Today’s second, brief, Foreground Reading article includes the shorter and first of two videos made on the matter, in respect of a concept — the Intuition Validation Engine or I-VE — that stretches formally back to a GitHub README first posted in November 2019, and probably before this time too.
The key elements of this README are included in the video below. They propose a new set of operating-system architectures, in order to create the necessary absence of surveillance-tech that would then enable the validation of something as vulnerable as human intuition possible in the first place.
As it currently stands, such validation is impractical due to the intrusively inhibiting nature of admin/user hierarchies in almost all current system architectures: we always know we’re being watched and we never have the freedoms the people of Steve Jobs’s times clearly enjoyed to think anything they cared to before sharing to a wider world.
As they were their own admins and users, they never had the challenges described. It’s the firm opinion of the author of this article that addressing this hierarchical relationship would not only resolve problems of inhibited thinking that lead a lot of us to being much less creative nowadays than our predecessors were in other times, but that it would also help us as societies to begin to fight back against the negatives of a generative AI that has rapidly become seriously penetrative.
Examples here from our Swedish sister project show exactly what has happened as a result of such centralised infrastructures: