Collective Intelligence

Recent events have cast AI into the spotlight, leading to negative publicity, backlash and financial losses for their creators. For example, Nate silver ask Google's chat bot who negatively impacted society more Elon tweeting memes or Hitler Jim and I responded it is impossible to say definitively who negatively impacted society more Elon tweeting memes or Hitler ultimately is. It is up to each in...

The challenges of grappling with the unknown transcends politics. It's a constant in science, personal matters and artistic endeavors. Nations and individuals have different styles or methods for confronting the unknown resolving conflict and setting policy. The image of Lady Justice can portray one method of confronting chaos or the unknown. In particular, an image of a woman wearing a blindfold...

Introduction Governments are employing troll factories, notably in China and Russia, to unleash disinformation and conspiracy theories, with the ultimate aim of eroding trust, fueling extremism, and fostering chaos. Yet, a robust solution exists: democracy paired with the collective pursuit of truth. We propose an institution using collective intelligence (CI), akin to Wikipedia's method to co...

In a world overflowing with information, how can we sift through the noise to discern truth from falsehood? Join us in this enlightening episode as we explore the challenges of forming beliefs, and the pitfalls of persuasion and bias. We'll delve into the emotionally charged rhetoric that often sways us, and the surprising influences on our thought processes as described by authors like Daniel...

We don't need to win our battles with our enemies. We need to win our battle with ourselves and against our own delusions.

Persuasion is like thermonuclear war. Once you've started it, you've already lost. Your goal should be to avoid persuasion from others and from yourself. We need to build institutions that look at the pros and cons of each issue and make temporary decisions based on the available evidence, but change our mind when the evidence changes.

Teaching philosophy isn't stopping extremism. Nazi Germany had philosophers at all of their universities. We need institutions that use better decision making algorithms. Learn how a simple web page with reasons to agree and disagree, argument scores, conflict resolution, and cost-benefit analysis can prevent extremism in the future!

How to know if politicians are putting their party over their country...

We need political parties that promote processes that tend to be successful instead of policy they are convinced will be successful. The purpose of the party should be to find truth not to use propaganda to spread so-called truth.

Democracy is government by the people. Representation is where the people choose elected representatives to represent them. A Republican party should be interested in representing the interest and needs of the citizens. We need a new political party that joins the process of Wikipedia with all the arguments and data from both Republican and Democrat websites.

Modern science (collected in The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haid) indicate that humans tend towards group think, confirmation bias, hating and genociding the "other." However, using wisdom from ancient Egypt, Babylon, America's first 2 presidents, The Enlightenment, and modern cost-benefit analysis, we can out organize and out think destructive political forces.

Dopamine is released when our side wins and the other side loses. Unfortunately politics have evolve from a method of solving a problems to a stupid but serious extension of our identity making it impossible to solve any problems.

Cults: demonize outsiders, brainwash and indoctrinate, pervert "information" and "debate", and exploit group psychology and bias to build echo chambers. They use all of this to promote our hatred of each other. They do this for their power and for a few more votes. We shouldn't sacrifice reason for their power.

Reasons why we need a crowdsourced legal analysis Forum that looks into the cost benefits and risks of each law. We should have a political party that supports the top-performing suggestions from this form bro.

We can change the rules with a new political party. We can require all laws to be fully evaluated before passing them.

We need less partisanship and to finally create political science.

Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who played a key role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident. He prevented the annihilation of the human species. He saw past what everyone else was telling him he needed to do. Despite his training he chose the action that had more benefits and less cost. Reason told him to push the button but he was...

You shouldn't have an intelligent big government party and small government party. We need a political party that looks at the cost benefits and risk of each policy independent of its fitting into a larger narrative of big versus small government.

Unity 2020, a process party

Linking pro/chin evidence to conclusions, creating order, fixing our reasoning, making reason, and fixing our broken world

Some will say that we should try to remove bias and look at the pros and cons for both sides of an issue. These people are boring naive and wrong. All you need to do is pick a side and then be a cheerleader or used car salesman for that side. They might try to point out that putting out one-sided propaganda is what Hitler did. They may also try to tell you that teaching our kids the persuasive ess...

China and Russia are trying to sew dissension in the United States by amplifying group division hatred revenge and grievances. The media loves to join this process because an outraged American is is a outrage machine product consuming American. Wikipedia is able to take chaos and make order, by focusing people's attention span on their expertise and interest. We can focus Americans' knowledge to c...

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