#biocommunism — Public Fediverse posts
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"How might a social system that aims to preserve human habitats within a web of biological diversity address the potential arrival of digital intelligences? Our biocommunist proposal offers an antidote to contemporary capitalism, namely cybernetic distributed planning. It stipulates that such planning takes account both of the labour expended in maintaining digital networks and also of these networks’ ecological footprint.
Our Proposal: Planetary Well-Being
We have proposed a system in which AIs and other cybernetic systems would be deployed not as an instrument of runaway growth of the human economy, but as part of a process capable of both expanding and limiting the growth process within a broader calculus of the conditions of planetary well-being than that afforded by capital’s universal commodification.Biocommunist planning would clearly require AI development to be human aligned, in the sense of precluding existential threats to hominid existence. AIs produced within a biocommunist context would be trained to address different problems, on differently compiled data sets, and with very different orientations from those that currently dominate the CCC’s AI research. Biocommunist AI would emerge from a context in which issues of care – medical, ecological and social– are prime directives rather than collateral concerns systemically subordinated to profit. In this sense, biocommunist AI would be a different form of intelligence from that produced by capitalism.
But there are also aspects of biocommunist computing that might go beyond ‘human alignment’. Biocommunism would be a system in which human domination of nature is tempered by recognition of the diversity and uniqueness of life forms on which our species depends."
https://socialistproject.ca/2026/01/cybernetic-circulation-complex/
#AI #GenerativeAI #BigTech #MagnificentSeven #Biocommunism #Capitalism
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#futurehistories #podcast
S02E27 - Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism
#FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #Podcast, #JanGroos, #Interview, #Biocommunism, #Dyer-Witheford, #Commonism, #Platforms, #Biocommie, #HelenHester, #NickSrnicek, #AlexWilliams, #Accelerationism, #Ecosocialism, #Rationing, #PowerandCatastrophe, #Capitalism, #AaronBenanav, #Postcapitalism, #Polycrisis, #EconomicPlanning, #Crisis, #Capital, #Rationing, #Hegemony, #Governmentality, #Foucault, #RadicalTransformation, #SocialTransformation, #Democracy, #Socialism, #DesasterCapitalism, #PoliticalEconomy, #Scarcity, #Communism
https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s02e26-nick-dyer-witheford-on-biocommunism/ -
#futurehistories #podcast
S02E27 - Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism
#FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #Podcast, #JanGroos, #Interview, #Biocommunism, #Dyer-Witheford, #Commonism, #Platforms, #Biocommie, #HelenHester, #NickSrnicek, #AlexWilliams, #Accelerationism, #Ecosocialism, #Rationing, #PowerandCatastrophe, #Capitalism, #AaronBenanav, #Postcapitalism, #Polycrisis, #EconomicPlanning, #Crisis, #Capital, #Rationing, #Hegemony, #Governmentality, #Foucault, #RadicalTransformation, #SocialTransformation, #Democracy, #Socialism, #DesasterCapitalism, #PoliticalEconomy, #Scarcity, #Communism
https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s02e26-nick-dyer-witheford-on-biocommunism/