Collaborative Gene Project BETA presented at the IDSA Global Conference 2009

The COLLABORATIVE
GENE PROJECT

collaborativegene@gmail.com

Technology is creating
a more complex and
co-dependent world
than humans can
grasp.


Why is it that some
times it is so hard to
share and yet so
natural to compete
with strangers?


We lack anything
resembling a standard
with which to measure
the ability to share.


Our education system
grooms us for and
ultimately rewards the
success of individuals.


Civilization-wide
inventions and
disruptions remind us
that civilizations can
and do change


True collaboration
requires universal
intrinsic selfless
behavior


Origins of Virtue
Enigma of Altruism
Shareware


Competing comes
naturally. Sharing
does not.


Competition has
afforded us great
freedom. Why would
we change that?


“I want an America for
all Americans, not just
for me.”

CHANGE

“I am comfortable
with my level of
consumption.”

Why
CHANGE ?

“What has to be judged is
[a new mass movement’s]
corporate organization
for quick and total
absorption of the
frustrated.”
Eric Hoffer
“The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”


"Faith in [their] holy cause
is to a considerable
extent a substitute for
lost faith in
[themselves].”
Eric Hoffer
“The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”


Ignorance is freedom.


No living organism has
ever built a non-zero
sum based civilization


ENVIRONMENT
precedent, reputation, political climate
MEMBERSHIP
respect & trust, diversity, self-interest, compromise
PROCESS & STRUCTURE
stake, layers,flexibility, roles, adaptability, pace
COMMUNICATION
open & frequent, formal & informal
PURPOSE
goals, vision, unique purpose
RESOURCES
funding & leadership

Were you born with it or
is it that you just don’t
know any different?


“We hold these truths to
be self evident, that all
men are created equal…
…with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty
and the pursuit of Happiness.”


Remove
Central
Judgment

“…it is impossible for a
person to be cheated by
anyone but himself.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson


1. Sharing is the new
currency.


2. Expose yourself to
judgment by the masses.


3. Re-work grades and
incentives systems.


It should not be easier
to compete than to
share.


No privacy
No central judgment
No grades


Strong leaders
Clear judgment system
Common goal
Common purpose
Diverse community
Open and frequent communication
Formal and informal community
Make you part of the process

Technology vs. Community

Fellowship between 6 Billion
people is an inconceivable
and uncharted challenge.


Technology lacks empathy

Linux
Esperanto
Wiki


“Empathy” is embedded in
the oldest part of the brain,
back where we share traits
with some of the most
generous primates.

Dr. Frans De Waal
The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society"


the Phenotypic Effect


Supply & Demand vs.
Intrinsic Value


Kant 1785 Morals
Darwin 1868 Survival
Osborn 1948 Ecology
Dawkins 1976 Selfishness
Ridley 1997 Virtue
Zeman 2004 Consciousness
Wright 2001 Nonzero
Pinker 2002 Nature
Diamond 2005 Nurture
Miller 2009 Sex Driven
Simon 2008 Reinvention
De Waal 2009 Empathetic
Alda 2009 Altruism
Cochran 2009 Ashkenazi Smarts

Privacy vs.
Data Access


Tzu 400 BC War
Marx 1848 Communism
Flood / Dresher 1950 Prisoners Dilemma
Hoffer 1951 Religion
Jacobs 1961 Cities
Ehrlich 1968 Population
De Bono 1970 Thinking
M. Smith 1971 Hawks & Doves
Axelrod 1979 Tit-for-tat
Durkheim 1982 Sociology
Nisbett 2004 Context
Zax / Ho 2009 Economics
Metzinger 2009 Ego

Individual success vs.
Systems thinking


SW Asia 9500BC Farming
Plato 400BC Logic
Mary 0 Christianity
India 450AD Zero
Gutenberg 1440 Printing Press
Fleming 1929 Time Zones
Cognot 1769 Automobile
America 1776 Democracy
Diners Club 1950 Credit Card
Berners-Lee 1990 WorldWideWeb
UCSC Lab 2000 Genome Sequence
Zuckerberg 2004 Facebook
Rheingold 2006 Smart Mobs

Competing vs.
Sharing


Zamenhof 1887 Esperanto
Torvalds 1991 Linux
UK 1995 21st Century Learning
Quinn 1999 Tribal Instinct
Gladwell 2003 Subconscious
Ogle 2007 Creativity
Pink 2006 Play
Friedman 2008 Crowded
Vanderbilt 2009 Traffic
Thaler/Sunstein 2009 Nudge
Ehrlich 2009 Dominant Animal

We have been wired and
rewarded for hoarding

Make sharing a measure
of success

We were educated in a
system of central judgment

Seek judgment from the
masses

We are rewarded for
individual achievements

Develop metrics based on
systems well beyond scope

Peaceful times are
working on us right
now.


Sleeping soundly and
not worrying about
invasion or your next
camp or your next meal
is relatively new to
humans.

You are evolving.
Do your part.


Kurzweil Predictions
2018 10 Terabits (1013 bits) of computer memory roughly the equivalent of the memory space in
a single human brain--will cost $1000. 2020 Personal computers will have the same processing
power as human brains. 2020 By the later part of this decade, virtual reality will be so high-quality
that it will be indistinguishable from reality. 2030 Mind uploading becomes possible.
Nanomachines could be directly inserted into the brain and could interact with brain cells to
totally control incoming and outgoing signals. As a result, truly full-immersion virtual reality could
be generated without the need for any external equipment. Afferent nerve pathways could be
blocked, totally canceling out the "real" world and leaving the user with only the desired virtual
experience.Using brain nanobots, recorded or real-time brain transmissions of a person's daily life
known as "experience beamers" will be available for other people to remotely experience. This is
very similar to how the characters in Being John Malkovich were able to enter the mind of
Malkovich and see the world through his eyes.Recreational uses aside, nanomachines in peoples'
brains will allow them to greatly expand their cognitive, memory and sensory capabilities, to
directly interface with computers, and to "telepathically" communicate with other, similarly
augmented humans via wireless networks. 2040 There will be social splitting into different levels
of use of reality argumentation, from those who want to live in a life of imagined harems, or those
who dedicate their thoughts to philosophical extension. Human society will drift apart in its focus,
but with ever increasing capabilities to make imagined things occur.


Kurzweil Predictions
2045: The Singularity $1000 buys a computer a billion times more powerful than the human brain.
This means that average and even low-end computers are hugely smarter than even highly
intelligent, un-enhanced humans.The Singularity occurs as artiﬁcial intelligences surpass human
beings as the smartest and most capable life forms on the Earth. Technological development is
taken over by the machines, who can think, act and communicate so quickly that normal humans
cannot even comprehend what is going on; thus the machines, acting in concert with those humans
who have evolved into post-biological cyborgs, achieve effective world domination. The machines
enter into a "runaway reaction" of self-improvement cycles, with each new generation of A.I.s
appearing faster and faster. From this point onwards, technological advancement is explosive,
under the control of the machines, and thus cannot be accurately predicted.The Singularity is an
extremely disruptive, world-altering event that forever changes the course of human history. The
extermination of humanity by violent machines is unlikely (though not impossible) because sharp
distinctions between man and machine will no longer exist thanks to the existence of cybernetically
enhanced humans and uploaded humans.

Post-2045: "Waking up" From this moment onwards, computers can only be made more powerful if
they are made larger in size.Because of this, A.I.s convert more and more of the Earth's matter into
engineered, computational substrate capable of supporting more A.I.s. until the whole Earth is one,
gigantic computer (but some areas will remain set aside as nature preserves).At this point, the only
possible way to increase the intelligence of the machines any farther is to begin converting all of the
matter in the universe into similar massive computers. A.I.s radiate out into space in all directions
from the Earth, breaking down whole planets, moons and meteoroids and reassembling them into
giant computers. This, in effect, "wakes up" the universe as all the inanimate "dumb" matter (rocks,
dust, gases, etc.) is converted into structured matter capable of supporting life (albeit synthetic
life).Kurzweil predicts that machines will have the ability to make planet-sized computers by 2099,
which underscores how enormously technology will advance after the Singularity.The process of
"waking up" the universe will be complete as early as 2199.

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