Blockchain Theory of Abundance Economics
1. Survival to Fulfillment
2. Scarcity to Availability
3. Centralization to Decentralization
Problem Statement: Algorithmic Reality of Complexity, Emergence, and non-Thinkability with effects of Technological Unemployment, Income Inequality
Solution: Blockchain Theory of Abundance Economics
Smart Networks: Blockchain, Deep Learning, and Quantum ComputingMelanie Swan
Considering high-impact emerging technologies (AI machine learning and blockchain) together suggests the emergence of a new class of global computational infrastructure: smart networks. Smart networks are intelligent self-operating computation networks such as deep learning neural nets, blockchains, UAV fleets, industrial robotics cloudminds
Deep learning is not merely an AI technique or a software program, but a new class of smart network information technology that is changing the concept of the modern technology project by offering real-time engagement with reality
Deep learning is a data automation method that replaces hard-coded software with a capacity, in the form of a learning network that is trained to perform a task
Thesis: to reconceive and more empoweringly enact relationships with authority, a new sensibility is required, that of the cryptocitizen. This is the skillset of determining oneself as an economic and political agent in the world of digital network technologies. In the cryptopolis smart city of the future, one goal could be enabling the flourishing of a multi-species society of machine, algorithm, and human.
Exceeding current cognitive limitations will require both technological advance and progression in mindset as to the notion of personal identity and its confines, for example to contemplate joining a collaborative mind community since biomedical advance can only do so much so fast
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 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.
China Next-generation Unicorn StartupsMelanie Swan
Analyze success of existing Unicorn Companies
Innovation: How to Create a Unicorn Company
Mindset
Enabling Technologies
Unicorn business opportunities for China
Smart Networks: Blockchain, Deep Learning, and Quantum ComputingMelanie Swan
Considering high-impact emerging technologies (AI machine learning and blockchain) together suggests the emergence of a new class of global computational infrastructure: smart networks. Smart networks are intelligent self-operating computation networks such as deep learning neural nets, blockchains, UAV fleets, industrial robotics cloudminds
Deep learning is not merely an AI technique or a software program, but a new class of smart network information technology that is changing the concept of the modern technology project by offering real-time engagement with reality
Deep learning is a data automation method that replaces hard-coded software with a capacity, in the form of a learning network that is trained to perform a task
Thesis: to reconceive and more empoweringly enact relationships with authority, a new sensibility is required, that of the cryptocitizen. This is the skillset of determining oneself as an economic and political agent in the world of digital network technologies. In the cryptopolis smart city of the future, one goal could be enabling the flourishing of a multi-species society of machine, algorithm, and human.
Exceeding current cognitive limitations will require both technological advance and progression in mindset as to the notion of personal identity and its confines, for example to contemplate joining a collaborative mind community since biomedical advance can only do so much so fast
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 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.
China Next-generation Unicorn StartupsMelanie Swan
Analyze success of existing Unicorn Companies
Innovation: How to Create a Unicorn Company
Mindset
Enabling Technologies
Unicorn business opportunities for China
Deep Qualia: Philosophy of Statistics, Deep Learning, and Blockchain
Deep learning: What is it, why is it important, and what do I need to know?
The aim of this talk is to discuss deep learning as an advanced computational method and its philosophical implications. Computing is a fundamental model by which we are understanding more about ourselves and the world. We think that reality is composed of patterns, which can be detected by machine learning methods.
Deep learning is a complexity optimization technique in which algorithms learn from data by modeling high-level abstractions and assigning probabilities to nodes as they characterize the system and make predictions. An important challenge in deep learning is that these methods work in certain domains (image, speech, and text recognition), but we do not have a good explanation for why, which impedes a wider application of these solutions.
Another recent advance in computational methods is blockchain technology which allows the secure transfer of assets and information, and the automated coordination of operations via a trackable remunerative ledger and smart contracts (automatically-executing Internet-based programs).
This talk looks at how deep learning technology, particularly as coupled with blockchain systems, might be used to produce a new kind of global computing platform. The goal is for blockchain deep learning systems to address higher-dimensional computing challenges that require learning and dynamic response in domains such as economics and financial risk, epidemiology, social modeling, public health (cancer, aging), dark matter, atomic reactions, network-modeling (transportation, energy, smart cities), artificial intelligence, and consciousness.
Blockchain insider | Chapter 3 : Smart MoneyKoh How Tze
What we have now is truly borderless, programmable money
backed by immutable computer systems based on pure logic & mathematics.
3.1 ABCDs That Are Changing The World
3.2 A Century of Technology Innovation
3.3 Two Monetary Worlds
3.4 Three Phases of Cryptocurrencies
Corporate Currency
CBDC, Central Bank-issued Digital Currency
The Money Flower
Money Trees
3.5 The Creation of Capital In Its Simplest Form
3.6 Incentivizing Good Behaviour
Smart Mobility - Ethical Driving and Data Sharing
Resilient City - Impactful Positive Behaviors
Social Contributions - Datanomics
3.7 Bringing Down Borders
Assets Backed Tokens
Security Token Offering
Do We Need A Nation-State Backed Crypto Exchange?
Blockchaining Sukuk
3.8 Summary
Programmable Money for Effective Resources Distribution
Part I. Artificial Intelligence Applications for Patents
1. AI Innovations
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0GuRDLHRYU
AI Innovation Frontline
Top 100 AI Technology Innovation Entities
AI Demos: Autonomous Cars
AI Demos: Digital Human/Avatar
AI vs. Human
2. AI Application Demos
Video Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoPkP-BZAa8
Computer Vision/Healthcare:
(CBIR) Content Based Image Retrieval for eye disease/chest X-ray diagnostics
Natural Language Processing/Understanding/Generation:
Hugging Face BERT Sentence Completion/ Text Classification/Question Answer
Sentence BERT Movie Recommender
Facebook ParlAI Chatbot
Finance:
Credit Card Fraud Detection
Stock Price Prediction
Stock Trade Simulation
Financial Statements Analysis
3. Artificial Intelligence Applications for Patents Demos
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVmHmh0Kbos
Patent Word Cloud Analysis
I & Blockchain patents
Patent Semantic Search
AI patents search using an abstract
LTE standard essential patent search using a standard specification
Patent Text Translation
English patent to German/French/Chinese/Japanese
Patent Text Summarization
legal/patent/technical text
Patent Classifier
AI CPC classification
RFID technology landscaping
LTE standard essential patent classification
AI+Blockchain+IoT convergence research
Patent Claim Generation
AI & Blockchain patent claim automatic generation
Claim Charts for Standard Essential Patents
[Prerequisite] pre-trained/fine-tuned BERT/GPT2 models using specific standard specifications
Part II. Blockchain Applications for Patents
1. Blockchain Innovation Status and Applications
Video Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8cq-DB7VbM
Top 100 Blockchain Technology Innovation Entities
Blockchain Innovation Frontline
AI+Blockchain+IoT Convergence
AI+Blockchain System Demo for Medical Data Sharing
AI+ Blockchain System Demo for E-Commerce Use Case
2. DeFi Based Patent Monetization Platform Development
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JarYMPIxlr4
Transhuman Crypto Cloudminds
Melanie Swan, Technology Theorist, Philosophy Department, Purdue University USA, Founder, Institute for Blockchain .
Studies and DIYgenomics.
Abstract
Considering the mutual benefits of blockchain and transhumanism, this essay
proposes crypto cloudminds as a safe mechanism by which the human mind might
transcend its unitary limitations by permissioning partial resources to join a multiparty mind (comprised of human and machine minds) in a cloud-based
environment. Cloudminds could have diverse purposes including problem solving
(addressing future-of-work issues with Maslow Smart Contracts), learning,
experience, exploration, innovation, artistic expression, and other personal
development activities. Crypto cloudminds could be multicurrency, operating with
payment remuneration, security, and (especially) ideas as the denominations of
measure. For thriving in the future, mind node peers could enter “Yes-and”
Payment Channels with one another for collaborative idea development. For
surviving in the future, good-player behavior could be game-theoretically enforced
with the simultaneous privacy-transparency property of blockchains, together with
the immutable peer-confirmed consensus algorithm and audit-log checks and
balances system. Overall, blockchains might serve as an institutional technology
that is the basis for treaties and progress in a multi-species society of human,
algorithm, and machine, guiding the way to positive transhuman futures.
Slides about AI and Blockchain Fusion.
Video: https://youtu.be/LWPDsBs-u3Y
Revolution in blockchain and AI. DanKu protocol. OpenMined project. Ethical questions and challenges in the area.
Speaker: Ivan Kukanov
email: ivan@kukanov.com
web: www.kukanov.com
Meetup event: www.meetup.com/BlockChain-Dapps-Technology/events/250085615/?comment_table_id=257038720&comment_table_name=reply
Meetup group: www.meetup.com/BlockChain-Dapps-Technology/
Venue: Microsoft, Singapore
Top 5 Deep Learning and AI Stories - October 6, 2017NVIDIA
Read this week's top 5 news updates in deep learning and AI: Gartner predicts top 10 strategic technology trends for 2018; Oracle adds GPU Accelerated Computing to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure; chemistry and physics Nobel Prizes are awarded to teams supported by GPUs; MIT uses deep learning to help guide decisions in ICU; and portfolio management firms are using AI to seek alpha.
This presentation gives a brief introduction to blockchain and proposes a unified analytical framework for trustable machine learning and automation running with blockchain.
Contents
I. Metaverse Ecosystem
-Metaverse Taxonomy
-Metaverse Examples
-Facebook Metaverse Vision
-Microsoft Metaverse Solution
-Nissan Metaverse Use Case
-Metaverse Industry Ecosystem
-Metaverse Next
II. ESG Sustainability
-ESG Sustainability Imperative
-UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
-ESG Digital Transformation (DX)
-The Fourth Wave of Environmentalism
-Microsoft AI for Earth Project
-UPCO2 Blockchain based Carbon Credits Token Project
-BlocPower: Fighting Climate Change with IoT & Data
-AI Blockchain IoT for ESG DX AT A Glance
-ESG DX Innovation Insights from Patents
-ESG DX for Sustainable Business Innovation & Growth
-ESG DX Forum
III. Metaverse for ESG Sustainability
-Dassault Systemes Digital Twins for Sustainability
-Microsoft Metaverse for Sustainability Use Cases
-Metaverse for Sustainable Smart City (ESG City) Development
This talk is a first stake in the ground towards a practice of token engineering: the theory, practice and tools to analyze, design, and verify tokenized ecosystems.
We frame token design as optimization design, then use optimization design methodology for token design. Furthermore, we can document emerging patterns for token design. We give a case study: the design of Ocean Protocol.
This talk was presented at Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) in Paris, Mar 8, 2018
Related essay: https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/towards-a-practice-of-token-engineering-b02feeeff7ca
Global Goals: Every Achievement Counts (Section 5: Resource Management)Koh How Tze
There has never been problem with the resources. The problems lie within distribution.
We have an abundance stream of resources available to sustain our living.
It is how we organize and distribute these resources that matters.
ABCDE The World is the way moving forward.
In brief, ABCDE is building an AI driven, Blockchain based Cognitive resources management system powered by Data, Ethically.
To enable and ensure shared prosperity, true wealth must be produced in the first place.
Without resources, there can’t be distribution. Taking care of people should be the priority in cities preservation and development.
In this section, we shall explore the availability of technology, the creation and distribution of true wealth, and the options we have marching towards our future.
- ABCDE The World?
- True Wealth: Food, Education, Energy, Shelter, Healthcare, Entertainment
- A Post-Scarcity Society
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.
Towards a Framework for XR Ethics - Kent Bye, AWE, November 11, 2021Kent Bye
For all the ways that immersive technologies can be used for good, they can be used for evil. This talk will provide some conceptual frames for making sense of the landscape of XR ethical dilemmas including human rights principles, tradeoffs between contextual dimensions, and mapping relationships between techno-social, political, and economic domains. This talk will be reporting back on some of the work done by the IEEE Global Initiative on the Ethics of Extended Reality, as well as provide insights into how to integrate ethically-aligned design and responsible innovation best practices into your experiential design process.
CES 2017 FinTech trend: Blockchain Technology by Mark Mueller-Eberstein, AdgetecMark Mueller-Eberstein
Trend you can't miss at #CES2017 in Las Vegas.
Mark Mueller-Eberstein (Advisor to CXOs and CEO of Adgetec), explains how blockchain technology is changing not only #FinTech, but broader industry and why #China has a special opportunity for success leveraging the innovation.
Reinventing Capitalism In The Age of Big Data (Reading Notes)Koh How Tze
Data capitalism could mean a more sustainable, egalitarian economy, but the end of the firm – including the end of stable employment – carries great risks as well.
Discussion on reading notes in English:
Future of Firms - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eOvyb_Kiug
Future of Jobs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvV9x_6ibr4
Discussion on reading notes in Mandarin:
《大数据资本主义》: 金融资本主义退位,重新定义市场、企业、金钱、银行、工作与社会正义 | 听书会分享片段
(1 of 2)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTMCp_7uPM0
(2 of 2)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb4ubRvxSwc
1. Blockchain/Big Data/AI/IoT:
Blockchain Components
Blockchain Reference Architecture
Blockchain Platforms: Ethereum
Blockchain Platforms: Hyperledger
Blockchain Use Cases
Blockchain 3.0
Emerging Blockchain Technology
Big Data Introduction
Big Data Analysis Flow
Big Data Use Cases
IoT Introduction
IoT Use Cases
IoT Analytics
Challenges of IoT Big Data Analytics Applications
Artificial Intelligence Overview
Artificial Intelligence Revolution
Deep Learning Introduction
Deep Learning Use Cases
Automated Skin Cancer Classification
Automated Diabetic Retinopathy Classification
Portable Ultrasound Devices
Big Data in IoT & Deep Learning
The Fourth Industrial Revolution?
AI Investment
IoT Startups by Industry & Patents
AI Startups by Industry & Patents
Blockchain Startups by Industry & Patents
Blockchain + IoT Integration
Blockchain + IoT Use Cases: IIoT & SCM
Blockchain + AI Integration
Blockchain + AI Integration Demo
Blockchain + Big Data Integration
Blockchain + Big Data + AI+ IoT Integration Example
A new philosophy of economics is needed that is adequate to the contemporary moment, configuring a mindset shift from 1) survival to fulfillment, 2) scarcity to abundance, and 3) centralization to decentralization
Successful societies recognize that economics is shifting to the greater production and consumption of “social goods” in complement to “material goods”
Social goods such as trust, dignity, abundance, opportunity, creative expression, fulfillment, challenge, collaboration, status, certainty, availability, contingency, willingness, cognitive surplus
Claim: societies with less income inequality have greater cohesion and trust, and are better poised to move more quickly into the abundance economics of the future
Blockchain technology is a key mechanism for building new forms of societal shared trust
Modern society arrived with trust beyond kinship groups; similar expansion now beyond hierarchical models with decentralization
This talk provides a speculative contemplation of philosophical topics that might arise with brain-machine interface technology and explores the new ways that individuals and society might self-enact as a result. Brain-machine interfaces that could be pervasive, continuous, and widely-adopted suggest interesting new possibilities for our future selves. From a philosophical perspective, these possibilities concern the definition of what it is to be human, our current existence and interaction with reality, and how all of this could be dramatically different in a scenario of digitally-linked cloudmind collaborations. This talk looks at some of the foundational ontological questions of how the progression of the existence of the classic human might evolve. Perhaps the most pressing question that currently-minded potential adopters have is how to avoid getting irreparably pulled into a groupmind. To protect against this, there could be an expansion and letting go of the term and concepts of personal identity, and humans as a unit of organization, in favor of instead self-relying on a decentralized permissioning structure like blockchain technology for managing empowered and resilient crowdmind participations.
Deep Qualia: Philosophy of Statistics, Deep Learning, and Blockchain
Deep learning: What is it, why is it important, and what do I need to know?
The aim of this talk is to discuss deep learning as an advanced computational method and its philosophical implications. Computing is a fundamental model by which we are understanding more about ourselves and the world. We think that reality is composed of patterns, which can be detected by machine learning methods.
Deep learning is a complexity optimization technique in which algorithms learn from data by modeling high-level abstractions and assigning probabilities to nodes as they characterize the system and make predictions. An important challenge in deep learning is that these methods work in certain domains (image, speech, and text recognition), but we do not have a good explanation for why, which impedes a wider application of these solutions.
Another recent advance in computational methods is blockchain technology which allows the secure transfer of assets and information, and the automated coordination of operations via a trackable remunerative ledger and smart contracts (automatically-executing Internet-based programs).
This talk looks at how deep learning technology, particularly as coupled with blockchain systems, might be used to produce a new kind of global computing platform. The goal is for blockchain deep learning systems to address higher-dimensional computing challenges that require learning and dynamic response in domains such as economics and financial risk, epidemiology, social modeling, public health (cancer, aging), dark matter, atomic reactions, network-modeling (transportation, energy, smart cities), artificial intelligence, and consciousness.
Blockchain insider | Chapter 3 : Smart MoneyKoh How Tze
What we have now is truly borderless, programmable money
backed by immutable computer systems based on pure logic & mathematics.
3.1 ABCDs That Are Changing The World
3.2 A Century of Technology Innovation
3.3 Two Monetary Worlds
3.4 Three Phases of Cryptocurrencies
Corporate Currency
CBDC, Central Bank-issued Digital Currency
The Money Flower
Money Trees
3.5 The Creation of Capital In Its Simplest Form
3.6 Incentivizing Good Behaviour
Smart Mobility - Ethical Driving and Data Sharing
Resilient City - Impactful Positive Behaviors
Social Contributions - Datanomics
3.7 Bringing Down Borders
Assets Backed Tokens
Security Token Offering
Do We Need A Nation-State Backed Crypto Exchange?
Blockchaining Sukuk
3.8 Summary
Programmable Money for Effective Resources Distribution
Part I. Artificial Intelligence Applications for Patents
1. AI Innovations
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0GuRDLHRYU
AI Innovation Frontline
Top 100 AI Technology Innovation Entities
AI Demos: Autonomous Cars
AI Demos: Digital Human/Avatar
AI vs. Human
2. AI Application Demos
Video Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoPkP-BZAa8
Computer Vision/Healthcare:
(CBIR) Content Based Image Retrieval for eye disease/chest X-ray diagnostics
Natural Language Processing/Understanding/Generation:
Hugging Face BERT Sentence Completion/ Text Classification/Question Answer
Sentence BERT Movie Recommender
Facebook ParlAI Chatbot
Finance:
Credit Card Fraud Detection
Stock Price Prediction
Stock Trade Simulation
Financial Statements Analysis
3. Artificial Intelligence Applications for Patents Demos
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVmHmh0Kbos
Patent Word Cloud Analysis
I & Blockchain patents
Patent Semantic Search
AI patents search using an abstract
LTE standard essential patent search using a standard specification
Patent Text Translation
English patent to German/French/Chinese/Japanese
Patent Text Summarization
legal/patent/technical text
Patent Classifier
AI CPC classification
RFID technology landscaping
LTE standard essential patent classification
AI+Blockchain+IoT convergence research
Patent Claim Generation
AI & Blockchain patent claim automatic generation
Claim Charts for Standard Essential Patents
[Prerequisite] pre-trained/fine-tuned BERT/GPT2 models using specific standard specifications
Part II. Blockchain Applications for Patents
1. Blockchain Innovation Status and Applications
Video Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8cq-DB7VbM
Top 100 Blockchain Technology Innovation Entities
Blockchain Innovation Frontline
AI+Blockchain+IoT Convergence
AI+Blockchain System Demo for Medical Data Sharing
AI+ Blockchain System Demo for E-Commerce Use Case
2. DeFi Based Patent Monetization Platform Development
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JarYMPIxlr4
Transhuman Crypto Cloudminds
Melanie Swan, Technology Theorist, Philosophy Department, Purdue University USA, Founder, Institute for Blockchain .
Studies and DIYgenomics.
Abstract
Considering the mutual benefits of blockchain and transhumanism, this essay
proposes crypto cloudminds as a safe mechanism by which the human mind might
transcend its unitary limitations by permissioning partial resources to join a multiparty mind (comprised of human and machine minds) in a cloud-based
environment. Cloudminds could have diverse purposes including problem solving
(addressing future-of-work issues with Maslow Smart Contracts), learning,
experience, exploration, innovation, artistic expression, and other personal
development activities. Crypto cloudminds could be multicurrency, operating with
payment remuneration, security, and (especially) ideas as the denominations of
measure. For thriving in the future, mind node peers could enter “Yes-and”
Payment Channels with one another for collaborative idea development. For
surviving in the future, good-player behavior could be game-theoretically enforced
with the simultaneous privacy-transparency property of blockchains, together with
the immutable peer-confirmed consensus algorithm and audit-log checks and
balances system. Overall, blockchains might serve as an institutional technology
that is the basis for treaties and progress in a multi-species society of human,
algorithm, and machine, guiding the way to positive transhuman futures.
Slides about AI and Blockchain Fusion.
Video: https://youtu.be/LWPDsBs-u3Y
Revolution in blockchain and AI. DanKu protocol. OpenMined project. Ethical questions and challenges in the area.
Speaker: Ivan Kukanov
email: ivan@kukanov.com
web: www.kukanov.com
Meetup event: www.meetup.com/BlockChain-Dapps-Technology/events/250085615/?comment_table_id=257038720&comment_table_name=reply
Meetup group: www.meetup.com/BlockChain-Dapps-Technology/
Venue: Microsoft, Singapore
Top 5 Deep Learning and AI Stories - October 6, 2017NVIDIA
Read this week's top 5 news updates in deep learning and AI: Gartner predicts top 10 strategic technology trends for 2018; Oracle adds GPU Accelerated Computing to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure; chemistry and physics Nobel Prizes are awarded to teams supported by GPUs; MIT uses deep learning to help guide decisions in ICU; and portfolio management firms are using AI to seek alpha.
This presentation gives a brief introduction to blockchain and proposes a unified analytical framework for trustable machine learning and automation running with blockchain.
Contents
I. Metaverse Ecosystem
-Metaverse Taxonomy
-Metaverse Examples
-Facebook Metaverse Vision
-Microsoft Metaverse Solution
-Nissan Metaverse Use Case
-Metaverse Industry Ecosystem
-Metaverse Next
II. ESG Sustainability
-ESG Sustainability Imperative
-UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
-ESG Digital Transformation (DX)
-The Fourth Wave of Environmentalism
-Microsoft AI for Earth Project
-UPCO2 Blockchain based Carbon Credits Token Project
-BlocPower: Fighting Climate Change with IoT & Data
-AI Blockchain IoT for ESG DX AT A Glance
-ESG DX Innovation Insights from Patents
-ESG DX for Sustainable Business Innovation & Growth
-ESG DX Forum
III. Metaverse for ESG Sustainability
-Dassault Systemes Digital Twins for Sustainability
-Microsoft Metaverse for Sustainability Use Cases
-Metaverse for Sustainable Smart City (ESG City) Development
This talk is a first stake in the ground towards a practice of token engineering: the theory, practice and tools to analyze, design, and verify tokenized ecosystems.
We frame token design as optimization design, then use optimization design methodology for token design. Furthermore, we can document emerging patterns for token design. We give a case study: the design of Ocean Protocol.
This talk was presented at Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) in Paris, Mar 8, 2018
Related essay: https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/towards-a-practice-of-token-engineering-b02feeeff7ca
Global Goals: Every Achievement Counts (Section 5: Resource Management)Koh How Tze
There has never been problem with the resources. The problems lie within distribution.
We have an abundance stream of resources available to sustain our living.
It is how we organize and distribute these resources that matters.
ABCDE The World is the way moving forward.
In brief, ABCDE is building an AI driven, Blockchain based Cognitive resources management system powered by Data, Ethically.
To enable and ensure shared prosperity, true wealth must be produced in the first place.
Without resources, there can’t be distribution. Taking care of people should be the priority in cities preservation and development.
In this section, we shall explore the availability of technology, the creation and distribution of true wealth, and the options we have marching towards our future.
- ABCDE The World?
- True Wealth: Food, Education, Energy, Shelter, Healthcare, Entertainment
- A Post-Scarcity Society
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.
Towards a Framework for XR Ethics - Kent Bye, AWE, November 11, 2021Kent Bye
For all the ways that immersive technologies can be used for good, they can be used for evil. This talk will provide some conceptual frames for making sense of the landscape of XR ethical dilemmas including human rights principles, tradeoffs between contextual dimensions, and mapping relationships between techno-social, political, and economic domains. This talk will be reporting back on some of the work done by the IEEE Global Initiative on the Ethics of Extended Reality, as well as provide insights into how to integrate ethically-aligned design and responsible innovation best practices into your experiential design process.
CES 2017 FinTech trend: Blockchain Technology by Mark Mueller-Eberstein, AdgetecMark Mueller-Eberstein
Trend you can't miss at #CES2017 in Las Vegas.
Mark Mueller-Eberstein (Advisor to CXOs and CEO of Adgetec), explains how blockchain technology is changing not only #FinTech, but broader industry and why #China has a special opportunity for success leveraging the innovation.
Reinventing Capitalism In The Age of Big Data (Reading Notes)Koh How Tze
Data capitalism could mean a more sustainable, egalitarian economy, but the end of the firm – including the end of stable employment – carries great risks as well.
Discussion on reading notes in English:
Future of Firms - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eOvyb_Kiug
Future of Jobs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvV9x_6ibr4
Discussion on reading notes in Mandarin:
《大数据资本主义》: 金融资本主义退位,重新定义市场、企业、金钱、银行、工作与社会正义 | 听书会分享片段
(1 of 2)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTMCp_7uPM0
(2 of 2)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb4ubRvxSwc
1. Blockchain/Big Data/AI/IoT:
Blockchain Components
Blockchain Reference Architecture
Blockchain Platforms: Ethereum
Blockchain Platforms: Hyperledger
Blockchain Use Cases
Blockchain 3.0
Emerging Blockchain Technology
Big Data Introduction
Big Data Analysis Flow
Big Data Use Cases
IoT Introduction
IoT Use Cases
IoT Analytics
Challenges of IoT Big Data Analytics Applications
Artificial Intelligence Overview
Artificial Intelligence Revolution
Deep Learning Introduction
Deep Learning Use Cases
Automated Skin Cancer Classification
Automated Diabetic Retinopathy Classification
Portable Ultrasound Devices
Big Data in IoT & Deep Learning
The Fourth Industrial Revolution?
AI Investment
IoT Startups by Industry & Patents
AI Startups by Industry & Patents
Blockchain Startups by Industry & Patents
Blockchain + IoT Integration
Blockchain + IoT Use Cases: IIoT & SCM
Blockchain + AI Integration
Blockchain + AI Integration Demo
Blockchain + Big Data Integration
Blockchain + Big Data + AI+ IoT Integration Example
A new philosophy of economics is needed that is adequate to the contemporary moment, configuring a mindset shift from 1) survival to fulfillment, 2) scarcity to abundance, and 3) centralization to decentralization
Successful societies recognize that economics is shifting to the greater production and consumption of “social goods” in complement to “material goods”
Social goods such as trust, dignity, abundance, opportunity, creative expression, fulfillment, challenge, collaboration, status, certainty, availability, contingency, willingness, cognitive surplus
Claim: societies with less income inequality have greater cohesion and trust, and are better poised to move more quickly into the abundance economics of the future
Blockchain technology is a key mechanism for building new forms of societal shared trust
Modern society arrived with trust beyond kinship groups; similar expansion now beyond hierarchical models with decentralization
This talk provides a speculative contemplation of philosophical topics that might arise with brain-machine interface technology and explores the new ways that individuals and society might self-enact as a result. Brain-machine interfaces that could be pervasive, continuous, and widely-adopted suggest interesting new possibilities for our future selves. From a philosophical perspective, these possibilities concern the definition of what it is to be human, our current existence and interaction with reality, and how all of this could be dramatically different in a scenario of digitally-linked cloudmind collaborations. This talk looks at some of the foundational ontological questions of how the progression of the existence of the classic human might evolve. Perhaps the most pressing question that currently-minded potential adopters have is how to avoid getting irreparably pulled into a groupmind. To protect against this, there could be an expansion and letting go of the term and concepts of personal identity, and humans as a unit of organization, in favor of instead self-relying on a decentralized permissioning structure like blockchain technology for managing empowered and resilient crowdmind participations.
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.
Smart Data - How you and I will exploit Big Data for personalized digital hea...Amit Sheth
Amit Sheth's keynote at IEEE BigData 2014, Oct 29, 2014.
Abstract from:
http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2014/keynotespeech.htm
Big Data has captured a lot of interest in industry, with the emphasis on the challenges of the four Vs of Big Data: Volume, Variety, Velocity, and Veracity, and their applications to drive value for businesses. Recently, there is rapid growth in situations where a big data challenge relates to making individually relevant decisions. A key example is personalized digital health that related to taking better decisions about our health, fitness, and well-being. Consider for instance, understanding the reasons for and avoiding an asthma attack based on Big Data in the form of personal health signals (e.g., physiological data measured by devices/sensors or Internet of Things around humans, on the humans, and inside/within the humans), public health signals (e.g., information coming from the healthcare system such as hospital admissions), and population health signals (such as Tweets by people related to asthma occurrences and allergens, Web services providing pollen and smog information). However, no individual has the ability to process all these data without the help of appropriate technology, and each human has different set of relevant data!
In this talk, I will describe Smart Data that is realized by extracting value from Big Data, to benefit not just large companies but each individual. If my child is an asthma patient, for all the data relevant to my child with the four V-challenges, what I care about is simply, “How is her current health, and what are the risk of having an asthma attack in her current situation (now and today), especially if that risk has changed?” As I will show, Smart Data that gives such personalized and actionable information will need to utilize metadata, use domain specific knowledge, employ semantics and intelligent processing, and go beyond traditional reliance on ML and NLP. I will motivate the need for a synergistic combination of techniques similar to the close interworking of the top brain and the bottom brain in the cognitive models.
For harnessing volume, I will discuss the concept of Semantic Perception, that is, how to convert massive amounts of data into information, meaning, and insight useful for human decision-making. For dealing with Variety, I will discuss experience in using agreement represented in the form of ontologies, domain models, or vocabularies, to support semantic interoperability and integration. For Velocity, I will discuss somewhat more recent work on Continuous Semantics, which seeks to use dynamically created models of new objects, concepts, and relationships, using them to better understand new cues in the data that capture rapidly evolving events and situations.
Smart Data applications in development at Kno.e.sis come from the domains of personalized health, energy, disaster response, and smart city.
In the last decade, workplaces have started to evolve towards digitalisation. In the future people will work in digitally connected environments where personalisation is enabled, collaboration is improved and data sharing and information management are automated. Ultimately, these future workplaces will provide context-aware artificial intelligence (AI) and decision support that leverage both localised information and broader community knowledge whenever needed.
Konica Minolta - Artificial Intelligence White PaperEyal Benedek
The evolution of artificial intelligence in the workplace
Since the first appearance of the words “artificial intelligence” more than 60 years ago, our imaginations have been sparked. Imagine creating computers that simulate human intelligence.
AI has the potential to profoundly influence our lives, perhaps to the point when our world can be better understood and even predicted. In workplaces we can develop systems through which AI may evolve. And Konica Minolta is progressing with the concept of intelligent hubs which will provide businesses with insight, support and greater collaboration.
By combining our core technologies with transformative solutions in the digital workplace, we’re evolving to become a problem-solving digital company creating new value for people and society.
NG2S: A Study of Pro-Environmental Tipping Point via ABMsKan Yuenyong
A study of tipping point: much less is known about the most efficient ways to reach such transitions or how self-reinforcing systemic transformations might be instigated through policy. We employ an agent-based model to study the emergence of social tipping points through various feedback loops that have been previously identified to constitute an ecological approach to human behavior. Our model suggests that even a linear introduction of pro-environmental affordances (action opportunities) to a social system can have non-linear positive effects on the emergence of collective pro-environmental behavior patterns.
This PowerPoint begins with a brief discussion regarding one of the origins to this discovery. Following the introduction is the advancement of the Internet to Web 3.0 and Civilization Progression through the Value Theory of Axiology.
A slide that been scripted in Latex + TikzTrungNguyenBui
A slide that been scripted in Latex + Tikz. The slide's content is all about the dataism theory that highly related to the Homo Deus book, written by Yuval Noah Harari
AI WORLD: I-World: EIS Global Innovation Platform: BIG Knowledge World vs. BI...Azamat Abdoullaev
Future World Projects
Global Intelligence Platform
Smart World
Smart Nation
Smart Cities Global Initiative
Smart Superpower Projects
Big Data and Big Knowledge, etc.
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
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.
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.
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.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
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Blockchain Theory of Abundance Economics
1. Tempe AZ, May 24, 2016
Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga
Melanie Swan
Philosophy & Economic Theory
New School for Social Research, NY NY
melanie@BlockchainStudies.org
A Hegelian Complexity Theory of
Abundance Economics
Part of a Series on Cryptophilosophy
cryptophilosophy
2. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics 1
Melanie Swan
Philosophy and Economic Theory, New School
for Social Research, 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
http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
Book: Blockchain:
Blueprint for a New
Economy
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Thesis Statement
2
A new philosophy of economics is
needed that is adequate to the
contemporary moment, configuring a
mindset shift from 1) survival to fulfillment,
2) scarcity to abundance, and 3)
centralization to decentralization (scale)
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Abundance Economics 3
http://www.robotandhwang.com/attorneys/
Law Firm,
San Francisco CA
Algorithmic Reality
Developing
empowering
human-machine
collaborations
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Definition
What is Blockchain Technology?
4
http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
A cryptographic information technology
A software protocol; email (SMTP) runs on TCP/IP, Bitcoin
runs on underlying blockchain software
The software protocol is decentralized: each network node
keeps the ledger (giant ‘Google doc spreadsheet’ of
transactions); blocks (batches) of transactions posted
sequentially to a ledger or chain
The software system confirms the transactions,
independently confirming transactions as unique and
valid without an intermediary (bank, government)
Bitcoin: digital money
No double-spend
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Evaluating Blockchain Ecosystem Risk
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Network Infrastructure
Organizational
Paradigm
Bitcoin and blockchain consensus mechanisms are the
initial, but perhaps not final positions in the build-out of
the decentralized value-transfer infrastructure
Decentralization
Consensus
Mechanism
Blockchain-based
Distributed Ledgers
Cryptocurrency
Value-exchange Token
Bitcoin
Platform Level: Current Leader:
http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
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Getting to Scale in Human Endeavor
Moments in Artificial Intelligence & Computing
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1. Biology becomes
a math problem
2. Simple ML
algorithms over
large data corpora
3. Deep-learning algorithms: real-time
image & video processing, lip-reading
transcription
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Blockchain-class problems
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Million-genome repositories (largest is
3700 currently)
Peter Turchin (U Conn), complexity,
cliometrics, measure liberty available in
a political system over time
Brain as a DAC; neural modeling of
utility functions
Oculus Rift – connectome integration:
experience sharing
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Blockchain technology (distributed ledgers) allows a
serious move into the Automation Economy, via secure
value transfer previously unavailable with the Internet
Fair and orderly transition from the Labor Economy to
the Automation and Actualization Economy
Bigger Picture: Automation Economy
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Information &
Entertainment
Manufacturing Health
Economics &
Finance
Government &
Legal
Internet: Transfer of Information
Internet: Secure
Transfer of Value
Sectors
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Algorithmic Reality
Proliferation of Computing
Platforms
Increasing presence of technology
Everything is a math problem
Drones, self-driving cars, personal home
robots, quantified-self gadgets, Siri-
commanded mobile phones, blockchain
smart contract DACs, tradenets, deep-
learning algorithms, big data clouds, brain-
computer interfaces, neural hacking
devices, augmented reality headsets,
deep-learning, gaming worlds
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Source: Swan, M. Rethinking Authority With The Blockchain Crypto Enlightenment. Response to The Edge Question 2016: What do
you consider the most interesting recent news? What makes it important? John Brockman, Ed., 2016.
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Algorithmic Reality: Gridworld, Cloudworld
Each technology class is a platform, network,
and app store…the implication is cloudworld
Any platform can run any other
Every network is a Turing-complete general
computational substrate for every other
Any technology can immediately ‘grok,’ simulate,
and run any other
Cloudworld is the notion of a deep multiplicity
of networks as a compositional element of
new algorithmic realities
What does this mean for humans?
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Modern Relations with Technology
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The Prosthetic Relation The Drone Relation
L’Intrus (The Intruder) – Jean-Luc Nancy Théorie du drone (Drone Theory)
– Gregoire Chamayou
Impoverished relation:
roving invisible Panopticon, never
safe from unseen eyes
Intimate relation: Accepting the
foreign into our own body
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The Data Relation
Cloud, background, crunching away,
silent tracking, continuous uploading
Algorithms predicting and even defining
our preferences
What is our relation? Impoverished:
neither side has full mental model of
the other (the very basis for
conducive interaction with another)
Data models humans as a sketch:
purchasing agent not aspirational being
Humans have no way see, grasp or act
on big data, it acts on us (drone relation)
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Think through the problem of human-machine
collaboration in one of the most vulnerable cases:
opening our brains up to big data in BCI Cloudminds
(cloud-based thinking collaborations)
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What is a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)?
A brain-computer interface (BCI), brain-
machine interface (BMI), or neural
prosthesis is any technology linking the
human brain to a computer
A computational system implanted in the brain
that allows a person to control a computer
using only brainwaves; for example reading the
electrical signals from the brain as a person
focuses on a computer screen
Used to repair human cognitive and
sensory-motor function
Over 219,000 worldwide cochlear implants
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Source: http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/Cochlear-Implant-Frequently-Asked-Questions/
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Future Applications of BCIs
24-7 connectivity to the Internet and other minds
Pathology resolution; cognitive enhancement;
platform for human-machine collaboration
The BCI functionality of typing on a keyboard
with the mind suggests the possibility of having
an always-on brain-Internet connection
Cell phones connected every individual, BCIs connect
every brain? (cloudmind, telepathic noosphere)
Ubiquitous BCIs, on-board smartphones (‘better
horse’); new possibilities like cloudminds (‘car’)
Key functionality: 24-7 connectivity
Human cognitive processing continuously linked to the
Internet and other minds in cloudminds via BCI, VR
headset, QS wearables, smart contact lenses, etc.
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Source: http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
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BCI Governance Concerns
The potential advent of brain-
computer interfaces (BCIs) that
are ubiquitous and widely-
adopted, where humans might
be continuously connected to the
Internet and other minds in
cloudmind formats
Adoption risk solutions
Privacy, security, reversibility, credit
assignation, and personal identity
retention
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Reality (Physical & Algorithmic) is Complex
Complexity is a state or
quality of being that is
nonlinear, emergent,
open, unpredictable and
unknowable at the
outset, self-organizing,
and interdependent
General or reductive
Examples of complex
adaptive systems
include an anthill or a
weather system
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Source: Morin, Edgar. (2007). "Restricted complexity, general complexity." Trans. C. Gershenson. In Worldviews, Science and Us:
Philosophy and Complexity, ed. C. Gershenson, D. Aerts, and B. Edmonds, 5–29. World Scientific, Singapore.
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Reality is Indeterminacy: Composable Possibility
Reality is complex and
exists in a “raw material”
state composable per
action/observation
Light: wave-particle duality
Time: simultaneously
discrete and continuous
Schrödinger's cat: dead or
alive?
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Source: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-particle.html, http://actu.epfl.ch/news/the-first-ever-photograph-of-light-as-both-a-parti
The bottom 'slice' of the image
shows the particles. The top
image shows light as a wave.
Particle
Wave
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Not all Reality is Thinkable
Thinkability
Becoming aware of and coming to terms with
phenomena that are “bigger” than humans
Features of the world that are outside our
perceptual and experiential domains
Existing situations
Quantum physics, black holes, global
warming, the Florida everglades, the
biosphere, derivatives, capitalism,
neuroscience, big data, blockchains
Radically-different future-tech situations
Life extension, digital societies, cloudminds
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Thinking Thinkability
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Source:
Need new models for conceiving the
correspondence between internal experience
and the external world like radical contingency
Ancestrality (Meillassoux), hyperobjects (Morton),
superjects (Hansen), object-oriented ontologies
(Harman), black swans (Taleb)
Result: human existence decentered
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(1770–1831)
Phenomenology of Spirit
Development of individuals; continual
progression and awareness, emergence
Shapes of Consciousness
Self-consciousness
Free Concrete Mind
Absolute Knowledge
Science of Logic
Philosophy of meaning, logic
Philosophy of Right
Social and political philosophy
Abstract Right and Morality
Ethical Life: Family, Civil Society, the State
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Hegel: FutureTech Philosophical Principles
Bildung – (education, self-formation) continuous life-long
learning, always learning, growing into a new shape
Humans in “adolescence” – (thinkability) we don’t know what we
don’t know until we progress; how can we know if we want life
extension technologies?
Freedom expressed through bildung (Neuhauser)
Progressive shape-changing
Abstract to concrete
Sublation – distill useful truth kernel from previous state
and bring it along with you as you move on; helpful way
of incorporating yet departing from the past
Complexity - parts-whole, emergence, beyond baseline
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Agenda: Economic Abundance in 3 Acts
Current Situation and Problem: Algorithmic Reality
Complexity, Emergence, Thinkability
Technological Unemployment, Income Inequality
Solution: Abundance Economic Theory
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1.
Scarcity to Availability
2.
Survival to Fulfillment Centralization to Decentralization
3.
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Technological Unemployment
“Technological breakthroughs endanger up to 47% of
total employment in the US” – Carl Frey, Oxford, 2015
“Robots might take 50% of America's jobs” – Marshall
Brain, 2011
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Source: http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
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Next to Automate? Commercial Driving
“Autonomous Driving Long-
Distance Trucks Will Be A
Reality In Ten Years” – 2014
Vehicle-To-Vehicle "V2V"
Communication networks
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Source: http://truckyeah.jalopnik.com/autonomous-driving-long-distance-trucks-will-be-a-reali-1603746933
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Technological Unemployment (Pew study)
Potential Benefits
Tech advances have been a net creator of jobs
Adaptation through inventing new types of work
Technology is freedom from drudgery, and defines
“work” in a more positive and socially beneficial way
Potential Costs
Automation impacting white-collar and blue-collar
employment
Highly-skilled workers poised to succeed; others
displaced into lower paying service industry jobs or
permanent unemployment
Educational system inadequate for future work
preparation
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AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs, Pew Research Center, 2014
http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/08/06/future-of-jobs/
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No Shortage of Human Ingenuity
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“If people have the talent to invent new machines
that put people out of work, they have the talent
to put those people back to work.”
- President John F. Kennedy, 1962
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/07/world-without-work/395294/
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Top 10 Jobs of the Future
1. Neuro-Implant Technician
2. Urban Farmer
3. Virtual Reality Experience Designer
4. 3-D Printer Design Specialist
5. Smart-Home Handyperson
6. Remote Health Care Specialist
7. End-Of-Life Planner, Senior Carer
8. Professional Triber
9. Freelance Professor, Coach, Tutor
10. Personal Brand Coach and Manager
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http://www.fastcompany.com/3046277/the-new-rules-of-work/the-top-jobs-in-10-years-might-not-be-what-you-expect
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Life of the
Future
Now
Jobs of the
Future
Reorientation to Jobs and Life of the Future
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Life of the
Future
Life of the Future – Potential Categories
Jobs of the Future/Productive
Engagement
Education/Training/Learning
Recreation, Teams
Exercise, Movement
Community Participation
Creativity/Artistic Expression
Music, Singing
Coaching/Teaching/Mentoring
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Economic Shift - Success Stories
Pittsburgh: from steel to “eds and meds”
Baltimore: from mills to townhomes
Middle East:
Dubai: oil to financial services; Abu Dhabi: Masdar
energy city of the future; Saudi Arabia: KAUST
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Agenda: Economic Abundance in 3 Acts
Current Situation and Problem: Algorithmic Reality
Complexity, Emergence, Thinkability
Technological Unemployment, Income Inequality
Solution: Abundance Economic Theory
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1.
Scarcity to Availability
2.
Survival to Fulfillment Centralization to Decentralization
3.
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Social Goods created by Abundance
Not just availability of material goods resolving the
social pathology of scarcity but that new social goods
are created through abundance
Social Goods of relief, contingency reduction, peer
willingness, stress-easing, and cognitive surplus
Psychology of Certainty and Availability: A reliable ongoing feeling
of certainty that material survival needs will be met (unprecedented)
Efficiency: much current cognitive and physical effort is tied up
in anti-scarcity measures: hoarding, manipulation, and other
anti-scarcity measures; ascertaining future availability of
resources
Up-leveled focus: Relief of having a whole class of cognitively-
exertional activities drop off the reality of what has to be
considered for basic living
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Sources: Social Goods, Social Pathology: Rousseau, Descartes, Augustin, Honneth, Neuhauser, Jaeggi
http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
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Temporality Paradigms
Human-time
Continuous flow of physics-biology time
Compute-time: computing clocktime eras
1. General: time becomes stoppable and
malleable
2. Machine learning/big data temporality: time
becomes future-addressable
All human and natural patterns modeled
Shifts focus from reactive response to proactive
attending to the real-time present and future
3. Blocktime: time becomes future-assignable,
future-creatable
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Blocktime: Temporality of the Blockchain
Blockchain: decentralized computing
software protocol upon which
cryptographic ledgers like Bitcoin run
Blocktime: the temporal regime of
cryptographic ledgers and smart
contracts; time is specified in units of
transaction block confirmation times,
not minutes or hours like human-time
or variability like “park closes at dark”
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Source: Swan, M. Magic Blockchains, but for Time? Blockchain Arbitrage. http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/Swan20151202
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Abundance Economics
Specify Future Time with Smart Contracts
Time has not been future-specifiable
before, in the way that it can be assigned
in blocktime smart contracts
Example: assign MTL (machine trust language)
time primitives to a micropayment channel
dapp as a time arbiter
Temporality as a Smart Contract feature
Contract-specifiable parameter per drop-down
menu, just like legal regime
Blocktime specifications: time speed-ups, slow-
downs, event-waiting, prediction markets,
future event-positing
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Source: MTL (machine trust language) time primitives: http://futurememes.blogspot.com/2015/11/machine-trust-language-mtl-
human.html
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Conjecture: Blocktime “makes more time”
Any compute-time like blocktime creates a
differential with human-time
Since there is a differential, it is possible
to ‘make more time’ by accessing events
in other time trajectories; thereby getting
access to more time
Hedge or arbitrage between time regimes
Example of Blocktime Arbitrage: a
decentralized peer-to-peer loan coming due in
blocktime, without there being enough
physical-world time cycles available for
generating the ‘fiat resources’ to repay the loan
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Source: Swan, M. Magic Blockchains, but for Time? Blockchain Arbitrage. http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/Swan20151202
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“More time” Parallelism Argument
Core argument: having sense of “more
time” due to ability to access events in
other time trajectories
Future could be running parallel: Flesh-
space self and various digital selves; thus
acquiring “more time” through multiple and
parallel experienced trajectories
History is a form of time parallelism
Time parallelism already exists via history
where we access events pre-dating and
existing outside of our own direct experience
of time as individuals
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Source: Carr, D. (2014). Experience and History: Phenomenological Perspectives on the Historical World.
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More philosophical questions raised…
Do we need “more time”?
How can we experience the
benefit and meaning of more
time and alternative time
trajectories?
How to integrate myriad
subjective time regimes and
event trajectories?
Moore’s Law for time?
Limits of computational
complexity and time?
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Agenda: Economic Abundance in 3 Acts
Current Situation and Problem: Algorithmic Reality
Complexity, Emergence, Thinkability
Technological Unemployment, Income Inequality
Solution: Abundance Economic Theory
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1.
Scarcity to Availability
2.
Survival to Fulfillment Centralization to Decentralization
3.
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Enlightenment Theme:
Rethinking Authority
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“One ought to think
autonomously, free of the
dictates of external authority”
- Immanuel Kant
Kant, I. "Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?" (German: Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?). 1784.
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Rethinking Economics and Governance
Recasting governance as abundance not extraction
Actualization economy focuses on (1) sustainable
material survival and (2) the social goods of liberation:
Self-respect, self-esteem, self-realization
Destabilize non-value-added elites, esprit of Rousseau,
Rawls, Hegel: “When liberty is mentioned, we must be
careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of
private interests which is thereby designated.”
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The sense of duty of
the citizen to serve
the republic
Civic Duty Civic Collaboration
Ancient Greek Statesman Self-directed Cryptocitizen
The sense of meaning and
purpose in participating in
community sustainability
http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
Vision
New Polis is the Self-sustaining Micropolis
45. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Cryptosustainability Micropolis Example:
Peer-to-peer Microgrids
Transactive Grid, President
Street, Brooklyn NY (Mar 2016)
Grid Singularity (Vienna
Austria), SolarCoin (MIT)
Peergrid local energy
exchange
Citizen-owned solar panels
Blockchain-based peer-to-peer
buying and selling (Ethereum)
Energy and money goes into
local economy
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Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2079334-blockchain-based-microgrid-gives-power-to-consumers-in-new-york/
46. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Cryptosustainability Micropolis Example
Neighbor.ly Self-directed Community Bonds
Modern Public Finance, P2P municipal bonds
$1 billion / day public finance market
Low accountability, corruption, waste, multiple layers of
unnecessary transaction-fee taking without adding value
Community project funding (school, road, bridge)
Self-directed investment in civic projects of affinity
Transportation, energy, schools, parks
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47. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Smart Property and Smart Contracts
Implications: a future of cryptographically-
activated assets and actions…
…physical and intellectual property might
be registered and transacted via
blockchains as smart property, and
…agreements, contractual relationships,
societal record-keeping, and governance
might be enacted through code-based
smart contracts
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48. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
What is Smart Property?
Register assets to blockchain via unique key
Real-time GPS ‘LoJack’ tracking for any asset
Blockchain becomes an inventory, tracking,
and exchange mechanism for hard assets
Smart Property example projects
Blocktrace ledger tracks diamonds
Provenance.org tracks supply chain authenticity
OpenBazaar decentralized Craigslist exchange
Factom-HealthNautica medical billing and claims
Drug and equipment inventory, including origin
and servicing records
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https://openbazaar.org/, http://www.edgelogic.net/blocktrace, Provenance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqIUBn80pg4
http://cointelegraph.com/news/114053/factoms-latest-partnership-takes-on-us-healthcare
49. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Smart Property - Intangible
Notary Service, Attestation
Register contracts, agreements, wills (Proof of Existence, Factom)
Register, protect, and transact IP (Monegraph, Ascribe)
How it works
Hash + timestamp + blockchain record
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http://www.proofofexistence.com/
50. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
What are Smart Contracts?
49
Agreements between parties posted to the
blockchain for automated execution
Human-human interaction
Technological-entity operation
Patterns of interaction in society
Software models most world systems now
Software services can encode these patterns
(smart contracts as decentralized SaaS) to
facilitate the patterns of human interaction
Example: Starbucks facilitates the pattern of
coffee for tokens exchange
Code Projects: Ethereum, Etherparty, Eris
Woods, G.; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2CNayXbRKI, http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001555.html,
https://eng.erisindustries.com/smart%20contracts/2014/12/17/dennys-smart-contracting/ ,
http://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/1402/how-to-get-started-your-first-dapp-under-one-hour,
51. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Theme: Human-Technology Entity
Collaboration
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http://www.robotandhwang.com/attorneys/
“Law is something to be
radically reshaped by
the emergence of
technology, it is about
the management and
manipulation of data on
an entirely new scale”
- Richard Susskind
52. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Technologically-binding vs. Legally-binding
Different frameworks
Technologically-binding: Inexorably
executing code contracts (Lessig: "code
is law") that cannot be breached, and
will proceed unstoppably even if
conditions have changed
Legally-binding: Discretionary
compliance, semantic flexibility of
human-partied contracts
Key shift: Auto-executing code
could become prevalent not
anecdotal (mortgage industry)
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Primavera De Filippi on Ethereum: Freenet or Skynet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slhuidzccpI
53. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Cryptolaw
Intersection of technological (inexorable,
uninfringeable) and legal frameworks (flexible)
Separate legal system needed for smart
contracts?
Smart contract regulation: impossible to enforce smart
contracts with current law
Example: a decentralized program already launched
and running is difficult to control, regulate, or sue for
damages
Smart contracts impact not just contract law, but
more broadly social contracts within society
What kind of social contracts do we humans want with
technological entities?
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54. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Cryptolaw and Societal Design Implications
Emerging that we need new ways of building societal
shared trust through:
1. Transparency
2. Legal frameworks that are still relevant, but perhaps
enacted at the level of the contract (not federal/state)
Not lawlessness, legal framework as a selectable parameter
like jurisdiction (like Creative Commons license drop-downs)
3. More becomes ‘legal’ since monitoring is impossible
More tolerance of existing patterns of interaction in society
Result: Less deception; more truth, transparency, disclosure,
acknowledgment
Everyone in the system is taking part consensually
Result: more self-determination of societal participants
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http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
55. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Blockchains help Singularity-class Problems
54
http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
Blockchain functionality principles
Very-large scale automated system of checks and balances;
all ‘transactions’ must confirm via reputation confirmation,
algorithmic trust and smartnetwork consensus mechanisms
Friendly AI
Autonomous lab robots: On-chain DAC IP discovery
tracking
Blockchain nano-compilers (worry: Grey Goo unchecked
nanotech proliferation): signed like synbio
As physical-world engineers sign the bridges they build
(literally, pride and responsibility), synbio engineers ‘sign’
DNA designs and building blocks (‘signing’ is unavoidable),
and so too propositional nanotech constructions would be 1)
signed by bona fide engineers, and 2) not be able to avoid
having a traceable signature by befouled players (malicious
or otherwise)
56. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Spacechains: Blockchains in Space
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http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
Blockchains: not just Earth-class technology, an
extra-terrestrial-class technology for space projects
Blockchains – not just to coordinate very-large Earth-class
terrestrial projects like billion-member DNA databanks and
EMRs, space-class problems too
Space Applications: Space settlement, terraforming,
asteroid mining, fuel generation, bombardment
monitoring, basic science observation; colored-coin
ledgers for energy, settlement, transport, supplies
Terrestrial Applications: fragility alleviation
Data center back-up, geomagnetic solar protection,
existential risk reduction, Bitcoin in space (BitSats (like
CubeSats))
57. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Blockchain IOT
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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
58. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Blockchains: Global and Liberty-enhancing
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Global governance for transnational organizations
WikiLeaks, ICANN, Wikipedia
Benefits of blockchain administration
Uplift to cloud from local jurisdictional regulations
Universal administration mechanism for global organizations
Structure promotes transparency, accountability, freedom
Namecoin: decentralized DNS
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/12/07/visa-mastercard-move-to-choke-wikileaks/
Snowden Affair
59. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Blockchain Government
Opt-in Personalized Government
Composting vs education
Reputation-based ID system, voting,
dispute resolution, national income
distribution, public documents
registration and repository
Precedentcoin
Crowdsourced legal services, justice
entrepreneurs, blockchain arbitration
Sidekik
On-demand tele-attorney, private police
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http://www.bitnation.co/, https://bitcoinmagazine.com/17066/first-blockchain-wedding-2/,
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/19813/sidekik-decentralized-video-streaming-storage/
World’s First Blockchain Marriage:
David Mondrus and Joyce Bayo, October
5, 2014, Disney World FL, Coins in the
Kingdom Bitcoin Conference, Jeffrey
Tucker (Liberty.me) presiding
60. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Blockchain Representation and Voting
Futarchy, two-step program
1. Traditional vote on outcomes (ex: GDP)
2. Prediction markets to determine specific
proposals for achieving the outcome
Delegative democracy (Liquid Democracy)
Voting power temporarily vested in
delegates not long-term representatives
Group proposition development
Random Sample Elections
Randomly selected individuals vote on a
single issue, blockchain orchestration
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https://bitcoinmagazine.com/17066/first-blockchain-wedding-2/,
http://www.bitnation-blog.com/latest-update-dec-22nd-2014/
61. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Blockchain Legal
Notary Service, Attestation
Register contracts, agreements, wills (Proof of Existence, Factom)
Register, protect, and transact IP (Monegraph, Ascribe)
How it works
Hash + timestamp + blockchain record
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http://www.proofofexistence.com/
62. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Blockchain Science and What is Mining?
Mining is the process of adding
transaction records to the public
ledger by performing a computing
task that is costly to execute but
easy to verify
Issue: mining is purposefully
wasteful to deter malicious players
‘Green’ mining projects
Primecoin
Foldingcoin
Gridcoin
Zennet
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http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoin-mining-hard-way-algorithms.html,
http://codinginmysleep.com/bitcoin-mining-in-plain-english/
63. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
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
62
http://futurememes.blogspot.fr/2014/09/blockchain-health-remunerative-health.html
64. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Blockchain Genomics
63
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
65. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Blockchain Art
64
http://cryptoart.com/
Fine art paper wallets
66. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Blockchain Art
65
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=98392.0
Cryptographic art
67. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Blockchain Art
66
Rio, Tel Aviv, Hamburg, Barcelona, Seoul, Tokyo, New York
http://bitfilm.com/festival.html
68. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Blockchain Literacy
‘Bitcoin MOOCs,’ ‘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
Literacy contracts, remittances, blockchain-tracked aid,
microcredit, decentralized credit bureaus
Open-source FICO scores
Peer-vouched reputation
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72. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Cafeteria of the Future
Hydroponic microgreens for lunch?
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73. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Thesis Statement
72
A new philosophy of economics is
needed that is adequate to the
contemporary moment, configuring a
mindset shift from 1) survival to fulfillment,
2) scarcity to abundance, and 3)
centralization to decentralization (scale)
74. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Hegel
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“The owl of Minerva spreads its
wings only with the falling of the dusk”
- Hegel, Philosophy of Right
Meaning: traditionally, we have only learned from
events after they have happened; where the
implication is that some means of prescriptive
wisdom is needed to prepare for events
75. Tempe AZ, May 24, 2016
Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga
Melanie Swan
Philosophy & Economic Theory
New School for Social Research, NY NY
melanie@BlockchainStudies.org
A Hegelian Complexity Theory of
Abundance Economics
Part of a Series on Cryptophilosophy
cryptophilosophy
Thank You! Questions?
76. May 24, 2016
Abundance Economics
Maximum possibility is open-ended and unbounded
in both structural trajectories (form) and content
emergent, complex, novel, creative
Abundance is a social good
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BaselineMaximum possibility is recouping baseline
(a pre-specified and externally-imposed ideal)
Scarcity is a social pathology: To count as
flourishing requires not just alleviating suffering
and surviving (i.e.; recouping baseline), but
emergent abundance
Philosophy of Abundance
Abundance
Sources: Philosophical support via Spinoza, Deleuze, Simondon