Plant seed of global democracy in a spacecollective upgrade
Project: Proposal for a multimedia playground

Global democracy has to grow organicly as new ways for people to communicate and interact with eachother, like Wikipedia is a kind of democracy in how pages converge toward the median of our ideas. It can't be jumped into as some global organization. I think spacecollective would be a good place to plant those seeds. Spacecollective already spreads memes that change the world indirectly. Will spacecollective work with me to change the world in a bigger way?

The question of opening spacecollective's borders without an invite is strongly connected to our lack of ability to organize threads, posts, and links between them in ways that tend toward higher quality content. I can help with that.

Originally posted in http://spacecollective.org/Schmuck/6509/Should-SpaceCollective-Be-Open  but moved here.

There is a danger of any 1 member, who decides spacecollective has done something to them or whatever reason, generating a large number of invites (or a few invites and branching from there) for people who don't fit in with how we think, or worse a large scale spamming attack from many new accounts.

But the main reason for my proposal here is the benefits to spacecollective of some free open source cutting edge research in new ways to organize people and communications.

I'm a software professional, and on my own time a mad scientist in artificial intelligence, new ways for people to communicate, new forms of democracy and organizing society including tools used through the Internet, but until now most of that has been very theoretical and limited to debates on forums and software I've built as tools to proceed on that path.

I'd love a chance to put some of my theories into practice by upgrading spacecollective with the newest game-theory, forms of organizing people, and whatever else you would trust me with.

We can keep spacecollective as it is in a backup, or even branch it and keep both or many variations of it running at once. I could pay for the extra servers, at least until we could move the experimental version onto the main server, and do all the technical things on my own except for a little help I'd need to get access to the original and copy it.

Here's some related threads which demonstrate my understanding and strong interest in these kind of things:
http://spacecollective.org/BenRayfield/7406/Correct-Way-To-Create-World-Government
http://spacecollective.org/BenRayfield/6957/Anonymous-Voting-With-No-Limit-On-Votes-Per-Person
http://spacecollective.org/BenRayfield/7145/Global-Language
http://spacecollective.org/BenRayfield/7268/Global-Decentralization-Process
http://spacecollective.org/BenRayfield/7414/a-trivial-change-in-language-that-would-certainly-cause-world-peace
http://spacecollective.org/BenRayfield/7418/bigotry-is-categorizing-by-less-important-things-while-ignoring-important-things
http://spacecollective.org/BenRayfield/6964/Meta-Paradigm-Shift
http://spacecollective.org/BenRayfield/7157/We-Evolve-Evolution
http://spacecollective.org/BenRayfield/7355/Metacommunication-Network
http://spacecollective.org/BenRayfield/6090/Artificial-Intelligence-learns-music
http://spacecollective.org/BenRayfield/6240/Wikipedia-Brain

Here's the most important 10000 Wikipedia page names and links between them, where you can fly around in 3d and see the links as lines between them. Its a work in progress. My plan was to make it a 3d chatroom with links between related posts, but I got distracted recently with creating global democracy through free open source peer to peer (no central authority) secure software, counting votes and actions in wikis similar to how Bitcoin (which became a 200 million dollar economy, just numbers on peoples screens they chose to use as money) counts money. What is money except the agreement that certain numbers have value so we trade them?
http://FreeSpeechJustPayShipping.com

Here's the other open source software I've created:
http://sourceforge.net/users/benrayfield

I'm a digital artist. I dream in math sometimes. I'm a polymath and mad scientist. Whatever I want a computer to do, I can make it do that. If you can imagine it and explain it to me in a logical way, I can make computers do it. It may take me a long time, but I can at least explain how to proceed and strategize in that case. Throw some ideas out there and lets debate the future of spacecollective. Whatever we agree on, if I think its advanced and beautiful enough to be a seed of global democracy, I offer to make it happen.

Until some of you respond, I'm going back to creating a paint program to test a simulated bayesian visual cortex, so you would paint into the artificial intelligence's dream and see its dreamed response, a very simple and stupid mind but hopefully it will be smart enough to dream some simple shapes and imagine new combinations of them. Consider that and the 3d view of Wikipedia at http://FreeSpeechJustPayShipping.com  when thinking about how we could upgrade spacecollective.

I ask for nothing except our democracy of creative freedom and the chance to do my research in upgrading spacecollective. It would be free and open source.

We could also do it as a http://kickstarter.com  (a unique way to do crowdsourced charity funding) project if it became more serious, so those of us working on it could do it full time instead of our jobs.

While I've screwed up in this way many times in the past, I have learned that the most advanced things are simple. This would be less than 1 megabyte. It would be something you could understand and build onto without me.

I'd like to plant this small seed of global democracy into spacecollective and for it, in an open source way, to grow into a bigger and bigger community and technology their democracy and multimedia playground and other tools are built with, for Bitcoin, Kickstarter, the Free Software Foundation, and various other parts of what some may call underground society, to form into our own "off the grid" society, eventually with its own free open source peer to peer (no central authority) counterpart to DARPA as our best scientific minds are organized through our cryptocurrencies to provide resources so they don't have to work at a job and online democracies to organize all this. We're spacecollective. Why don't we have our own space program? A global brain made of how our minds fit together through online democracy (and whatever that leads to) can do physics research so much faster than how businesses and governments work, its scary. In other words, I want to detonate a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_singularity  in a safe and well researched way, where the intelligence explosion starts from our democracy and people and software working together, not any 1 way of doing things overpowering the others. But first, lets upgrade spacecollective with whatever kinds of democracy and new kinds of communication and ways to organize people to open the borders but still keep content quality high somehow, that we the people of spacecollective debate and agree on in this thread.

What do you all think?

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