Beyond digitalizing money, payments, economics, and finance, blockchains are a singularity-class technology that enables the secure, trackable, automated coordination of very large-scale projects, fleets, and swarms
The implications could be an orderly transition to the automation economy and trust-rich human-machine collaboration in the digital smartnetwork societies of the future
Blockchain Smartnetworks: Bitcoin and Blockchain ExplainedMelanie Swan
Beyond digitalizing money, payments, economics, and finance, and governance, smart property and smart contracts, blockchains secure automated fleet coordination
The implications could be an orderly transition to the automation economy and trust-rich digital smartnetwork societies of the future
Future of AI: Blockchain and Deep LearningMelanie Swan
The Future of AI: Blockchain and Deep Learning
First point: considering blockchain and deep learning together suggests the emergence of a new class of global network computing system. These systems are self-operating computation graphs that make probabilistic guesses about reality states of the world.
Second point: blockchain and deep learning are facilitating each other’s development. This includes using deep learning algorithms for setting fees and detecting fraudulent activity, and using blockchains for secure registry, tracking, and remuneration of deep learning nets as they go onto the open Internet (in autonomous driving applications for example). Blockchain peer-to-peer nodes might provide deep learning services as they already provide transaction hosting and confirmation, news hosting, and banking (payment, credit flow-through) services. Further, there are similar functional emergences within the systems, for example LSTM (long-short term memory in RNNs) are like payment channels.
Third point: AI smart network thesis. We are starting to run more complicated operations through our networks: information (past), money (present), and brains (future). There are two fundamental eras of network computing: simple networks for the transfer of information (all computing to date from mainframe to mobile) and now smart networks for the transfer of value and intelligence. Blockchain and deep learning are built directly into smart networks so that they may automatically confirm authenticity and transfer value (blockchain) and predictively identify individual items and patterns.
Distributed ledgers imply peer-banking services offered by every network node to others for a small fee. Money becomes an accounting ledger running on a distributed computer network, a transaction, credit, and payment graph. Digitized money and payments, and activity possibly being securely forward-committed in payment contracts, suggests that the economy could settle on the basis of net rather than gross transfers. A net-clearings contracts-for-difference economy could enable us to rethink debt, replacing crippling monolithic capital structures with streaming money disgorged in smaller chunks that are more closely tied to costs and repayment possibilities. Pre-paid consumption and 30-60-90 day vendor credit terms models could be offset to facilitate a directed payment graph economy of just-in-time money. A wide slate of contemporary economic challenges might be addressed including health care price rationalization, global energy management, entitlements, and the automation economy.
Blockchain Economics
http://timreview.ca/article/1109
Blockchain Philosophy
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/meta.2017.48.issue-5/issuetoc
Blockchain: a Singularity-class technology - No other technology has the power to
pull 2 billion people out of poverty overnight (with intermediary-free international remittances), produce a safe and orderly transition to the automation economy (with humans and machines in collaboration, and enacting friendly artificial intelligence), and fundamentally transform the only remaining sectors not yet re-engineered for the Internet era: economics and politics. There are growing classes of activities for smartnetwork execution, moving up the stack, pushing different qualitative states through the Internet pipes, building future smartnetworks. The smartnetworks thesis is that complex future operations will involve automated fleet coordination of “quantized” items via smartnetworks, using some kind of technology like blockchains with algorithmically-derived trust.
Blockchain Investing: Economics Implications of Distributed LedgersMelanie Swan
The investment market for cryptocurrencies is becoming increasingly institutional. In July 2017 (in the wake of the “ICO dotcom bubble”), the SEC signaled its stance on ICOs. “Stock-like” ICOs are likely to be deemed securities, and as such, would need to be registered offerings, which by implication, would target institutional investors. Also in July 2017, the CFTC granted a derivatives clearing license to New York-based LedgerX for cryptocurrency derivatives, and options listings may appear on the CBOE later in 2017. Since derivatives markets are already part of the institutional ecosystem, this means that cryptocurrency derivatives might be a more accessible, liquid, and large-scale means of obtaining exposure to crypto asset classes than investing in the underlying cryptocurrencies themselves. Finally, there is greater emphasis on institutional liquidity aggregation platforms for large-size cryptocurrency trading (i.e. $20+ million positions), with Genesis Trading, Cumberland Mining, Circle, and Project Omni.
Crypto tokens imply optionality and the ability to better manage risk. The thesis of this talk is that smart contracts are options, and as such, can be used to control risk (unwanted future uncertainty) in a wider range of areas than has been possible previously, in finance, and in other areas too such as medicine. Options as a financial market instrument have long been used to control the amount and timing of risk in specific ways and tailor exposure with granularity. Smart contracts are an even more flexible species of options because they are programmable contracts that can be used to confer the right to buy or sell any blockchain-based asset or liability at a future moment in time (blocktime or “fiat” (regular) time) per certain terms and consideration. Therefore, smart contracts allow a greater variety in the degree and type of risks that might be brought under management. The impact of having greater control over risk is that intangible social goods are produced such as surety, confidence, and reliability, which help to engender a more trustful society.
Future of AI: Blockchain & Deep LearningMelanie Swan
Future of AI: intelligence “baked in” to smart networks, blockchains to confirm authenticity and transfer value, and Deep Learning algorithms for predictive identification. This talk presents two high-impact contemporary emerging technologies: big data and deep learning algorithms, and blockchain distributed ledgers, and discusses their implications for the future of artificial intelligence.
Smart Network Economics:
Debt, Risk, and Payment Channels
Smart networks are intelligent autonomous networks, a new form of global computational infrastructure in which intelligence is built directly into the software such that an increasing degree of autonomous operation is facilitated. More formally, smart networks are state machines that make probabilistic guesses about reality states of the world and act upon this basis, particularly in economic domains, hence, smart network economics.
Blockchain Smartnetworks: Bitcoin and Blockchain ExplainedMelanie Swan
Beyond digitalizing money, payments, economics, and finance, and governance, smart property and smart contracts, blockchains secure automated fleet coordination
The implications could be an orderly transition to the automation economy and trust-rich digital smartnetwork societies of the future
Future of AI: Blockchain and Deep LearningMelanie Swan
The Future of AI: Blockchain and Deep Learning
First point: considering blockchain and deep learning together suggests the emergence of a new class of global network computing system. These systems are self-operating computation graphs that make probabilistic guesses about reality states of the world.
Second point: blockchain and deep learning are facilitating each other’s development. This includes using deep learning algorithms for setting fees and detecting fraudulent activity, and using blockchains for secure registry, tracking, and remuneration of deep learning nets as they go onto the open Internet (in autonomous driving applications for example). Blockchain peer-to-peer nodes might provide deep learning services as they already provide transaction hosting and confirmation, news hosting, and banking (payment, credit flow-through) services. Further, there are similar functional emergences within the systems, for example LSTM (long-short term memory in RNNs) are like payment channels.
Third point: AI smart network thesis. We are starting to run more complicated operations through our networks: information (past), money (present), and brains (future). There are two fundamental eras of network computing: simple networks for the transfer of information (all computing to date from mainframe to mobile) and now smart networks for the transfer of value and intelligence. Blockchain and deep learning are built directly into smart networks so that they may automatically confirm authenticity and transfer value (blockchain) and predictively identify individual items and patterns.
Distributed ledgers imply peer-banking services offered by every network node to others for a small fee. Money becomes an accounting ledger running on a distributed computer network, a transaction, credit, and payment graph. Digitized money and payments, and activity possibly being securely forward-committed in payment contracts, suggests that the economy could settle on the basis of net rather than gross transfers. A net-clearings contracts-for-difference economy could enable us to rethink debt, replacing crippling monolithic capital structures with streaming money disgorged in smaller chunks that are more closely tied to costs and repayment possibilities. Pre-paid consumption and 30-60-90 day vendor credit terms models could be offset to facilitate a directed payment graph economy of just-in-time money. A wide slate of contemporary economic challenges might be addressed including health care price rationalization, global energy management, entitlements, and the automation economy.
Blockchain Economics
http://timreview.ca/article/1109
Blockchain Philosophy
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/meta.2017.48.issue-5/issuetoc
Blockchain: a Singularity-class technology - No other technology has the power to
pull 2 billion people out of poverty overnight (with intermediary-free international remittances), produce a safe and orderly transition to the automation economy (with humans and machines in collaboration, and enacting friendly artificial intelligence), and fundamentally transform the only remaining sectors not yet re-engineered for the Internet era: economics and politics. There are growing classes of activities for smartnetwork execution, moving up the stack, pushing different qualitative states through the Internet pipes, building future smartnetworks. The smartnetworks thesis is that complex future operations will involve automated fleet coordination of “quantized” items via smartnetworks, using some kind of technology like blockchains with algorithmically-derived trust.
Blockchain Investing: Economics Implications of Distributed LedgersMelanie Swan
The investment market for cryptocurrencies is becoming increasingly institutional. In July 2017 (in the wake of the “ICO dotcom bubble”), the SEC signaled its stance on ICOs. “Stock-like” ICOs are likely to be deemed securities, and as such, would need to be registered offerings, which by implication, would target institutional investors. Also in July 2017, the CFTC granted a derivatives clearing license to New York-based LedgerX for cryptocurrency derivatives, and options listings may appear on the CBOE later in 2017. Since derivatives markets are already part of the institutional ecosystem, this means that cryptocurrency derivatives might be a more accessible, liquid, and large-scale means of obtaining exposure to crypto asset classes than investing in the underlying cryptocurrencies themselves. Finally, there is greater emphasis on institutional liquidity aggregation platforms for large-size cryptocurrency trading (i.e. $20+ million positions), with Genesis Trading, Cumberland Mining, Circle, and Project Omni.
Crypto tokens imply optionality and the ability to better manage risk. The thesis of this talk is that smart contracts are options, and as such, can be used to control risk (unwanted future uncertainty) in a wider range of areas than has been possible previously, in finance, and in other areas too such as medicine. Options as a financial market instrument have long been used to control the amount and timing of risk in specific ways and tailor exposure with granularity. Smart contracts are an even more flexible species of options because they are programmable contracts that can be used to confer the right to buy or sell any blockchain-based asset or liability at a future moment in time (blocktime or “fiat” (regular) time) per certain terms and consideration. Therefore, smart contracts allow a greater variety in the degree and type of risks that might be brought under management. The impact of having greater control over risk is that intangible social goods are produced such as surety, confidence, and reliability, which help to engender a more trustful society.
Future of AI: Blockchain & Deep LearningMelanie Swan
Future of AI: intelligence “baked in” to smart networks, blockchains to confirm authenticity and transfer value, and Deep Learning algorithms for predictive identification. This talk presents two high-impact contemporary emerging technologies: big data and deep learning algorithms, and blockchain distributed ledgers, and discusses their implications for the future of artificial intelligence.
Smart Network Economics:
Debt, Risk, and Payment Channels
Smart networks are intelligent autonomous networks, a new form of global computational infrastructure in which intelligence is built directly into the software such that an increasing degree of autonomous operation is facilitated. More formally, smart networks are state machines that make probabilistic guesses about reality states of the world and act upon this basis, particularly in economic domains, hence, smart network economics.
The cryptographic asset market turns institutional with regulated ICOs, exchanges, and options. The retail market allows the long tail of personalized economic services to meet in “eBay for money” digital marketplaces and global financial inclusion. Digitized money and payments, and activity possibly being securely forward-committed in payment contracts, implies that the economy could settle on the basis of net rather than gross flows. A net-clearings contracts-for-difference economy could rethink crippling monolithic debt structures with streaming money disgorged in much smaller chunks that are more closely tied to costs and repayment possibilities. Pre-paid consumption and 30-60-90 day vendor credit terms models could be offset to facilitate a directed payment graph economy of just-in-time money.
Blockchain Economics: Tackle Debt and Systemic RiskMelanie Swan
Financial Resilience and Sustainability. Crypto tokens imply optionality and the ability to better manage risk. The thesis of this talk is that smart contracts are options, and as such, can be used to control risk (unwanted future uncertainty) in a wider range of areas than has been possible previously, in finance, and in other areas too such as medicine. Options as a financial market instrument have long been used to control the amount and timing of risk in specific ways and tailor exposure with granularity. Smart contracts are an even more flexible species of options because they are programmable contracts that can be used to confer the right to buy or sell any blockchain-based asset or liability at a future moment in time (blocktime or “fiat” (regular) time) per certain terms and consideration. Therefore, smart contracts allow a greater variety in the degree and type of risks that might be brought under management. The impact of having greater control over risk is that intangible social goods are produced such as surety, confidence, and reliability, which help to engender a more trustful society.
The Crypto Enlightenment: Social Theory of Blockchains Melanie Swan
Text Write-up: http://futurememes.blogspot.com/2015/10/crypto-enlightenment-social-theory-of.html
Introduction
What is Bitcoin, blockchain, decentralization?
Stakes: Transition from labor economy to actualization economy
Crypto Enlightenment
Rethinking Authority (Self, Society)
Philosophy of Immanence (open-ended upside)
Theory of Crypto Flourishing
Scarcity as a social pathology
Abundance theory of Flourishing
Practicalities and extensive blockchain applications
\\
This talk proposes that the future of artificial intelligence is smart networks that have intelligence "baked in" in the form of Blockchain Distributed Ledgers for confirming authenticity and transferring value, and Deep Learning Algorithms for predictive identification. Smart networks are not a far-off possibility but already needed as deep learning systems are going online in connected apps for Autonomous Driving and Drone Delivery, and Human-Robot Interaction. Two high-impact contemporary emerging technologies for the future of AI are Blockchain Distributed Ledgers and Deep Learning Algorithms, and discusses their implications for the future of artificial intelligence.
Blockchain 3.0, the Encryption of Innovation. This talk looks beyond the immediate economic benefits and risks of distributed ledgers and considers the broader societal innovations implied by blockchain technology. The possibility of innovation and creating and participating in different and multiple self-determined political and economic systems could mobilize how we create ourselves as individuals and societies. Blockchain technology invites the possibility of creating a social world that gives greater weight to the values we apparently care about: freedom, trust, and dignity
Technological Unemployment and the Robo-EconomyMelanie Swan
Technological Unemployment (jobs outsourced to technology) is coming and the challenge is to steward an orderly and beneficial transition to more intense human-technology collaboration
Blockchain distributed ledger technology is evolving from the hype phase into one of greater maturity and long-term value creation. This graduate course overview examines how blockchains, networks, and social interaction patterns are related.
Food as Distributed Commons: Cryptocurrencies as Slow MoneyEvelyn Rodriguez
How may one use cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin and blockchain technologies to create sustainable, participatory projects in our communities. A hypothetical example using decentralized hydroponics urban farm will be used to consider implementation for funding and economically sustaining a "food grid" (analogous to the energy grid) that benefits everyone in the collective membership. Presented to Slow Money South Bay on August 4, 2015 by Evelyn Rodriguez.
Blockchain Thinking: The Brain as a DAC (Decentralized Autonomous Corporation)Melanie Swan
This talk explores how thinking could be formulated as a blockchain process that could have benefits for both artificial intelligence and human enhancement. Some possibilities might include the ability to orchestrate digital mindfile uploads, advocate for digital intelligences in future timeframes, implement smart contract-based utility functions, instantiate thinking as a power law, and facilitate the enactment of Friendly AI.
Blockchain, whose origins are blended (and often blurred) with the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, is a disruptive technology with the potential to transform how goods and services are exchanged over the internet. Blockchain allows complex transactions to be carried out transparently and securely, on a distributed interaction model that ousts multiple established intermediaries, eradicating the control held by central authorities in traditional methods of digital transaction.
Collecting stories about future uses of blockchain technologyWendy Schultz
This slidedeck briefly introduces blockchain technology and then requests readers to share a scenario - a story of a possible future - of possible uses for blockchain tech in the future. The stories can be shared on Sensemaker, and the slidedeck gives a step-by-step demo of how that would work. The deck then lists possible future users as prompts for your imaginative exploration of how blockchain technology might affect people in all walks of life and sectors.
Disruptive Future of Blockchain for Brasil Melanie Swan
Tudu acaba em blockchain: Productivity gains: Capital investment in technology, Provide data centers with Blockchain as a Service
Skilled work force development: Train 1000 software developers: Hyperledger, Ethereum, Corda
Focus on global markets beyond the internal economy: Scale efficiencies
Natural resources, regional strength, large companies
Low-hanging fruit: secure information transfer
Blockchain Health and Crypto Wellness FuturesMelanie Swan
The blockchain is a new class of information technology that could be like the Internet in terms of pervasively reconfiguring all of human activity, at minimum facilitating decentralized models as a technologically-resilient and liberty-enhancing complement to centralized hierarchical models. There are many potential applications in health and life sciences
There is increasing interest in the potential impact of Blockchain globally, across the business world. Blockchain is transforming data storage, security, digital property management, transactions in a variety of forms, and much, much, more. And the impact will be felt across a number of industries, including manufacturing, insurance, healthcare, retail, logistics, and more.
We believe Blockchain presents a unique opportunity for enterprises to leverage a revolutionary new technology and redefine how they function. The Blockchain Landscape Report 2019 by [X]cubeLABS discusses everything Blockchain ranging from its history, mechanism, and industry-wide adoption to its future potential.
Blockchain - crittomonete, Bitcoin e altre applicazioniDavide Carboni
Un misterioso scienziato inventa nel 2008 un protocollo informatico che consente per la prima volta di realizzare un sistema di pagamento decentralizzato, sicuro e autonomo in quanto svincolato da ogni autorità di controllo. Nel 2009 nasce il Bitcoin definito da alcuni non come il denaro di Internet ma piuttosto come la Internet del denaro. In queste slide ripercorriamo rapidamente la storia e le caratteristiche di questa tecnologia emergente.
Blockchain: The Information Technology of the FutureMelanie Swan
The blockchain concept may be one of the most transformative ideas to impact the world since the Internet. Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are merely one application of the blockchain concept. The blockchain is a public transaction ledger built in a decentralized network structure based on cryptographic principles so that any kind of trading, buying and selling of assets does not need to go through a centralized intermediary. Any kind of asset may be encoded into the blockchain and transacted, validated, or preserved in a much more efficient manner than at present including ideas, health data, financial assets, automobiles, and government documents. Venture Capitalists are calling the blockchain the next big investment wave.
The cryptographic asset market turns institutional with regulated ICOs, exchanges, and options. The retail market allows the long tail of personalized economic services to meet in “eBay for money” digital marketplaces and global financial inclusion. Digitized money and payments, and activity possibly being securely forward-committed in payment contracts, implies that the economy could settle on the basis of net rather than gross flows. A net-clearings contracts-for-difference economy could rethink crippling monolithic debt structures with streaming money disgorged in much smaller chunks that are more closely tied to costs and repayment possibilities. Pre-paid consumption and 30-60-90 day vendor credit terms models could be offset to facilitate a directed payment graph economy of just-in-time money.
Blockchain Economics: Tackle Debt and Systemic RiskMelanie Swan
Financial Resilience and Sustainability. Crypto tokens imply optionality and the ability to better manage risk. The thesis of this talk is that smart contracts are options, and as such, can be used to control risk (unwanted future uncertainty) in a wider range of areas than has been possible previously, in finance, and in other areas too such as medicine. Options as a financial market instrument have long been used to control the amount and timing of risk in specific ways and tailor exposure with granularity. Smart contracts are an even more flexible species of options because they are programmable contracts that can be used to confer the right to buy or sell any blockchain-based asset or liability at a future moment in time (blocktime or “fiat” (regular) time) per certain terms and consideration. Therefore, smart contracts allow a greater variety in the degree and type of risks that might be brought under management. The impact of having greater control over risk is that intangible social goods are produced such as surety, confidence, and reliability, which help to engender a more trustful society.
The Crypto Enlightenment: Social Theory of Blockchains Melanie Swan
Text Write-up: http://futurememes.blogspot.com/2015/10/crypto-enlightenment-social-theory-of.html
Introduction
What is Bitcoin, blockchain, decentralization?
Stakes: Transition from labor economy to actualization economy
Crypto Enlightenment
Rethinking Authority (Self, Society)
Philosophy of Immanence (open-ended upside)
Theory of Crypto Flourishing
Scarcity as a social pathology
Abundance theory of Flourishing
Practicalities and extensive blockchain applications
\\
This talk proposes that the future of artificial intelligence is smart networks that have intelligence "baked in" in the form of Blockchain Distributed Ledgers for confirming authenticity and transferring value, and Deep Learning Algorithms for predictive identification. Smart networks are not a far-off possibility but already needed as deep learning systems are going online in connected apps for Autonomous Driving and Drone Delivery, and Human-Robot Interaction. Two high-impact contemporary emerging technologies for the future of AI are Blockchain Distributed Ledgers and Deep Learning Algorithms, and discusses their implications for the future of artificial intelligence.
Blockchain 3.0, the Encryption of Innovation. This talk looks beyond the immediate economic benefits and risks of distributed ledgers and considers the broader societal innovations implied by blockchain technology. The possibility of innovation and creating and participating in different and multiple self-determined political and economic systems could mobilize how we create ourselves as individuals and societies. Blockchain technology invites the possibility of creating a social world that gives greater weight to the values we apparently care about: freedom, trust, and dignity
Technological Unemployment and the Robo-EconomyMelanie Swan
Technological Unemployment (jobs outsourced to technology) is coming and the challenge is to steward an orderly and beneficial transition to more intense human-technology collaboration
Blockchain distributed ledger technology is evolving from the hype phase into one of greater maturity and long-term value creation. This graduate course overview examines how blockchains, networks, and social interaction patterns are related.
Food as Distributed Commons: Cryptocurrencies as Slow MoneyEvelyn Rodriguez
How may one use cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin and blockchain technologies to create sustainable, participatory projects in our communities. A hypothetical example using decentralized hydroponics urban farm will be used to consider implementation for funding and economically sustaining a "food grid" (analogous to the energy grid) that benefits everyone in the collective membership. Presented to Slow Money South Bay on August 4, 2015 by Evelyn Rodriguez.
Blockchain Thinking: The Brain as a DAC (Decentralized Autonomous Corporation)Melanie Swan
This talk explores how thinking could be formulated as a blockchain process that could have benefits for both artificial intelligence and human enhancement. Some possibilities might include the ability to orchestrate digital mindfile uploads, advocate for digital intelligences in future timeframes, implement smart contract-based utility functions, instantiate thinking as a power law, and facilitate the enactment of Friendly AI.
Blockchain, whose origins are blended (and often blurred) with the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, is a disruptive technology with the potential to transform how goods and services are exchanged over the internet. Blockchain allows complex transactions to be carried out transparently and securely, on a distributed interaction model that ousts multiple established intermediaries, eradicating the control held by central authorities in traditional methods of digital transaction.
Collecting stories about future uses of blockchain technologyWendy Schultz
This slidedeck briefly introduces blockchain technology and then requests readers to share a scenario - a story of a possible future - of possible uses for blockchain tech in the future. The stories can be shared on Sensemaker, and the slidedeck gives a step-by-step demo of how that would work. The deck then lists possible future users as prompts for your imaginative exploration of how blockchain technology might affect people in all walks of life and sectors.
Disruptive Future of Blockchain for Brasil Melanie Swan
Tudu acaba em blockchain: Productivity gains: Capital investment in technology, Provide data centers with Blockchain as a Service
Skilled work force development: Train 1000 software developers: Hyperledger, Ethereum, Corda
Focus on global markets beyond the internal economy: Scale efficiencies
Natural resources, regional strength, large companies
Low-hanging fruit: secure information transfer
Blockchain Health and Crypto Wellness FuturesMelanie Swan
The blockchain is a new class of information technology that could be like the Internet in terms of pervasively reconfiguring all of human activity, at minimum facilitating decentralized models as a technologically-resilient and liberty-enhancing complement to centralized hierarchical models. There are many potential applications in health and life sciences
There is increasing interest in the potential impact of Blockchain globally, across the business world. Blockchain is transforming data storage, security, digital property management, transactions in a variety of forms, and much, much, more. And the impact will be felt across a number of industries, including manufacturing, insurance, healthcare, retail, logistics, and more.
We believe Blockchain presents a unique opportunity for enterprises to leverage a revolutionary new technology and redefine how they function. The Blockchain Landscape Report 2019 by [X]cubeLABS discusses everything Blockchain ranging from its history, mechanism, and industry-wide adoption to its future potential.
Blockchain - crittomonete, Bitcoin e altre applicazioniDavide Carboni
Un misterioso scienziato inventa nel 2008 un protocollo informatico che consente per la prima volta di realizzare un sistema di pagamento decentralizzato, sicuro e autonomo in quanto svincolato da ogni autorità di controllo. Nel 2009 nasce il Bitcoin definito da alcuni non come il denaro di Internet ma piuttosto come la Internet del denaro. In queste slide ripercorriamo rapidamente la storia e le caratteristiche di questa tecnologia emergente.
Blockchain: The Information Technology of the FutureMelanie Swan
The blockchain concept may be one of the most transformative ideas to impact the world since the Internet. Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are merely one application of the blockchain concept. The blockchain is a public transaction ledger built in a decentralized network structure based on cryptographic principles so that any kind of trading, buying and selling of assets does not need to go through a centralized intermediary. Any kind of asset may be encoded into the blockchain and transacted, validated, or preserved in a much more efficient manner than at present including ideas, health data, financial assets, automobiles, and government documents. Venture Capitalists are calling the blockchain the next big investment wave.
The Blockchain - The Technology behind Bitcoin Jérôme Kehrli
The blockchain and blockchain related topics are becoming increasingly discussed and studied nowadays. There is not one single day where I don't hear about it, that being on linkedin or elsewhere.
I interested myself deeply in the blockchain topic recently and this is the first article of a coming whole serie around the blockchain.
This presentation is an introduction to the blockchain, presents what it is in the light of its initial deployment in the Bitcoin project as well as all technical details and architecture concerns behind it.
We won't focus here on business applications aside from what is required to present the blockchain purpose, more concrete business applications and evolutions will be the topic of another presentation I'll post in a few weeks
Since reality is not fixed, because space and time are contingent, movement is possible and reality can be intentionally composed, with the aide of the poetic prosthetic. The poetic prosthetic is any technology that creates a relation of meaning between the individual and his or her possibilities for greater capability realization.
Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology Explained: Not just Cryptocurrencies, Econo...Melanie Swan
The blockchain concept may be one of the most transformative ideas to impact the world since the Internet. It represents a new organizing paradigm for all activity and integrates humans and technology. Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are merely one application of the blockchain concept. The blockchain is a public transaction ledger built in a network structure based on cryptographic principles so there does not need to be a centralized intermediary. Any kind of asset (art, car, home, financial contract) may be encoded into the blockchain and transacted, validated, or preserved in a much more efficient manner than at present including ideas, health data, financial assets, automobiles, and government documents. Blockchain technology applies well beyond cryptocurrencies, economics, and markets to all venues of human information processing, collaboration, and interaction including art, health, and literacy.
Philosophy of Biological Cell Repair informs Geoethical Nanotechnology: Cellular repair is an age-old function in biology. This talk examines the cellular process of repair in philosophical terms. Biologically, wound-healing is the primary form of cellular repair, drawing on numerous cell types and the extracellular matrix to perform a variety of operations during the phases of inflammation, proliferation, and maturation. Philosophically, these functions can be discussed from a systems theory perspective, through the concepts pairs of parts-whole, autonomy-dependency, self-other, sickness-wellness, and scarcity-abundance. Understanding cellular repair at the theory level could facilitate the development of nanotechnology solutions that augment biological processes in ways that are congruently geoethical with nature’s ethos.
Rethinking Finance as a spot and future contingency management system for assets and liabilities. Blockchains are an improved form of contingency management (precision, automation, lower-risk). The Internet transfers information, and now value; the Internet becomes a contingency management system with programmable money, smart contracts DACs, distributed ledger transactions. Ultimately, blockchain financial networks can automatically and independently confirm and monitor transactions, without central parties like banks or governments.
In his presentation at Blockchain Vlaanderen, Sam Wouters explained why the Blockchain exists, how it works and what can be done with it.
Interested in learning more? Check out my website or book me as a speaker: http://samwouters.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SDWouters
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samwouters
Innovation in Byzantine consensus protocols is helping decentralized networks scale up and become highly performant, possibly faster than centralized networks. Investment growth in Bitcoin and FinTech startups, and enterprise blockchain applications in development in multiple sectors
Temporality of the Future: Part of a Series on Cryptophilosophy
Husserl’s Internal Time Consciousness is a theory of the structure of time and the present-now moment, and distinguishes two kinds of memory, primary memory as retention and secondary memory as recollection (reproductive, representational) memory. Retention does not break continuity with the present-now moment; retention is the part of a temporal object that contemplates its pastness and allows the present to emerge from the temporal background. Recollection does break continuity with the present; the current moment is interrupted to recall and re-represent a past memory. Recollection and expectation are piled up snapshots of discrete past moments or events. When recollected, they are reproduced in flow, but exist unsummoned as discrete elements. The structure of the present-now moment, on the other hand, is a continuous flow of the intentional unity of primal impression and retention-protention. How far the retention-protention horizon extends is unclear. It might only encompass the most immediate recent-pasts and near-futures surrounding the primal impression of the present-now moment, or it might extend to include all previous and future experiences in the realms of recollection and expectation. This talk posits that there might be a middle third form of time that exists respectively between recollection and retention and protention and expectation. Whereas protention and retention are continuous, and recollection and expectation are discrete, this middle form of time (X-tention) is simultaneously discrete and continuous.
Bitcoin and Blockchain Explained: Cryptocitizen Smartnetwork Trust Melanie Swan
Blockchain technology is not just about cryptocurrencies, registering wills and IP on blockchains, and bank transfers taking less than 3 days to settle, philosophically blockchains invite a new level of thinking about the sensibility of the Cryptocitizen and possibilities for societal shared trust
Cryptocitizen: Smart Contracts, Pluralistic Morality, and Blockchain SocietyMelanie Swan
Blockchain technology is not just about registering wills and IP on blockchains, and bank transfers taking less than 3 days to settle, philosophically blockchains invite a new level of thinking about what it is to be a cryptocitizen and possibilities for societal design
Conférence lors de l'assemblée annuelle de Communautique, un hub d’innovation ouverte dédié à l’apprentissage, la collaboration, la recherche et l’expérimentation en innovation sociale et technologique. Montréal, Québec, Canada www.communautique.quebec
State of Blockchain 2017: Smartnetworks and the Blockchain EconomyMelanie Swan
Blockchain is a fundamental IT for secure value transfer over networks. For any asset registered in a cryptographic ledger, the whole Internet is a VPN for its confirmation, assurity, and transfer. Blockchain reinvents economics and governance for the digital age. The long-tail structure of digital networks allows personalized economic and governance services. Smartnetworks are a new form of automated global infrastructure for large-scale next-generation projects.
Exploring blockchain technology and its potential applications for educationeraser Juan José Calderón
Exploring blockchain technology and its potential applications for education
Guang Chen1,2, Bing Xu1
, Manli Lu1 and Nian-Shing Chen3*
Abstract
Blockchain is the core technology used to create the cryptocurrencies, like bitcoin. As part of the fourth industrial revolution since the invention of steam engine, electricity, and information technology, blockchain technology has been
applied in many areas such as finance, judiciary, and commerce. The current paper focused on its potential educational applications and explored how blockchain technology can be used to solve some education problems. This article first introduced the features and advantages of blockchain technology following by exploring some of the current blockchain applications for education. Some innovative applications of using blockchain technology were proposed, and the benefits and challenges of using blockchain technology for education were also discussed.
Keywords: Blockchain, Educational evaluation, Instructional design, Learning is earning
Block chain for the humanitarian sector - future opportunitiesPablo Bredt Torres
Interesting presentation related to a next generation data sharing system applicable within the humanitarian supply chain and logistics sector.
Surely, still lots of obstacles but with limitless impact.
Blockchain: all assets digitized and registered to blockchains; instantaneously transactable on a global basis
Blockchain Supply Chain: all assets exist in digital inventories, tradeable (pledgeable, financeable) and more importantly, findable, in the global digital network economy
From Bitcoin to Blockchain: Industry Review April 2017 from OLMA NEXT LtdOLMA Capital Management
When the Bitcoin cryptocurrency was released in 2009, its underpinning, the blockchain distributed ledger system was the real technological breakthrough, a formulation that promises to change the basis of all types of transactions globally.
Blockchain technology has paved the way for an Internet of Transactions. Blockchain technology has already proved its worth in such areas as means of payment, interbank exchanges and international remittances. Touted as the next digital revolution, blockchain technology has the potential to transform traditional industries and alter society through disintermediation of trade. Any situation that involves an intermediary that is expensive or fallible represents an opportunity to create a blockchain application case. No industry is immune to the blockchain’s disruption potential.
In 2017, the blockchain technology is at an inflection point. The industry is in a state of transition and must move to Blockchain 2.0, which means the adoption of more sophisticated applications, such as micro-payments and smart contracts. Having outgrown its original bitcoin community, the majority of blockchain applications have yet to pass beyond the prototype stage to make blockchain technology the greatest restructuring technology of the next decade.
Cryptocurrencies are classified as a subset of digital currencies and are also classified as a subset of alternative currencies and virtual currencies.
Cryptocurrency Alliance Super PAC-The Global Emergence of Cryptocurrencies an...Casey Botticello
The Cryptocurrency Alliance Super PAC-The Global Emergence of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology. This presentation provides an overview of the origins, technology, and applications of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Presented by Casey Botticello, President of The Cryptocurrency Alliance Super PAC.
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Blockchain Technology Explained
You must have heard about the term “blockchain,” in reference to Bitcoin and othercryptocurrencies.
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blockchain, Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, blockchain developers
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Crypto currencies usage is growing in a more connected world. The traditional banking industry is being disrupted by a decentralized network, rich in computing resources and connectivity.
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TOWARD A PHILOSOPHY OF BLOCKCHAIN: A SYMPOSIUM. INTRODUCTION MELANIE SWAN AND...eraser Juan José Calderón
TOWARD A PHILOSOPHY OF BLOCKCHAIN: A SYMPOSIUM. INTRODUCTION
MELANIE SWAN AND PRIMAVERA DE FILIPPI.
Abstract:This article introduces the symposium “Toward a Philosophy ofBlockchain,” which provides a philosophical contemplation of blockchaintechnology, the digital ledger software underlying cryptocurrencies such asbitcoin, for the secure transfer of money, assets, and information via the Internetwithout needing a third-party intermediary. The symposium offers philosophicalscholarship on a new topic,blockchain technology, from a variety of perspectives.The philosophical themes discussed include mathematical models of reality,signification, and the sociopolitical institutions that structure human life andinteraction. The symposium also investigates the metaphilosophical theme ofhow to create aphilosophy of anything, specifically a new topic such as blockchaintechnology. Repeated themes are identified, in all areas of philosophical inquiry(ontology, epistemology, and axiology), and conceptual resources are elaboratedto contribute to a philosophical understanding of blockchain technology. Thus,philosophy as a metaphilosophical approach is shown to be able to provide anunderstanding of the conceptual, theoretical, and foundational dimensions ofnovelty and emergence in the world, with a particular focus on blockchaintechnology.
Keywords: blockchain, cryptocurrency, smart asset, smart contract, smart net-works, ontology, epistemology, axiology, economic theory, algorithmic trust.
Blockchain Technology and Decentralized Governance: Is the State Still Necess...eraser Juan José Calderón
Blockchain Technology and Decentralized Governance: Is the State Still Necessary?
Marcella Atzori, Ph. D.*
ABSTRACT
The core technology of Bitcoin, the blockchain, has recently emerged as a disruptive innovation with a wide range of applications, potentially able to redesign our interactions in business, politics and society at large. Although scholarly interest in this subject is growing, a comprehensive analysis of blockchain applications from a political perspective is severely lacking to date. This paper aims to fill this gap and it discusses the key points of blockchain-based decentralized governance, which challenges to varying degrees the traditional mechanisms of State authority, citizenship and democracy. In particular, the paper verifies to which extent blockchain and decentralized platforms can be considered as hyper-political tools, capable to manage social interactions on large scale and dismiss traditional central authorities. The analysis highlights risks related to a dominant position of private powers in distributed ecosystems, which may lead to a general disempowerment of citizens and to the emergence of a stateless global society. While technological utopians urge the demise of any centralized institution, this paper advocates the role of the State as a necessary central point of coordination in society, showing that decentralization through algorithm-based consensus is an organizational theory, not a stand-alone political theory.
Keywords: Bitcoin, blockchain, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, decentralization, democracy, Ethereum, encryption, governance, politics, State, peer-to-peer networks
Blockchain in research and education - UKSG Webinar - September 2017Martin Hamilton
There’s a lot of hype right now about blockchain, the technology that underpins the Bitcoin virtual currency, with speculation that it could transform just about every aspect of our lives. In this talk for UKSG I consider possible blockchain applications in research and education, and do a little myth-busting about when and where it makes sense to use blockchain.
AI Health Agents: Longevity as a Service in the Web3 GenAI Quantum RevolutionMelanie Swan
Health Agents are a form of Math Agent as the concept of a personalized AI health advisor delivering “healthcare by app” instead of “sickcare by appointment.” Mobile devices
can check health 1000 times per minute as opposed to the standard one time per year doctor’s office visit, and model virtual patients in the digital twin app. As any AI agent, Health Agents “speak” natural language to humans and formal language to the computational infrastructure, possibly outputting the mathematics of personalized homeostatic health as part of their operation. Health Agents could facilitate the ability of physicians to oversee the health of thousands of individuals at a time. This could ease overstressed healthcare systems and contribute to physician well-being and the situation that (per the World Health Organization) more than half of the global population is still not covered by essential health services.
The computational infrastructure is becoming a vast interconnected fabric of formal methods, including per a major shift from 2d grids to 3d graphs in machine learning architectures
The implication is systems-level digital science at unprecedented scale for discovery in a diverse range of scientific disciplines
We know that we are in an AI take-off, what is new is that we are in a math take-off. A math take-off is using math as a formal language, beyond the human-facing math-as-math use case, for AI to interface with the computational infrastructure. The message of generative AI and LLMs (large language models like GPT) is not that they speak natural language to humans, but that they speak formal languages (programmatic code, mathematics, physics) to the computational infrastructure, implying the ability to create a much larger problem-solving apparatus for humanity-benefitting applications in biology, energy, and space science, however not without risk.
This work introduces “quantum intelligence” as a concept of intelligence for operating in the quantum realm may help in a potential AI-Quantum Computing convergence (~2030e), and towards the realization of SRAI for well-being (economics, health, energy, space). “Scale-free intelligence” is formulated as a generic capacity for learning.
AI did not spring onto the scene with chatGPT, but is in an ongoing multi-year adoption. A transition may be underway from an information society to a knowledge society (one tempered and specifically using knowledge to improve the human condition). AI is a dual-use technology with both significant risk and upleveling possibilities.
SRAI for well-being is a social objective, and also a technological objective. SRAI is part of AI development and within the technological trajectory of harnessing all scales of physical reality ranging from quantum materials to space exploration.
Conceptually, thinking in quantum and relativistic terms expands the physical worldview, and likewise the social worldview of entities inhabiting the larger world. Practically, SRAI may be realized in phases: short-term regulation and registries, medium-term agents learning to implement human values with internal reward functions, and long-term responsible human-AI entities acting in partnership in a future of SRAI for well-being.
The Human-AI Odyssey: Homerian Aspirations towards Non-labor IdentityMelanie Swan
The visionary progression in The Odyssey from shipbuilding to seafaring to advanced civilization informs contemporary tension in the human-AI relation forcing a broader articulation of human-identity beyond labor-identity. Edith Hall analyzes why one of the earliest known literatures, The Odyssey, remains a central cultural trope with numerous references in the storytelling vernacular of all eras, ranging from 1860s British theater to a highly-watched 1990 episode of The Simpsons. The argument is that The Odyssey provides a constant aspirational reference for human identity – who we think we are and where we are going on the epic journey of life, especially at the current crossroad in our relationship with technology.
The contemporary moment finds humanity, and the humanities, experiencing an identity crisis in the relationship with technology. Information science is having an ever more pervasive role in academia, and the machine economy continues to offload vast classes of tasks to labor-saving technology giving rise to two questions. First, at the level of labor-identity, humans wonder who they are as they have long defined their sense of self through their professional participation in the economy. Second, at the level of human-identity, with AI now performing cognitive labor in addition to physical labor, humans wonder if there is anything that remains uniquely human.
The effect of The Odyssey is to provide world-expanding imaginaries to change the way we see ourselves as subjects; in this way, Homer is an early modernist in reconfiguring our self-concept.
This work applies a philosophy (of literature)-aided information science method to discuss how Homer’s Odyssey persists as a literary imaginary to help us think through potential futures of human-AI flourishing as rapid automation continues to impact humanity. The intensity of the human-AI relation is likely to increase, which invites thought leadership to steward the transition to a potential AI abundance economy with fulfilling human-technology collaboration.
The shipbuilding-seafaring-advanced civilization progression in The Odyssey identifies that the human-AI relation is not one of the labor-identity-crisis of “robots stealing our jobs,” but rather one of the more difficult challenge of envisioning who we can be in the new larger world of human-AI partnership addressing a larger set of planetary-scale problems. Towards this new configuration of human-AI relation, the longer-term may hold radically different notions of identity, as we become physical-virtual hybrids, augmented post-disease entities in the health-faring, space-civilizing, energy-marshalling post-scarcity cultures of the future.
AdS Biology and Quantum Information ScienceMelanie Swan
Quantum Information Science is a fast-growing discipline advancing many areas of science such as cryptography, chemistry, finance, space science, and biology. In particular AdS/Biology, an interpretation of the AdS/CFT correspondence in biological systems, is showing promise in new biophysical mathematical models of topology (Chern-Simons (solvable QFT), knotting, and compaction). For example, one model of neurodegenerative disease takes a topological view of protein buildup (AB plaques and tau tangles in Alzheimer’s disease, alpha-synuclein in Parkinson’s disease, TDP-43 in ALS). AdS/Neuroscience methods are implicated in integrating multiscalar systems with different bulk-boundary space-time regimes (e.g. oncology tumors, fMRI + EEG imaging), entanglement (correlation) renormalization across scales (MERA, random tensor networks, melonic diagrams), entropy (possible system states), entanglement entropy (interrelated fluctuations and correlations across system tiers), and non-ergodicity (implied efficiency mechanisms since biology does not cycle through all possible configurations per temperature (thermotaxis), chemotaxis, and energy cues); Maxwell’s demon of biology (partition functions), conservation across system scales (biophysical gauge symmetry (system-wide conserved quantity)), and the presence of codes (DNA, codons, neural codes). A multiscalar AdS/CFT correspondence is mobilized in 4-tier ecosystem models (light-plankton-krill-whale and ion-synapse-neuron-network (AdS/Brain)).
Humanity’s constant project is expanding the range of attainable geography. Melville’s romance of the sea gives way to Kerouac’s romance of the road, and now the romance of space. In expanding into new geographies, markets (commerce) is the driving impulse, entailing a legal and judiciary system to order the new larger continuous marketplace, which brings a bigger overall scope of world under our control, and hence a new idea of who we are as subjects in this bigger domain.
Space Humanism is a concept of humanism based on the principles of inclusion, progress, and equity posited as a condition of possibility for a potential large-scale human movement into space. A philosophy of literature approach is used to contextualize Space Humanism, first through Melville-Foucault to articulate the mind-frame of extra-planetary geographies as one of human expansion, and second through posthuman philosophy extending from Shakespeare’s Renaissance humanism to contemporary enhancement-based theories of subjectivation.
Historical imaginaries outline subjectivation moments that have changed the whole notion who we are as humanity. Four examples are: the concept of the “new world” in Hegel’s philosophy, von Humboldt’s infographic maps, Baudelaire as the Painter of Modern Life, and Keats’s seeing the world in a new way upon reading an updated translation of Homer.
The reach to beyond-Earth geographies is a two-cultures project involving both arts and science. Technical competence is necessary to realize the aspirational, explorational, and survivalist aims of humanity pushing beyond planetary limits. Space was once a fantastic dream that is becoming quotidian with fourteen U.S. spaceports, six completed Blue Origin space tourist missions, and SpaceX having over 155 successful rocket launches including human space flights to and from the International Space Station. The notion of Space Human articulated through Shakespeare, Moby-Dick, and neuroenhancement informs the project of our reach to awaiting beyond-Earth geographies.
Quantum Information Science and Quantum Neuroscience.pptMelanie Swan
Mathematical advance in quantum information science is proceeding quickly and applies to many fields, particularly the complexities of neuroscience (here focusing on image-readable physical behaviors such as neural signaling, as opposed to higher-order operations of cognition, memory, and attention). Quantum mathematical models are extensible to neuroscience problem classes treating dynamical time series, diffusion, and renormalization in multiscalar systems. Approaches first reconstruct wavefunctions observed in EEG and fMRI scans. Second, single-neuron models (Hodgkin-Huxley, integrate-and-fire, theta neurons) and collective neuron models (neural field theories, Kuramoto oscillators) are employed to model empirical data. Third, genome physics is used to study time series sequence prediction in DNA, RNA, and proteins based on 3d+ complex geometry involving fields, curvature, knotting, and information compaction. Finally, quantum neuroscience physics is applied in AdS/Brain modeling, Chern-Simons biology (topological invariance), neuronal gauge theories, network neuroscience, and the chaotic dynamics of bifurcation and bistability (to explain epileptic and resting states). The potential benefit of this work is an improved understanding of disease and pathology resolution in humans.
Quantum information science enables a new tier of scientific problem-solving as exemplified in early-adopter fields, foundational tools in quantum cryptography, quantum machine learning, and quantum chemistry (molecular quantum mechanics), and advanced applications in quantum space science, quantum finance, and quantum biology
Grammatology and Performativity: A Critical Theory of Silence: Silence is a crucial device for subversion, opposition, and socio-political commentary, the theoretical underpinnings of which are just starting to be understood. This work illuminates another position in the growing field of critical silence studies, theorizing silence as an asset whose ontological value has been lost in a world of literal and figurative noise. Part 1 philosophizes silence as a continuation of Derrida’s grammatology project. Such a grammatology of silence valorizes silent thinking over noisy speaking, and identifies the deconstructive binary pairing not as silence-speaking, but rather as silence-noise. Noise has a simultaneous physical-virtual existence as Shannon entropy calculates signal-to-noise ratios in modern communications networks. Part 2 employs the philosophy of noise to assess what is conceptually necessary to overcome noise in a critical theory of silence. Malaspina draws from Simondon to argue that noise is a form of individuation, essentially a living thing with unstoppable growth potential, not defined by a binary on-off switch but as a matter of gradation. Hence different theory resources are required to oppose it. Part 3 then develops a critical theory of silence to oppose noise in both its physical and virtual instantiations, with the two arms of a deeply human positive performativity (Szendy, Bennett) and a beyond-computational posthumanism (Puar). The result is a novel critical theory of silence as positive performativity that destabilizes noise and recoups the ontological status of silence as not merely an empty post-modern reification but a meaningful actuality.
Philosophy-aided Physics at the Boundary of Quantum-Classical Reality The philosophical themes of truth-knowledge and appearance-reality are used to interrogate the contemporary situation of the quantum-classical boundary, and more broadly the quantum-classical-relativistic stratification of physical scale boundaries. The contemporary moment finds us at breakneck pace in the industrial information revolution, digitizing remaining matter-based industries into a seamless exchange between physical-digital reality. Digitized news is giving way to digitized money and perhaps in the farther future, digitized mindfiles (such as personalized connectome files for precision medicine, autologous (own-DNA) stem cell therapies, and CRISPR for Alzheimer’s disease prevention). Our technologies are allowing us control over vast new domains, the relativistic with GPS and space-faring, and the quantum with quantum computing, harnessing the properties of superposition, entanglement, and interference. Philosophy provides critical thinking tools that can help us understand and master these rapid shifts in science and technology to avoid an Adornian instrumental reality (subsuming humanity under societal structures) and to maintain a Heideggerian backgrounded and enabling relation with technology (versus technology enframing us into mindless standing reserve).
The philosophical theme underlying the investigation of the scales of planets, persons, and particles is the relationship between truth and knowledge (or appearance and reality). The truth-knowledge problem is whether knowledge of the truth, true knowledge, the reality under the appearance, is even possible. Three salient moments in the history of the truth-knowledge problem are examined here. These are the German idealism of Kant and Hegel, the deconstructive postmodernism of Foucault and Derrida, and the unclear leanings of the current moment. The German idealism lens incorporates the self-knowing subject as agent into the truth and knowledge problem. The postmodernist view breaks with the subject and emphasizes the hidden opposites in the formulations, the constant reinterpretation of meaning, and porous boundaries. The contemporary moment wonders whether truth-knowledge boundaries still hold, in a Benjaminian view of non-identity between truth and knowledge, and truth increasingly being seen as a Foucauldian biopolitical manufactured quantity. Contemporaneity has a bimodal distribution of the subject: the hyperself (the constantly digitally represented selfie self) and the alienated post-subject subject.
These moments in the truth and knowledge debate inflect into the scale considerations of relativity, classicality, and quantum mechanics. Whereas general relativity and quantum mechanics are domains of universality, totality, and multiplicity, everyday classical reality is squeezed in as a belt between the two multiplicities as the concretion of drawing a triangle or tossing a ball. Recasting truth and k
Comprehensive philosophical programs arise within a historical context (for Hegel and Derrida in the democracy-shaping moments of the French Revolution (1789) and the student-worker protests (1968) in which French politics serve as a global harbinger of contemporary themes). In the Derrida-Hegel relationship, there is more rapprochement concerning core notions of difference, history, and meaning-assignation than may have been realized. In particular, Hegel’s philosophy, despite being assumed to be a totalizing system, in fact indicates precisely some of the same kinds of revised metaphysics-of-presence formulations that Derrida exhorts, namely those that are flexible, expansive, and include non-identity and identity.
A crucial Derrida-Hegel interchange is that of différance and difference. Derrida develops the notion directly from Hegel (“Différance,” “The Pit and the Pyramid”), but only draws from the Encyclopedia, not Hegel’s masterwork, the Phenomenology of Spirit. For Derrida, the “A” in différance is inspired by the form of the pyramid in the capitalized letter and in Hegel’s comparing the sign “to the Egyptian Pyramid” (“Différance,” p. 3). Derrida invokes the symbolism of the pyramid, antiquity, and Egyptian hieroglyphics as an early semiotic system. However, when considering Hegel’s central definition of difference in the dialectical progression of thesis-antithesis-synthesis in the Phenomenology of Spirit (§§159-163), the articulations of différance and difference are remarkably aligned.
Parallel formulations are also seen in history as a series of reinterpretable events, and indexical wrappers as a mechanism for meaning assignation. The thinkers examine the universal and the particular by exploring regulative mechanisms such as law (natural and social). In Glas, Derrida highlights not the singular-universal relation, but the law of singularity and the law of universality relation as being relevant to Hegel’s Antigone interpretation (Glas, p. 142a), a theme continued in “Before the Law.” Finally (time permitting), there is a question whether the most valid critiques of Hegel (Nietzsche’s unreason and Benjamin’s non-synthesis), as alternatives to Hegelian dialectics, are visible in Derrida’s thought.
The upshot is that the two thinkers produce similar formulations, derived from different trajectories of philosophical work; a situation which points to the potential universality of fundamental solution classes to open-ended philosophical problems, including the future of democracy.
Quantum Moreness: Kantian Time and the Performative Economics of Multiplicity
There is no domain with greater moreness than that of the quantum. A philosophy-aided physics approach (postmodernism and Continental philosophy) examines the contemporary situation of quantum moreness (more time and space dimensions than are available classically). Quantum moreness is configured by quantum reality being probabilistic; a multiplicity of outcomes all co-existing in superposition until collapsed in measurement. The quantum mindset uses quantum moreness to solve problems by thinking in terms of the greater scalability afforded in time and space with the quantum properties of superposition, entanglement, and interference. Quantum studies fields proliferate in arts and sciences, raising the Levi-Straussian raw-cooked dilemma of how “traditional humanities” are to be named alongside “digital humanities” and “quantum humanities.” Kant facilitates the conceptualization of quantum moreness by insisting on the dual nature of time as transcendentally ideal and empirically real. Kant’s moreness is allness, the absolute totality and multiplicity of time at the ideal level. Each faculty (sensibility, understanding, reason) has its own species of the a priori synthetic unity of ideal time that precedes and conditions the operation of the faculty. Each faculty also has a concretized formulation of empirically-real time as the time series, which is the basis for the faculties to interoperate to perform the conception of any empirical object. Kant’s achievement of time interoperability has potential extensibility to other areas of temporal incompatibility such as the scales of general relativity, Newtonian mechanics (human-scale), and quantum mechanics. The quantum moreness mindset with which Kant connects the ideal-real is visible in the domain of economics, itself too an ideal-real construction. The quantum moreness of money configures the postmodern abstraction of global cryptocurrencies and smart contract pledges, the implicative hope of which is a post-debt capital world that restores the human esprit in the face of an increasingly intense technologized reality.
Blockchain Crypto Jamming: Subverting the Instrumental Economy
The ultimate subversion is money, refusing the pecuniary resources of the state. This project applies a philosophical and critical theory lens to examine the use of nomenclature in one of the most radical longitudinal transformations in contemporary times, the shift away from state-run monetary resources towards cryptocurrencies and smart contracts in citizen-determined decentralized financial networks.
A Cryptoeconomic Theory of Social Change is presented in which linguistic progression serves as a tracking mechanism. The steps to lasting change have their own vocabulary (Brandom). First, there is the social critique, the complaint about what is wrong, the negative side (Adorno and Horkheimer highlight instrumental reason and the empty culture industry). Second, there is the antidote, an alternative that can overcome the complaint, the positive side. Third, the solution becomes the new reality, and as a consequence, the whole of reality is now seen in this context, adopting its vocabulary (“fiat health” system for example, referring to the antiquated method). The social movement graduates from language game (Wittgenstein) to form of life (Jaeggi).
Blockchains are Occupy with teeth, notable in the level of personal responsibility-taking by individuals to steward their own financial resources. The crypto citizen is not merely trading CryptoKitties and Bored Ape Yacht Club tokens, but getting blocktime loans through DeFi liquidity pools instead of fiat banks, earning labor income in crypto, and shifting all economic activity to blockchain networks. The artworld signals mainstream acceptance with Christie’s non-fungible token digital artwork auctioned from Beeple for $61 million. At the global level, coin communities constitute a new form of Kardashev-level (planetary-scale) democracy. Blockchains emerge as a robust smart network automation technology for super-class projects ranging from space-faring to quantum computing and thought-tokening. The further stakes of this work are having a language-based theory of social change with broad applicability to social transformation.
This work argues that the emerging understanding of time in quantum information science can be articulated as a philosophical theory of change. Change and time are interrelated, and one can be used to interrogate the other, namely, a theory of change can be derived from a theory of time. What is new in quantum science is time being regarded as just another property to be engineered. At the quantum scale, time is reversible in certain ways, which is quite different from the everyday experience of time whose unidirectional arrow does not allow a dropped egg to reassemble. At the quantum scale of atoms, though, a particle retains the history of its trajectory, which may be retraced before collapsed in measurement.
Quantum scientists evolve systems backward and forward in time, controlling phase transitions with Floquet engineering. Quantum systems are entangled in time and space, with temporal correlations exhibiting greater multiplicity than spatial correlations. The chaotic time regimes of ballistic spread followed by saturation are implemented in quantum walks for faster search and heightened cryptosecurity. In quantum neuroscience, seizure may be explained by chaotic dynamics and normal resting state by Floquet-like periodic cycles. Time is revealed to have the same kinds of repeating structures as space (described by entanglement, symmetry, and topology), differently instantiated and controlled.
The quantum understanding of time can be propelled into a macroscale-theory of change through its connotation of a more flexible, malleable, probabilistic interface with reality. Change becomes less rigid. Probability is the lever of change, but notoriously difficult for humans to grasp, as we think better in storylines than statistics. The idea of manipulating quantum system properties in which time, space, dynamics (change), are all just parameters, is an empowering frame for the acceptance of change. The quantum mindset affords greater facility with probability-driven events (change).
Blockchains in Space: Non-Euclidean Spacetime and Tokenized Thinking - Two requirements for the large-scale beyond-terrestrial expansion of human intelligence into the universe are the ability to operate in diverse spatiotemporal regimes and to instantiate thinking in various formats. Newtonian mechanics describe everyday reality, but Einsteinian physics is needed for GPS and the orbital technologies of telescopes and spacecraft. Space agencies already integrate the Earth-day and the slightly-longer Martian-sol. A more substantial move into space requires facility with non-Euclidean spacetimes. One challenge is that general relativity and quantum mechanics are non-interoperable. However, the theories can be formulated together when considering black holes and quantum computing since geometric theories and gauge theories are both field-based. Quantum blockchains instantiate blockchain logic in quantum computational environments. Blockchains have their own temporal regime (blocktime: the number of blocks for an event to occur), and hence quantum blocktime is a non-classical functionality for operating in diverse spatiotemporal regimes. Thinking is a rule-based activity that is unrestricted by medium. Central to thinking is concepts, which are referenced by words. Word-types include universals, particulars, and indexicals which can be encoded into a formal system as thought-tokens, and registered to blockchains. Blockchains are contemplated as an automation technology for asteroid mining and space settlement construction, and thought-tokening adds an intelligence layer. Time and tokenized thinking come together in the idea of smart networks in space. In blockchain quantum smart networks, spatiotemporal regimes and thought-tokens are simply different value types (asset classes) coordinated with blockchain logic, towards the aim of extending human capabilities into the farther reaches of space.
Cryptography, entanglement, and quantum blocktime: Quantum computing offers a more scalable energy-efficient platform than classical computing and supercomputing, and corresponds more naturally to the three-dimensional structure of atomic reality. Blockchains are a decentralized digital economic system made possible by the 24-7 global nature of the internet.
Quantum Neuroscience: CRISPR for Alzheimer’s, Connectomes & Quantum BCIsMelanie Swan
This talk provides an introduction to quantum computing and how it may be deployed to study the human brain and its diseases of pathology and aging. Refined to its present state over centuries, the brain is one of the most complex systems known, with 86 billion neurons and 242 trillion synapses connected in intricate patterns and rewired by synaptic plasticity. Research continues to illuminate the mysteries of the brain. Quantum computing provides a more capacious architecture with greater scalability and energy efficiency than current methods of classical computing and supercomputing, and more naturally corresponds to the three-dimensional structure of atomic reality. The vision for quantum neuroscience is to model the nature of the brain exactly as it is, in three-dimensional atomically-accurate representations. Neuroscience (particularly genetic disease modeling, connectomics, and synaptomics) could be the “killer application” of quantum computing. Implementations in other industries are also important, including in quantum finance, quantum cryptography using Shor’s factoring algorithm (“the Y2K of Crypto”), Grover’s search, quantum chemistry, eigensolvers, quantum machine learning, and continuous-time quantum walks. Quantum computing is a high-profile worldwide scientific endeavor with platforms currently available via cloud services (IBM Q 27-qubit, IonQ 32-qubit, Rigetti 19Q Acorn) and is in the process of being applied in various industries including computational neuroscience.
Art Theory: Two Cultures Synthesis of Art and ScienceMelanie Swan
Thesis: Aesthetic resources contribute broadly to the human endeavor of progress, self-understanding, and science, beyond the immediate experience of art. Aesthetic Resources are frameworks, concepts, and modes of expression in art, literature, and philosophy that capture the imagination and the intellect through the senses. The role of art is to inspire the future: the romance of the sea, the open road, space.
The arts are a hallmark of civilization, but can their benefit be crystallized as aesthetic resources that can be mobilized to new situations? How can aesthetic resources help in moments of crisis?
A worldwide social identity crisis has been provoked by pandemic recovery, politics, equity, and environmental sustainability. Philosophical and aesthetic resources can help. Understanding art as a reflection of who we are as individuals and groups, this talk explores conceptualizations of art, with examples, in different periodizations from the 1800s to the present. A marquis definition as to what constitutes an artwork is Adorno’s, for whom the work must promulgate its own natural law and engage in novel materials manipulation. For many theorists, art is the pressing of our self-concept into concrete materiality (whether pyramids, sculpture, or painting). What do contemporary periodizations of art mean to our current and forward-looking self-concept? Recent eras include the neo-avant-gardes of 1945, the conceptual art of the 1960s, and post-conceptual art starting in the 1970s, produced generatively with found materials, the digital domain, and audience interactivity. What is the now-current idea of art? Is today’s Baudelairian flâneur and Balzacian modern hero incarnated in the quantum aesthetic imaginary and the digital cryptocitizen? Far from an “end of art” thesis sometimes attributed to Hegel, aesthetic practices are more relevant than ever. Individually and societally, we are reinventing creative energy and productive imagination in venues from science, technology, health, and biology to the arts.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
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Gopinath Rebala
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Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
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Charlie Greenberg, Host
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Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
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From Daily Decisions to Bottom Line: Connecting Product Work to Revenue by VP...
Blockchain Singularities
1. San Francisco CA, Aug 28, 2016
Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga
Melanie Swan
Philosophy & Economic Theory
New School for Social Research, NY NY
melanie@BlockchainStudies.org
Blockchain Singularities
Blockchain 101: the Automation Economy and the Future of Money
Part of a Series on Cryptophilosophy
cryptophilosophy
2. Aug 28, 2016
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Melanie Swan, Blockchain Futurist
Philosophy and Economic Theory, New School
for Social Research, New York NY
Founder, Institute for Blockchain Studies
Singularity University Instructor; Institute for Ethics and
Emerging Technology Affiliate Scholar; EDGE
Essayist; FQXi Advisor (Foundational Questions Inst)
Traditional Markets Background Economic Theory Leadership
New Economies research group
Source: http://www.melanieswan.com, http://blockchainstudies.org/NSNE.pdf, http://blockchainstudies.org/Metaphilosophy_CFP.pdf
https://www.facebook.com/groups/NewEconomies
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Blockchain
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Source: http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
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Agenda
I. Blockchain technology: What is it?
Basic: definition and status
Advanced: automation economy
II. Singularity-class applications
Friendly AI
Brain as a DAC
Bio-cryptoeconomy
Blockchains in Space
Nanotech/Synbio
III. Conclusion: Singularity futures
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Thesis Statement
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Beyond digitalizing money, payments,
economics, and finance, blockchains are a
singularity-class technology that enables the
secure, trackable, automated coordination of
very large-scale projects, fleets, and swarms
The implications could be an orderly transition
to the automation economy and trust-rich
human-machine collaboration in the digital
smartnetwork societies of the future
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Blockchain Technology: What is it?
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Blockchain technology is the secure distributed ledger
software that underlies cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin
Bitcoin Internet of Money: Skype is an app allowing phone calls
via Internet without POTS; Bitcoin is an app allowing money
transfer via the Internet without banks; ‘decentralized Paypal’
Internet
(decentralized network)
Blockchain
Bitcoin
Source: http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
Application
Layer
Protocol
Layer
Infrastructure
Layer
SMTP
Email
VoIP
Phone
calls
OSI Protocol Stack
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Blockchain: a chain of transaction blocks
Every 10 minutes, the latest
block of submitted
transactions is validated (by
cryptographic mining) and
posted to a single distributed
ledger
Each new block of
transactions calls the last
block, so that the
transactions are chained
together sequentially, hence
the word blockchain
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Source: https://blockexplorer.com
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Blockchains: secure transfer of money
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Phase I: transfer information
Modernize publishing, music, news;
content, information
Phase 2: transfer money, property
Modernize of economics and finance
Digital payments layer the Internet
never had
Baking the qualitative good of trust
into the infrastructure
Moving up the stack, pushing different
qualitative states through the Internet
pipes, building future smartnetworks
Source: http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
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Singularity-class project: Financial Inclusion
Just as the Printing Press and
the Internet flattened access to
communicating information...
…blockchains are giving the
power of the printing press to
banking, credit, finance,
economics, and currency
Access to economic and financial
systems (credit) as a basic human
right (4 billion unbanked)
Long-tail economics: any two
parties can transact on the
network
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Source: http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
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Issue: hierarchy is not scalable
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Sources: What is Decentralization? http://futurememes.blogspot.com/search?q=datt.co,
http://blog.midem.com/2016/04/blockchain-broken-music-industry/
Blockchains are a form of trust-making technology
A system of checks and balances that is universal and
planetary-scale (Kardashev-level)
New tiers of scalability are needed
Million-genome repositories (largest is 3700 currently),
connectome databases to reveal brain structure
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Economic Principles: not just for Economics
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Economic Principles
Traditional Deployment
Buy/sell transactions
Financial markets
Blockchain Deployment
Any interaction is a discovery
and exchange process
Decentralized models
supplement hierarchy
Demurrage: incitatory potential
and resource redistribution
across network nodes
Reciprocal mining communities
(smarthome IOT, brain BCI)
Blockchain technology is prompting
a rethinking of economic principles
and concepts (resources,
exchange, allocation, pricing,
distribution, markets) to apply in
non-monetary contexts
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Decentralized Economics and Finance
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The organizing assumption of
economic systems has been
scarcity; an orientation to the
production and distribution of scarce
material goods. This no longer holds
in an era of digital services, non-rival
goods, and complementarity
Mindset Shifts:
1. Scarcity to Abundance
2. Labor to Fulfillment
3. Hierarchy to Decentralization
The organizing assumption of
financial systems has been the
control or at least prediction of
the future value of assets and
liabilities; finance = credit (credit
is really about trust). Also no
longer holding.
Mindset Shifts:
1. Access instead of Ownership
2. Topological Ranges instead
of Point Values
3. Assurity instead of
Insufficiency
Source: New School New Economies and Finance Working Group: http://blockchainstudies.org/NSNE.pdf
Economics Finance
Present FutureTemporality
Regime
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Abundance Philosophy of Economics:
decentralized economics and finance
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Source: Swan, M. "Automation Economy: An Abundance Philosophy of Economics" In Emerging Technology and
Unemployment. Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming.
Phase I: transition to Automation Economy
Phase II: transition to Actualization Economy
A
B
C
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Agenda
I. Blockchain technology: What is it?
Basic: definition and status
Advanced: automation economy
II. Singularity-class applications
Friendly AI
Brain as a DAC
Bio-cryptoeconomy
Blockchains in Space
Nanotech/Synbio
III. Conclusion: Singularity futures
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Blockchains help Singularity-class Problems
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http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
Properties: secure trackable automated
coordination of large-scale projects and
large numbers of things
Fleets, swarms, and networks:
IOT sensors, autonomous vehicles, synaptic
connections, deep-learners, social robotics,
medical nanorobots, planet terraformers, synbio
agents, environmental cleanup bots
Implication: vast amount of self-
orchestrating network activity
Automated system of checks and balances; all
“transactions” must confirm via reputation
confirmation, algorithmic trust and smartnetwork
consensus mechanisms
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Blockchain AI Apps
Enact Friendly AI (Artificial Intelligence)
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Digital intelligences running on
consensus-managed
smartnetworks
Not in isolation
Good reputational standing
required to conduct operations
Transactions to access resources
(like fund-raising), provide services,
enter into contracts, even retire
Smartnetwork consensus only
validates and records bonafide
transactions from ‘good’ agents
Sources: http://cointelegraph.com/news/113368/blockchain-ai-5-top-reasons-the-blockchain-will-deliver-friendly-ai,
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/swan20141117
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Brain DACs applied to Thinking Machines
(Decentralized Autonomous Corporation (packages of smart contracts))
Automate thinking process
Thinking is computational: input-
processing-output
Blockchain-based deep learners
State storing: Recurrent neural nets
Memory: modular machine learning
add-on (Neural Turing Machines)
File-serving architecture, Internet’s
new plumbing: IPFS
Predictability: structural equation
modeling, causal graphical models
Example: Autonomous lab robots
On-chain IP discovery tracking
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Source: Swan, M. Blockchain Thinking: The Brain as a DAC. Neural Turing Machines: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5401.
IPFS (Benet): https://medium.com/@ConsenSys/an-introduction-to-ipfs-9bba4860abd0#.bgig18cgp
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Consciousness and the Brain as a DAC
1. Hard problem of consciousness
What is it like to be a bat, me, you, etc.
Consciousness and the human brain
Need to connect information and meaning
Use Brain DACs to automate modeling
Big data needed for progress: Large-scale
databases of personal connectome files to
reveal brain structure, synaptic relations
2. Personal Thinking Chains (backup)
Life-log memories, impute utility functions and
goals, generate QS biometric datastore
Example: Oculus Rift–connectome integration
for experience sharing (SnapChat t+1)
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Source: Swan, M. Blockchain Thinking: The Brain as a DAC (Decentralized Autonomous Corporation). Technology and
Society Magazine, IEEE 2015; 34(4): 41-52.
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Large possibility space of Intelligence
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Source: Yudkovsky, E. In Roman V. Yampolskiy. Artificial Superintelligence. 2015.
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Future of Diverse Thinking Entities
Autonomous
Car
Smart Contract
DAOs/DACs
Enhanced Human
IOT/M2M
Smartnetworks
Whole Brain
Emulations
Hybrid
Classic Human
Source: http://futurememes.blogspot.com/2015/01/blockchain-thinking-transition-to.html
Neocortical
Column Arrays
Deep-Learning
Clusters
Machine Learning
Algorithms
Simulated
Minds
High-frequency
Trading Networks
Real-time Bidding
Arrays
Brain-computer
Interfaces
Digital Mindfile
Uploads
Artificial Life
Synthetic BiologyDesigned
Life
Cellular
Automata
Supercomputers AI
Agents
Expert Systems
Autonomic
Computing
Natural Language
Processors
Brain Scans
Animals
Personal
Robotics
Smarthome
Networks
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VR DACs: metaverse chains & prototyping
Blockchains automate VR world-building
Simulations, models: QFT, entropy, etc.
VR exceeds IRL limitations
Entertainment, challenge, fun, meaningful
activity, 10,000 gaming hours; VR is
composable and rewarding in ways the
physical world is not; Simulation
VR/IRL interplay and embedded world
Computational universe embedded in
physical universe (all objects “smart”; ARG:
Pokémon Go, Ingress)
Physical universe in the computational
universe (living in VR)
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Source: http://futurememes.blogspot.com/2015/09/vr-chains-and-dac-brains-upload-your.html
http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v11/n2/abs/nphys3230.html
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Social Robotics
Personal voice assistants,
social robotics
All apps become voice-activated,
interactive
Cross-cloud accessibility (IOT
smarthome, connected car,
smartcity)
Fleet coordination functionality:
Automated, secure,
tracking/logging, remunerative
structure, transaction coordination,
apps/processes (smart contracts),
coordination (updates), audit log
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Source: Swan, M. Philosophy of Social Robotics: Abundance Economics. Sociorobotics, 2016.
http://www.melanieswan.com/documents/SocialRobotics.pdf.
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Nanotech Grey Goo and Runaway Synbio
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http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
Worry: Grey Goo (unchecked
nanotech proliferation), DNA-
printed synthetic bio-plague
Solution: signing; as physical-
world engineers sign the
bridges they build, likewise
synbio engineers sign DNA
and nanotech designs
(unavoidable signing per
detectable origins)
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Instead of grey goo, blockchain Utility Fog
Blockchain-based nano-
compilers create and manage
on-demand utility fog
Utility fog: a collection of
nanorobots that can replicate
a physical structure on-
demand
Info probe, shield, control buffer,
assessment tool, in-situ resource
cloud
Example: auto-chair DAC for
diabetic patients
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Bio-cryptoeconomics for secure
automation and coordination of medical
nanorobotics for cellular repair
Secure crypto-transaction tracking
Automated coordination
Medical nanorobotics as coming-onboard
repair platform for the human body
Activity coordinated, tracked, monitored
High number of agents and “transactions”
Secure automation is obvious requirement
Crypto-tracking DAC coordinates medical
nanorobotic cell repair
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Sources: Bio-Cryptoeconomy: Nanorobotic DACs for Cell Repair and Enhancement
http://futurememes.blogspot.com/2016/08/bio-cryptoeconomy-nanorobotic-dacs-for.html
Bio-cryptoeconomy
Medical nanorobotic DACs to coordinate cell repair
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Bio-cryptoeconomy
Bio-Nano Repair DACs
In-cell repair DACs monitoring individual cell
health and facilitating augmentation
(enhancement platform)
Bio-DACs manage physical health and mental
performance as a demurrage (action-inciting)
health currency
Idea-tracking
BCI-interfacing
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Sources: Bio-Cryptoeconomy: Nanorobotic DACs for Cell Repair and Enhancement
http://futurememes.blogspot.com/2016/08/bio-cryptoeconomy-nanorobotic-dacs-for.html
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BCI Cloudminds and Chainbrains
Cloudmind: cloud-based thinker
or thinking entity
Joining a cloudmind
collaboration, blockchains
(cryptographic ledgers) to
administer cloudminds
Line-item tracking and credit-
assignation (like Github, or
SVN/CVS for brainstorming)
Privacy, security
Remuneration
Protect against personal identity loss
and absorption into a groupmind
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Source: http://www.slideshare.net/lablogga/blockchain-cloudminds-humanmachine-pooledmind-dacs; Mind’ is generally
denoting an entity with some capacity for processing, not the volitionary action and free will of a consciousness agent
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Spacechains: Blockchains in Space
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http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
Advances in space
Launch: microsats, small rockets, commercial
launch (reusability, rocket design), regular
Mars launches planned each 26 months with
large-cargo drops, communications networks,
Light sail and optical propulsion
Asteroid mining, space settlement, transport
Exoplanet discovery in habitable zones (Alpha
Centauri, TRAPPIST-1)
Relevant blockchain functionality
Secure, track-able automation and
coordination of numerous items (units and
parameters) at very-large scale
Autonomous entities, Bitsat backup network
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Blockchain IOT
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Sources: http://www.zdnet.com/article/internet-of-things-market-to-hit-7-1-trillion-by-2020-idc/,
http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
M2M/IOT Bitcoin payment network to
enable the machine economy
IOT 2020: 26 bn devices in a $7 tn market
The economic layer the web never had
Smarthome IOT networks
Self-mining ecologies
Privacy orchestration: devices, robotics, digital
personal health assistants
Blockchains: economic principle-driven
large-scale resource allocation and
coordination mechanisms
Smartcity Connected
Car Coordination
Smarthome IOT and
Personal Robotics
Coordination
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Blockchain Health
Blockchain technology in health-related applications
1. EMRs: Personal Health Record Storage and Access
Personal health records stored and administered via blockchain
Users key-permission doctors and other parties into records
2. Health Research Commons
Aggregated personal medical records, quantified self data
commons (DNA.bits), genome and connectome files
3. Health Document Notary Services
Proof-of-insurance, test results, prescriptions, status, condition,
treatment, physician referrals
4. Doctor Vendor RFP Services
(Like Uber drivers) doctors and health practices bid to supply
medical services; automated bidding via tradenets
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Source: http://futurememes.blogspot.fr/2014/09/blockchain-health-remunerative-health.html
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Cryptocurrency design features
Economics as a design tool
Cryptocurrencies for non-monetary purposes
Example: demurrage property, a built-in
mechanism for spend/action-taking
Anti-inflationary, supply can be set to expire, redistribute,
etc. at certain moments
Good for systems where want full consumption: drug,
neuro-transmitters, idea propagation, GBIs (Guaranteed
Basic Income)
GBHA (Guaranteed Basic Health Initiative): paid out and
payable in HealthCoin; HSA (Health Savings Account) 2.0
Fitbit is a demurrage health currency by encouraging
action
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Cryptocurrency design features
Health itself as a demurrage currency, a
continually auto-redistributing commodity
among synapses, cells, humans; body and
brain as a DAO/DAC AI
Cognitive enhancement drugs work this way,
maximize distribution in the neuro-stack:
piracetams, CILTEP
Concept: demurrage resource-allocation +
Đapp (blockchain-based distributed app)
Automatic redistribution of any commodity within a system
(brain or mindfile (potentiation, optogenetic stimulation)), body
(‘health’ (oxygen, waste removal nanobots, circulating lab-on-
chips)), work team (ideas), society (liberty)
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Blockchain Genomics
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Jurisdictional regulation prevents
individuals from having access to
their own genetic data
http://genomesunzipped.org/2011/03/people-have-a-right-to-access-their-own-genetic-information.php
35. Aug 28, 2016
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Bitcoin MOOCs
Blockchain-based “Kiva for literacy”
Peer-to-peer learning contracts
Literacy beyond reading
Technical, Agricultural, Vocational Literacy
Blockchain-based personal development
contracts
QS-biometric utility function imputation and tracking
Maslow chains, subjectivation and actualization chains
Development Economics 2.0: CoinDrops
Literacy contracts, remittances, blockchain-tracked
aid, microcredit, decentralized credit bureaus
Open-source FICO scores
Peer-vouched reputation
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Digital Cryptocitizen Sensibility
The new literacy: digital literacy
Cryptocitizen: back-up your money
Self-responsibility-taking; designing
personalized economic, political, and
social systems
Governance services vs. being governed
Monetary, economic, financial, and legal
services (example: self-designed mortgage)
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Source: Swan, M. Crypto Enlightenment: A Social Theory of Blockchains http://www.slideshare.net/lablogga/the-crypto-
enlightenment-social-theory-of-blockchains
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Agenda
I. Blockchain technology: What is it?
Basic: definition and status
Advanced: automation economy
II. Singularity-class applications
Friendly AI
Brain as a DAC
Bio-cryptoeconomy
Blockchains in Space
Nanotech/Synbio
III. Conclusion: Singularity futures
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Blockchain downside and risks?
ISSUE
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Satoshi Roundtable #3: Scaling
Bitcoin Milan Oct 8-9, 2016
Hacking Scandals
Mt Gox, Ethereum DAO, Bitfinex
Silk Road, drug dealers,
terrorists, criminals
Scalability, Block size,
Sidechains, Mining
Mining Centralization
RESPONSE
Centralization temporary; wider-
spread at higher-scale; moving to 16
nm, solar/hydro-powered chips
Building resilient system constantly
under open attack 24/7 (remember
early Internet DNS attacks)
Blockchains are a universal
technology available to all; non-
criminal activity predominates
Early Internet: this can’t scale, it is not resilient, Yahoo, AltaVista down for days of DNS attacks
Source: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-scaling-conference-italy
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Technological Unemployment
Key singularity-class challenge: orderly transition to the
Automation Economy
Half (47%) of U.S. employment is at risk of automation in the
next two decades – Carl Frey, Oxford, 2015
Why are there still so many jobs in a world that could be
automating more quickly? – David Autor, MIT, 2015
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Source: Swan, M. "Automation Economy: An Abundance Philosophy of Economics" In Emerging Technology and
Unemployment. Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming.
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Next to Automate? Driving & Transportation
Indicator: automotive company
R&D labs in Silicon Valley
Autonomous passenger cars
Singapore self-driving taxis - 8/24/16
Uber’s first self-driving fleet arrives in
Pittsburgh – Aug 2016
Commercial trucking
“Autonomous Driving Long-Distance
Trucks within Ten Years” - 2014
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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/25/hail-progress-singapore-launches-worlds-first-self-driving-taxi-
service, http://truckyeah.jalopnik.com/autonomous-driving-long-distance-trucks-will-be-a-reali-1603746933
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-08-18/uber-s-first-self-driving-fleet-arrives-in-pittsburgh-this-month-is06r7on
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Sources: http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
http://www.slideshare.net/lablogga/blockchain-health-and-crypto-wellness-futures
Relevant Blockchain Properties
• Cryptoledger
• Decentralized network
• Trustless
counterparties
• Independent
consensus-confirmed
transactions
• Permanent record
• Public records
repository
• Notarization time-
stamping hashes
• Universal format
• Accessibility
Government
& Legal
• Transnational orgs
• Personalized
governance services
• Voting, propositions
• P2P bonds
• Tele-attorney services
• IP registration and
exchange
• Tax receipts
• Notary service and
document registry
Financial
Services
• Currency
• Payments &
Remittance
• Banking & Finance
• Clearing &
Settlement
• Insurance
• FinTech
• Trading & Derivatives
• QA & Internal Audit
• Crowdfunding
IOT (M2M,
computing)
• Agricultural & drone
sensor networks
• Smarthome networks
• Integrated smartcity,
connected car,
smarthome sensors
• Self-driving car
• Personalized robots,
robotic companions
• Personalized drones
• Digital assistants
• Communication
(messaging)
• Large-scale
coordination
• Entity ingress/egress
• Transaction security
• Universal format
• Large-scale multi-
data-stream
integration
• Privacy and security
• Real-time
accessibility
Health
• Universal EMR
• Health databanks
• QS Data Commons
• Big health data
stream analytics
• Digital health wallet
• Smart property
• HealthToken
• Personal
development
contracts
• Large-scale
infrastructural
element for
coordination
• Checks-and-
balances system
for ‘good-player’
access
• Community
supercomputing
• Crowd analysis
• P2P resourcenets
• Film, dataviz
• AI: blockchain
advocates, friendly
AI, blockchain
learners, digital
mindfile services
Science
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Permissioned (identity-known) and
Permissionless (anonymous) Ledgers
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Source: Swan, M. Blockchain Consensus Protocols. http://www.slideshare.net/lablogga/blockchain-consensus-protocols extended
from: Swanson, T. (2015). Consensus as a service: a brief report on the emergence of permissioned, distributed ledger systems
New car: Enduser freedom
• Censorship-resistant
• ‘Brave new world’ apps
• Anonymous validators (network
vulnerable to anonymous attack)
Better horse: Enterprise efficiency
• Identity-confirmed
• ‘Reinvent the existing world’
improvement apps
• Official legal registry
Stellar
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Seeking blockchain collaboration
New School New Economies working group
Mission statement: http://blockchainstudies.org/NSNE.pdf
Join: https://www.facebook.com/groups/NewEconomies
Papers
CFP 4000-word articles “Philosophy of Blockchains” due Oct 1,
2016, Wiley journal Metaphilosophy
http://blockchainstudies.org/Metaphilosophy_CFP.pdf
Events: NY and CA
Rethink/ECONOMICS, Thursday, September 15, 7-9 pm,
ConsenSys, 49 Bogart Street, Suite 22, Brooklyn NY 11249
https://www.facebook.com/events/960033624119253/
Book / special journal issue contributions
Decentralized economics, Decentralized finance
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Source: http://blockchainstudies.org/NSNE.pdf
Thank You! Questions?
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Thesis Statement
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Beyond digitalizing money, payments,
economics, and finance, blockchains are a
singularity-class technology that enables the
secure, trackable, automated coordination of
very large-scale projects, fleets, and swarms
The implications could be an orderly transition
to the automation economy and trust-rich
human-machine collaboration in the digital
smartnetwork societies of the future
45. San Francisco CA, Aug 28, 2016
Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga
Melanie Swan
Philosophy & Economic Theory
New School for Social Research, NY NY
melanie@BlockchainStudies.org
Blockchain Singularities
Blockchain 101: the Automation Economy and the Future of Money
Part of a Series on Cryptophilosophy
cryptophilosophy
Thank You! Questions?