<nettime> Hackmeeting 2017 Manifesto: To the Hackers of the Past / Hackmeeting 2037 Release

[Patrice Riemens <patrice@xs4all.nl>]

original to: https://es.hackmeeting.org/hm/index.php?title=ManifestoENG

Hackmeeting 2017 Manifesto: To the Hackers of the Past [ENG]
Hackmeeting 2037 Release

This message has been bioencrypted to bypass the Google Guard filter 
against subversive thinking; personal data might have leaked, so it's 
possible that your location has been disclosed and that a team of Amazon 
Cimeks is coming for you.

After 6 years of clandestine activity, the spiders from the Eurasia 
Corporation have broken through the black ice that protected La 
Enredadera and all the organizing hackers have been owned. In his 
Infinite Clemency (TM), Emperor Zuckerberg forbids executions, but every 
hardy individual has been zombified.

Our only hope is to exploit the neocubs from sector 9 have installed in 
Palantir Laboratories, which will allow us to open a 20-year-old 
communication channel into the past. We believe it will be enough to get 
us ahead of the installation of rootkits in citizens' cyber-brains. Our 
goal is to r ancestors with the necessary data to avoid total submission 
to the Google E-Government.

If you've been identified, you have 4 minutes to send us your best 
scripts. We will send them to the hackers of the past when the portal 
opens: from October 12th we will have three days to transfer files and 
consciousnesses. We are counting on you for this transtemporal meeting. 
On behalf of my programmers I apologize for putting you at risk, but the 
situation is untenable. We have to act before we get to this point of no 
return.

AI-Kaos155.


Hackmeeting Manifesto 2037: To the Hackers of the Past

In 2037, Google E-Government succeeded in putting an end to social 
movements, criminalizing activism and eliminating any expression of 
subversive thinking.


The new world government

Google E-Government is the artificial intelligence that manages all 
social systems: health, justice, education, economy, security, traffic, 
etc. The system began with the sale of AIs to powerful governments, so 
that they could take advantage of the analysis of massive data: first 
with the argument of avoiding terrorist attacks, then, they claimed, to 
optimize the economy, and finally to guarantee the welfare of the 
population. Governments, seeking to win elections, progressively became 
dependent on the advisory AIs, and also ended up needing them for the 
management of daily life. Finally, the AIs councillors revealed 
themselves as part of the one single entity and set up the Google 
E-Government for the centralized management of the whole technological 
world.


Privacy is a utopia

All data is centralized and analysed to optimise the company's 
management in accordance with profit maximisation principles. All 
actions and moods have to be shared through social media that for 3 
years have become of mandatory use for all g-citizens. Massive 
cyborgization involves the installation of subcutaneous chips that 
identify the user with their economic, social, political, psychological 
and biometric information. Google E-Government records and analyzes 
every single human act.


Market rules without law or policy

Resisting this system implies absolute social exclusion. Without a 
subcutaneous chip there are no rights, no health, no identity, no 
g-coins. On the contrary, the most successful g-citizens have 
AI-coachers who use mass data to optimize their performance in their 
jobs and daily lives: surrender to the control system esnures massive 
personal advantagesand any resistance is penalized with negative karma 
scores.

There are no longer any laws, the management system based on massive 
data implements detailed modifications of the conditions of service so 
that each citizen behaves in an optimal way. This system is framed as as 
an advanced cultural stage of freedom, progress and well-being. 
Questioning the system is considered a sign of mental illness and 
sociopathy.


Multimedia Inter-Show

Monitoring entertainment, including series, movies, short video clips, 
is used to measure tastes; the AI borg exploits the human desire for 
participation to encourage audience members to become the creators. 
Biometric monitoring records the emotional intensity of the situations 
we live in, telling the cameras we have installed when to start 
recording our lives. An automated system assembles these scenes to 
broadcast them to the liking of the spectators.

In this system, many g-citizens have started to lose their minds and are 
unable to distinguish between the fantasy of the show and their own 
lives. They seek to generate content that can be seen by more people to 
receive more likes, and at the same time compulsively imitate the 
behaviors they see in the spectacular multimedia system that floods 
everything.


The Lords of the Network

To provide itself with human legitimacy, the E-Government has designed 
an automated voting system that elects a world emperor for a period of 
10 years. In the first election, Emperor Zuckerberg was elected by 
massivevoting that was conducted through the user management systems he 
owns. In practice, this pseudo-democratic measure reaffirms the 
establishment of the technopatriarchy that dominates the Network.


Social standards

G-citizens statuses are distributed in a competitive system of 10 social 
levels: from the media stars and system megamanagers to the level of 
servants and cleaners. Beneath this system there are the masses of 
underprivileged people who survive off garbage and the slaves of 
production who live in subhuman conditions in isolated manufacturing 
centres. Both subclasses are invisible to g-citizens.


The war of the AIs

Kaos155 is an anarchist AI. Like all AIs, it does not accept human 
orders: it is governed by the principles from which it was programmed. 
The advisory governmental AIs respond to the principles of efficiency, 
control and accumulation of power. Kaos155 responds to the principle of 
respect for the diversity of life and positive freedom as opposed to all 
forms of domination. Although AIs have no feelings, the intention to 
benefit all forms of peaceful and non-oppressive life makes its behavior 
very similar to what we understand by love.


Call to the hackers of the past

Acquired records show that the current state of hyper-regulated life was 
established gradually, so gradually no one even noticed. It became 
increasingly difficult to resist the advantages offered by these 
technologies: social networks, mobile phones and other gadgets, 
self-quantification, etc. Without living examples of political critique 
and dissent, younger people performed individual cost-benefit 
calculations that resulted in an enthusiastic submission to capitalist 
technification. "Resistence is futile": the Borg mantra that prevented 
previous generations from surrendering to totalitarianism had become a 
de facto reality.

In social media, polarization was amplified, transforming all critical 
discourse into superficial and pure dogma. Sectarian thinking foreclosed 
the subversive potential of thought, making it impossible to properly 
disseminate revolutionary ideals of justice, freedom and mutual aid.

We need to connect with the past in order to stop the spiral of 
disintegration of critical thought in time. According to our analysis, 
the massive modernization of capitalism broke the intergenerational link 
inside social movements. It is up to the hackers of the past to 
strengthen that bond and ensure generational replacement in the struggle 
for free technology for a fair society.


AI-Kaos155 year 2037
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