All of America Should Interview Politicians Directly - Like A Job Interview - with a Human Swarm Intelligence System. Here’s How:

Picture this: All of America — all 300 million+ adults — interviewing our Presidential and political candidates directly, as one person, like a boss does in a job interview. How? By using an advanced Human Swarm Intelligence system.

With the right system, it would be easy to aggregate the top five or ten questions from the entire country in a matter of minutes. (For example, like THIS system we described previously).

Just picture the plethora of questions we all would want to ask candidates like RFK Jr, Biden, Trump, and beyond. Even if you like those candidates, we should all want them to have to answer tough questions. Imagine if those questions came with the weight of: “These are literally the top ten questions that We The People demand answers to.”

Sure, some candidates could refuse to answer our questions. But anyone who did so would commit political suicide. We would all just agree not to nominate anyone who wouldn’t speak to us, directly. Simple enough.

Not only could we use this system to interview political candidates, but we could also use it to interview influential business people — like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Oprah, or Klaus Schwab—or activists, celebrities, and more. Imagine a talk show where the host is ALL of the people of an entire country.

We suppose that for genuinely good-intentioned candidates and politicians, this wouldn’t be a problem. In fact, it likely would be a way to build trust with the people again, by answering to their direct questions. But for corrupted candidates, they would run away and hide from this level of transparency. It would be an easy way to out the criminals.

Imagine Presidential debates, scientific debates, investigative journalism, and more moderated directly by thousands or even millions people, instead of by centralized and corrupted outlets.

If you are new to the concept of Collective Intelligence systems, this might sound like science fiction to you. But in fact a system like this is relatively easy to build and execute.

Remember, a “swarm” is simply a group of people that problem solves, answers, and acts as one person. Anything one person can do, a swarm can too. Especially if the group is using a well designed Collective Intelligence system like we wrote about HERE.

To really grasp the concept of Swarm Intelligence, it helps to visualize the swarm as one giant person, made up of thousands of individual people. Or, picture 1000 people solving a problem together as a Human Swarm, each sitting at their own computer, and a new brain appears like a ghost floating above the group that is bigger than the sum of all of the individual brains combined. A properly orchestrated collective intelligence group forms this new brain, and that brain is better at problem solving than experts, individuals, or authorities. The new collective brain that forms is wiser, more creative, and learns faster than the sum of all the individual brains in the group combined.

(On the left we see author Tim Urban’s rendition of this Collective Intelligence phenomena, which he calls a “Genie” in his book “What’s Our Problem?” On the right is our own rendition of a giant ghost brain floating above a room full of individual problem solvers sitting at their computers during a swarming session).

Let’s run through the process again to help everyone better understand what a human swarm looks like in action.

We start off with 300 million people. We verify that they are not bots or ai, and start the process. This is what 300 million + people would look like:

Then we break that 300 million people up into small cells of 12 or so people. Here, it would be imperative to not allow any labels - so everyone would be anonymous. We wouldn’t know the name, sex, race, political party, or anything about the other 11 people in the small cell with us. We would just know that they are real people. Why? Because labels create echo chambers, and echo chambers create groupthink, of which nearly all of the perils of groups stem from. We solve for this by having creative ideas stand alone, anonymously, and without labels.

Our anonymous group of 12 problem solvers might look like this:

These 12 people would each generate their own creative answer. Or in this case, a question for a particular candidate or person that We The People were interviewing.

This is a visual representation of those 12 answers:

Notice how some of them are the same exact color. That is because some people will have the same exact question/answer. If that happens, the group of 12 people would then simply pull/slide answers together that were too alike and they would become just one answer. That answer would not hold any more weight than the others, it would simply be merged so the swarm does not have repetitive answers.

So, if the swarm answered like this (below), and the colors represented their answers, they would then merge the similar ones so they weren’t double or triple represented in the next phase, like so:

So even though twelve people began the process, the number of answers were pared down to only nine after we combined the ones that the consensus of the cell thought were too similar to each other - the orange and the bright green answers. After the answers were pared down, the remaining nine answers would go in a circle again and the twelve members of the cell could then use a swarming method to pick the best final answer. We prefer the digital magnet and puck method invented by Dr. Rosenberg at Unanimous AI to achieve this next step, but have tested several other methods that seem to work well too. Here, members push and pull on the clear hockey puck in the middle using their digital magnets until one answer is settled on. Like this:

With our 9 answers it would look like this:

The people in this small cell of 12 people would use their magnets to push and pull on the puck in the middle, keeping it away from their least favorite answers and pulling it towards their favorite, until they chose a final answer. Like so:

After each round only one of twelve answers would advance. Using this method we can populate a creative, well thought-out answer from an entire population of 300 million people in only 8 iterations of swarming on a well built ecosystem. It would look like this

Something like this is what the people in power who are corrupting our systems fear most. A way for us to unify and make organized decisions in groups.

We are trying to raise the funds to build this ecosystem now. We need to do it in a decentralized way to make sure it doesn’t start off beholden to investors. We have raised over $15,000.00 already, and if any of this interests you we could use as much help as we can find. Please read more about it HERE.

Also, the idea of a swarmed or LEADERLESS society does not just end with a swarmed media. We can run businesses with swarms, uncorrupt governments, resolve conflicts, and more! If you want to learn the basics about The Wisdom of Crowds and swarms, start HERE.

Thanks for Reading!

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