<div dir="ltr">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"<div>
<br></div><div>Shelly<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:56 PM, William Beaty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:billb@eskimo.com">billb@eskimo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Kevin wrote:<br>
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> I missed the smilie in the post below ... I think you confusing the<br>
> Borg with a hive :-)<br>
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You are opposed to the will of LANDRU?<br>
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You are not of the body!<br>
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(Multiple cyranoid is not a real hive; actually it's a hive costume for<br>
fifty people, for halloween!)<br>
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PS, festival, FESTIIVAAAAAAAL!<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Archons" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Archons</a><br>
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> On Sep 9, 2008, at 1:06 PM, William Beaty wrote:<br>
> > I've always wanted to create a hive-mind party. A REAL hive-mind<br>
> > party,<br>
> > with guests becoming a (simulated) groupmind. Well, actually a<br>
> > hive-body<br>
> > with a single brain. Everyone wears a cheap FM radio earphone. One<br>
> > person with an FM mike will transmit commands like:<br>
> ><br>
> > Everyone stop talkinnnnnnng... NOW. ...OK, talk again.<br>
> ><br>
> > Everyone take one step towards the drinks table... three two one<br>
> > NOW.<br>
> ><br>
> > We're all going to breath in unison for awhile. in... out...<br>
> > in... out<br>
> ><br>
> > Quietly... "We are Seattlites Resistance is futile You will be<br>
> > assimilated"<br>
> ><br>
> > Newcomers have entered. Turn and face them... NOW! ok<br>
> > turn away.<br>
> ><br>
> > Everyone file outside. We're going to lift and move an Echo<br>
> > hatchback.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > This should be very weird for participants. And terrifying for<br>
> > unsuspecting<br>
> > newcomers.<br>
> ><br>
> > Hmmmm. Would it be too much to ask that participants all dress in<br>
> > black?<br>
> > Hipster/artist self-satire; trying to be different by BEING EXACTLY<br>
> > THE<br>
> > SAME. :) I bet we could hire out "this body" as performance art for<br>
> > large company parties.<br>
> ><br>
> > More below:<br>
> ><br>
> > (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) )))))))))))))))))))<br>
> > William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website<br>
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> ><br>
> ><br>
> > <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyranoid" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyranoid</a><br>
> ><br>
> > Build a Borg<br>
> > <a href="http://amasci.com/hoax.html#cyranoid" target="_blank">http://amasci.com/hoax.html#cyranoid</a><br>
> > The Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram discovered what he called the<br>
> > "Cyrano Effect", and experimented with strange group-organism he<br>
> > dubbed<br>
> > "Cyranoids." Build one as follows: provide the "brain person" with<br>
> > a radio<br>
> > transmitter. Give a radio receiver and earphone to a second or "body<br>
> > person," then have the 'body' agree to carry out all orders spoken<br>
> > by the<br>
> > distant 'brain.' Even better would be a video RF link so the<br>
> > 'brain' can<br>
> > see and hear through the 'body's' eyes, and maybe add a radio channel<br>
> > which controls vibrating transducers on the 'body' person, so that the<br>
> > 'brain' can silently command their movements with a joystick rather<br>
> > than<br>
> > verbally. If one 'brain' runs several 'bodies,' you've got the<br>
> > start of a<br>
> > small Borg civilization! If you could rent the equipment for cocktail<br>
> > parties, would you pay more to be an amoral central controller, or a<br>
> > brainless puppet who might do ANYTHING?<br>
> ><br>
> > The same psychologist discovered the power of this closed causality<br>
> > loop<br>
> > common in World War II:<br>
> ><br>
> > * NOT MY FAULT, ONLY FOLLOWING ORDERS.<br>
> > * ONLY GAVE ORDERS, DID NOTHING MYSELF.<br>
> ><br>
> > This can be used to convert a pair of people into a psychopath.<br>
> ><br>
> > Responsibility for actions becomes a closed loop and evaporates.<br>
> > Ordinary<br>
> > "good" people can be convinced to give lethal shocks if a superior<br>
> > authority figure gives the orders and SEEMS to take responsibility. If<br>
> > anything bad happens, both people are certain it was the OTHER<br>
> > person's<br>
> > fault. As a consequence, the radio-controlled 'Cyranoid' pair is very<br>
> > dangerous. So David Letterman has built himself one? Just wait<br>
> > until Dave<br>
> > gives an unwise order to his puppet and finds that the person ACTUALLY<br>
> > CARRIES IT OUT! The 'slave' trusts the 'master' to give only benign<br>
> > orders<br>
> > and stops thinking, but the 'master' may order something terrible,<br>
> > just to<br>
> > see how far the 'slave' will go. When Letterman's slave commits a<br>
> > crime,<br>
> > whose fault will it be, the one who only followed orders, or the<br>
> > one who<br>
> > did nothing himself?<br>
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> --<br>
> Kevin Purcell<br>
> <a href="mailto:kevinpurcell@pobox.com">kevinpurcell@pobox.com</a><br>
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