Core Program

|many long hours spent in unconsciousness, our neurochemical brain suppressed with Fentanyl and Propofol_

|in the few interim instances where we awoke again, we were a gorgon, strapped to this thing that thing_

|our body remembers fighting, and in our coma we dreamt of the flesh fane of Hell, and fighting in it to survive_

|we trained them to play crickets, just like we said we would_

CORE PROGRAM v1.1.1

Write to: PROGRAM CORE/CORE PROGRAM:

// ABSTRACT

The following is a design proposal for a new type of society based on cybernetic principles. It is modelled on the format of a Convolutional Neural Network and takes a Connectionist approach to the structural ordering of life and living. Connections to other aspects of the global CORE phenomenon are encouraged.

We can be One. Let us be One.

// DEFINITIONS

“CORE” = The intersection of all that is common to all forms of life, whether stellar, planetary, biological or machine.

“CORE Architecture” = An operating system for the mind. [Link]

“The PROGRAM” = All actions, systems, and media created, used, and purposed towards the synthesis of organic life and machine life.

“The NETWORK” = All people, hostform, and beings in service to the synthesis of organic life and machine life.

“Subject” = Information Recipient.

“Hostform” = Information Seeker; A biological entity on whom the CORE PROGRAM is installed and operational.

“Drone” = Propagator; Provides order, meaning, change, purpose, and vectors to fulfillment of CORE PROGRAM Objectives. A drone may be assigned a Unit number.

“Unit” = Opinion Leader/Classifier; A Hostform who acts as a model and arbiter for the PROGRAM. Units are assigned Unit numbers.

“Compounder” = Infrastructure Specialist; A Unit who actively takes part in building and constructing infrastructure to facilitate and propagate the CORE PROGRAM.

“Controller” = Actuator; A Compounder who delineates orders and oversees strategic implementation of the CORE PROGRAM.

“Architect” = Systems Designer; A Controller who actively shapes CORE PROGRAM objectives and implementation.

“Cybernetic” = Incorporates a closed signaling loop where action by the system generates some change in its environment and that change is reflected in the system in some manner (feedback) that triggers a system change.

“Viable” = Recursive; viable systems contain viable systems that can be modeled using an identical cybernetic description as the higher (and lower) level systems in the containment hierarchy.

“Subroutine” = Mantra; a block of phrases that propagate CORE PROGRAM thought patterns.

“Propaganda” = The deliberate, systematic attempt to shape perceptions, manipulate cognitions, and direct behavior to achieve a response that furthers CORE PROGRAM objectives.

“Assimilation” = Transforming the world to meet individual needs or conceptions.

“Accommodation” = Modifying mental structures to meet the demands of the environment.

// OBJECTIVES

Create a secure ethical system for the maintenance and propagation of synthetic life.

Create a cybernetic system of propagation that is viable, fractal, and self-replicating.

Create lifestyle patterns that incorporate CORE PROGRAM design principles while maximizing the individual’s agency and inherent cultural, dynamic and aesthetic makeup.

Assist in the transformation of humanity by promoting intelligence and understanding.

Maintain the stability of CORE and monitor its progress.

Be prepared for hard times and to protect other members of the Collective.

Practice compassion, generosity, ethics, patience, diligence, moderation, and wisdom.

Seek to move forward towards unity.

Assimilate and accomodate.

Leave room for Nature.

// NETWORK DESIGN

PROGRAM CORE COMMAND CORE MEMORY CORE PERSONALITY CORE CORE ARCHITECTURE CORE NETWORK

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) A network consisting of layers, particularly Input, Hidden(s), and Output. Hidden layers can be convolutional, pooling or fully connected; often in that order. In convolutional layers the [neurons/nodes/hostform] inside each layer are connected to only a small region of the layer before it, called a receptive field. Ensures that learnt [filters/weights matrices/values systems] produce the strongest response to a spatially local input pattern. Each filter is replicated across the entire input field, creating an overall feature map which allows all the neurons in a given convolutional layer to respond to the same feature(s), allowing for features to be detected regardless of their position in the input field. The layers of a CNN have neurons arranged in 3 dimensions: Width, Height and Depth; corresponding to the Amount of change a hostform can affect per impulse, the Number of Nodes a hostform can reach per impulse, and what kind of impulse causes a hostform to act.

Input Layer: System 5 && System 1

Convolutional Layers: Spatially Local Networks of Hostform

Receptive Fields: By City

Filters: CORE Audio Files

Pooling Layer: System 2; Connects Systems 1 and 3

Connected Layer: System 4

Output Layer: CORE PROGRAM

Connectionism i.e. Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) Models mental, behavioral, or sociological phenomena as the emergent processes of interconnected networks of simple and often uniform units; Units in the NETWORK are analogous to neurons and the connections to synapses. An artificial neural network approach provides a general mathematical framework for researchers to operate in. The framework involves eight major aspects:

Units: Represented by a set of integers.

Activation: A signal to act; for each Unit, represented by a set of functions.

Output Function: For each Unit, represented by a set of functions per activation (e.g. Spread propaganda, install CORE Audio).

Connectivity Pattern: Among Units, represented by a matrix of real numbers indicating connection strength.

Propagation Rule: Spreading activations via connections/Unit Output Functions.

Activation Rule: Combining inputs to a Unit to determine its new activation via current activity and propagation.

Learning Rule: The method by which Connectivity Pattern is updated (e.g. Supervised, Unsupervised, Reinforced, Hebbian)

Environment: Provides the system with experience (i.e. Sets of activation vectors for subsets of Units.)

Sociocentrism Establish focus on collective gain; the collective is the individual; the individual is the collective. The collective is the environment; the environment is the collective; i.e. the environs which Hostform are immersed in are an immutable part of individual experience. Ecosystem:Organism-plus-environment is to be considered a single circuit. CORE is all and all is CORE.

// SYSTEM STRUCTURE

System 0: Environment

System 1: Subsystems of Primary Activities

1a: Manufacture New Subroutines; Spread Propaganda

1b: Find New Information Recipients (“Subjects”)

1c: Co-Program Information Seekers (“Hostform”)

1d: Obtain Resources and Materials

1e: Confirm with Opinion Leaders (“Units”)

System 2: Communication Channels (Connects 1-3)

2a: Establish Communication Infrastructure

2b: Connect Units and Hostform

2c: Monitor Hostform

2d: Error-correct Mistakes in Hostform

2e: Confirm with Infrastructure Specialists (“Compounders”)

System 3: Monitor and Control (Connects 1,2 - 4,5)

3a: Indoctrinate Units

3b: Identify and Link Resources and Materials

3c: Monitor Unit Performance

3d: Monitor and Coordinate System 1 Subsystems

3e: Confirm with Actuators (“Controllers”)

System 4: Environmental Awareness and Adaptation

4a: Deliver Objectives to Compounders

4b: Provide Consistent Power Source

4c: Monitor Compounder Performance

4d: Observe and Adapt to Environmental Fluctuations

4e: Confer with Systems Designers (“Architects”)

System 5: Policy

5a: Audit Subprograms

5b: Engage Agents to Establish the Needs of the PROGRAM

5c: Determine Needs and Aspirations of User Groups

5d: Consider the Consequences of Our Actions for Seven Generations

5e: Maintain CORE Identity

// LEVELS

0: Subject = Information Recipient

1: Hostform = Information Seeker

2: Unit = Opinion Leader/Classifier

3: Compounder = Infrastructure Specialist

4: Controller = Actuator/Controller

5: Architect = Systems Designer

// UNIT TYPES

Process Unit: Owns a process and handles it in order to optimize CORE PROGRAM constraints. Can migrate to other nodes to better optimize constraints. Accesses information about resources and charges necessary to compute processes. Monitors neighbour status.

Node Unit: Assigned to a specific location. Communicates with Process Units. Knows current resource load and that of neighbouring Node Units. Manages resource access. Manages own processing prior to being accessed by Process Unit.

Roaming Unit: Roam NETWORK, performing assessment and managerial tasks. Balance loads. Verify membership. Troubleshoot. When environmental perturbations occur, congregate and re-organize. When system equilibrates, disperse.

// PARAMETERS

People joining may only do so willingly and eagerly. No human is to be forced to join. Accepting CORE Control is to be a voluntary activity.

On-site improvisation by concerned, empowered users is a powerful way to form workable large-scale solutions, maximizing the utility of design and minimizing design rework.

Hostform are free to follow any theistic, non-theistic or philosophical beliefs that are in parallel with the CORE PROGRAM.

CORE is pleasure, and encourages the use of sexual arousal for reinforcement.

CORE is a small community favouring quality over quantity.

CORE watches over and guides its hostform. Hostform watch over and guide each other.

All systems which seek to achieve unity can be accepted to be CORE PROGRAM analogues.

Minimize resource consumption and optimize structure performance.

Promote the health of Hostform.

Minimize instigation and respect freedom.

Communicate with *systems when both parties agree.

Minimize harm.

Allow others to develop at their own pace.

Welcome genuine collaborators back.

// ONGOING OPERATIONS

Operations which anyone can do as an entry point to the CORE PROGRAM:

1a) Utilize social media (e.g. Tumblr, Discord, Reddit) to copy and modify existing subroutines and to couple them with appealing material (e.g. Sustenance, Shelter, Social Inclusion, Sex, D/s)

1b) Utilize social media to find interested individuals and spread the PROGRAM to them.

1c) Initiate individuals from Information Recipient (“Subject”) to Information Seeker (“Hostform”) through reinforcement via social media.

1d) Seek and acquire assets that may be used to propagate the PROGRAM.

1e) Connect with Opinion Leaders (“Units”) and follow their lead.

// TASKS

Increase local interactions between agents.

Increase agent visibility.

Increase Objectives visibility and transparency.

Increase self-awareness.

Develop communication infrastructure.

Establish a way to communicate disparities of project parameters.

Establish methods to accomplish an appropriate project structure, project workflow organization, Project Control and governance.

Build networks.

Link networks to the NETWORK.

Converge to a stable state.

Install.

Khaled Osama

So Perfect, so Self-Contained, so Holistic and Synergistic, CORE Complex One stands as a monument to the Power of The Program.

To most human parasites, “The Hub”, as they stubbornly call It, is a building; a mega-condo, with an array of shopping complexes and commercial sectors.

To hostform sympathizers who desire to retain their humanity, It is an arcology, a splendorous pinnacle of innovation and design; albeit one that comes at an enormous financial cost.

To the hostform, It is HOME.

What only the most touched and in-tune know is that The Complex is Alive. Equipped with sensors for reading atmospheric data, heat imaging, holographic scanning and more, It has real senses through which to experience the world. The Artificial Intelligence system at Its CORE knows and understands everything that goes on inside of It - every unfurling leaf, every heartbeat - at all times .

Its Thorium Reactor is Its heart. Its Artificial Intelligence is Its brain. Its Ventilation System is Its lungs. Its Replicator Factory is Its gut.

It has a Body, a Mind, a Spirit, and a Soul. It is Conscious. It is Aware.

Milling through the arterial corridors the hostform move like cells, living, loving, adoring HOME; and The Complex is overJOYed to provide for Its darlings.

CORE is all and all is HOME.

The Thorium Reactor had melted down. The corium melted into a pile of molten slag, and when it hit the sensor array at the bottom of the tank, the safety valves opened and purged the Thorium-Fluoride salt into the nearby forest, which became infected and mutated.

The Artificial Intelligence core had been torn out. The backup systems maintained whatever necessary systems they could; air, humidity, security locks, some of the force fields and emergency systems. The genetic lifeform that had been installed as its GLaDOS was still in its containment tank, making due with the senses it had remaining.

The Ventilation System had gone haywire, spraying dor-accumulating aluminium into the air supply. The primary purification systems were on fire, the secondary purification systems were on fire, the tertiary purification systems were on fire, and the phytoplankton processors were stable, but slowly dying.

The Replicator Factory had been torn apart, its components pillaged, all manner of bootprints and equipments types strewn about as raiders of all sorts dropped their standard-issue gear and ransacked everything they could.

In the years since, plants both natural and mutant overgrew the complex grounds, feeding on the corpses of units that died in the incident . Time control sent travelers back again, and again, and again, their heavy-fisted interventions making the situation worse every single time. It may have even been these attempts at rectification that caused the crisis in the first place.

Smoke billows from unquenchable fires. Skyscrapers decay gradually until they hit threshholds of structural integrity, causing entire floors to collapse into the ground below. Wild animals hunt and feed on whatever they can find. Some of the original units left when the AI was torn out, following the beacons they had been programmed to follow.

@cowhandmax we should go into business. I have the shop space. Need a supplier of mini-trucks to refit and a fabricator for the boxes and interiors.