Summer of Protocols

aka weapons of the weak

https://github.com/giacomo-b/rust-stakeholder

How will us humans larp meaningful work when surveilled by our machine overseers?

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Dystopian scene: knowledge workers in humans-are-the-glue enterprises, fitted with neuralink implants, relentlessly searching for activities that generate neural patterns equivalent to what observing machines deem as labour, just so they can quiet quit their still-BS job and engage in premium mediocre conspicuous consumption.

this 2016 ep of OG Theory of Everything pod on Bentham and panopticon is when I first absorbed the effects of being watched

> “Our new miniseries on Surveillance begins with your host tripping over the corpse of Jeremy Bentham, the man who gave us the Panopticon.”

Also one of the oddities in Murderbot series for me is how the humans just know they are under ubiquitous surveillance by both constructs and bots but never comment on it otherwise, just the air they breathe

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Oof nice. Re: Murderbot (and our society generally?) that doesn’t seem as strange to me. If one is in a meatspace metropolis or on a resortified digital platform, I suspect most know on some level they’re under a Watchful Eye. Acceptable tradeoff for convenience.

this 2016 ep of OG Theory of Everything pod on Bentham and panopticon is when I first absorbed the effects of being watched

> “Our new miniseries on Surveillance begins with your host tripping over the corpse of Jeremy Bentham, the man who gave us the Panopticon.”

Also one of the oddities in Murderbot series for me is how the humans just know they are under ubiquitous surveillance by both constructs and bots but never comment on it otherwise, just the air they breathe

https://theoryofeverythingpodcast.com/2016/10/burning-down-the-panopticon/

To be honest I don't think the machines will care