Social-Semantic Networking
Discussion
A proposal by Eric Hunting:
"This notion of an Algorithmic Self relates to what I've come to call Social-Semantic Networking and the concept of the Digital Tao. What the author describes as that personal software associated with the Algorithmic Self I envision as the personal portion of a social information web as part of a local semantic desktop platform like Netention. And this serves as front-end interacting with a larger social-semantic web platform. The basic point of a semantic web is to automate the associations between information and in a social-semantic network this is used to auto-associate the cumulative 'stories' of people's lives and personal information (a personal 'spime', if you will) in order to seek mutually constructive connections across a community and within a networked infrastructure without having to publicly share private information. (because it's making associations based on metadata rather than direct information which only needs to be shared within the limited contexts of exchanges) Through analysis of association within the personal semantic web models of personal need and intent can be created and related to the intents of others, thus allowing the larger social semantic web to create a basis of what I call a cybernetic pronoia conspiracy--the Internet as a silent conspiracy that's out to help you and everyone else because the network actually understands you as a person. This also creates the basis of social capital in the form of reputation and an alignment between the modeled intent of an individual and the intent of the larger society as a measure of personal merit. (this being used to mediate the access to resources above a common baseline--the Integral Basic Income coded into general production demand priorities) The idea of the Digital Tao is a notion of total socio-economic automation through the integration of a social-semantic web with an environmental sensor web, a Smart Habitat web as part of the infrastructure of the built habitat, and an open reciprocal production web deriving from the progressive dispersal, localization, and infrastructure integration of production and distribution systems. The Digital Tao relates a model of societal intent and individual social capital to a deep quantitative analysis of supply and demand so as to use predictive demand projection to drive production instead of flows of currency. (assuming, of course, we've achieved a shift in culture wto here we stop needing money to live by virtue of UBI and stop chasing wealth to buy love or the consumer crap to futilely substitute for it...) So the 'tao' in this sense is the current of societal needs and intent reflected in a 'weight' of resource flows and production priorities coded into the stigmergic organization of the production web. This determines the baseline for the integral basic income--the baseline of goods on-demand needed to keep people generally comfortable--and the less routine flows to meet exceptional personal and group resource demands (for personal and group projects) based on individual and pooled social capital. The future production web is like a colony of ants or termites whose behavior is managed by set of dynamically weighted priorities determined by the intent modeled in the social-semantic network and which 'smells' geographical concentrations or pools of demand and social capital to direct resource flows to meet that demand." (p2p-foundation email list, December 2015)