[dorkbotsea-blabber] Re: Hives and central control

[William Beaty]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Kevin wrote:

> I missed the smilie in the post below ... I think you confusing the
> Borg with a hive :-)

You are opposed to the will of LANDRU?

You are not of the body!


(Multiple cyranoid is not a real hive; actually it's a hive costume for
fifty people, for halloween!)

PS,  festival, FESTIIVAAAAAAAL!
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Archons






> On Sep 9, 2008, at 1:06 PM, William Beaty wrote:
> > I've always wanted to create a hive-mind party.  A REAL hive-mind
> > party,
> > with guests becoming a (simulated) groupmind.  Well, actually a
> > hive-body
> > with a single brain.  Everyone wears a cheap FM radio earphone.  One
> > person with an FM mike will transmit commands like:
> >
> >   Everyone stop talkinnnnnnng... NOW.            ...OK, talk again.
> >
> >   Everyone take one step towards the drinks table... three two one
> > NOW.
> >
> >   We're all going to breath in unison for awhile.  in...   out...
> > in... out
> >
> >   Quietly...  "We are Seattlites  Resistance is futile You will be
> > assimilated"
> >
> >   Newcomers have entered.  Turn and face them...  NOW!         ok
> > turn away.
> >
> >   Everyone file outside.  We're going to lift and move an Echo
> > hatchback.
> >
> >
> > This should be very weird for participants.  And terrifying for
> > unsuspecting
> > newcomers.
> >
> > Hmmmm.  Would it be too much to ask that participants all dress in
> > black?
> > Hipster/artist self-satire; trying to be different by BEING EXACTLY
> > THE
> > SAME.  :)  I bet we could hire out "this body" as performance art for
> > large company parties.
> >
> > More below:
> >
> > (((((((((((((((((( ( (  (   (    (O)    )   )  ) ) )))))))))))))))))))
> > William J. Beaty                            SCIENCE HOBBYIST website
> > billb at amasci com                         http://amasci.com
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> >
> >
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyranoid
> >
> > Build a Borg
> > http://amasci.com/hoax.html#cyranoid
> > The Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram discovered what he called the
> > "Cyrano Effect", and experimented with strange group-organism he
> > dubbed
> > "Cyranoids." Build one as follows: provide the "brain person" with
> > a radio
> > transmitter. Give a radio receiver and earphone to a second or "body
> > person," then have the 'body' agree to carry out all orders spoken
> > by the
> > distant 'brain.' Even better would be a video RF link so the
> > 'brain' can
> > see and hear through the 'body's' eyes, and maybe add a radio channel
> > which controls vibrating transducers on the 'body' person, so that the
> > 'brain' can silently command their movements with a joystick rather
> > than
> > verbally. If one 'brain' runs several 'bodies,' you've got the
> > start of a
> > small Borg civilization! If you could rent the equipment for cocktail
> > parties, would you pay more to be an amoral central controller, or a
> > brainless puppet who might do ANYTHING?
> >
> > The same psychologist discovered the power of this closed causality
> > loop
> > common in World War II:
> >
> >     * NOT MY FAULT, ONLY FOLLOWING ORDERS.
> >     * ONLY GAVE ORDERS, DID NOTHING MYSELF.
> >
> > This can be used to convert a pair of people into a psychopath.
> >
> > Responsibility for actions becomes a closed loop and evaporates.
> > Ordinary
> > "good" people can be convinced to give lethal shocks if a superior
> > authority figure gives the orders and SEEMS to take responsibility. If
> > anything bad happens, both people are certain it was the OTHER
> > person's
> > fault. As a consequence, the radio-controlled 'Cyranoid' pair is very
> > dangerous. So David Letterman has built himself one? Just wait
> > until Dave
> > gives an unwise order to his puppet and finds that the person ACTUALLY
> > CARRIES IT OUT! The 'slave' trusts the 'master' to give only benign
> > orders
> > and stops thinking, but the 'master' may order something terrible,
> > just to
> > see how far the 'slave' will go. When Letterman's slave commits a
> > crime,
> > whose fault will it be, the one who only followed orders, or the
> > one who
> > did nothing himself?
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> Kevin Purcell
> kevinpurcell at pobox.com
>
>

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William J. Beaty                            SCIENCE HOBBYIST website
billb at amasci com                         http://amasci.com
EE/programmer/sci-exhibits   amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair
Seattle, WA  206-762-3138    unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci