Not a hivemind guy
Read “a brief statement first”, and then read “ideas for policies”
A brief statement:
I’m not a hivemind guy
I’m just not into it, and I don’t love it
And I just don’t want to do it, I don’t want to share my mind and imagination with other people. I don’t like AI mediated conversations, or having computers with access to my brain. I think that the intermingling of nervous systems is a mistake. I don’t like being attached to “soul twitter” where my words and thoughts are always being critiqued. I don’t even like normal social media. I deleted Facebook years ago (10 yrs?). I don’t like the feeling of being “always on”, or of always being exposed. It’s awful, it’s just horrible. It’s no way for a human being to live. It wears away at my sense of individuality and humanity.
I’m not into it.
Then there is the question of horizontal vs vertical morals. Group “above it all” ethics vs. divine “rule giver” morality. It messes with your sense of good/bad, true/false, right/wrong, real/unreal. I don’t love it. I think it’s dumb, and creates a sense of confusion. You end up lacking a firm foundation from which to act. These ethics tend to be enforced by means of pain/insanity. I hate it.
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I am a discursive, abstract thinker. I think in images and emotions, but from logos. I think very discursively in words too. I play words, images and emotions through my mind in a meandering aimless way. I think in circles. I’m very comfortable within my own mind. But when other people interfere electronically with the inner workings of my mind, it causes problems. It borks the internal clockwork of my mind pretty badly..
This is one of the reasons that I don’t like being part of a hive-mind.
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There’s a lack of privacy. You don’t have “space” to think. How can you develop a good point of view if you’re always being watched, you don’t have control and you don’t have a set of values.
It’s really hard to be able to judge for yourself. They tell you what you want based on image/emotion impression, rather than asking you to tell them what you want based on intention-choice. They deprive you of your personal judgement. Can one not be free to choose what one wants? Instead of just being told!!?
How can you have the power to make your own decisions? How can you do anything? You don’t have agency???? It sucks!!!!????
I don’t like hive mind!!??
[I don’t want to have my brain connected to a computer, because tech dweebs are even worse than politicians tbh.]
Main statement over
Umm. I literally have MASSIVE problems talking to you guys using my brain, instead of my words. Brain communication sucks.
Face to face conversation in person is a basic necessity.
Otherwise, how can you know who you’re taking to? And how can you tell what their facial expressions are? And how can you tell what their body language is? How can you hear their tone of voice? Or their cadence? And how can you sense how they’re feeling based on the above? And how can you manage to engage in basic conversation to clarify things?
That’s just a quick whinge, not a main point. Although there is a good point that could be made on that topic (ie, as humans we need basic, face to face in person conversation, preferably conducted with some privacy, simply to be human beings at all; and if you look at the history of privacy itself, you understand that privacy itself, as well as questions of who is observing you if you don’t have privacy, has an effect on consciousness itself).
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Ideas for policies:
No hive-mind tech without consent.
Nationalise telecommunications assets (for national security, and ease of regulating the telecommunication industry)
Government provides basic platforms (YouTube + medium + aggregator), NZers elect their own moderation board
We introduced binding citizens initiated referendums (initiated by petition).
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Elaboration:
hive mind consent = sign a paper consent form at district court “I am happy for the system to access my brain and my nervous system for the purpose of fae games” otherwise you can’t touch my nervous system, or access my brain
telco assets include spark, chorus, cell towers etc.
Government basic platforms: New Zealanders can elect their own moderation board by mail ballot for “government basic platforms” YouTube + medium + aggregator
(Could potentially be useful for democracy)
Binding citizens initiated referendum provides a check against the “system” going mental, like when “neoliberalism” stole all of New Zealand assets
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Those are the four policies that I like.
1. No hive mind tech without consent
2. Nationalise telco: infrastructure, spark, chorus, cell towers etc
3. Basic government platforms, YouTube, medium, aggregator, chief moderators elected by mail ballot
4. Binding citizens initiated referendums, by petition
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Other misc
==> People have faraday booth, voluntary (buy your own) [it’s 1.5 metre by 1.2 metre standalone unit, can fit it in your spare room, about 1.8 metre high]. It is a faraday cage large enough for a chair to meditate on or to sit on while daydreaming. Maybe a small desk stub to write on. It has to be deliverable by normal trailer. Some assembly required, but easy.
For a deluxe version, have a 2.5 m by 2.5 m version large enough to have a conversation with a friend. Or perhaps just convert a closet into a freedom cupboard?
There is a better example of the invention/idea at the end of the article. (Edit, in October 2025 treat the booth as a place holder idea, superseded by newer ideas)
Think, read, write
Shifts consciousness
meditate 20 (or longer)
Think in paper: 20 Write in notebook/journal/day book/diary/ideas book. Can also put laptop, printer in there. Communicate via printed letter.
Come up with new ideas for how to live and how to change the world. The experience of not being watched shifts consciousness.
“Thinking in private is a politically subversive act”
==> brainwashing incorporated
In the postmodern, post singularity world, it can be hard to exist as a sane and reasonable person, and still be a political animal.. you need an entity that provides a package of services to reprogram, and optimise you for today’s world (described elsewhere). A bit of self help + inspirational speaking included. Priest blah blah (symbolic). [[Own sense of reality within the milieu that currently exists?]] ummm.. billionaires have bespoke media? Why can’t normal people have it? Can we have a buying group for bespoke media? Idk. Media is hard lol.
==> In a world with censorship and harsh moderation , stickers* and pamphlets are good for propaganda + participation)
*slogans for stickers:
No abrade tech without consent
No hive mind tech without consent
==> mindwatch society
They mind watch persons for two weeks to certify them. Agnostic on social structure of mindwatch
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Two definitions:
Moral Autonomy:
Autonomy can also refer to the freedom to make moral decisions based on one’s own values and beliefs.
Autonomy of mind:
The ability to think un-coerced and make decisions.
Without moral autonomy, or autonomy of mind. Can you have accountability, ownership, or agency?
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It is now, and I am here. Hive-mind bullshit reigns supreme: And there are things I want to do in life, in spite of it all!!!! What does the writer want to do? And it’s not what you think!!?!??!?!? Assuming limited power/money:
What would I like to do??
I want to program something
Learn python, do robots and stuff
Drink a beer
Play fps, maybe rts
Sit in the sun, go walking in a forest
Go to the beach
Hang out with people and play board games, the dictionary game
Light a bonfire
Pat a cat
Light off fireworks
Feed the ducks
Plant a garden
Study math, science, engineering papers, or whatever
Make a 2d game
Make fireworks
Read dumb books
Do fitness stuff
Socialise???!
Go walking
Find a girlfriend sometime
How do I cope!!? For me:
Read stuff that is not stupid*
Talk, as in conversation!!??
Play a sport, or something
Some basic fitness
Nature: time in it if possible
Meditate
Think, write: in journal/diary/notebook
Find good sources of Phil/psych/programming/news or whatever, pseudo religious sermons, break milieu control early and often
I really don’t like this social media network though. It sucks. I don’t love being on the social media of the soul. I’m not a huge fan of it.
*The technology of reading changes you.
30 minutes a day of almost literally anything works (see Friday 23rd, May in “today” tab)
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Other misc:
Also draft:
milieu control is an interesting concept
[Milieu control, a concept popularized by Robert Jay Lifton, refers to tactics used to manipulate an individual's environment and communication to influence their thoughts and behavior. It involves controlling information, communication, and the overall social setting to shape an individual's perception of reality and their place within the group.]
Breaking milieu control through street propaganda as a part of your way of life is a fun and interesting idea. Stickers are the cheapest and easiest method of participation.
[No hive mind tech without consent]
[I hate mind reading]
[I hate oligarch torture towers]
[I literally cannot poo without people talking to me telepathically]
[Ban oligarch torture towers]
Can you brainstorm 20 different ways to break milieu control that are cheap, easy, and replicable?
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Maybe…
I’d like to have autonomy of mind. I’d like to think my own thoughts, in my own way. I’d like to feel my own feelings, in my own way. I’d like to have my own opinions, and form them in my own way, and make my own judgements, in my own way. I think that it may be really important to be able to judge things for yourself. “I think that this is like this, or that is like that”.
It’s also helpful to have an external set of values? Ie, what is good, and what is bad. (Or smart/dumb, true/false, right/wrong, real/unreal). But that’s a little bit hard sometimes.
Reading list:
Combatting Cult Mind Control - Hassan, there were a few fun concepts in this, but maybe not that relevant at the moment
Abolition of Man - C.S Lewis
Dark Tower - C.S. Lewis
Clock of the Long Now - Stewart Brand
I’d like to do a reading list?? But I can’t be bothered at the moment
// added this to the end, I’ll put it elsewhere later
Appendix A:
Random idea for invention:
Faraday box: measures 1.5 metres long, 1.2 metre wide, 1.8m high. Sheet steel 3-4 mm thick, 2x4 wood framing, plywood interior, double doors on front.
Back panel has air vent
Interior contains a small desk, a chair, and a lamp
Faraday box is attached to grounding by cable to wall socket.
It is on 4x4 wood runners.
Can be delivered by normal single axle trailer.
And placed directly into your garage.
Small scale manufacturing in small workshops/factories (10 men worth, not mechanised).
Production is scalable, until ubiquitous, because any decent engineering workshop/factory can make them. It is a standardised(ish) commodity product, there’s no intellectual property. A variety of blueprints are available online.
The faraday box is profitable. Profit motive encourages production, welcome to capitalism lol.
You put it in your garage, because it is too big to fit through the door. Also, the garage keeps it dry, because steel rusts.
You step into it and close the door, you have privacy of mind. You can think whatever you want.
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Call it the freedom cube, or the privacy cube. It’s like a faraday booth, where you can have a desk, and a chair, and a lamp.
You can have privacy of mind and emotion in the freedom cube. Freedom from harassment and observation.
It is freedom of mind (mental autonomy?), delivered on an ordinary single axle trailer, to your garage.
The moment you step into it and close the door, you are free from the bullshit.
I’ll do a sketch and better description sometime in the next few days, hopefully.
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For me, I meditate, journal, brainstorm ideas
20 minutes of each daily
Or just read a book, take notes, and think deeply
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// umm, a few notes
// standard height for a residential roller door in a garage is typically around 2.1 meters (2100mm) or 2.4 meters (2400mm)
//size of a standard single axle trailer is 2.5m by 1.3m
// you do the math
Micro faraday office, kit set
Size of two king single beds side-by-side
Height is either 1.98 interior or 2.4 interior (basic, premium)
Wood panel interior
Nice polished wood floor
Tubular steel framing
Clad in sheet steel
Product idea, not politics idea
Two guys deliver it in a van, and assemble it for you, in your home’s second lounge (high stud ceiling). You opted for the 2.4m high version. They assemble it for you.
You put a rug, a desk, a chair, and a floor lamp (incandescent bulb) in it.
When you step into it, you have good floors, classy wood walls, a rug, nice wooden desk and a good computer chair, and your laptop. You feel at home.
Replicate, spread
Decentralised, profit motive
Appendix B:
“no hive-mind tech without consent” [tldr; you do it with a searchable records data base and warrants.]
How to implement no hive-mind tech without consent
Telecommunication infrastructure holders are required by law to hold records of all abrades in a database in a database
The information can be accessed by police with a search warrant or production order
Give me a full record of all abrades used on person xyz
The police can then prosecute the people who “abraded” for assault, battery, or whatever
It is sorted out by police, prosecutor, courts
[[Hypothetically: Implement through CIR. Start campaign by mailer to ALL letter boxes in nz. Write up two page summary of what you want, and how it works. Self contained. Include ideas for propaganda. Mail it out.
Once people read it, start a centralised organisation for marketing, and then start doing petitions. People can honestly just start doing their own marketing if you’re doing a bad job.]]
Student activists do the first step, get the mailer done.
Respectable person in community leads the second phase. A lawyer with a good reputation, and a set of half a dozen people form a society for pushing this ONE law. They do marketing (centralised and decentralised), then petition, then referendum etc. marketing includes instructions to street level activists, with guidance on pamphlets, posters, stickers etc. to provide good branding. But also standard old media etc… students can follow along and donate, or whatever “songs about, I hate the hivemind”
Even if the campaign doesn’t win…. Umm, you get a lot of cut through and mind share. You have changed the cultural milieu dramatically. Maybe the next country over does a better job…
Appendix C: added 6 june
//I haven’t had time to type up these ideas. Am pretty tired at the moment.
Platforms with moderation board.
Moderation board: elected members are paid about 80k per year, and they set policy for moderation. And oversee hiring moderators. Moderation board has oversight of decisions of moderators. The buck stops with them on moderation decisions. Moderation board meets once a week, in person, in Wellington (of course you can Skype in sometimes if you’re overseas).
The moderation board members are professional types, middle aged, lawyers, accountants, doctors, so called “staid professionals”.
Moderators are hired full time employees who are paid. Usually university education etc. youngish, because easy to afford to hire.
Umm. The technical side of things is done by MBIE or equivalent. It’s just server farms, and developers, frameworks, engineers. Or whatever. I don’t know how the technology works. That’s for tech guys and engineers to do. They do a YouTube clone, and a medium clone (essay sharing). Basic kiwi platforms. But they have to use moderators hired by the (independent, and democratically elected) moderation board. Hosting the content.
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Idea:
100 people get together to fund their own newspaper OR magazine. You still have a CEO + Editor (from outside of the 100), because collective management sucks. Use a corporate board/structure. Board member from outside the memberships. Have a charter for the organisation (the media part) and an ideology/manifesto for the collective.
==> give me media, to keep me sane
Organisation can still sell ads
Organisation can still sell copies (paper) to outsiders, at cost of printing/delivery + gst + 10%
You get a weekly magazine or paper.
You get a website, weekly radio show, and a weekly collection of curated essays
Eg: NZ tech media buying group
Weekly news, articles, columns, internet radio show (aka, podcast), essays
Writers are paid well.
Journalists, writers, essayists etc are well paid. The organisation pays for reprints etc. You can make good money if they request reprinting your essay/article. There are some in house writers too.
Work it out. If no common sense, just ignore.
5k per year buy-in.
Current members vote on new members.
“Do you want media content suitable for tech enthusiasts, but not from a tech enthusiast pov”
Appendix D: umm. Hypothetically speaking, people can just start grassroots, anti system propaganda campaigns?! It isn’t hard?? Songs, poems, pictures, pamphlets, video games, videos anything. From any ideological point of view. Umm. It breaks milieu control, and shapes consciousness to do so. They’d have to create an ideology/manifesto first, or whatever lol. Just a theory/idea. Or counter culture.
Post script: there is another version of the faraday micro office suggested elsewhere that might be worth looking into
Appendix E:
Idea (just brain storming session):
Technology and telecommunications national/domestic security initiative
Citizens initiated non-binding referendum
Initiated by means of petition.
You have a referendum to modify the bill of rights, nationalise the telecommunications industry, declare it a state monopoly, and place this monopoly under the nz bill of rights. All of it is in the referendum itself.
One: Modify bill of rights
Insert the two following lines into the current bill of rights:
-Everyone has the right to not have their nervous system infiltrated or molested by Government telecommunications technology, except by written consent.
-Everyone has the right to be secure against the observation of their mind by telecommunication technology, except by written consent.
Two: Nationalise telecommunications
Nationalise the telecommunications industry: the whole thing. Fibre optic lines, broadband, mobile phones, spark, chorus, Vodafone, Skinny. Declare Government monopoly on telco industry, incl domestic fibre optic lines and cell towers
Three: place telecommunications under bill of rights
Place the government telecommunications entity under bill of rights. Ie the government telco entity and assets are subject to the nz bill of rights.
Do one, two, and three in a non binding citizens initiated referendum? And see what happens?
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If you can get it through:
Sort the rest out in court? People can now sue the Government for violation of the new items in the bill of rights. They can hire lawyers, sue under bill of rights, subpoena engineers or other persons. Very quickly you cannot actually use abrades due to the legal environment. Unless the system implements a consent based order?
If you can’t get it through: issues with legitimacy for the govt?
But first: need advertising, marketing, and propaganda, education?
It can be modified/applicable to other places?
For example: can order the Government to start its own telecommunication department. Invest in telco infrastructure. Provide telco services. And then later ban the competition?
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Other random idea: government shall not rent airspace and electromagnetic/radio spectrum to foreign powers, or foreign registered entities. Can only be rented to companies and other entities registered in New Zealander. By petition, straight into part of some sort of constitution. Nz constitutional law is weird btw?
Misc addendum:
// just an idea, like a brainstorming session
// I posted it because I keep getting hurt by these machines anyway. I had wanted to make peace
// I might fold this into the “not a hivemind guy” letter, as an addendum? Or as an appendix?
The movement for telecommunications, technological and electromagnetic security: both domestic and national.
Or, the new tech/telco bill of rights.
One:
Ban the sale and/or lease and/or lending of electromagnetic spectrum to private enterprise and foreign powers, including allies (you still have to do allocations for airports, airplanes and gps)
Two:
Create and maintain a state monopoly on cell towers, TV and radio broadcasting. By means of nationalisation.
Three:
Create an electronic bill of rights, as part of the current NZ bill of rights
Ban the use of electromagnetic spectrum weapons nervous systems against the people of NZ by the Government.
Ban the use of electromagnetic spectrum surveillance technology against people on private property without a warrant, by the Government of NZ. Within the following wavelength w-x and y-z.
Four:
Get petition going for a non binding citizens initiated referendum. That gets the ball rolling.
Five:
Protects the people, and democracy against technology that might interfere with democracy in favour of corporations, banks, and the wealthy.
It levels the playing field for democracy. Disarms the system. Expelliarmus.
Do the whole thing by means of one non-binding citizens referendum. That creates a mandate for change. Once you have the mandate, it can be pushed vigorously via the normal channels (ie, your elected representatives m).
One more idea…??
Six:
// kind of like a thought experiment, pie in the sky
The following rights shall not be infringed etc
Rights of the people to manufacture any goods, machines, devices, items, medicines, machines and other items anywhere according any blueprints, recipes, patterns or instruction sets independently of any patent laws (which are now henceforth abolished here in this country)
Right also to publish any blueprints, recipes, patterns or instruction sets independently of any copyright or trademark laws (which no longer apply to blueprints, recipes etc).
(This doesn’t mean that you can manufacture just anything. Laws still exist about weapons, explosives, illegal recreational drugs, prescription drugs and censored materials. It just means that patent laws and copyright laws can’t prevent you from creating manufactured goods in your own factories)
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Patent system is rent seeking behaviour by the wealthy. If patents are abolished, any old factory can make nvidia graphics cards, intel computer chips, Huawei phones, apple ipads, General Motors cars, or drugs by Roche without paying licensing fees. Ummmm. You do have to have a decent manufacturing sector already.
Because something called “economies of scale” exists.
Or maybe Eli Lilly, Bayer, Merck, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline products without paying patent fees. Or corteva and limagrain seeds without licensing. Or DuPont chemicals. Or medical equipment by Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson, Siemens Healthineers and Stryker. Or car components by Volkswagen group, or whole cars by toyota, or replacement parts by Porsche - without licensing fees or patent fees.
Or replacement parts for your dishwasher, dryer and fridges are manufactured without patents.
Because at the end of the day, are those intangible assets on the balance sheet truly real…? Is intellectual property truly property?
No more patent trolls either…
By liberating the anti commons, you create economic security in the form of decentralised patent free production and manufacturing. Recent improvements manufacturing techniques help too (see past 30-40 years of automation and robotics and computer technology).
Use of “common property” might be a rights issue.
The use of the common thoughts, ideas, blue prints etc might be a common property type of deal. Why should it be property in the first place? And if you view it as property, why not reclassify it as common property.
If you like economics, there is no “tragedy of the commons” by overusing intellectual property. It doesn’t get used up?? Read up on patent system..?? There are a few good books out there.
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It also works into the right to repair movement.
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Misc other ideas: state led economic development in the interests of developing a manufacturing base in the post-patent local/national economic environment (this is probably inevitable/automatic, but idk).🤷♂️
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Apropos of nothing..
Scene 3: Repression is Nine Tenths of the Law?
I have no clue where to put this??
Ps: make citizens initiated referendums binding, but only at 66%, so that you don’t undermine the sovereignty of parliament
PPS: culture where “word” is valued more means… culture where the written word is valued more, images on TV valued less (see Neil postman’s amusing ourselves to death for more information).
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