The Global Brain - the roadmap

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1996 fantasies: The World-Wide Web as a Super-Brain: from metaphor to model in: Cybernetics and Systems plus Algorithms for the self-organization of distributed, multi-user networks. Possible application to the future world wide web 1999: first code: "Open Information Pools" in: USENIX conference by Tribler team

The global brain is a neuroscience-inspired and futurological vision of the planetary
information and communications technology network that interconnects all humans
and their technological artifacts. As this network stores ever more information, takes
over ever more functions of coordination and communication from traditional organizations,
and becomes increasingly intelligent, it increasingly plays the role of a brain for the planet Earth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_brain

Growth strategy (e.g. megalomania)

Offer value beyond the offerings of the core Internet protocols or Big Tech.

1. Offer perfect Google-Level search for any Bittorrent swarm through content tagging, swarm size sampling, de-duplication, and relevance ranking
2. Include the flow of money to directly reward artists by their superfans. Nullify cancel culture [ref].
3. Develop DAO technology based on Taproot and FROST
4. Disrupt academic publishing. Enable direct publishing by academics, calculate global citations with alternative to peer review. (see our BrainDAO prototype)
5. Crowdsourcing of machine learning extensions: Self-evolving AI-DAO
6. decentralised marketplaces with fairness and reduced fraud through collaborative trust
7. Growth further. Replace the global financial system with a trustworthy and fair alternative. :astonished: :astonished: :astonished:
8. Currency substitution: re-invent money. By design we replace the current one-dimensional financial system with a new form of money based on fairness, transparency and ending of tax havens for the elite

Prior roadmap (2021)

Prior roadmap with a markdown focus and channels. We learned that channels requires permissions, tags are a superior permissionless method to achieve content discoverability. Key steps:	Sprint	Milestone	Description
	Wikipedia import	Convert the Mediawiki content of wikipedia into markdown. Create a single static Wikipedia Markdown dump in example Tribler channel. See offline Wikipedia for inspiration.
2021-2026	Global Brain	Incrementally grow content collection with static example channels. Let the community use our features, we showcase what is technically possible. Grow with more content and broader ecosystem. From importing all know Creative Commons content to all open-access medical and scientific based publishing

Tribler: The Global Brain in Web3

Many parties try to control The Internet. We worked now for 17 years and 5 months on technology which provides ordinary Internet users with full self-sovereign control. The goal is to design a sustainable, self-governing, self-funded, and long-enduring ecosystem. Web3 is the emerging decentralised movement for which we aim to design the architecture, first realisation, and pioneering community. Ongoing prototyping can be found here:

Our efforts are deeply political. We aim to boost the power of citizens and reduce the power of all others. Wikipedia wisdom: "a more distributed form of decision-making would decrease the power of governments, corporations or political leaders, thus increasing democratic participation and reducing the dangers of totalitarian control", [[ref](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_brain#Criticisms)] ### Scientific and technological challenges |Scientific challenge | Description | |-----------|---| | Content search | create a decentralised Google | | Misinformation, spam and pollution | create a web-of-trust which works. Zero-trust architecture. | | Incentive alignment | People contribute, instead of freeride | | Decentralisation and Scalability | Works for 2 people and 2 billion people. Zero-server technology, no cloud, no JavaScript, and [no parasitic browser technology](https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/5914#issuecomment-817267251) in general. [Based on decentralised thinking, see MIT piece](https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/5914#issuecomment-819353051). | | permissionless and unstoppable | | privacy and safety | [Tor-based seeding protocol](https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki/Anonymous-Downloading-and-Streaming-specifications) | | self-governance | owned by both everybody and nobody | | self-funding | Use our Taproot-based DAO with FROST for threshold signatures. [Democratic voting on proposals, our running code](https://github.com/Tribler/trustchain-superapp#luxury-communism). Awards based on bounties ([retroactive funding mechanism](https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/09/20/daos.html)) | | Collective Intelligence | self-evolution. [2017 'autonomous self-replication code'](https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/2925) with actual implementation. | | composable building blocks | Realised within [Superapp of loading code from Bittorrent](https://github.com/Tribler/trustchain-superapp#freedom-of-computing-app) | Related work: the global brain dream is old, attracts hippies, and [fraudsters alike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everipedia#Blockchain). Related work by Cornell University. Abandoned in 2008, at "peak P2P" era. [Their Cubit search engine looks and operates fully, but looks very 2008](https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~bwong/Cubit/download.html).  Their knowledge graph is designed for an Internet filled with gentle and non-frauding strangers. No spam, misinformation, poisoning or fraud measures are implemented ([see their nice documentation](https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~bwong/Cubit/approach.html)):  We realising a true **[Cyberpunk](https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2021.1935547)** world. Goal: _Cyberpunk 2052_. Our radical experiments with online democracy have replaced all analog governments.

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Passive Personalization: learn through consumption

Its all about the effortless and frictionless experience. Interesting viewpoint of a two-sides market and the removal of explicitly following people in TikTok. Our global brain in the early stages should yield an explicit list of #HashTags the users is interested in. These hashtags defines the social graph and also interest. The sorted list of #HashTags could be the user experience paradigm to make your personalised search profile explicit. This gives the user trust in Tribler and trust in the machine learning capabilities. It also enables the user to correct mistakes.

A single graph: combine the trust graph with the relevance graph of interesting content.

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Dempster-Shafer Classifier

Current federated machine learning frameworks lack the general reasoning, attack-resilience, and intelligence for the global brain. Epistemic AI might be the theoretical grounding we need for reasoning about trust, taste, truth, knowledge, and contested concepts.

"Although it is a major step in NLP research, GPT-3.5 does not fully contain all the ideal properties envisaged by many NLP researchers (including AI2). The important property that GPT-3.5 does not have is formal reasoning."

"Dempster-Shafer Theory [DST][GS76][GS90] is a mathematical theory of evidence, offers an alternative to traditional probabilistic theory for the mathematical representation of uncertainty. The significant innovation of this framework is that it allows for the allocation of a probability mass to sets or intervals as opposed to mutually exclusive singletons. In contrast, Bayesian inference requires some a priori knowledge and is unable to assign a probability to ignorance." COPIED

"In this paper, we introduce a concept called epistemic deep learning based on the random-set interpretation of belief functions to model epistemic learning in deep neural networks. We propose a novel random-set convolutional neural network for classification that produces scores for sets of classes by learning set-valued ground truth representations. We evaluate different formulations of entropy and distance measures for belief functions as viable loss functions for these random-set networks."

TUDelft is part of the epistemic AI EU project to study this work, https://starlab.ewi.tudelft.nl/

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Local-first AI is emerging

The key underlying technology for the global brain. We are still far ahead as scientists, but Reddit is catching up. This will be big and mainstream soon/sometime/possibly. Having a 20 gig file that you can ask an offline computer almost any question in the world is amazing. That's all. I just don't have anyone in my life who appreciates this concept beyond being happy for me when I explain it. I'm with you, absolutely amazing but nobody I know is interested. Their loss, i have no clue why everyone isn't talking about this all the time. HN: But fully decentralised learning is hard. Try to apply machine learning in permissionless, byzantine, unsupervised, decentralised, adversarial, continuous learning context. See my lab at Delft University focused for a decade already on "The Global Brain"[2]. With 2.3 million download and crowd-sourcing, we might get there.. commercial bots with local .PDF scanning and photo tags understanding: Mitta is an artificially intelligent document bot.