brother is Watching" and "The Masons Were Here":
https://www.businessinsider.de/facebook-weird-messages-oculus-touch-controllers-2019-4 -
"For most medieval scholars, who believed that God created the universe according to geometric & harmonic principles, science – was linked directly to the divine. To seek these principles, therefore, would be to seek God"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_science_in_the_Middle_Ages
In the final analysis, the modern day military-technology complex closely resembles powerful medieval religious institutions in its structure and ambition. More cult than science - just with updated rational sounding god names.
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"Is geospatial intel the new framework for civilization? The NGA’s new director speaks his mind": https://www.stlmag.com/news/geospatial-intel-NGA-sharp/ #Military #SE
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"Disney’s AI generates storyboard animations from scripts": https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/12/disneys-ai-generates-storyboard-animations-from-screenplays/ "Generating Animations from Screenplays": https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.05440.pdf #Generative #ML #Creativity
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Michel Bauwens: Are We Shifting to a New Post-Capitalist Value Regime?
"The P2P Revolution" - interview with @mbauwens (12min):
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"Surviving climate change means transforming both economics and design" - by @Ecocene: https://theconversation.com/surviving-climate-change-means-transforming-both-economics-and-design-109164 #Regenerative #Design #ClimateChange
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The Happiness-Energy Paradox: EnergyUse is Unrelated to Subjective Well-Being:
https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s11482-019-09719-y?author_access_token=NMDbmhL4OqNpZR74rDlP7_e4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY6iZDwOmzrXG_aupSasgBuJ_pUGwxiZFQ7C3PXh-3Pm1kMNuGTLIcxk3tRGAzX3fgquSM1-QFXofYR5F31qt5Bs8a85m0Kr9LG0cA6GNGsekA%3D%3D
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"How Circular is the Circular Economy?" - by @lowtechmagazine: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/11/how-circular-is-the-circular-economy.html
"As long as we keep accumulating raw materials, the closing of the material life cycle remains an illusion, even for materials that are, in principle, recyclable"
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Comedy of the day: "Rise of the robots: the risks of AI replacing human creativity.... Brought to you by facebook": https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/information-age/risks-of-artificial-intelligence/
