Re: The magnificent bribe

2017-12-19 Thread Vincent Van Uffelen
Morlock, while I don't believe that there was a single mind or small group of multiple minds that planned the app based information society I do believe that the US military does exceptionally well in the discovery (invention?) and subsequent kick-start of "potential". Furthermore, I do

Re: 'La Casemate', Grenoble FabLab burned down by anti-digital activists

2017-12-17 Thread Vincent Van Uffelen
On 17/12/2017 10:07, e...@x80.org wrote: Morlock Elloi writes: Echoing recent digital critics such as Douglas Rushkoff or even myself, they ask themselves what’s revolutionary or prophetic in an industry that relies on old-school capitalism, monopolies, micro-work,

Re: Brexit democracy

2017-11-13 Thread Vincent Van Uffelen
I'm following this whole thread with great interest and feel that I could add a few synthesizing comments from a strategic designer's perspective. These designers are usually hired to be less concerned with the creation of the perfect, shiny object but more with shaping the structures culture

Re: Algorithmic / Biometric Governmentality

2017-11-02 Thread Vincent Van Uffelen
arkets did. \\vincent On 02/11/2017 13:53, charlie derr wrote: On 11/02/2017 05:29 AM, Vincent Van Uffelen wrote: Nevertheless, it [AI] remains a very powerful tool, and it is in the hands of a very few (and their software engineer/programmer management layer). While it's still in the embryonic stag

Re: Algorithmic / Biometric Governmentality

2017-11-02 Thread Vincent Van Uffelen
I also wonder if just one skillfully performed twitch with the left leg could trip a gait detection algorithm? There are many holes to poke into. Having access to the interpreting system, as those researchers did, makes it obviously much easier to find the right "markers" to tweak. But

Re: Algorithmic / Biometric Governmentality

2017-11-01 Thread Vincent Van Uffelen
What bleak topic to engage with... Today's uplifting news is that all the machine learned intelligence needed to roll all this out on the large scale does rely on very complex algorithms which have severe issues with being too dependent on the initial condition. While the paper linked below

Re: What is the meaning of Trump's victory?

2016-11-21 Thread Vincent Van Uffelen
One way to go forward would be to clearly define a moral compass and do our best to propagate it. After all, Brexit got barely voted yes, Trump got barely voted in (at least in popular vote), the progressive are not a small minority but constitute probably in many countries the