Thursday, 10 September 2015
Odious Debt
"Radical proposals such as these bear in common a recognition that money, like property and debt, is a sociopolitical construct. It is a social agreement mediated by symbols: numbers on slips of paper, bits in computers. It is not an immutable feature of reality to which we can but adapt. The agreements that we call money and debt can be changed. To do so, however, will require a movement that contests the immutability of the current system and explores alternatives to it."
Posted by
LordLobster
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22:02
Labels: positive money, Society
Thursday, 27 August 2015
Algorithmic Art
Feedback in Google pattern matching algorithms creates surreal dreamscapes:
Impressionism was fascinated by the nature of seeing, colour and optics.
Is human art just the externalisation of our visual algorithms?
In fact our entire culture can probably be considered an external manifestation of cognitive biases and neural architecture.
Posted by
LordLobster
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08:52
Labels: art, artificial intelligence
Thursday, 20 August 2015
No Country for Men
Women's jobs safe from robots, Men's jobs less so:
I worked in Austria years ago on a dairy farm turned hotel. Historically the men had worked the farms while the women had stayed at home running the house. Tourism had upset the status quo. Farming was marginalised, families prospered from the tourist money, women gained status - the men sat in cafes and bars and many took up the popular local hobby of alcoholism.
Posted by
LordLobster
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08:48
Labels: AI, artificial intelligence, dystopia, future tech, Society
Wednesday, 12 August 2015
Eternal Youth from Young Blood?
Demographics shifts wealth and power to the old. Youth gets student debt, unpaid internships, crazy property prices and now the prospect of getting the life squeezed out of them - drop by drop - to keep a population of ageing vampires young.
I can't see this ending well.
Posted by
LordLobster
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23:53
Labels: biology, dystopia, future tech, Society
Wednesday, 5 August 2015
Hive Mind
Another path to the Singularity - Mind Swarms & Gestalt Personalities.
How long can fragile human egos remain intact against the coming of the Hive Minds?
How long can fragile human egos remain intact against the coming of the Hive Minds?
“I can imagine surgeons coordinating surgery together or mathematicians visualizing the solution to a problem together. Or musicians and artists with a new way of working creatively.”
Posted by
LordLobster
at
17:22
Labels: artificial intelligence, consciousness, future tech, singularity
Sunday, 2 August 2015
Technology Wagging the Dog
Are we still wearing the wizards hat? Has the golem blinked?
Technology is happy to take us with it, towards its womb - an obscure grey cloud sparkling with nano-bots and AIs - as long as we don't dare touch the reigns!
Technology is the phenotype. We are the cellular machinery encoding its genome.
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/end-of-absence-how-technology-changes-our-brains-society-children/
Technology is happy to take us with it, towards its womb - an obscure grey cloud sparkling with nano-bots and AIs - as long as we don't dare touch the reigns!
Technology is the phenotype. We are the cellular machinery encoding its genome.
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/end-of-absence-how-technology-changes-our-brains-society-children/
Posted by
LordLobster
at
17:38
Labels: AI, artificial intelligence, dystopia, singularity, Society
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