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• 01:49, 23 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Nick Srnicek’s Model of Platform Capitalism (Created page with " =Discussion= Nick Dyer-Whiteford: "Nick Srnicek’s (2015) model of a platform capitalism has been crucial for understanding the operations of Big Tech and the larger digital sector it dominates. Srnicek describes platform capitalism as a system in which the ownership of digital networks from which users launch a variety of online activities yield data that becomes key to diverse methods of profit extraction. To better understand the specificity of platform capital wi...")
• 01:45, 23 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Tiziana Terranova on Foucauldian and Deleuzian Circulation (Created page with " =Discussion= Nick Dyer-Whiteford: " The concept of Foucault’s (1993) most widely applied to the study of networked accumulation is that of “panoptic” monitoring, and, particularly as it is modulated by Giles Deleuze’s (1995) cybernetic revision in his “Postscript on the Societies of Control”, remains crucial to all understandings of “surveillance capitalism” (Zuboff 2019). However, as Tiziana Terranova has argued in a series of important studies (2004...")
• 01:39, 23 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Acceleration as the Rotational Velocity of Capital’s Globalized Circulation (Created page with " =Discussion= Nick Dyer-Whiteford: "It points to a historical process by which capital as a whole becomes increasingly circulatory. Production, marketing and financialization become increasingly tightly integrated; ever larger ratios of waged labour are devoted to logistical, marketing and financial (i.e. “circulation1”) rather than production activities; the “annihilation of space by time” (Marx 1973, 539), the mission of the circulation1, is intensified by pr...")
• 01:34, 23 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Circulation of Capital (Created page with " =Description= Nick Dyer-Whiteford: "What the young Marx discusses as “universal intercourse” is in his later works, such as Grundrisse and Capital, developed in more abstract terms through the concept of “circulation”. This is a term that has a double meaning, in a way that is both confusing and felicitous (Kjøsen 2019). The first of these meanings — call it “circulation 1” — designates a specific moment or segment of the process by which capital in...")
• 01:29, 23 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Universal Intercourse (Created page with " =Description= Nick Dyer-Whiteford: "In one of his early works, The German ideology (1845), Marx remarks on how capital creates what he—quaintly to modern ears—refers to as “universal intercourse”—or, in the original German, verkehr.[3] Verkehr is a complex term with compound connotations of traffic, transportation, exchange, communications and commercial dealing (Bost 2015). For Marx, it identifies the combination of communication and transportation, media a...")
• 01:09, 23 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Subjective Approaches in Proof of Personhood Protocols (Created page with " '''* Article: Who Watches the Watchmen? A Review of Subjective Approaches for Sybil-resistance in Proof of Personhood Protocols. By Divya Siddarth, Sergey Ivliev, et al. arXiv , October 2020.''' URL = https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05300 =Description= "Most current self-sovereign identity systems may be categorized as strictly objective, consisting of cryptographically signed statements issued by trusted third party attestors. This failure to provide an input for subjec...")
• 00:08, 22 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Road to Somewhere (Created page with " '''* Book: The Road to Somewhere. David Goodhart.''' URL = [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/22/the-road-to-somewhere-david-goodhart-populist-revolt-future-politics?] =Description= John Lloyd: "After Brexit, Goodhart found popular fame with his 2017 book, The Road to Somewhere, in which he described the world, or at least the European part of it, as divided between the Anywheres and the Somewheres. The former are cosmopolitans who see the nation as a mall...")
• 00:03, 22 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Belt and Road Initiative (Created page with " =More information= * "On October 10, 2023, in anticipation of the October 17-18 Forum of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China's State Council Information Office released a 40-page, 15,000-word white paper entitled "The Belt and Road Initiative: A Key Pillar of the Global Community of Shared Future.” The white paper explains the history, purpose, goals, and achievements of the BRI in its first ten years. The white paper seeks to deepen understanding of the init...")
• 23:36, 21 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Evidence for the Negative Historical Social Effects of Technological Progress (Created page with " =Discussion= Aki Ito: "Acemoglu and Restrepo, casting around for more empirical evidence, zeroed in on robots. What they found was stunning: Since 1990, the introduction of every additional robot reduced employment by approximately six humans, while measurably lowering wages. "That was an eye-opener," Acemoglu told me. "People thought it would not be possible to have such negative effects from robots." Many economists, clinging to the technological orthodoxy, dismis...")
• 23:21, 21 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Power and Progress (Created page with " '''* Book: Power and Progress. By Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson.''' URL = https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/daron-acemoglu/power-and-progress/9781541702530/? =Description= "Daron Acemoglu, an economist at MIT, is so prolific and respected that he's long been viewed as a leading candidate for the Nobel prize in economics. He used to believe in the conventional wisdom, that technology is always a force for economic good. But now, with his longtime collaborat...")
• 22:49, 21 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Metamemes (Created page with " =Description= Brendan Graham Dempsey: "Collective intelligence shapes meme networks — called “Metamemes” — which individual self-conscious minds “download” to better navigate their environment. Such metamemes serve to justify, legitimate, and explain human behavior and natural phenomena in their unique contexts—making them effectively equivalent to what we have been calling worldviews." (https://brendangrahamdempsey.substack.com/p/emergentism-3-the-awak...")
• 22:44, 21 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Language and Culture as Evolutionary Mechanisms (Created page with " =Discussion= Brendan Graham Dempsey: "When it comes to human brains, the nervous system doesn’t tell the whole story. Building on the capacities provided by our large animal brains, Homo sapiens hit on an even better mechanism for information processing—one that would literally change the world: language. This evolutionary adaption was such a profound game-changer, it led to the emergence of an entirely novel level of reality: Culture. Just as animal nervous syst...")
• 22:25, 21 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Jonathan Rowson on the Metacrisis (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjOQB608ylQ =Bio= "Jonathan Rowson is co-founder and Director of Perspectiva and author of the Joyous Struggle on Substack. He was previously Director of the Social Brain Centre at the RSA where he authored a range of influential research reports on behaviour change, climate change and spirituality. Jonathan is an applied philosopher with degrees from Oxford, Harvard and Bristol Universities. In a former life he was a chess Gr...")
• 22:18, 21 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page European Digital Identity (Created page with " =More information= * Policy doc at https://commission.europa.eu/strategyandpolicy/priorities20192024/ europefitdigitalage/europeandigitalidentity_en Category:Policy Category:Europe ")
• 22:16, 21 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Proof of Attendance Protocol (Created page with " =Description= Via J.P. Morgan: "Reputation" Another key factor in what makes us who we are is our standing in the world. A person’s online persona, the number of Twitter followers they have - the conferences they have attended, the fact that they were early adopters of some trend - all contribute to a person’s reputation and digital identity. '''The Proof of Attendance Protocol (POAP) is one protocol that is commonly used within the Ethereum ecosystem to buil...")
• 22:13, 21 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Crypto Law Review (Created page with " =Description= "Over at Crypto Law Review, we’re hard at work mapping CryptoLaw and sketching out different crypto legal theories. We’re basically trying to figure out (1) how crypto fits within existing social orders, (2) how crypto seeks to change current social paradigms, etc. As important, we focus on (3) how existing frameworks seek to change crypto." (https://medium.com/cryptolawreview/the-crypto-soviets-2f7d0a5f81fd) Category:Crypto Governance...")
• 12:08, 21 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs deleted page Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnia already exists)
• 11:56, 21 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Westminster Declaration on Speech Rights (Created page with " =Context= Micha Narberhaus: "The Westminster Declaration we are launching today is the result of our first meeting in Westminster, London, at the end of June. 137 people from across the political spectrum and the Western world have now signed the declaration, including Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Yanis Varoufakis, social psychologists Jonathan Haidt and Jordan Peterson, philosopher Slavoj Žižek, and journalists Bari Weiss and Glenn Greenwald. We argue that "A...")
• 11:44, 21 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Ethereum Localism (Created page with " '''= conference in Portland, Oregon, held in October 2023''' URL = https://mirror.xyz/ethpdx.eth/kjpsLAAC2Si0XDmr_aFp0F5esPNH4DoPB4lOTlFbR5M =Description= "We believe the Ethereum machine is untapped until its creations are touching soil on the level of the local, just as our cities and communities are squandering their singular gifts if they aren’t contributing to the global conversation. The urban center especially, with its dense entanglement of networks, its m...")
• 11:24, 21 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Citizen Trusts (Created page with " =More information= '''* Article: Martin O'Neill & Stuart White, 2019. "James Meade, public ownership, and the idea of a citizens' trust," International Journal of Public Policy, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 15(1/2), pages 21-37.''' URL = https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijpubp/v15y2019i1-2p21-37.html "James Meade argued that public ownership of productive assets should have a central role in a 'liberal socialist' economy. While somewhat sceptical of the state seek...")
• 11:14, 21 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Evgeny Morozov on Discovery Beyond Competition (Created page with " Podcast via https://castbox.fm/app/castbox/player/id2228584/id588008684 Contribution the Economic Calculation Debate Category:Podcasts Category:Mutual Coordination ")
• 11:12, 21 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Free Energy Rate Density of the Human Brain (Created page with " =Discussion= Brendan Graham Dempsey: "Humans, who exceeded in this drive towards mentalization, became the most complex of all. Estimating the free energy rate density of the human brain—his preferred metric for complexity—Eric Chaisson writes: In turn on up the complexity continuum, the adult human brain—the most exquisite clump of matter in the known universe—has a cranial capacity of typically 1300 g and requires about 400 kcal per day (or 20 watts) to fu...")
• 11:00, 21 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Verifiable Identity Credentials - W3C (Created page with " =Description= Via J.P. Morgan: "Verifiable credentials (VCs) are a W3C data model for representing identity credentials (a.k.a. attestations or claims) that can be shared at the holder’s discretion. VCs are a set of claims made by one entity (the issuer) about another (the identity holder). A third party can verify these claims because the issuer has digitally signed the VC, proving its authenticity. Claims can range from the holder’s name, address and age, to qu...")
• 10:53, 21 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Decentralized Identifiers (Created page with " =Description= Via J.P. Morgan: "Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) are alphanumeric identifiers that represent entities, users, documents, credentials, objects or anything else that can be uniquely identified. DIDs are a recognized standard within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - an international community that works together to develop web standards to ensure its long-term growth. DIDs are the fundamental buildings blocks of the self-sovereign identity (SSI) ecosy...")
• 10:49, 21 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Ethereum Naming Service (Created page with " =Description= Via J.P. Morgan: "Ethereum Naming Service (ENS), Unstoppable Domains, Lens handle, and several other naming services offer ways for users to add human-readable names to their public addresses. These services create a simplified and human-centric Web3 experience, because public addresses can be difficult to remember and share. ENS is a naming system based on the Ethereum blockchain that enables users to represent their 42-character Ethereum public addres...")
• 10:40, 21 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Web3 identifiers (Created page with " =Description= Via J.P. Morgan: "Identifiers are ‘tags’ that we use every day. Names, email addresses, account numbers, social handles are all forms of identifiers. In the context of blockchains, a person’s ‘public’ blockchain address is their primary identifier for any blockchain-based interaction, and is typically a unique string of alphanumeric text. Ethereum Naming Service (ENS), Unstoppable Domains, Lens handle, and several other naming services offe...")
• 10:27, 21 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page World Economy (Created page with " = concept from World-Systems Theory, to be contrasted with 'Civilization, the concept used by earlier macrohistorians =Contextual Quote= "If relations spanning bodies of water are what make a world economy, this is not what makes the concept of the "modern world-system," for that is defined by a core-periphery division of labor which would include any inter-regional, inter-societal, or even inter-city division of la...")
• 03:52, 21 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Disruptive Technological Change and its Implications for Education (Created page with " '''* Article: Moravec, J.W. and Martínez-Bravo, M.C. (2023), "Global trends in disruptive technological change: social and policy implications for education", On the Horizon, September 2023 [https://doi.org/10.1108/OTH-02-2023-0007 doi]''' URL = https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/OTH-02-2023-0007/full/html =Abstract= The purpose of this study is to identify global trends in disruptive technological change and map the social and policy implications,...")
• 14:09, 20 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Periodic Table of Human Behavior (Created page with " Video by Gregg Henriques, a 'meta-psychological' framework, part of the Unified Theory of Knowledge, URL = https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xdUa1btq588F6aXGKexUBVoVH7FKhns0/view Category:Intelligence Category:Integral Theory ")
• 08:44, 20 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Artificial Capable Intelligence (Created page with " =Description= "Defining ACI – an intermediate point between AI and AGI: “Rather than get too distracted by questions of consciousness, then, we should refocus the entire debate around near-term capabilities and how they will evolve in the coming years [...] I think of this as ‘artificial capable intelligence’ (ACI), the point at which AI can achieve complex goals and tasks with minimal oversight. AI and AGI are both parts of the everyday discussion, but we ne...")
• 08:32, 20 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Technological Containtment (Created page with " =Description= "What is containment, and what is it for? “Containment is the overarching ability to control, limit, and, if need be, close down technologies at any stage of their development or deployment [...] It means preserving the ability to steer waves to ensure their impact reflects our values, helps us flourish as a species, and does not introduce significant harms that outweigh their benefits.” What containment looks like: Containment is implemented as a s...")
• 08:19, 20 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Categorization of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (Created page with " '''* Article: A. Peña-Calvin, J. Saldivar, J. Arroyo and S. Hassan, "A Categorization of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: The Case of the Aragon Platform," in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2023''' doi: 10.1109/TCSS.2023.3299254. URL = https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10217072 =Abstract= "Despite experiencing remarkable growth, currently boasting nearly 7M users and 18 billion in assets,DAOs remain relatively underexplore...")
• 07:04, 20 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Soulbound Tokens (Created page with " =Description= Andrey Sergeenkov: "what if there was a digital token tied to an individual that could not be bought or sold? In May 2022, a concept called soulbound tokens (SBT) was proposed by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, economist Eric Glen Weyl and lawyer Puja Ohlhaver to address the current limitations of NFTs and other decentralized structures. '''Here’s what soulbound tokens are and how they work'''. The concept of “soulbound” assets on the blockch...")
• 06:56, 20 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Citizenship (Created page with " =Contextual Quote= "Citizenship is a racist and sexist status of randomised violent segregation of the world population into relatively closed groups of varying objective value from the point of view of individual rights (Kochenov 2019). Some come with far-reaching rights – others with liabilities. Both are significant both in real life and in the cloud. If someone is assigned a humiliating set of liabilities in real life, say, a Central African Republic citizenship,...")
• 08:03, 19 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Bildung (Created page with " =Description= Gregg Henriques: "Bildung is a related concept that has been recently advanced by Lene Rachel Andersen in a series of works. ... Bildung is about character formation undertaken primarily through education and cultural development, and was the "secret" to the success of the Nordic countries." (https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/content/related-perspectives) Category:Education ")
• 14:59, 18 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Dependent Accumulation and Unequal Exchange (Created page with " =More information= See the overview article in Monthly Review at https://mronline.org/2023/04/26/marinis-contribution-to-the-political-economy-of-imperialism/ ==Bibliography== Arghiri Emmanuel, Unequal Exchange: A Study of the Imperialism of Trade (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972); Christopher Chase-Dunn, Global Formation: Structures of the Global Economy (Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1989), 59. Arghiri Emmanuel, “Unequal Exchange Revisited,” Institute of...")
• 14:57, 18 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves (Created page with " '''* Book: We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves. By John Cheney-Lippold. NYU Press, 2017''' URL = https://nyupress.org/9781479857593/ =Description= “What identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it Algorithms are everywhere, organizing the near limitless data that exists in our world. Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news...")
• 14:52, 18 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Platforms, Populisms, Pandemics and Riots (Created page with " URL = https://projectpppr.org/ =Description= PPPR is organized and run by Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni: “Platforms, Populisms, Pandemics and Riots (PPPR) is the public face of a research project '''examining the convergence of digital capitalism, populist politics, the coronavirus crisis and world-wide explosions of social unrest'''. It is a project whose objects and subjects have been transformed by the successive shocks—epidemiological, economic...")
• 14:44, 18 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Darwinian Adaptive Evolution vs. Generative Sudden Evolution (Created page with " =Discussion= Corpus Noeticum: “John H. Campbell writes (as cited by Nick Land): - Biologists suspect that new forms evolve rapidly from very tiny outgroups of individuals (perhaps even a single fertilized female, Mayr, 1942) at the fringe of an existing species. There the stress of an all but uninhabitable environment, forced inbreeding among isolated family members, "introgression" of foreign genes from neighboring species, lack of other members of the species t...")
• 12:00, 18 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page User talk:ThomasWeyn (Welcome!)
• 12:00, 18 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page User:ThomasWeyn (Creating user page for new user.)
• 12:00, 18 October 2023 User account ThomasWeyn talk contribs was created by Mbauwens talk contribs and password was sent by email
• 09:17, 17 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Coming Wave (Created page with "'''* Book: The Coming Wave. By Mustafa Suleyman.''' =Review= Reid Hoffman: "Mustafa, in contrast, has made potential risks and risk mitigation the focus of his new book, T...")
• 08:06, 17 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Techno-Optimist Manifesto (Created page with " '''* Manifesto: The Techno-Optimist Manifesto. By Marc Andreessen.''' URL = https://pmarca.substack.com/p/the-techno-optimist-manifesto? =Excerpt= Marc Andreessen: "Tech...")
• 08:17, 16 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Cabin DAO (Created page with " '''= "a community of cabins for web3 workers".''' URL = https://daomatch.xyz/dao/cabin-dao =Description= "Cabin DAO is creating a community of cabins for web3 workers. T...")
• 08:12, 16 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Life in the Digital Dark Ages (Created page with " '''* Book: Sing C. Chew Ecology, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality: Life in the Digital Dark Ages Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021''' URL = =Contents= JO...")
• 08:00, 16 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Blockchain-Based Virtual Nations (Created page with " =Discussion= Primavera de Filippi: "The concept of blockchain-based virtual nations is interesting because it is highly controversial. It is, in fact, supported by differen...")
• 07:54, 16 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Beyonders (Created page with " =Description= Primavera de Filippi: "Beyonders simply refuse to engage with existing institutions: they do not want to fight them nor do they want to change them, they...")
• 07:53, 16 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Stefan Milan on the Activism of Insiders, Outsiders and Beyonders (Created page with " =Discussion= Primavera de Filippi: "In her book, “Social Movements and Their Technologies: Wiring Social Change”, Stefania Milan illustrates the different approaches of...")
• 07:52, 16 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Social Movements and their Technologies (Created page with " '''* Book: Social Movements and Their Technologies: Wiring Social Change. By Stefania Milan.''' URL = =Review= Primavera de Filippi: "In her book, “Social Movements an...")