She speaks Japanese. Your implants translate: Akemi explains that her navigation system (formerly known as GPS) just failed. She is asking if she can connect to yours in order to find her way. You would like to accept, but your second I panics:
WARNING! What happened in the background of your digital integrated agents? Of course, as soon as she opened her mouth, you knew everything about her (educational background, social graph, health, until the quality of her pheromones), except perhaps the essential and what she wanted hide. Of course, she also may have done the same inquiry about you before approaching you in the street. It appears however that you did something special that she did not about you: your GNUiz agent analyzed (we say GNUized) all her nano agents. GNUiz not only provided the list of these agents, but it also automatically decoded their ToS1 and identified numerous inconsistencies. In addition, GNUiz formed the global graph of her technology dealers, detailing the nature of their technical and financial relations. And GNUiz did many other things. In a split second, GNUiz calculated Akemi‘s viralilty, confidence and fitness indexes. Damned! Her score is bad, very bad. However, she is so pretty! Akemi is supposed to be one of these « augmented persons » as the corporate language of the early twenty-first century used to go. However, despite all appearances (she is 80 but looks 25), it seems that her configuration considerably diminished her fitness. Everything she does is suggested, assisted or controlled by third-party agents. In case of failure of a component, for instance a conflict of Industrial Property delaying an update, she would not be more than a goldfish in an empty aquarium. The worst is that her digital agents are masking this fact. She absolutely can’t be aware of it. She is kept in that situation in order to be as viral as possible… Can you imagine for a moment what would have happened if you had offered her one of the « ideal adventures for young adults » that the recommendation engine suggested a few minutes ago anticipating your encounter? Suppose you two went for a trip at sea in order to swim with bionic dolphins. Suppose an uncontrollable shark , in reality a terrorist under contract, would have attacked and let’s say your knee is hurt. Your survival chances would by high, but you would get away with a synthetic meniscus printed on the fly from the stem cell kit onboard. So your new organ should be transplanted in a hurry by some robots assisted by a remote surgeon. Okay, the costs would have been covered by insurance. But in turn you would have turned ostage of a bunch of new nano agents which the source code you would not even be able to control. This is why Akemi is so viral. She is part of the business model of a bunch of technology dealers that hold her alive as long as she behaves as an efficient facilitator to capture new ostages. Obviously Akemi needs help. You could simply reject her, but you don’t because you pity her. Millions of people like her, are still dragging on the planet, 20 years after the GSC-I2 , when about one billion of alleged immortal customers (provided by the same multinational) suddenly vanished. 20 years later, such Ponzi technologies did not disappear, unfortunately. They even became more difficult to detect because they are not the result of well identified monopolists, but of a conglomerate of dealers with conflicting interests. That is what does GNUiz! GNUiz translates into action very simple principles already outlined in the previous century. Do you remember « Code is Law3 » by Lawrence Lessing and Richard Stallman’s GPL License4 ? Well GNUiz goes further. It is fit for the complex situations found in the Global Brain5 in which we are swimming now. GNUiz is based on the idea that each global brain agent acts as an anoptical (not optical) « vanishing code » of a « digital perspective6 » which aggregates (synchronously or not) a large number of other agent’s challenges (be they human or not). GNUiz checks whether the digital perspective is legitimate or not, not only by analyzing7 the ToS of all agents involved, but by watching out for each one if three basic conditions, called A, AB, ABC are performed. A) The « vanishing code » must respond to the challenge8 presented by every other agent (A) plus another challenge specific to A. AB) The set of built-in rules of the « vanishing code » must be applied to each agent (A and B), including the agents that made it. ABC) Each group of agents (A, B, C) considered itself as a « vanishing code », and GNUiz included, should behave towards the other agents according to the first two conditions. 40 years ago, at the beginning of development of GNUiz, some saw in these conditions a fractal version of the famous revolutionary motto « Liberty – Equality – Fraternity » which would thus apply to all scales. Others have seen GNUiz as a way to allow the coevolution of the living and the non-living by preventing carcinogenic phenomena and the development of metastases. This is not false. This can be verified with a simple example: GNUiz has detected that Akemi was dealing Bitcoins. It is obvious that this encrypted currency, although decentralized, does not respond, at least to the AB condition, since the hidden human agents who produced Bitcoin have withdrawn to the built-in rules of their own creation in order to enrich themselves at the expense of others. Instead of Bitcoin, will be preferred a currency such as OpenUDC9 (Universal Dividend Currency) that respects fundamental economic freedoms. So, Akemi agents have not passed their GNUiz (we say: she is GNUfailed), but you do not want to dismiss her. What should you do? Provide her with her GNUiz report, hoping she could take a step back to understand its implications? That is illusory. Only a shock! Perhaps a meeting with a Sâdhu? Sâdhus10 are not, or not anymore, the characters who could be seen wandering around almost naked in India, « having renounced social life to devote themselves to the goal of all life, according to Hinduism, the moksha, the liberation of illusion (maya), in other words, the end of the cycle of rebirths, the dissolution into the divine, and the merger with the cosmic consciousness ». The Sâdhus are now simple human agents of the Global Brain who decided to avoid any digital agent whatsoever, sometimes at risk to their own lives. For a long time, people who were resisting the technological invasion were promised to the dustbin of Evolution. The propaganda of Technology majors portrayed them implicitly as the last of the old-fashion humans who would be replaced in the end by transhumans or posthumans. Today, although the « paleo » lifestyle of Sâdhus and their practice of Feng shui11 irritate some, their fortitude is generally reverred and Cyborgs rush en masse to seek their advice. It happens that when crossing sadhus, some GNUfailed realize that, at the end of their life, they do not want to die because of a simple bug or a faulty service. It is said that some sadhus agree to help them remove one by one their digital agents in order to finish more naked than in their original state. So if you love Akemi, quickly find a sadhu for her! Olivier Auber Published in : http://www.cuberevue.com/en/gnuize-blueprint-cyborg-spoiling-agent-v0-1-part-global-immune-system/1434 Copyleft Free Art Lience Acknowledgments : This story was inspired from « A Day in 2060″, section 2 of: Vidal, C. 2013. “Distributing Cognition: From Local Brains to the Global Brain.” In The End of the Beginning: Life, Society and Economy on the Brink of the Singularity, edited by B. Goertzel and T. Goertzel. To appear. http://student.vub.ac.be/clvidal/writings/Vidal-Distributing-Cognition-LB-GB.pdf Read the story by Clement Vidal : « A Day in 2060″ http://www.cuberevue.com/en/day-2060/1447 Thanks to Elen Riot for the betterment of the english translation - ToS: Terms of Service [↩] Global Systemic Chaos (GSC-I 2030) [↩] Code is Law, Lawrence Lessig [↩] GNU GPL : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License [↩] Global Brain Institute : http://globalbraininstitute.org/ [↩] Digital Perspective : http://digital-perspective.net [↩] ToS Analysis: http://tosdr.org/ [↩] Challenge theory, Francis Heylighen 2012. Foundations for a Mathematical Model of the Global Brain, ECCO/GBI seminar 2012 http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/207 [↩] Universal Dividend Currency (Open UDC): http://www.openudc.org/ [↩] Sâdhu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadhu [↩] Feng shui: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_shui [↩] # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
