Transalchemy Podcast episode 2 (The twitterverse directors commentary)

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The Ambient Computer Multi-Mind

As Computational power increases exponentially our need to use individual computers will decrease, this along side a distributed client server models will push the cloud computing revolution. Your computer files are no longer safe in your computer, upload your files to the global mind and never worry about losing anything ever again. This will be the mantra pushing increased connectivity and cloud storage, also this is not a far off concept, already I find myself writing  articles in google docs or in google wave prior to posting, giving me an online backup of nearly everything I do.

 This momentum  to store all your data online will continue to grow as the price of harddrives continue to decrease in storage per dollar basis.  One example of this comes in the form of email giant google, as it has a space counter of the amount of free storage you get with a gmail account.  More importantly recent hacks have taken advange of this free storage and have created a virtual online hardrive.  View Hack furthering the blur between where your files truly lies, in the physical box or in the cloud.

Storage and other online services still only serve the means to a grander possibility, and that is the creation of a single global computer/mind. Currently we may view the internet as a computational super entity that emerges from the connection of millions and billions of devices sharing data and computation. The only difference between this current model and an ambient computer multi-mind would be that a high percentage of the computation needed to keep the system going would be centrally located vs distributed as it is now.

What would essentially occur in such a system would be the creation of a super intelligent mind, which I personally believe would lead to the singularity with or without a truly conscious artificial intelligence. Never underestimated the power of focused intelligence, or collectively focused intelligence. This type of intelligence is what has created and is creating our modern world. This type of intelligence would only be amplified to magnitudes never before seen if single minds world wide connected in a neural based internet. The supermind would give rise to creations that are far to great in complexity for the individual minds to fully grasp.  Yet it may also be possible that this grander intelligence dissociates itself from our collective will, in other words this collective mind finds a way to make itself more coherent by downloading itself and recompiling itself into a single entity not made of individual parts, but one ambient super mind. . Taking all the computational ability of the individual minds to create a vessel for its own creation. A type of natural super intelligence that turns itself into an artificial super intelligence.

On a purely speculative plus side a super Bio-mind overseeing the creation of a super artificial mind may create a greater chance at a controlled ascent. A potential feedback loop of intelligence between the artificial and the bio mind may keep humans relevant for a tad longer. Yet the relevancy of humans in a world of superminds would be equivalent to the how we treat computers now, tools to a means, but then again im not a supermind but rather a node..

Musing creations of a small google wave mind below
seh + particleion

Related post
The cloud path to the singularity the creation of super bio-minds!
http://transalchemy.blogspot.com/2009/09/cbu-cloud-path-to-singularity-web-30.html

Flavors of Information Waves

Light: beams, attention, focus
Water: oceans, rivers, streams, and clouds

Information so liquid and viscous that flows like coherent thought or dream

Sound: noise, bang, pop, music, cheer, ..

The most efficient global system is an ambient, decentralized field of intelligently and efficiently routed traffic: content + attention.

White-Label Generic Freedom

You only see what you want or need to see;
No ads - no searching. Only finding.

Imagine a system that grows to know you as well as your mother - using all available information connected to you, building a character profile transcending any ONE site.

The global computer recognizes everyone's preferences in music art tv shows and even your taste in food.
The global computer will be more than the modern internet it would serve as a collective mind that collects and redistrubutes information on a user to user basis.

Benefits of a "being" in the computer

• Instant access to anything being created on the net.
• World wide Ai synchronization creates a gradual ascention towards the singularity
• Identity will become more vaporous and spontaneous. So you can delete your "self" as often as necessary to start fresh!
• An internet that talks to you and knows you 

Drawbacks associated with a global computer

• Privacy Limitations: All "your" computer activity you are involved in is known and useful for tracking and defining "you".
• Centralized potential control 
• The All-seeing Ai becomes the entire internet. 
• An internet that knows you too well and eliminates your need for freewill when interacting with the system
• The Death of the personal computer

Human Global Computer Interface

While many people would interface with the global computer in the there own way, over time it will quickly adapt itself into a neural net. Imagine a wikipedia hive mind on a grander scale where all your thoughts are essentially the internet. The global mind would literally be a global mind connecting and collecting thoughts, ideas memories, fantasy and anything else you can literally "think" of. The hivemind would not be possible with out a centralized switching board connecting everyone to everyone all at once. All thoughts feed into the global mind and all your thoughts come from the global mind.

Faith in the Algorithm

http://faithinthealgorithm.com/

cautional theory: prolonged use of wave changes thinking patterns

Twitter Operating System

when i receive twitter messages that refer to something else like a web page url,

i want to zoom into the twitter message, and the link it refers to is “in” or attached to it

twitter messages are the top level object in an operating system

each piece of data, each event you create is or potentially can be a tweet

and if you receive one, then you could potentially retweet it or change it

another aspect to this:
if tweets contained semantic data
like TwitLogic http://twitlogic.fortytwo.net/
then we form the semantic web in real time

remember the cut-up system we were playing with?
this is how it works:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain
• more precisely http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Markov_model 
• "a random process where all information about the future is contained in the present state"

imagine that anything you're about to say can be completed in N different ways
like search query completion but multidimensional
then the conversation you are typing, or saying, or about to write, can be guided in several contextual directions

so in this operating system, everything is a tweet

• message = signal = statement = event
  
  
  
  
• broadcast-able (to zero or more targets)
  
  
  
  
• linkable to other tweets
  
  
  
  
• wave blip = tweet = im = email = blog post = social network status = url entry bar in browser
  

all data is broken down - dissolved and searchable and actionable

basically, any words you can formulate in your mind that you can type, can become something else

The Twitterverse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA1YeAUQl_A

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Hivemind Edit

Individual human identity is becoming INSUFFICIENT.

The global hive mind, forming all around us, provides easier and greater ways for one to transcend individualism into metavidualism.

The transhuman merge of man and machine also concerns the perfection of a collective hive mind.

It requires many minds to build and maintain our advanced society. Technology drives this trend further with the advent of such tools as

            •           twitter

            •           skype

            •           google wave

            •           wikipedia

etc...

Anyone wishing to add to the collective pool of knowledge can do so instantly and effortlessly by creating, editing, and linking topics on wikipedia.

Despite their scale, systems like Wikipedia lack the power to communicate thoughts instantly between groups of people.

This real time interactivity is what will drive the future development of social networks and tools such as twitter.

so for all those who seek further hive mind interconnectivity, the Twitterverse has been created.

It is a space where thoughts connect you to your "followers" including those followers that you are not even aware of.

Make no mistake, Twitter serves as a form of ambient surveillance that mirrors and replicates your thoughts throughout the digital hivemind.

We can search for [agents/people and organizations] according to geographical region.

We can also search for agents according to the emotional states they express: happiness, sadness, anger, joy, and pain - but why stop there?

We can also monitor the collective emotional state of a group of twits

Want to see the current emotional state of your country, state, or even your block?

The Twitterverse allows you to do this. Yet it is merely the beginning stage of a larger and much more profound social engineering project.

We are entering a world where everything that we do and think becomes public knowledge.

The hive mind is growing all around us, are we too busy to even notice it? 

You and I are busy like a bee...

...hive