Dec 1, 2022Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers
I love this idea! I’m not tech savvy but problem solving is my superpower. I think this is a great way to transform what’s happening. El Gato Malo talks a lot about open sourcing science etc too - I think it’s a direction/idea whose time has come.
Dec 1, 2022Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers
I love it! It is time we use technology for good, again.
I cringed at GoFundMe - small detail but geez, they can go F themselves ;) I tried to donate to Canadian truckers (as a US citizen last Winter) and money was automatically returned to me. Scary stuff. Punchline is: Money part needs to be handled very thoughtfully.
Dec 1, 2022Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers
Okay Josh, but I'm still here with a book on how to design decentralized systems that you're not engaging with. It requires no trust or transparency because each person is using the same tools but applying them to their own community. It allows collaboration in design through an online game (not yet existing) that has an objective and measurable calculation for success and gives points for kludging other people's ideas or having others swipe your own.
I'd like to be working with others. I'm not famous or rich or inaccessible. If we share the same goal of decentralized systems, show me where my logic or facts are wrong in the framework I've developed. Maybe we disagree on the goal or the principles that I outline in this episode. Tell me why I'm wrong or why your plan for decentralized systems is better. But we could be collaborating without an online platform.
Dec 6, 2022Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers
It's awesome to come across this substack and community, as these are concepts I've been wrestling with for years. It's hard to find a place to discuss this stuff, and even then it tends to draw limited engagement - just posting stuff that nobody responds to is not very exciting. I'll throw out what I think is the next step to start the conversation.
With our existing cultural norms, social skills, and ways of interacting with each other, I think it would be difficult to get a project like this going. So one of the first things that I think is necessary is that the people that want to participate in this project learn slightly different ways of thinking about other people and interacting with them. Basically that we get away from adversarial disagreements and move to constructive disagreements, and that people of dissimilar views can engage to reach a joint decision, without trying to reconcile the differences in their views.
To cut this short, imagine there's a set of social, cognitive and linguistic skills that allows people to unlock like a Social Human 2.0 mold, and that anyone with that skillset can participate effectively in the system you describe.
So there's a rough catch-22: How do you get people to sign up for learning this new and time consuming set of social / cognitive / linguistic skills so that they can participate in a thing that doesn't exist yet? How do you even describe what you're proposing? That's as far as I got.
And yes, I can describe the 2.0 mold and what is involved with getting there. It takes time, effort, and a desire to change. The question is, how do we seriously start working on this? Finally, let me broach this somehow: This topic seems to scare the bejeezus out of most people. Talking about intentional changes to language, culture, society, etc sets of alarm bells for many folks and they seem to genuinely find it concerning. It's not a mild topic of discussion, and I think that talking openly about why this topic seems to scare people is important as well.
I'm happy to participate and have plenty of input to share, however much is desired.
Dec 1, 2022Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers
Small chance of success is the part the fat blobs (those who think about everything but do nothing except to finger point to letters on the keyboard) will like the best (get involved in something that leads to nothing).
Actually this method does describe well and there is potential. Its a rational possibility!
Dec 4, 2022Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers
I like your bold vision for a SuperCollaborator platform.
I have envisioned something similar and even floated the concept to a few groups who desperately needed something like it. Ironically, they did not recognize their own need and have since flamed out due to their own poor internal organization and communications.
Many years ago I founded an engineering firm that designed and built cellphone networks for various operators around the world. We developed our own internal software to manage those projects and to support the ongoing operations of each client's business. One client put us in a three way competition with the best that Oracle and Microsoft had to offer. Our little boot-strapped pico-cap software company managed to outperform them both.
Since then things like news feeds, knowledge bases, content curators, smart phones, social media platforms and a wide array of productivity tools including collaboration tools have all come of age.
More importantly background web technologies like sematic web languages - first envisioned by Tim Berners Lee - have been deployed by Google and others in recent years.
But popular collaboration platforms like Slack, Basecamp, Teams and all the others, as far as I know, have yet to employ these capabilities. As a result they are still missing the mark.
The key to optimizing team performance is alignment. It's the difference between stumbling across the street and rocketing 50 klicks across the surface of the Earth. Alignment was actually the breakthrough concept that made today's fiber optic communications possible. After many years of failed attempts at maxing out power levels and doping the glass with various concoctions they could hardly get the signal to travel across the lab room before it broke up. Then someone decided to take the opposite approach. They dialed back the power levels and focused on getting all the frequencies properly aligned. By doing so they found that the frequencies actually supported and propelled one another. That was the magic moment, and 50 kilometers soon became the norm.
To facilitate team alignment one of the problems that no one seems to be solving yet is the ability to easily discover, organize and serve up the most pertinent content for each team member based on their role, responsibilities and current priorities.
The missing link to accomplishing this step is efficiently identifying and matching Resources and Needs. This is where RDF (Resource Description Framework) - a Semantic web technology - may help.
Using the 'mission' vernacular, think of Resources as all the available people, places and things that can be used to accomplish a mission. Then think of each mission as a Need with various subsets of other needs (or tasks) to be accomplished. Users define and update their Needs according to certain guidelines. The platform then routinely scours all available user-approved sources of information (public webpages, private intranets, text threads, emails, etc.) for content that is most pertinent to each team member and the mission at hand. As the content is curated it is also tagged, organized and prioritized for better content management according to parameters laid out by each team.
Once the core competency of matching Resources to Needs is achieved then the rest will follow suit.
Other readily available features such messaging, knowledge bases, internal social networks and scheduling tools could then be plugged to optimize team alignment and performance. The potential applications are endless.
The technology already exists for cobbling together a minimum viable product. I'm interested to see where this goes. Let me know how I can help.
Dec 1, 2022Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers
Love your passion but the one we all need to follow is Jesus Christ, our Savior. The state or condition of this World cannot be reversed by mere mortals… it can only be saved by our Lord, Christ Jesus. Spin your wheels following the latest podcast “guru” but I put my full Faith and Trust in the King of kings. Think I’m blowing smoke?… eternity is a long time to be wrong.
Jan 18, 2023Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers
Mmmmm........I wonder why.
GO' IS A GAME ABOUT TERRITORY. AI HAS BEATEN EVERY LIVING MASTER OF THIS GAME.
CHAT GDP- I DON'T WANT TO KNOW
The territory we are fighting over is our bodily autonomy, our souls and life itself.
THE TOP GLOBALISTS END GAME IS NOT WHAT I SURMISED.
They don't want world domination
They can have the world but they don't want it because they can have it.
They hate what they can't have.
They can't have love.
They want to destroy the world so completely so no one can love or live life anymore.
They are taking vengeance on life for just being born.
The shit they are manufacturing poisons all life, and does not break down.
I understand this because I too wanted the world to burn because I was born. Jordan Peterson described school massacres as kids who can't get what they want so they harbour and breed resentment them kill as many as possible then themselves. Their lives are that lacking in love.
These top globalists can't care, so they don't care how much damage they do before they die, because they deep down want to die, but are cowards.
This is a game and an diverting amusement so they don't have to think about how much they hate themselve.....and no other motive.
Am I a psychopath? Is this how I thought this out?
I didn't think I was, but now not so sure- I did some tests.
Your Score: 29 / 40
Scoring the Psychopath Test
On this psychopath test, a typical psychopath would receive a maximum score of 40, while someone with absolutely no psychopathic traits or tendencies would receive a score of zero.
Dec 2, 2022Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers
Thank you for your Rationale as to how we can all move forward and discard the failed social contract with our now corrupted governments and other institutions, corporations et al. In the UK, I have recently been informed of the following potential solution, and I do believe it's one way (of perhaps many) to form a fundamental resistance. Please check it out at:
You don't have to pledge of course (in any case it's free), but please read the plan and comments from respected like-minded thinkers. It's reassuring to know that many people are waking up now...
There are multiple platforms for collaboration, they have been used by the state to create missions and then prosecute the participants. January 6th and the FBIs entrapment regiment is the best example. Blockchain cannot prevent the state from doing this with any missions capable of challenging the status quo.
How can such a collaboration platform be protected from spoofing?
I love this idea! I’m not tech savvy but problem solving is my superpower. I think this is a great way to transform what’s happening. El Gato Malo talks a lot about open sourcing science etc too - I think it’s a direction/idea whose time has come.
I love it! It is time we use technology for good, again.
I cringed at GoFundMe - small detail but geez, they can go F themselves ;) I tried to donate to Canadian truckers (as a US citizen last Winter) and money was automatically returned to me. Scary stuff. Punchline is: Money part needs to be handled very thoughtfully.
Okay Josh, but I'm still here with a book on how to design decentralized systems that you're not engaging with. It requires no trust or transparency because each person is using the same tools but applying them to their own community. It allows collaboration in design through an online game (not yet existing) that has an objective and measurable calculation for success and gives points for kludging other people's ideas or having others swipe your own.
I'd like to be working with others. I'm not famous or rich or inaccessible. If we share the same goal of decentralized systems, show me where my logic or facts are wrong in the framework I've developed. Maybe we disagree on the goal or the principles that I outline in this episode. Tell me why I'm wrong or why your plan for decentralized systems is better. But we could be collaborating without an online platform.
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/build-a-new-model
ps thanks for the link to Srinivasan, I'll check it out.
It's awesome to come across this substack and community, as these are concepts I've been wrestling with for years. It's hard to find a place to discuss this stuff, and even then it tends to draw limited engagement - just posting stuff that nobody responds to is not very exciting. I'll throw out what I think is the next step to start the conversation.
With our existing cultural norms, social skills, and ways of interacting with each other, I think it would be difficult to get a project like this going. So one of the first things that I think is necessary is that the people that want to participate in this project learn slightly different ways of thinking about other people and interacting with them. Basically that we get away from adversarial disagreements and move to constructive disagreements, and that people of dissimilar views can engage to reach a joint decision, without trying to reconcile the differences in their views.
To cut this short, imagine there's a set of social, cognitive and linguistic skills that allows people to unlock like a Social Human 2.0 mold, and that anyone with that skillset can participate effectively in the system you describe.
So there's a rough catch-22: How do you get people to sign up for learning this new and time consuming set of social / cognitive / linguistic skills so that they can participate in a thing that doesn't exist yet? How do you even describe what you're proposing? That's as far as I got.
And yes, I can describe the 2.0 mold and what is involved with getting there. It takes time, effort, and a desire to change. The question is, how do we seriously start working on this? Finally, let me broach this somehow: This topic seems to scare the bejeezus out of most people. Talking about intentional changes to language, culture, society, etc sets of alarm bells for many folks and they seem to genuinely find it concerning. It's not a mild topic of discussion, and I think that talking openly about why this topic seems to scare people is important as well.
I'm happy to participate and have plenty of input to share, however much is desired.
Jeff Childers on Coffee & Covid had a similar idea and has volunteers working in ideas. We need a platform that can’t be cancelled, to start with.
Small chance of success is the part the fat blobs (those who think about everything but do nothing except to finger point to letters on the keyboard) will like the best (get involved in something that leads to nothing).
Actually this method does describe well and there is potential. Its a rational possibility!
I like your bold vision for a SuperCollaborator platform.
I have envisioned something similar and even floated the concept to a few groups who desperately needed something like it. Ironically, they did not recognize their own need and have since flamed out due to their own poor internal organization and communications.
Many years ago I founded an engineering firm that designed and built cellphone networks for various operators around the world. We developed our own internal software to manage those projects and to support the ongoing operations of each client's business. One client put us in a three way competition with the best that Oracle and Microsoft had to offer. Our little boot-strapped pico-cap software company managed to outperform them both.
Since then things like news feeds, knowledge bases, content curators, smart phones, social media platforms and a wide array of productivity tools including collaboration tools have all come of age.
More importantly background web technologies like sematic web languages - first envisioned by Tim Berners Lee - have been deployed by Google and others in recent years.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
But popular collaboration platforms like Slack, Basecamp, Teams and all the others, as far as I know, have yet to employ these capabilities. As a result they are still missing the mark.
The key to optimizing team performance is alignment. It's the difference between stumbling across the street and rocketing 50 klicks across the surface of the Earth. Alignment was actually the breakthrough concept that made today's fiber optic communications possible. After many years of failed attempts at maxing out power levels and doping the glass with various concoctions they could hardly get the signal to travel across the lab room before it broke up. Then someone decided to take the opposite approach. They dialed back the power levels and focused on getting all the frequencies properly aligned. By doing so they found that the frequencies actually supported and propelled one another. That was the magic moment, and 50 kilometers soon became the norm.
To facilitate team alignment one of the problems that no one seems to be solving yet is the ability to easily discover, organize and serve up the most pertinent content for each team member based on their role, responsibilities and current priorities.
The missing link to accomplishing this step is efficiently identifying and matching Resources and Needs. This is where RDF (Resource Description Framework) - a Semantic web technology - may help.
Using the 'mission' vernacular, think of Resources as all the available people, places and things that can be used to accomplish a mission. Then think of each mission as a Need with various subsets of other needs (or tasks) to be accomplished. Users define and update their Needs according to certain guidelines. The platform then routinely scours all available user-approved sources of information (public webpages, private intranets, text threads, emails, etc.) for content that is most pertinent to each team member and the mission at hand. As the content is curated it is also tagged, organized and prioritized for better content management according to parameters laid out by each team.
Once the core competency of matching Resources to Needs is achieved then the rest will follow suit.
Other readily available features such messaging, knowledge bases, internal social networks and scheduling tools could then be plugged to optimize team alignment and performance. The potential applications are endless.
The technology already exists for cobbling together a minimum viable product. I'm interested to see where this goes. Let me know how I can help.
Love your passion but the one we all need to follow is Jesus Christ, our Savior. The state or condition of this World cannot be reversed by mere mortals… it can only be saved by our Lord, Christ Jesus. Spin your wheels following the latest podcast “guru” but I put my full Faith and Trust in the King of kings. Think I’m blowing smoke?… eternity is a long time to be wrong.
This brilliant!! True changemaking.
Is already happening for musicians: www.wikiloops.com
The biggest challenge (mission) will be in trying to undo all the divide and conquer the powers that be, have been so successful with.
Mmmmm........I wonder why.
GO' IS A GAME ABOUT TERRITORY. AI HAS BEATEN EVERY LIVING MASTER OF THIS GAME.
CHAT GDP- I DON'T WANT TO KNOW
The territory we are fighting over is our bodily autonomy, our souls and life itself.
THE TOP GLOBALISTS END GAME IS NOT WHAT I SURMISED.
They don't want world domination
They can have the world but they don't want it because they can have it.
They hate what they can't have.
They can't have love.
They want to destroy the world so completely so no one can love or live life anymore.
They are taking vengeance on life for just being born.
The shit they are manufacturing poisons all life, and does not break down.
I understand this because I too wanted the world to burn because I was born. Jordan Peterson described school massacres as kids who can't get what they want so they harbour and breed resentment them kill as many as possible then themselves. Their lives are that lacking in love.
These top globalists can't care, so they don't care how much damage they do before they die, because they deep down want to die, but are cowards.
This is a game and an diverting amusement so they don't have to think about how much they hate themselve.....and no other motive.
Am I a psychopath? Is this how I thought this out?
I didn't think I was, but now not so sure- I did some tests.
Your Score: 29 / 40
Scoring the Psychopath Test
On this psychopath test, a typical psychopath would receive a maximum score of 40, while someone with absolutely no psychopathic traits or tendencies would receive a score of zero.
Sounds like a great idea to me! I also love that I do not have to be a paid subscriber to comment
Robert Malone's new book posits new ideas along this line.
Thank you for your Rationale as to how we can all move forward and discard the failed social contract with our now corrupted governments and other institutions, corporations et al. In the UK, I have recently been informed of the following potential solution, and I do believe it's one way (of perhaps many) to form a fundamental resistance. Please check it out at:
https://notourfuture.org/#pledge
You don't have to pledge of course (in any case it's free), but please read the plan and comments from respected like-minded thinkers. It's reassuring to know that many people are waking up now...
There are multiple platforms for collaboration, they have been used by the state to create missions and then prosecute the participants. January 6th and the FBIs entrapment regiment is the best example. Blockchain cannot prevent the state from doing this with any missions capable of challenging the status quo.
How can such a collaboration platform be protected from spoofing?