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The Social Dilemma Mixtape
theme: community-curated knowledge networks
feat.
@sariazout
@tylersjournals_
@Jad_AE
@nateliason
@EricRWeinstein
@RoamResearch
@ChrisHarveyEsq
@nbashaw
@RoamBrain
@kwharrison13
@paulg
#roamcult (looking at you!)
hunka burnin
theme: community-curated knowledge networks
feat.
@sariazout
@tylersjournals_
@Jad_AE
@nateliason
@EricRWeinstein
@RoamResearch
@ChrisHarveyEsq
@nbashaw
@RoamBrain
@kwharrison13
@paulg
#roamcult (looking at you!)
hunka burnin
After yesterday's events & a great convo w/ @tylersjournals_ , this question of @sariazout feels deeply poignant. https://twitter.com/sariazout/status/1321489326987825153?s=20
@EricRWeinstein described yesterday's events at the Capitol as the culmination of years of digital violence to communal sense-making.
The Social Dilemma:
What happens when we lack a shared understanding of "reality"?
The Social Dilemma:
What happens when we lack a shared understanding of "reality"?
Following the rabbit hole of @sariazout's thinking, I was led to a small community of ppl exploring, among other things, new kinds of knowledge networks. https://twitter.com/Jad_AE/status/1333891585528922112?s=20
An idea was proposed in the group: network platforms operate metaphorically as lenses.
The lens slides over our eyes, gives a particular slant or view of reality.
EX: FB is a platform that tends to echo-chamber-ism.
A closed network reinforces our default lens.
The lens slides over our eyes, gives a particular slant or view of reality.
EX: FB is a platform that tends to echo-chamber-ism.
A closed network reinforces our default lens.
Twitter is an open network.
But how is it used? To reinforce, or to dissolve/broaden one's default lens?
(algorithms & design choices are human products, and thus the platform per se is already a lens, independently of how any user deploys it.)
But how is it used? To reinforce, or to dissolve/broaden one's default lens?
(algorithms & design choices are human products, and thus the platform per se is already a lens, independently of how any user deploys it.)
When is it essential for platforms to offer a "neutral" lens?
How can platforms be designed to offer users MULTIPLE lenses?
What would motivate such a design choice? What would the result be?
Sending up Bat signal w/ ideas:
How can platforms be designed to offer users MULTIPLE lenses?
What would motivate such a design choice? What would the result be?
Sending up Bat signal w/ ideas:
- a platform design that is vision-expanding presupposes users with agency.
tech enables - it is necessary but not sufficient.
users 1st have to be aware that we are always "interpreting" reality from our distinct vantage point, experiences, biases, etc. the water we swim in
tech enables - it is necessary but not sufficient.
users 1st have to be aware that we are always "interpreting" reality from our distinct vantage point, experiences, biases, etc. the water we swim in
- we can strive to be "objective" - NOT by stepping out of our role as knowers embedded in world events,
but by becoming aware of how the world shows up for us,
our particular awareness & attitude, our "lens" and how this lens gives rise to a particular way of thought
but by becoming aware of how the world shows up for us,
our particular awareness & attitude, our "lens" and how this lens gives rise to a particular way of thought
- once one is tuned into this self-observation, then design can become fruitful.
the one who has made such self-observation into a practice may wish (as is often the case) to expand one's limited vision!
the one who has made such self-observation into a practice may wish (as is often the case) to expand one's limited vision!
- IRL, one may join different clubs/groups, put oneself in different contexts to meet others outside one's comfort zone and actively invite diverse perspectives into one's life
- in digital life, a platform can be designed for users who explicitly value vision-expansion and diversity (community of interest & purpose, a la @sariazout)
Adventures in Ideas.
NO echo chambers.
Adventures in Ideas.
NO echo chambers.
Now combine (a la @sariazout)
-networked cohort learning
- community of purpose
-content-discovery/curation ( @Tinder for ideas)
-power of Roam, a knowledge management tool.
-networked cohort learning
- community of purpose
-content-discovery/curation ( @Tinder for ideas)
-power of Roam, a knowledge management tool.
Roam is powerful for ideation/creation bc it allows the user to seamlessly create (visualize) interconnections among ideas collected in the database.
Knowledge-synthesis serendipity.
But @RoamResearch is currently a single-player tool (seeking to evolve into a network).
Knowledge-synthesis serendipity.
But @RoamResearch is currently a single-player tool (seeking to evolve into a network).
see this great piece by @nbashaw, who questions how Roam will make this journey: https://divinations.every.to/p/roams-road-ahead
and also this piece by @kwharrison13 of @roambrain, which isn't afraid to dream THE dream:
https://www.roambrain.com/building-the-global-knowledge-graph/
"The vision for Roam isn’t limited to organizing your information. The grand vision is to organize all information."
https://www.roambrain.com/building-the-global-knowledge-graph/
"The vision for Roam isn’t limited to organizing your information. The grand vision is to organize all information."
Imagine a Roam-like network that is a @Tinder for ideas .
But the concept of a "match" is greatly extended to compass all the ways that ideas interact, compound, and become generative. https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1334060815012556801?s=20
But the concept of a "match" is greatly extended to compass all the ways that ideas interact, compound, and become generative. https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1334060815012556801?s=20
The most generative idea-interactions are polarities, ie, conflict, which we usu. avoid.
the lever is the mind's willingness to surrender and dissolve its own default lenses, experience cognitive dissonance and ultimately, grow.
(that MOST are unwilling is the arbitrage op.)
the lever is the mind's willingness to surrender and dissolve its own default lenses, experience cognitive dissonance and ultimately, grow.
(that MOST are unwilling is the arbitrage op.)
This Roam-like network interconnects ideas NOT just for a single player,
but, say, the collected ideas of a super-charged multi-player, cohort pursuing a common theme -a wicked problem/question.
but, say, the collected ideas of a super-charged multi-player, cohort pursuing a common theme -a wicked problem/question.
p.s. this is exactly what @ChrisHarveyEsq suggests in his great response to @nbashaw's Roam article:
Roam "is powerful enough to create a new paradigm - perhaps one built around augmented teams but with super-talents on project basis. Instead of companies or individuals it's more like a sovereign/elite team." @ChrisHarveyEsq
- each elite mind in the community has its own lens - a "default" of a distinct vantage point... different expertise, methodology, philosophy, school of thought.
Think: King Arthur's Knights at the Round Table - each wielding a unique sword
(true excellence, a la @EricRWeinstein)
(true excellence, a la @EricRWeinstein)
- exploring QUESTIONS is the driving impulse of the cohort's work, versus pushing answers
- the curriculum unfolds organically, no set destination
- using this Roam-like network as the (growing) knowledge base, indv'l members take turns teaching -
ie, pursuing the theme through *their own lens*, which enriches and converges the lenses of all others
- using this Roam-like network as the (growing) knowledge base, indv'l members take turns teaching -
ie, pursuing the theme through *their own lens*, which enriches and converges the lenses of all others
What is the result?
generative polarity/tension:
a NEW kind of communal sensemaking that does not hinge on bare agreement w/ a monolithic Narrative,
but rather the intersubjective wealth of networked minds.
Each mind, in freedom, striving to convergence w/ other minds.
generative polarity/tension:
a NEW kind of communal sensemaking that does not hinge on bare agreement w/ a monolithic Narrative,
but rather the intersubjective wealth of networked minds.
Each mind, in freedom, striving to convergence w/ other minds.
and (a la @sariazout)....
associative, context-rich, emergent intelligence (vs. fractured details abstracted from living context);
ever-compounding interconnections and knowledge synthesis (vs. ephemerality of the feed)
associative, context-rich, emergent intelligence (vs. fractured details abstracted from living context);
ever-compounding interconnections and knowledge synthesis (vs. ephemerality of the feed)
imagine if:
every time you bookmark a Tweet, you get served a knowledge graph visualizing interconnections -
not only among your collected ideas,
but among the ideas of others who have "matched" with you, those matches being optimized for "Round Table" generative interaction
every time you bookmark a Tweet, you get served a knowledge graph visualizing interconnections -
not only among your collected ideas,
but among the ideas of others who have "matched" with you, those matches being optimized for "Round Table" generative interaction
The ideas here are messy, but had to send up the Bat Signal. Times feel urgent. :)
If useful to you, please retweet or share w/ those who are working on similar ideas. https://twitter.com/SpaceXponential/status/1347410493556871168?s=20
If useful to you, please retweet or share w/ those who are working on similar ideas. https://twitter.com/SpaceXponential/status/1347410493556871168?s=20
