Swarmpunk

Rough Consensus and Running Code in Brains, Machines, and Society

A dissertation by Jonny Saunders - 2022-08-05

Dissertation

HTML

(coming soon) :)

PDF

22-08-10: Pending a final, archival version I am making the versioned repository render of the dissertation public. Mind the version hash and render date :). This link is likely to change.

• swarmpunk - repository version

Source

The repository for the dissertation, this site, and the slides, can be found at:

https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/dissertation

Though this is likely to change as I move my personal work off of GitHub <3

Defense

Held Friday, August 5th, 2022: 1pm Pacific.

• Video: archive.org, Download: x265, x264, subs, .torrent, magnet
• Slides: rendered, source

TOC

(See the TOC for the slides by clicking the three circles in the top left)

• 0:00:00 Introduction

Part 1: Speech

• 0:01:44 Speech
• 0:02:01 Cue-based models
• 0:03:54 Family Resemblances
• 0:05:16 Mice Can Learn Phonetic Categories
• 0:05:56 Extended Universe of Phonetic Perception

Part 2: Information Capitalism

• 0:07:30 Information Capitalism & Digital Infrastructure
• 0:08:53 Creating the Cloud
• 0:11:47 Surveillance Publishing

Part 3: Shared Data

• 0:15:08 Decentralized Infrastructure Overview
• 0:16:03 Linked Data
• 0:20:50 Peer to Peer
• 0:23:19 P2P Federation

Part 4: Shared Tools

• 0:25:50 Analytical Tools
• 0:26:48 Autopilot

Part 5: Shared Knowledge

• 0:31:43 Shared Knowledge
• 0:32:45 Communication Systems
• 0:38:51 Example Wikis
• 0:42:23 Linked Everything
• 0:46:45 Conclusion

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