The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% – ex CIA spy(theguardian.com)
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The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% – ex CIA spy
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/19/open-source-revolution-conquer-one-percent-cia-spy
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Might just not have waited long enough. States are usually at their most repressive right before failing, because they become insecure about their power and take overt actions that engender discontent (where they might normally have relied on soft power) because the alternative is non-existence.
Steele's comments on open sharing of knowledge being the key to creation of vast amounts of wealth and prosperity rings very true to me. I think that this is at the crux of the impact of many 20th century innovations. Concepts like the transistor that can be relatively easily understood replicated and used in greatly enhancing the wealth and convenience of society at large.
The problem comes when the requirements for a technology entail a grand scale or immense expense, such that it's natural for those already resource rich to fence in 'innovation' and use it for the benefit of the few. I fear this will happen with AI if it requires a quantity and quality of data that only large corporations have access to for effective operation. Ensuring AI is truly open should be one of society's key objectives over the next 50 years. We need recognition that our data belongs to us collectively, and to disallow privatization of common value as has been the case with oil extraction and carbon emissions.
The problem comes when the requirements for a technology entail a grand scale or immense expense, such that it's natural for those already resource rich to fence in 'innovation' and use it for the benefit of the few. I fear this will happen with AI if it requires a quantity and quality of data that only large corporations have access to for effective operation. Ensuring AI is truly open should be one of society's key objectives over the next 50 years. We need recognition that our data belongs to us collectively, and to disallow privatization of common value as has been the case with oil extraction and carbon emissions.
(2014)
It's probably important to point out that this is talking about Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) rather than Open Source Software.
> It's probably important to point out that this is talking about Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) rather than Open Source Software.
No it isn’t. Did you read the article?
“So what exactly do you mean by open source everything?
“We have over 5 billion human brains that are the one infinite resource available to us going forward. Crowd-sourcing and cognitive surplus are two terms of art for the changing power dynamic between those at the top that are ignorant and corrupt, and those across the bottom that are attentive and ethical. The open source ecology is made up of a wide range of opens – open farm technology, open source software, open hardware, open networks, open money, open small business technology, open patents – to name just a few. The key point is that they must all develop together, otherwise the existing system will isolate them into ineffectiveness.”“
No it isn’t. Did you read the article?
“So what exactly do you mean by open source everything?
“We have over 5 billion human brains that are the one infinite resource available to us going forward. Crowd-sourcing and cognitive surplus are two terms of art for the changing power dynamic between those at the top that are ignorant and corrupt, and those across the bottom that are attentive and ethical. The open source ecology is made up of a wide range of opens – open farm technology, open source software, open hardware, open networks, open money, open small business technology, open patents – to name just a few. The key point is that they must all develop together, otherwise the existing system will isolate them into ineffectiveness.”“
Sadly, Robert Steele passed away Aug 29th. (https://phibetaiota.net/ )
Called covid a hoax. Died of covid. Checks out.
That is sad, thanks for finding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_David_Steele
> Steele stated in an interview with Alex Jones that NASA holds a colony on Mars populated by human slaves who were kidnapped as children
> claim[ed] that the 2020 presidential election was rigged and called COVID-19 a hoax
> died of COVID-19 in Florida on August 29
> Steele stated in an interview with Alex Jones that NASA holds a colony on Mars populated by human slaves who were kidnapped as children
> claim[ed] that the 2020 presidential election was rigged and called COVID-19 a hoax
> died of COVID-19 in Florida on August 29
His death by COVID-19 is just a cover-up for being moved into the Mars colony via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_3
Nothing this guy is saying seems implausible, but I'll believe it when I see it.