hi Antye, it wasn't, but it is now (quick post) https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/understanding-block-chain/
hugs to you Annie On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 12:36 PM, AG Forever <a...@poemproducer.com> wrote: > 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 > <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fliverpooluniversitypress.co.uk%2Fproducts%2F100826&h=ATNEs0nnPcLJWLOQZC1lr4zg6_HnLN4VOf5jwuSFYsd9VLmhjzD0QWv3li7w0MSz5MRxG7vxgY1PxYvYA_KN1x_2yTP1EYlsjSw4G_oKt3ec48l8Ps8Xc-6SCdRlAybUdjsWXXChJzhpFTAZOtM9UQKoh-MBnNg> > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- *Qu'est-ce et pourquoi agency art ?* 12/10 18h Conférence, festival Mèq <http://www.humaintrophumain.fr/web/events/meq-festival-%e2%80%a2-j1/>*, *hTh, Montpellier. #PEAE = #Participatory #ethology in #artificial environments #ethnological approach *The Laboratory of Networked Behavior* Article by Randall Packer : randallpacker.com/the-laboratory-of-networked-behavior/
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