annie is this letter somewhere online ? i have a few blockchain folllowers on twitter like to send them
hugs sound & curation AGF: @poemproducer / .com sound wave : antyegreie.com > On 25 Sep 2017, at 19:07, Annie Abrahams <bram....@gmail.com> wrote: > > This email is there to try to pen down some of my very visceral negative > reactions to Plantoid - The Birth of a Blockchain-Based Lifeform (p 51 -61)in > Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain > https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/products/100826 > > Let me first say that Plantoid is a great project, because it makes some > implications of the Blockchain technology very evident and poses a lot of > questions. > > P 54 "All code deployed on a blockchain comes with a guarantee of execution, > by engaging with a Plantoid, people are contractually bound to, and cannot > deviate from the rules stipulated into the underlying smart contract code." > Building a Plantoid is done by humans, of course they can deviate ... and if > not, they are stupid to participate and become slaves... (maybe there is > something I don't understand here) > > P.55 "The Plantoid continuously monitors its Bitcoin balance and whenever it > realizes, that a particular threshold has been reached, the Plantoid will be > able to use this money to initiate it's own reproduction" > A Plantoid has no conscience as far as I know, so I don't think it can > realize something - It's calculation and rules that trigger an action - a > Plantoid isn't living. Being made of code and rules is not the same as having > a soul. > > p 58 " Indeed, the DNA of every Plantoid, that is, all the logic and rules > that govern its growth and reproduction are recorded on the Ethereum > blockchain. These may include certain distinctive aesthetic or physical > requirements ..... that will affect the scope of creativity and the room for > discretion left to the artists commissioned to produce the next Plantoid." > So Plantoid seems to be conservative, reinforcing the characteristics it > started with. > > Artists will have to make propositions for the next level Plantoid within the > rules and logic on the blockchain. Contributors can vote the for these by > sending micro-transactions to the Bitcoin blockchain of their choice. All > will be weighted by the amouths contributed and the smartcontract will > process it and establish a winner. > Grrrrrr, automatised decissions Grrrrr anything can come out of such a thing > Grrrrr, no discussion, the winner is not necessary what is wished for ... > > P 59 " ....the reproduction process, the evolution of Plantoids follow a > Darwinist approach" .... > Does it? Darwinism changed a lot over time. > The essential concept of "mutation" (for evolution) doesn't seem to have a > place in the Plantoid blockchain project. Mutation would mean a change of > code, an intervention in the basic rules and logic of the blockchain and that > seems to be impossible .... Adaption to the environment is not the same as > mutation! > > p60 "Each Plantoid is forever and inextricably connected to both its > ancestors and its descendants, with whom it can communicate through a shared > blockchain-based network." > I vigorously disagree with the use of the word "communicate" here. Even if > it's use could be correct, it is misleading because of our day to day use of > the word. The block-chain based network exists for us to see, to > conceptualise, but a Plantoid can not communicate inside it. Plantoids are > part of a chain, network of rules and logic, they don't exchange inside it. > Information is linked, coupled, that's all. > > GRRR > winners and so losers, determined by calculation only > conservative > not living at all > GRRR > > That's what I understood > > Best > Annie > > > -- > The Laboratory of Networked Behavior Article by Randall Packer : > randallpacker.com/the-laboratory-of-networked-behavior/ > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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