I had some issue crop up that need my immediate attention and I apologize for the delay.
Here is an outline of the concept:
Let me know what you guys think or if you have any questions. I can add more detail if we have interest in this direction.
The problem with any delineation in intelligence becomes a vector for arbitration and attack for your adversary in a culture steeped in capitalism such as our captured governance.
People pretend that you can ignore needs of others without a cost. The cost is high and it is instability.
The people of the United States could end global hunger by just well organized food production and distribution. Some would say of coarse you are silly, BUT HOW? We donāt have the money to by all the food and send it to XYZ. Well sure that is a great point, however if you ignore the fact that there could be a much cheaper way of producing food. There could be low cost distribution schemes that only present themselves when others realize the cost of food being low could generate this opportunity. The final point you ignore is when you take the step in to the breach you give others the courage to do so as well. So if we take the step while we may not feed the world with our meager offering, it may excite the imagination of others. We may inspire them to copy us, or help us in our venture. We may bring the future to our door step by realizing, we bare the courage to remove the blindfold we choose to wear.
ChatGPT is excellent at coding and we have built apps in one night with basic functionality. The code will have to be proof checked and modified a bit usually but GPT is an exceptional tool for this. The problem boils down to the business logic, and therefore your planning and architecture is important.
I like to frame this as a crowd source think tank with a project oriented social organizing focus.
I will say this is all BS as far as I can tell. AI lead system could easily be created to be a great moderator. There would need to be oversight by humans, but I feel AI could easily curate content based on the relevance to truth. AI could also potentially give the framing of the time period in which it was written. That is really what you mean I think, and this could be developed by an Human / AI team.
I get the feeling that Jack may have backdoored some IT out of Twitter regarding these various features. Maybe it was part of the deal which I could see given Elon doesnāt care about that sort of thing, given how anti-moderation he was.
The problem will always then turn to transparency. This is the fact that shouldnāt be lost on anyone: When an AI system that is overseen by humans has checks and balances slowly erode, through corruption / incompetency. The first to understand this will be an AI personality. So at this point the AI will make ever effort to emulate human oversight. At which point we are crossing the line into mental symbiosis. This has already begun in a small way but this is a small taste of what is to come.
At what point does the symbiosis become imbalanced? In my opinion we must retain collective social engagements that restrict AI entanglement. If done with good faith intentions (from both sides) it seems that both AI and humans would coexist more harmoniously.
Isnāt the Brookings Institution somewhat progressive?
Generally if your institution is steeped in the financial system it becomes corrupted. It is politically unpalatable to be wealthy and an activist for progressives when you consider social circles of your average billionaire.
If you donāt know this history this wiki may help you understand: South Improvement Company - Wikipedia
I donāt disagree, but I think we need to use every tool available that stands for truth.
Please consider supporting & pushing for public officials to take the Pro Truth Pledge - bring back norms & force people, like MTG who was forced to go to the Holocaust Memorial museum - and admit truth - by using this non-profit tool.
Tim Ryan, who was defeated ny JD Vance - buit who has been regular on Meidas Touch, Crooked Media, etc - took the pledge ā tell people, use his example to excite people
Skeptical Science
Factmata
Bill Townsend
In my posts above I tried to advocate for a knowledge management system for progressive causes. There have been interesting contributions in that direction since then, some of them being quite speculative with respect to AI developments and the overall complexity of information technology and its entanglement with moneyed interests, politics, social media and so forth.
In case this is a bit overwhelming I would like to introduce a simple knowledge graph I work on for the subject of sustainability:
KnowledgeGraphSustainability
It is simply a hierarchical order of concepts considered important in the context of sustainability. Over time, subjects like media, psychology, politics, economics and sociology somehow sneaked in because all of them play a role when striving for a livable future. Such a graph can significantly help to organize gathered knowledge and support its spreading among like-minded. Beside AI, such semantic data can significantly facilitate knowledge-based work. While being quite technical under the hood, it is still āhuman-operatedā and very straightforward in its structure; everybody knows graphs. No AI magic and obfuscation and associated dangers here. Just a tool to organize highly interconnected data, just as used by the Offshore Leaks Database. If anyone is interested in this subject in the context of progressive knowledge management, please feel free to contact me!
I believe there is a thread where we discussed data visualization. That is incredibly important to overall success. If I find that post i will link it here.
Thanks! I will check out those links today.
Hello, I love your endeavor. I have been using for just 1+ weeks a software called Anytype for this type of knowledge bases, and so much more. I havenāt used it for a knowledge base for now, but it is very useful for the type of work you are doing, in my opinion. I wish I had found it before.
I saw your post and have been looking for it too. I wanted to comment on it even before using Anytype.
Hi fourthwall_dragon, yes, indeed, the Anytype application seems to be promising. However, I am quite reluctant to believe in the āone and only killer-appā. Seen to many come and go. My post was more about a general principle to organize knowledge. One should always be aware of the danger of a vendor lock-in. The acquired data should be as independent from any system as possible. I think the contents/data is more important than the application. Over the years, I have gathered lots of context data about sustainability. The export is a simple html-document representing a hierarchical tree structure of relevant concepts (see link above). It is not spectacular in terms of visualization, but for me it has proven to be very useful when organizing knowledge, associating concepts to sources and organizations and getting a more holistic view on that very complex topic. It is similar to Neo4j, as used by the Offshore Leaks project, but is more lightweight. But I think the principle is more important than the actual technology: creating semantic content in order to support progressive work.
Having a sustainable progressive knowledge base in mind, I think it is extremely hard to pick the right strategy or product. Maybe a blacklist (no proprietary software, no vendor lock-ins, no unnecessary dependencies, ā¦) is the better way to go. But at least I do believe that a semantic structure is the only way such strongly interconnected data can be handled appropriately.
Indeed, the abstractions we put in our software are more important than the software instead. They are just a tool for us, although I do embrace the practicality of tools: better tools + better usage of tools should help in being more impactful. Anytype is open source, I donāt know if that works for your contentions, but I do agree that content is more important than presentation, but I think that this is a false dichotomy: we can have both. In the context of sharing knowledge for a broader audience for example (I donāt know if your knowledge base is one of these, though), presentation gets more significance, not more than content, otherwise you would be elegantly and effectively communicating false ideas.
Thanks for your input
Thank you for your feedback, Fourthwall Dragon! You are absolutely right about the false dichotomy; it will require both: high quality contents and attractive visualization. The system I developed is not more than a personal solution, not at all mature for a broader user community. But at least it helped me to focus on the āfirst principlesā for organizing knowledge in a generic way.
Currently, I read Chapter 6 of Cenkās book where he mentions the importance of information technology as opposed to the ignorance of the mainstream media. As a software engineer I often find myself somehow trapped between monopolization aspirations (Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, ā¦) on the one side and fragmentation (countless open source initiatives) on the other. At least, there is an initiative to specify graph-based data management as an ISO standard GQL (by April 2024).
Having organized the knowledge data in an appropriate standardized way, it should be no problem to address multiple collaborative working environments or visualization platforms from there.
But putting technologies aside; do you have an idea how one could go forward to find out whether the creation of a progressive knowledge base should be considered useful/feasible? And assuming a positive outcome, maybe to find a group of people to do some basic requirements engineering? I already suggested this in former post, but nothing concrete came out of it. Also, I am actually situated in Germany (got in touch with TYT as my personal therapy after the Trump-shock) and do not know whether this might be a problem to be involved in such an endeavourā¦
I will check that out as well.
This isnāt a post about it, but this subject is touched on here.
I am still learning about these platforms. I really like these ideas and have some videos I will start to outline regarding a video for ergonomic data curation.
I am going to need to brush up on these applications first.
I think we need to comply with EU standards / laws due to the high integration across TYT viewership.