Open Protocol Accelerationism

Description

Benjamin Life:

"One of the highest-leverage vectors of regenerative acceleration is infrastructure for sharing what works.

Regenerative practitioners are motivated by something deeper than market value. We actually want to share information. We want to learn together. We want the blueprints for resilience and restoration to spread as widely as possible.

This is the opposite of the capitalist instinct to hoard knowledge and extract rents from information. In a regenerative context, sharing is not sacrifice. It’s how the system grows. These are open protocols, patterns that emerge to solve real problems with available resources and relationships.

Here again we find the cosmolocal pattern: knowledge flows globally while implementation stays local. Open-source designs spread across the planet while each community adapts them to their specific context, their particular ecology, their cultural inheritance. And the lessons from each local implementation flow back into the global commons, making the next implementation easier and better.

Open source and open protocol accelerationism are both essential to regenerative accelerationism’s success. This is acceleration through sharing. The more we give away, the faster we all learn. The faster we learn, the more resilient we become.

For regenerative accelerationism to succeed, those of us committed to planetary regeneration must develop shared network protocols to establish a commons for our knowledge and resources. Only once the open protocols, the playbooks for local regenerative systems change, have a medium by which they can be exchanged, documented, remixed, and adapted will we be able to see the feedback loops needed to accelerate bioregional, grassroots, collective action.

And for regenerative accelerationism to succeed, d/acc must succeed. Without defensive technologies that enable this type of secure, private, and permissionless sharing of social and digital protocols, the regenerative acceleration will not survive long enough to begin its first real feedback loops. AI mass surveillance as the ultimate tool of the impending technocapitalist authoritarian regime requires us to come together across our ideologies and backgrounds to support the development of technologies that prevent authoritarian control while enabling regenerative collective action."

(https://omniharmonic.substack.com/p/a-regenerative-accelerationist-manifesto?)