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The open source economy is a critical reframe of the thinking around global security. The open source economy must be recognized as an aspect of global security. This point needs to be communicated. | The open source economy is a critical reframe of the thinking around global security. The open source economy must be recognized as an aspect of global security. This point needs to be communicated. Open source is much more than the currently lame ''maker movement''. It's about tactics towards world peace. | ||
Furthermore, it emerges that each individual in a swarm can have significant effect - depending on one's initiative. For example, an entrepreneurial individual who knows how to build things can create and crowdfund a swarm to produce an army of drone copters that can have a significant military effect. Thus, the responsibility for peacekeeping can transition from large power monopolies to individuals. This carries a risk of responsible stewardship - as a swarm must also have checks and balances on its decision-making capacity so that the decisions that it makes are sound. This is a question of governance. It is a challenging question - because without due attention to governance or decision-making - the swarm can cause trouble if it is unguided or misguided. Such as if it is misinformed, unethical, or if it carries inaccurate mental models of reality. Thus, any beneficial swarm must carry informed responsibility. | Furthermore, it emerges that each individual in a swarm can have significant effect - depending on one's initiative. For example, an entrepreneurial individual who knows how to build things can create and crowdfund a swarm to produce an army of drone copters that can have a significant military effect. Thus, the responsibility for peacekeeping can transition from large power monopolies to individuals. This carries a risk of responsible stewardship - as a swarm must also have checks and balances on its decision-making capacity so that the decisions that it makes are sound. This is a question of governance. It is a challenging question - because without due attention to governance or decision-making - the swarm can cause trouble if it is unguided or misguided. Such as if it is misinformed, unethical, or if it carries inaccurate mental models of reality. Thus, any beneficial swarm must carry informed responsibility. | ||
Revision as of 02:59, 20 April 2022
Background
Laura Jackson proposes a similarly preemptive approach for the Three Warfares, encouraging the permanent stationing of cameras on military vessels in the South China Sea and the satellite streaming of Chinese island construction to better stop “unilateral, yet subtle, revisions of reality.” Mark Galeotti, a professor at New York University, advocates a “non-kinetic NATO” equipped to counter challenges such as corruption. Russian doctrine argues that corrupting another country’s elites is part of “new-generation” war. Isn’t it therefore time for the West to consider corruption a security issue?
OSE Perspective
The open source economy is a critical reframe of the thinking around global security. The open source economy must be recognized as an aspect of global security. This point needs to be communicated. Open source is much more than the currently lame maker movement. It's about tactics towards world peace.
Furthermore, it emerges that each individual in a swarm can have significant effect - depending on one's initiative. For example, an entrepreneurial individual who knows how to build things can create and crowdfund a swarm to produce an army of drone copters that can have a significant military effect. Thus, the responsibility for peacekeeping can transition from large power monopolies to individuals. This carries a risk of responsible stewardship - as a swarm must also have checks and balances on its decision-making capacity so that the decisions that it makes are sound. This is a question of governance. It is a challenging question - because without due attention to governance or decision-making - the swarm can cause trouble if it is unguided or misguided. Such as if it is misinformed, unethical, or if it carries inaccurate mental models of reality. Thus, any beneficial swarm must carry informed responsibility.