[dorkbotsea-blabber] Re: Hives and central control

[shelly at hive-mind.com]

this is really cool.  You could do it in a smaller form by getting 20 people
to all show up wearing black and earphones...come as the hive-mind to the
hive-mind party.  :)   IT could be really cool/creepy, with group mind
activities like "everyone surround the guy the Snoopy costume but don't talk
to him"
Shelly

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:56 PM, William Beaty <billb at eskimo.com> wrote:

> 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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> >
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> billb at amasci com                         http://amasci.com
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