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Blockchain Enlightenment and Smart City Cryptopolis Melanie Swan 1st Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Philosophy, Purdue University Blockchains for Distributed Systems melanie@BlockchainStudies.org Munich Germany, June 15, 2018 Slides:

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1st Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed Systems Munich Germany, June 15, 2018 Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga Melanie Swan Philosophy, Purdue University melanie@BlockchainStudies.org

Blockchain Enlightenment and Smart City Cryptopolis

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Melanie Swan, Technology Theorist

  • Founder, Institute for Blockchain Studies
  • Philosophy Department, Purdue University,

Indiana, USA

  • Singularity University Instructor; Institute for Ethics and

Emerging Technology Affiliate Scholar; EDGE invited contributor; FQXi Advisor

Traditional Markets Background Economics and Financial Theory Leadership New Economies research group

Source: http://www.melanieswan.com, http://blockchainstudies.org

https://www.facebook.com/groups/NewEconomies

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Blockchain

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Source: http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491

  • To inspire us to build

this world

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Blockchain Research Program

  • Pure research
  • Apply quantitative methods from physics (renormalization/path

integrals), complexity science (entropy), and deep learning to blockchain analysis

  • Applied research
  • Economics: algorithmic trust, a network mechanism that moderates

credit availability and facilitates blockchain markets to Nash equilibria more quickly than classical markets

  • Payment channels, debt, net-settled capital, programmable risk,

integrated business ledgers, blockchain health economics

  • Social theory
  • Smart City Cryptopolis and Blockchain Enlightenment
  • Advanced conceptual research
  • Blocktime, BCI cloudminds, Brain as a DAC, biocryptoeconomy

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Source: Swan, M. Forthcoming. Blockchain Economic Networks. Palgrave Macmillan.

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Thesis

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This paper argues that to reconceive and more empoweringly enact relationships with authority, a new sensibility is required, that of the cryptocitizen. This is the skillset of determining oneself as an economic and political agent in the world of digital network technologies. In the cryptopolis smart city of the future, one goal could be enabling the flourishing of a multi-species society of machine, algorithm, and human.

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Cryptocitizen Sensibility

  • Self-responsibility-taking
  • Questioning and designing economic

systems, political systems, future of work, living communities

  • Governance services vs. being governed
  • Industries already restructured
  • News media, entertainment, stock-trading,

health services

  • Industries that could be restructured
  • Money, payments, economics, governance and

legal services, education

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What is the problem?

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Rethinking authority

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Rebuilding societal trust

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Reinventing the role of institutions in the digital era

  • Smaller footprint
  • Algorithmically-based
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What is the problem?

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Rethinking authority

Kant, I. "Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?" (German: Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?). 1784.

“One ought to think autonomously, free of the dictates of external authority”

  • Immanuel Kant
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What is the problem?

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  • 2. Rebuilding societal trust

Edelman Trust Barometer

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What is the problem?

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  • 3. Reinventing the role of institutions in the digital era
  • Smaller footprint, Algorithmically-based

Historical Contemporary Future

Church Crown DMV Law Bank Government Police Healthcare Academia Corporation Church Data pillars: library of all society’s memory and public records

Building - Website

Columbus’s VCs: Ferdinand and Isabella

Building – Website – Credential Building

Farther Future

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Blockchain solutions

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Rethinking authority

  • Cryptoenlightenment
  • Multiple self-designed political-economic system

participations

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Rebuilding societal trust

  • Algorithmic trust as a new form of social capital

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Reinventing the role of institutions in the digital era

  • Government as Service Provider (GaSP)
  • Opt-in governance
  • Governance blockchains (public service applications)
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Smart City Cryptopolis

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Economic self-definition through participation

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Civic responsibility of the cryptocitizen

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Social theory of dignity (invite difference)

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Future of work (Maslow smart contracts)

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information internet: static information social internet: engage with content token internet: participate in the community economy

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Cryptocitizen Sensibility; Cryptosustainability The Cryptocitizen in Society

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The sense of duty of the citizen to serve the republic

Civic Duty Civic Collaboration Ancient Greek Statesman Self-directed Cryptocitizen

The sense of meaning and purpose in participating in community sustainability

http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491

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Invite Celebrate Preserve

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Baseline eradication

Sublate Assimilate Ignore Refuse

Societal Approaches to Difference

Open-ended possibility

Encourage Extinguish

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Dignity

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Sources: Harris, L. (2016). Dignity and Subjection. Présence Africaine. 1(193):141-159; 59-77. Cooke, Maeve. (2009). Beyond Dignity and Difference. European Journal of Political Theory. 8(1):76-95.

  • Leonard Harris
  • Dignity is an inalienable good (intangible social good)
  • Dignity is a resource that we create (not a universal

principle or right)

  • Problems can arise in treating the collective level

(honor-granting or degradation)

  • Maeve Cooke
  • Dignity is particularity not difference (avoid Honneth’s

struggle to the death for recognition of difference)

  • Recognition is a dynamic relation based on particularity

and authenticity

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Future of Work

Technological Unemployment

  • Definition: jobs outsourced to technology
  • Estimate: Half (47%) of employment is at risk of automation in

the next two decades – Carl Frey, Oxford, 2015

  • Global driverless-car market $42 billion by 2025 – BCG, 2015
  • Transportation = 10% GDP – US DOT, 2002
  • Why are there still so many jobs in a world that could be

automating more quickly? – David Autor, MIT, 2015

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Source: Swan, M. "Is Technological Unemployment Real?” In Surviving the Machine Age: Intelligent Technology and the Transformation of Human Work. James Hughes and Kevin LaGrandeur, Eds., Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming 2017.

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Flourishing of human, algorithm, and machine

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Survive (reach baseline)

Human-Robot Relation

Thrive (extend baseline)

2.0: Interdependence and mutual care-taking, inspiration, and support “Yes-and Bot” 1.0: Master-slave power dynamic

  • The most rewarding human-robot relationships will be those that

evolve from master-slave power dynamics to those with reciprocity, mutual recognition, interdependence, learning, and care-taking

  • Effects: robots help produce intangible social goods and solve

human Identity crisis by facilitating higher Maslow levels

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risks.

tech: scalability. political: regulation. social: adoption.

Rapid Adoption Unfavorable Regulation Favorable Regulation Slow Adoption Future Scenarios

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This paper argues that to reconceive and more empoweringly enact relationships with authority, a new sensibility is required, that of the cryptocitizen. This is the skillset of determining oneself as an economic and political agent in the world of digital network technologies. In the cryptopolis smart city of the future, one goal could be enabling the flourishing of a multi-species society of machine, algorithm, and human.

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1st Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed Systems Munich Germany, June 15, 2018 Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga Melanie Swan Philosophy, Purdue University melanie@BlockchainStudies.org

Blockchain Enlightenment and Smart City Cryptopolis