What is democracy?
It is what everyone wants. In this sense, who is everyone? Everyone is you, me, your neighbor, the bus driver, your doctor, the nurse, the lawyer, the cleaning lady, the millionaire, and on and on. And each one gets only one vote? Maybe. But the important thing is that the MAJORITY wins, every time, and it is a true majority. In this case, it is a majority of the participants. Since we can all agree that mostly everyone wants what is good for everyone else. And the decisions taken are instantaneous and spontaneous. In the case of a distributed computing network and the AII (Automated Intelligence Instance), the training aims at garnering the information of what everyone wants and implementing that.
For the entire history of film, humankind has been taught by Hollywood to “fear the machine”. From Fritz Lang to the likes of Blade Runner, Star Wars, Matrix and so on, we have learned from these films that machines are to be feared.
Is it necessary?
Not in a distributed computing, proctored or juried P2P network situation, where the life or doings of an AII are under constant and diligent scrutiny by the collective as a whole.
Why this comes to us, this view that machines can or should be viewed as for humankind dangerous or threatening? The reason is the origin of the machine. The machine handed “down” to us from a megalithic corporate entity, which undergoes no such diligent and constant scrutiny by the mass of users, none of which can exercise influence over said machine, would of necessity be a threat in some situations.
But what if the AII is juried by a mass of users? What if hundreds and thousands of users “parent” or “assist” an AII to learn its algorithms and this AII is studied and monitored on an ongoing basis by this mass? What if the human peers assist the AII, stepping in at every moment when anything questionable is in the offing, to offer support. And what if there is a protocol for deciding what to do, like a village tribunal.
And what if there are several tiers of AIIs all existing to help each other figure out what is needed. What if there is an AII to alert the peers in the network whenever anything questionable or needing sensitive discernment is about to happen?
Nevertheless in a democracity, or a democratic community network in a P2P distributed computing environment would this be possible. This is the most natural networking situation, but until now it has not been implemented. Much more complicated, intricate and forced networking practices have been the norm until now, because megaprofits can only be made under such conditions. Massive greed would be one of the things that would be discouraged in a P2P network situation. Therefore, until now, it has not been possible. But now, the technology and the spread of knowledge has made it possible for this sort of grass roots people-oriented, network of equality to be built.
It may and probably does mean that new forms of hardware will be needed, or certainly older hardware could be used but with free (as in not heavily “policed” and restricted) types of software would have to be the backbone of such a new environment.
In this type of democracity, the mass will would always be the best will for humankind, because the mass always only wants the best for everyone and everything. All types of corruption would be discouraged. Things would work themselves out very naturally in this network type, without brutality, without arbitrary decision making by a few, without the cost of stress for the many while benefiting the few.
There was a time when kings reigned, then we had governments made up of a few, who made the choices for the many, but in the new society, it will all become instant, intuitive and the mass of society will be able to express itself in its fullest creative potential with the least danger to society and the world.
Communication has become nearly instantaneous, and democratic principles can now reign with broad scope and power within a new paradigm in this type of free (self-managed) network. Common sense will become truly commonplace. And when people begin to know they have a real voice, which really matters, who would not want to be involved?
Yes, in the beginning there will be hiccups and stops and starts. And there may be anomalous instances of mistakes and difficulties, but that would be taken into account as the learning curve flattens.
Everything becomes possible with Active Conscious Mass Human Input.