Artificial intelligence: the recovered unconscious

Here are some unexpected results from an experiment I conducted on the Midjourney AI . I simply asked the Artificial Intelligence to “imagine” what is “the best work of art of all time” according to different criteria, and especially according to its point of view. My intention during this

Reddit/Place, #pixelwar versus #pixellove

. History of the poietic generator (wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poietic_Generator Olivier Auber # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info

First Contact Form for ExtraTerrestrial

Note that the probability of aliens making contact with us via is form is no lower than the probability of them making a phone call to Elon Musk. https://forms.gle/CWptPxiZVdzzfHn89 #FirstContactFormForExtraTerrestrial #SETI #METI #STI #Placebo2022 #

Re: Librarian Schipwreck: Imagine the End of Facebook

"All Meta Vice-Presidents shall henceforth be known as Meta-Barons." (Yann LeCun) " All Meta users shall henceforth be known as #metahamster(s) " (Me) https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10157964859597143?comment_id=10157965657937143 Olivier Auber Le sam. 30 oct. 2

Re: discussing zoom fatigue

Some played the poietic generator over zoom. No need to say anything. No need eiteh for zoom actually. http://poietic-generator.net/?p=1026 Olivier Auber On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 3:00 PM Patrice Riemens wrote: > > Ola Ola > > On 2020-07-03 11:27, Geert Lovink wrote: > &

Re: Facebook

https://medium.com/@olivierauber/anoptikon-e57199b8e76a Olivier Auber On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 2:09 AM José María Mateos wrote: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 11:29:27PM +0100, olivier auber wrote: > >I'm still on FB to increase #MyFacebookInvoice > >Olivier Auber > > > >BTW

Re: Facebook

I'm still on FB to increase #MyFacebookInvoice Olivier Auber BTW, I wonder why this campaign got quite a big success in european media but not a word in US ones... http://perspective-numerique.net/PDF/MyFacebookInvoice-Press_Release-20180129.pdf On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 10:31 PM Alan Sondheim

Re: Social robotics, cognitive bomb

@Mar Herman. Thanks for your relevant thoughts and quotes (Olaf Sporns, Networks of the Brain, and the Washington Post paper). In my book Anoptikon, I rely on the research in neuroscience of Guillaume Dumas & all (Institut Pasteur, Paris), who study experimentally the influence of level of

Re: Social robotics, cognitive bomb

things will likely happen (and are already > happening) -- > especially in terms of your transforming 'social profile' idea. Because > the > structure and operation of the social is deeply intertwined with the > availability of usable energy sources... > > JH > >

Re: Social robotics, cognitive bomb

that this transformation is underway and why we should encourage it. The consequences are enormous, including in terms of energy and the environment, because signal production is extremely energy-consuming. Olivier Auber On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 1:18 PM César García Sáez wrote: > Interesting approach Oliv

Social robotics, cognitive bomb

Besides the apparent unity of the climate processions, Greta Thunberg is a matter of very violent disputes in all sectors of society. One may wonder whether this general discord does not promise a global social warming that could be more dangerous than the climate’s one. I am looking here for a

Re: Libra: The Bank of Facebook

LIBRA isn't "libre" While LIBRA siphons off all the world's currency, we can also consider the path of the (true) "libre currency". It consists in creating a "common monetary protocol". This does not mean that money is common to all, but that we are equal in terms of monetary creation.

Re: Please support the first global facebook user strike

A good day to make your bill to Facebook? Why? Because Facebook stole your digital labor. The proof is that when you want to leave Facebook, the platform offers to bring with you a summary archive. But this archive is empty! It does not contain: - Links included in your personal posts (just

Re: Please support the first global facebook user strike

p?wiki=MyFacebookInvoiceData O <http://perspective-numerique.net/wakka.php?wiki=MyFacebookInvoiceData> Olivier Auber On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 9:55 AM, Anni Roolf <anni.ro...@dezentrale.eu> wrote: > Here's the call: > > Facebook has disrespected our personal data and disregard

Re: DigitalLabor, DataPortability, etc.

#MyFacebookInvoice just hit USD 200.000.000 Invoice Generator: https://goo.gl/EEDDcv Dataviz: https://goo.gl/7nZ1yR O On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 1:14 PM, olivier auber <olivieraub...@gmail.com> wrote: > Target: USD 350,000,000,000,000 > > Current cumulative after 12 hours:

Re: DigitalLabor, DataPortability, etc.

Target: USD 350,000,000,000,000 Current cumulative after 12 hours: USD 60,000,000 https://goo.gl/7nZ1yR Olivier Auber On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 12:46 PM, olivier auber <olivieraub...@gmail.com> wrote: > Want to know how much money Facebook owes you? > > Try #MyFacebookIn

DigitalLabor, DataPortability, etc.

Want to know how much money Facebook owes you? Try #MyFacebookInvoice generator https://goo.gl/EEDDcv O # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info:

Re: Quit Facebook: Open letter to Yann LeCun

hehe, full data portability seems impossible until a symmetrical network protocol arises, but it seems a good pretext to may people think about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c0sX6j5D_c O Olivier Auber On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:20 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson < dante.mon...@gmail.

Re: social media critique: next steps?

jR-7nNEA1o=youtu.be Olivier Auber On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 8:58 AM, RRA <li...@roelroscamabbing.nl> wrote: > > This is in the end what Silicon Valley tries to prevent at all cost: > > resistance and exodus. How can such a momentum be unleashed? > > So aside from the discussio

Re: social media critique: next steps?

ovide a true interoperability of personal data that would allow people not to be hostages of Facebook and its centralization, or you repay all of them! Yours Olivier Auber (*) The recreational time is not counted. Indeed, the entertainment provided by Facebook is funded by advertising. That is to say t

Quit Facebook: Open letter to Yann LeCun

Open letter to Yann LeCun, former Professor at College de France, Head of Research in Artificial Intelligence at Facebook. >From Olivier Auber, researcher, Free University of Brussels (VUB) Dear Yann as a researcher as you are too, but in another area, that is Natural Intelligence (NI), I wo

ArtScience

ArtScience has become a buzzword and a battlefield for institutions which seek for some audience and legitimacy. One of the main field of exploration of art is the infinite facets of the relations between humans and the livings in general. In this respect, there is a certain danger that ArtScience

Re: Reddit/place versus Poietic Generator

The common point is that it is probably more conformable to be dead than alive. When one lives, one risks to die while one is dead, it is already done. O Olivier Auber 2017-10-13 14:29 GMT+02:00 Johnatan Petterson <internet.petter...@gmail.com> : > 2017-10-13 13:36 GMT+02:00 oliv

Re: Reddit/place versus Poietic Generator

My message seems to have been misunderstood. This is normal because I posted it here in French by mistake. Here is a raw english version. Pixelcanvas, Reddit / place, etc. are in the vein of many other experiments carried out over the last 20 years by various artists of the net. So nothing new.

Reddit/place versus Poietic Generator

Pixelcanvas, Reddit/place, etc. sont dans le veine de nombreuses autres expériences menées ces 20 dernières années par divers artistes du net. Rien de nouveau sur le fond donc. Seule l'échelle change, ce qui fait que la masse réalise soudainement que ça existe. La caractéristique principale de ces

Universal Dividend based cryptocurrency

Here is how the Ğ1 Web of Trust (WoT) is growing since March 2017. Ğ1 is an Universal Dividend (UD) based cryptocurrency emulated by the Duniter blockchain engine (UD is kinda Basic Income). The fact that Duniter uses the WoT system makes it possible to limit the distributed computing resources

Search for Terrestrial Intelligence

itive." https://medium.com/@olivierauber/search-for-terrestrial-intelligence-2673ef92c2ec Olivier Auber # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more

Refounding Legitimacy

Back from Shanghai, where I have given a talk in the conference "Consciousness Reframed - The Matter of the Immaterial - Art & consciousness in the post-biological era" organized by Roy Ascott at Detao Institute, I just published a preprint of my paper. I hope this may be of some

nettime A P2P money manifesto

/_a_P2P_Money_Manifesto - - - Olivier Auber # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http

nettime Another (failed) plagiarism

Another (failed) plagiarism of the Poietic Generator by Tate Museum Bloomberg http://home.bt.com/techgadgets/technews/tate-modern-to-display-publics-art-11363834681829 Poietic Generator : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poietic_Generator Olivier Auber # distributed via nettime: no commercial

Re: nettime a free letter to cultural institutions

Agreed! But I'm very surprised that you didn't quote the Free Art Licence (written in July 2000). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Art_License http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/ Olivier Olivier Auber +32492050697 http://perspective-numerique.net http://twitter.com/#!/OlivierAuber 2014-06-09

Re: nettime tensions within the bay area elites

of years ago, a new strategy will emerge. For my part I bet that this will require the invention of a legitimate construction of the digital perspective. Olivier Auber WunderWaffe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wunderwaffe Cliff Jocelyn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Joslyn / http

Re: nettime industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'?

Everything is based on the assumption that energy will remain rare. Other NASA researchers believe the contrary .. http://climate.nasa.gov/news/864#.UyjoiKBXHlo http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-01/15/cold-fusion-moves-into-mainstream Olivier Auber 2014-03-19 9:48 GMT+01:00 nettime's

Re: nettime Fwd: Stephen Foley: Bitcoin needs to learn from past e-currency

Let me know if I'm wrong: one individual may own two or more bitcoin wallets. And this individual may be a robot or a weird mixture of flesh and silicon, let say a dog which constantly shift its identities and deals its bitcoins with some high frequency trading system. So, obviously cydogs will

Re: nettime Fwd: Stephen Foley: Bitcoin needs to learn from past e-currency

much it yields and where. Of course, bitcoin is very nice as a technical system. This is an excellent proof of concept on the scale of the entire planet. But I do not think we will stop there. Olivier -dl On Dec 4, 2013, at 7:46 AM, olivier auber olivieraub...@gmail.com wrote: Let me know

nettime GNUize Them All

in their original state. So if you love Akemi, quickly find a sadhu for her! Olivier Auber Published in : http://www.cuberevue.com/en/gnuize-blueprint-cyborg-spoiling-agent-v0-1-part-global-immune-system/1434 Copyleft Free Art Lience Acknowledgments : This story was inspired from « A Day

Re: nettime Olivier Auber: Network symetry and net neutrality

Dear Florian, Concerning, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c0sX6j5D_c , I think you missed the key message of this prostatic guru. The question is not whether the multicast protocol is working or not, and why (I'll talk however of this issue below) but to clarify the notion of symmetry (of