"Decentralize All the Things!" We are living in amazing times: Thoughts on P2P technology, Golem, and creation ex nihilo.

in #blockchain7 years ago (edited)

The internet is essentially a form of mass-mind reading.

Books, feelings, music, formulas, art, inane ramblings, and innumerable implications, social, philosophical, banal, and otherwise, all yours. All you have to do is...open a magic "notebook."

Take yourself back just one hundred years and imagine trying to imagine the internet. It would be a fool's dream. Something totally unattainable, irrational, and a contemplation of such mere fancy you might just keep it to yourself for fear of embarrassment. Indeed, for the greater part of the population, it would be fair to say that it would be beyond conception. And yet. Here, it is. And here we are.

Now, it doesn't even matter if the only thing you use the internet for is funny cat videos. That's still fucking amazing. Imagine trying to see other peoples' cats in other countries in a magic "notebook" 100 years ago. So many poor cat lovers died never having known the joyous YouTube binge-watching bliss that was awaiting them just about a hundred years off.

Well, as I said. Here we are.

Now multiply the amazingness of endless foreign cat videos again, to the level where other people's magic wizard notebooks could be used to enhance the wizard power of your magic wizard notebook so that you could now download an insanely-huge-file-size schematic of Dr. Mittenz, your favorite internet celebrity cat, to be printed out piece-by-piece on your 3D printer at home, assembled at the local park, and worshipped with sacrifices of internet likes and catnip until the end of days at which time he will re-animate and save the planet from impending doom and total destruction at the hands of Evil Doctor Productivity and his legions of irritating shit to do.

Alright. Time to drop the cat thing. Seriously, though. This type of tech is already here. It's in the works in the forms of projects like MaidSAFE and Golem. Check out this short video to have your mind blown:


A "Golem" is something from nothing, and a very powerful something from nothing, at that.

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In Jewish folklore, a golem (/ˈɡoʊləm/ GOH-ləm; Hebrew: גולם‎) is an animated anthropomorphic being that is magically created entirely from inanimate matter (specifically clay or mud). The word was used to mean an amorphous, unformed material in Psalms and medieval writing.

Source: wikipedia


For economists and individualists who understand how value works, this sort of thing is no problem.

For violence-based nation states, collectivists, and those who feel that the value of various objects is something "set in stone" (it may well be, in some world beyond this one, but hey, we are living in this one, you feel me?) this "golem" presents a huge problem. A life-threatening one, even. That is to say, the power. of. the. idea.

It's interesting. The idea of creation ex nihilo is not a problem for Jews or Austrian economists, but presents a hell of a pain in the ass for those that would attempt to own another human being by telling him or her what they cannot value (I remember the days when my reference to both genders here would have afforded me PC cred, but now I'll proabably be called a bigot) and when, where, how, and why they can or cannot.

Decentralization is simple. It just means that there is no one center, as far as we are concerned. It could be construed as meaning, "looking out for the smallest minority," too, because decentralized "things" are the only things that allow the individual to be just that.

Now doesn't that make you wanna go out and join the cat party??? See how that works!?

~KafkA

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Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as Facebook and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)

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Yeah baby, Cat Partay!!!

I love how you captured this idea because I think of the internet in similar terms often. It's bizarre that having access to the entire globe's database of thoughts, books, and ideas in the palm of your hand on a tiny screen is now just an every day part of life. It will be even more fascinating to see how projects like Golem and SingularityNet use blockchain technology and AI to sort through all this data in a way that humans cannot currently. We have manifested an external "hive-mind" of sorts similar to the metaphysical concept of the akashic records. Maybe one day in the future the 3D cat you print will actually be fitted with robotics and an AI brain, so it will actually meow and chase lasers for us. :)

Love this comment. Thank you.

wauhhh....cat party...i like your passion about cats and i believe that evryone has the potential to take care and protect the cat without someone telling him or her. This is the type of decentralisation that we want. your conscience to the cat, treating the cat fairly without my intervention.

Long live the cat!!

ınthe future it is difficult to predict who will have the technology and purpose it will be used for. @kafkanarchy84

maybe the use it very innocently.

@kafanarhy84,

Sautations! JaiChai here.

Great post, my friend.

RE: Your Post

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From:

https://steemit.com/philosophy/@jaichai/ijch-some-things-to-ponder-a-beautiful-thing

May you and yours be well and loving life today.

Namaste,

JaiChai

Thanks, brother.

waooww !! your thoughts on P2P technology is such a amazing.... what a way you write man .. you made my day <3 i think crypto will be future whats your opinion ?? i am following you beacuse i wanna see more like this in future

Just a hint, you should focus on not looking like a spammer fishing for upvotes. :) It's just not efficient and most people will know you haven't read the article.
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yeah...i agree with with you. he never actually read the article.
let him go and sleep and then after shower hot water. may be he can be fine and start reading.

Poor cat lovers from 100 years ago.

I remember not so long ago, getting a little carried away and talking shit to ex co-workers before I left my corporate job, saying something along the lines of "we need to transition into a world where we have governance (in terms of basic sensible NAP abiding ground rules), but no government"

Some sat and laughed, some threw out emotionally charged statist rhetoric, but none of them could even entertain my position on the issue so I quickly gave up on them.

I wonder if they'd change their mind after reading this...

Thank you to the modern time.

..i imagine the caveman seeing a movie for the first time,thank god I live on Today and I know the past @kafkanarchy84

Well you wouldn't have given a damn in the past. Would have been just as happy to see a dinosaur fight. ;)