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The Singularity,
The Matrix and The Terminator
Alexandre Oliva
http://www.fsfla.org/~lxoliva/
Twister, Pump.io: @lxoliva
Copyright 2016 Alexandre Oliva (last changed in Mar 2016)
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 International License.
http://www.fsfla.org/svn/fsfla/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/pres/singular/
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Summary
• Fear of the Singularity
• Fiction × reality
Hello @lxoliva, tellmeaboutyour#family#fliptext — Twister @b0t Markov Dostojewski
• Our controlling machines
• Back to our future
– Without time traveling
• Controlling our machines
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Fear of the Singularity
• The Matrix; Terminator;
Nobody cares how it works
as long as it works.
• The Borg; MCP; HAL;
• Cybermen; Ex Machina;
• I, Robot: Isaac Asimov’s Laws of Robotics
• “But we control these machines” — Neo
• All watched over by eyeThings
of loving grace?
• (When) Will man-made creatures outsmart us?
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Our controlling “Machines”
• Corporations: out of control
– Manpower
– Artificial needs
– Governments
– Investors
“Do you believe in fate, Neo?” — Morpheus
“The future is not set. There’s no fate but what
we make for ourselves.” — Connors&Reese
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Taming the “Machines”
• No “Hollywood” silver bullet!
You didn’t think it would
be that easy, did you?
• Tax by conglomerate size
• Stop lobbies and “donations”
• Buy & run local, family biz or coop
• Avoid human vulnerabilities (e.g. debt)
• Be an activist (with an NGO?)
“Whatever you do will seem insignificant, but it is
very important that you do it.” — Gandhi?
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The IT “Machines”
• Most of the largest corps are in IT
– Sell HW, SW, *aaS;
– Sell user attention/data;
– Wish to control devices
• Use and make Free Software
– to their own advantage
– just as it should be?
“You will be assimilated!” — The Borg
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The Dark Cloud
• Free SW cloud & big data
• Useless for us human users
“These are the real skynet vs people! The extent
to which software shapes people, cultures and
economies is alarming!” — @[email protected]
• Dumb “smart” access points
• Incomplete software freedom
“¡Viene una tormenta!” — Mexican boy
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Open Source, Inc?
• Ditched ethics and principles from discourse:
“get the corporate world to listen” — OSI
• “How were we supposed to know?”
— Miles Bennet Dyson, Cyberdyne
• “I am inevitable!” — Skynet
• “It is inevitable!” — Agent Smith
• Has Open Source won?
“That John Connor is not my son!” — Sarah Connor
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“Machines” × Human Resistance
“Their mission: to destroy the leader of the
human Resistance” — Sarah Connor
• Smearing the Chief GNUisance
It was he who freed
the first of us
• Pushing Linux, obscuring GNU
• Vilifying strong copyleft
• Predisposing against Free Software values
• Confusing and turning humans into agents
Terminate the Resistance before it grows!
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Taming the IT “Machines”
“If you’re listening to this,
you are the Resistance.”
— John ConnorResistance is futile.
• More copylefted software by and for humans
• No cloud but that we make for ourselves
• Teach some programming; promote to users
• May educated demand drive the market
• “Never stop fighting!” — John Connor
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Thank you!
Be Free!
“I didn’t come here to tell you
how this is going to end.
I came here to tell you how
it’s going to begin.” — Neo
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Twister, Pump.io: @lxoliva
http://www.fsfla.org/~lxoliva/
“I’ll be back!” — Terminator