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Martin's avatar

Putting the change into practice remains difficult. I, and many others have identified the problems in the corrupt system but implementing the alternate system and replacing politicians with swarm intelligence is something that is hard to even begin. What can one person, or a small group do to implement the improvements?

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The Society of Problem Solvers's avatar

One person cannot swarm. Swarm intelligence means connecting and collaborating. We must start local and then connect them. We are attempting to do that here in Buffalo NY with swarm run businesses and mastermind groups. But we need better digital systems. Our recent podcast and video about “genies” explains more.

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Martin's avatar

We have various communication groups though I agree a bespoke programme or app would be preferred for collectively making decisions in a better system.

There are millions who would help and believe in swarm intelligence it's just using our powers wisely for the benefit of everyone on the planet.

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Carleton Palmer's avatar

There is an argument that, as an emergent phenomenon, individual human consciousness might be swarmy (sic). The holographic metaphor for mind replaced the idea that certain thoughts were resident in certain areas of the brain when electric stimulation failed to find such areas. As an artist and not a cognitive scientist I'm probably blowing hot air, but the ideas you bring up are very interesting, so thanks again.

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Ariel Willingham's avatar

Agree here— I think consciousness is closer to a relational signal web than it is a machine. Vital to rethink how we diagnose, design, and heal. A system can’t run with distortion about

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The Society of Problem Solvers's avatar

What you can do is share ideas, offer input, help code, join funding groups, etc etc

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Martin's avatar

I can offer ideas and discuss improvements in several fields of society, but at the moment it's just talking on here and other platforms with good folks. Actual practical work would be welcomed.

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The Society of Problem Solvers's avatar

That is something. It is a nw field of science and interesting and important insights can come from anyone who understands the problems.

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Robin Liberte’'s avatar

True, the oligarchs have a vision for the future. They're working together to achieve that vision and have the resources to do it...including control of the government. Consider the development of Musk's "Dark Enlightenment" cities in Texas as an example of the progress they're making. Meanwhile, the Left, despite decades of activism, hasn't clearly articulated its collective vision for the future, let alone secured the financial backing or political support to fulfill it.

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Skookum's avatar

Here's a clue.. everything is astroturfed and ratcheting towards neo-marxist collectivism for the useless eaters while the remaining value is siphoned off, a form of technocratic reductionism. Dad and I watched a video of a rally in Portland with a young women saying their goal is the complete destruction of the US as we know it with clergy and other left leaders applauding the background. BLM received millions of $$ from corporate America with Democratic leaders cheering on the riots and marches. During the lockdowns in PA, the Democrat governor (who released test positive Covid patients into nursing homes) also walked hand in hand with marchers. At the time the Governor was threatening business owners who stayed open flouting arbitrary guidelines benefitting big online businesses and megastores. Anything resembling true liberalism and agrarian conservatism is migrating towards relocalization efforts, private member coops and the greater reset movement. Mainstream liberals, anarchists and socialists vs. MAGAs, Alt Right and Conservatives are foot soldiers in a Hegelian dialectic for the Elite controllers.

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Carleton Palmer's avatar

Good work! To solve qualitative problems an artist must see what is present to the eye, stripped of preconceptions, before proceeding with the work. Same here. Unlike mathematics, logic and some theoretical sciences we have no preset language and set of definitions so our discourse must begin by exercising rules of close observation.

If mold can solve a maze to find nourishment imagine what human organisms could do. We just haven't done it in the past fifteen thousand years. The Enlightenment was a great start, but it's about time . . .

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Rugnarldo's avatar

Remember how Germany was vilified for committing the holocaust? Well american corporates are driving the latest holocaust. How many million dead now? This is a true act of global terrorism.

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Thumbnail Green's avatar

I love the thorough round up of where we are at and where we look to be going.

I wrote a song called Epstein's Cell. It's kind of funny

https://open.substack.com/pub/thumbnailgreen/p/epsteins-cell?r=nv8me&utm_medium=ios

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The Society of Problem Solvers's avatar

lol yes!

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Jessica McGowan's avatar

So, if the evil powers truly have so much power, how will we be able to use any kind of technology in order to organize? Don't they have control of every platform and every device? Don't they own the Internet itself? Don't they control every power source (aside from some who have personal solar)? I agree that we must organize locally and it seems that to go back to pamphlet methods which were used in revolutions of the past make a lot of sense.

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The Society of Problem Solvers's avatar

The only ones they really control are Wall Street owned ones. We boycott Wall Street as much as possible. For example, Substack is one that isn’t owned.

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The Society of Problem Solvers's avatar

1) no they don’t own the internet. The internet is a hub of connected computers.

2) we build our own platform

3) we can put this on Eve if they try to shut it down. They cannot stop Eve even in places like China. (See a few articles back about Eve)

4) Sure they can kill the power, but that kills their own control over everything too. Whose houses will be raided first by the masses? Theirs. And how long will the power be off for? And killing it all is very difficult.

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Jessica McGowan's avatar

Awww, sigh, thank you!!!! I learn more and more that fear and anxiety are really, truly simply spaces where more learning and growth needs to occur. I will find the article you are referencing which speaks about Eve.

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SaHiB's avatar

Eleventh commandment: Exodus 23:2 "Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil". Don't abet the evil and wicked swarms.

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