Re: <nettime> Social robotics, cognitive bomb

Thanks César

As you have understood, I am speaking from a perspective borrowed from the cognitive sciences, particularly the social signal theory. Other aspects are also developed in my book.

- Executives who fly for a yes or no, do so to send social signals.
- People locked in their homes and stuck on social networks do it to send social signals.
- Eating beef is a social signal.
- Have children too!

My hypothesis is that the social profile of our species is likely to change. We will certainly not stop sending social signals, otherwise we would turn into stones. It is the shape of the profile that could evolve. It could move from the S-shaped comprising two non-competitive classes C1 and C3 and a single competitive class C2, to a z-shaped where C1 and C3 would become competitive while C2 would become less so.

In my book I put forward some arguments that suggest 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 <cesar@lahoramaker.com> wrote:

Interesting approach Olivier!

It's clear that Greta has sparked something, as latest posts in this mailing list are about her :)

Last week, I was thinking the same topics you discuss in the conclusions: "To face all the challenges, environmental and others, we must invent new ways of doing a society. To do this, we must be aware that our world is woven with invisible (anoptical) perspectives on which we can act: our social robotics can be overcome."

IMHO, it's all related to generations and time. I'm 40 yo now, and I was raised with this ideal of study and work diligently and you could retire with good conditions. (It's breaking down due to demographics but...). Younger generation was born inside social media: they could be famous, feeding the social machine while being data generators.

But for the younger generations like Greta, the message is clear: these bastards are playing a huge party on behalf of my future!! They are flying non-stop around the world for random meetings, they are wasting their time producing stupid videos to feed the different algorythms ... Why should I sit down and wait until they die to discover they wasted the planet to run their senseless routines?

I'm wondering if some of our habits will be seen in the future as barbaric as middle ages ones. In particular, I have four "horsemen":
- Executives and "busy" people traveling X.000km for a meeting, or random conference, and back in 24 hours.
- Being producing and consuming content all day long will be seen has smoking indoors. Rude, nasty, unnecessary.
- Eating meat non stop, or beef in particular, might look as we look the Roman empire vomit inducing feasts.
- Birth control measures could be proposed on unprecedent scales to limit human footprint.

These are just four kind of "design fictions" but quite aligned with current trends. Transport, commerce, everything could change if social norms change from this.

Let's see how this evolves!
César
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El lun., 14 oct. 2019 a las 9:10, olivier auber (<olivierauber2@gmail.com>) escribió:
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 cold explanation of this phenomenon and a way to defuse it. I rely on an analysis grid borrowed from cognitive sciences developed in my latest book Anoptikon, an exploration of the invisible Internet: escaping from Darwin's hand.

medium.com/@olivierauber/greta-thunberg-cognitive-bomb-3fcf463b9677

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