- John Gianino
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Social Network or Tribe
We have the ability and the resources to change the world.
Please read the comments below and reply to them, if you have thoughts.
The TED Talks I've related to this conversation are very inspiring, check them out.
Large social networks can be thought of as groups of tribes. We form tribes early in life based on where we are born and raised. These tribes or social circles can have tremendous impact on our development and our direction in life.
In our current system. we compete for money and we work for attention. The more skilled you are, the connections you have, and the attractive qualities you possess come to form our personal value along with our contributions.
The idea is similar to a human brain. The body supplies resources to the entire brain and certain regions of the brain get more based on stimulus but every cell gets enough to live and has the opportunity to be stimulated and grow. The functional structures of the brain can be an analogy for organizations and companies in our world.
We now have the the foundation to establish a virtual social network that can basically govern a population and supply jobs. In virtual social networks there are accountability, qualitative, and quantitative indicators already built into virtual social networks that can give value to the contributions we supply online and offline. If we supply good contributions we are rewarded, if we supply bad contributions or nothing at all, we are not rewarded. This can be implemented on a personal performance basis and we can still supply resources to everyone connected on a lower sustainable level.
http://youtu.be/qv8Xn7PUcI4 This is a similar idea but still based on an antiquated concept that money will always we necessary.
Warrick Harrison
It doesn't appear to be what you're aiming at, but the result might be similar in the end. I have a Cognitive Science / Philosophy of Mind / Artificial Intelligence background, so I kind of get what you're going for. One thing it seems to me is: If we try to change people too quickly or give them something that looks radically different...they won't like it, or adopt it. So Gajantic is designed to use familiar terms, a familiar platform, and familiar procedures....to let people get where you're aiming by themselves.......
...Just for fun: For an example of giving people something radically different, check out ClientPlaza.com, which I also developed -- ClientPlaza turns the tables on advertising by letting individuals broadcast their needs to companies (the opposite of companies advertising to them).
But no one used it because they just couldn't understand something so different than they were used to (and it's really not that different!).
Anyway, let me know what you think of Gajantic if you want. Maybe it's not what you're after at all.
Warrick Harrison
My company (ironically, a for-profit venture) has produced Gajantic.com. Gajantic isn't designed to make much profit in dollars, so it's not alien to your thinking.
It does, kind of by accident, lean towards providing some of the features of the system you propose.
Can you make it work for you? Might only need some copy-and-paste to start getting things done.
With your own social network fully engaged, of course ;-)
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Social media is different from a social network. A sports league is a social network, congress is a social network, Facebook is a social network. Social media is a chat, blog, video, phone call, music station, its content. Social networks "interact" with social media as a means of communication. Its like the electrical impulses passing through neurons.
What I'm suggesting is to facilitate content through platforms already established in a more economical process. Why do you login to facebook? Most likely to interact with its users and to explore its content. Why not login to a state or city website and interact with its users? Why? Because its one sided, its not interactive its like a road map in a tiime when we have turn by turn virtual or real guides.
Charles Curt
and i'm not really sure how the social media's indicators and structure would be any better then the structure and platform ALREADY in place for the exact reasons this just seems like a pointless idea please explain further if this isn't what you mean?
Mitch SMith 50+
This is a good question!
Here's some things to ponder:
1. What does the human unit bring to the group?
2. What are the roles of the institutions we create?
3. Are institutions entities?
4. What does the environment we inhabit have to say about us and our institutions?
5. How do we keep our laws and institutions in step with our environment?
6. What is the diference between "adapted" and "adaptable?
7. What are the limits of human comprehension of complex non-linear systems?
8. Would you willingly live next door to a redneck?
John Gianino
We can Google all these answers and relate them to the conversation. What are your interests in the conversation?
Mitch SMith 50+
True. Google has some advantages.
My interest is to see where this thread goes - and I hope more than one person actually did google these questions - they are cogent (even the redneck one - gotta have it where you live and not just in the google-cloud).
So - firstly, we don't need to go looking for some design of a society - it is default .. we don't make it, we allow it. So anarchy is the way forward. This is what is being demonstrated on the internet today .. it's a very pale copy of real-life community, but you can see it happening like some kind ofg new thing .. but it's just what happens when people are allowed to be default. On that score, we should defend our right to be wild and not tollerate the CISPA/SOPA/ACTA attempts to destroy it.
So look at all the things that destroy our default wild-community,. These are ythe enemy of community. including: law, religion, schools, prisons, governments .. i.e. all our institutions.
Institutions begin OK, but they all get poisoned .. and what are they poisoned by? alpha males .. and after that - alpha females. HAve a look - institutons start out as a passive principle. Take for instance "education". When practivced as a passive principle, the students go to learn, when active they go to be trained, disciplined and indoctrinated. Law is instituted as a resort for those in conflict - but now it is the instrument of violation, government started as enslavement by alpha males, after thousands of years we pulled it back to "democracy" so we could choose our persecutor .. for a little while it even looked a bit like representation, but that fairytale is ended. We created corporations to gather the increase of human collaberation, and they have turned to viruses on community and government.
Our institutions are at war with us and each other - simply by switching from passive to active.
This is the measure of a pathalogical entity - the difference between a parasite and a symbiot.
Don't create any more of these.
John Gianino
Everything changes and people may compare our societal behaviors with different organisms but, we are uniquely human. Our ability to create change for good or for bad is influenced by our interest.
Mitch SMith 50+
All I aim to do here is to point out that our meta capacity was not our doing - it is a reult of the continuum of the instantiated. We assume that we are the master of our history, and thereby own our futures - which we do not. And, it looks like we own that future in a descending curve.
we can have our meta. And in that meta, I try to help by observing that the meta-creatures we spawn and instantiate are immature.
I hint that the turn of an entity from symbiote to parasite is based on teh principle of passive/active.
I cannot know for sure, but I investigate the modulation of entropy as the genesis of a skin - if it has a skin, it is an entity - and by virtue of that skin, the flow of entropy is modulated to give rise to a "self" and that all which defines a "self" is survial. this infers a definite atractor, and yet the meta can be strange - e.g. the weather .. and our meta constructs all seem strange - e.g "mother nature".
I would say that if you can pinch a skin and get smacked in the head for it, then you are dealing with reality. All else is strange, and we had better admit it and work out the damn math if we get smacked in the head.
I recommend you download netllogo and get exploring. Or join up with this little course:
http://www.complexityexplorer.org/
And/or present your papers .. it would be nice to allow the "wild university" to start delivering de-institutionalised scientific method - peer review from real peers.
Mitch SMith 50+
I agree .. with a small caveat .. social networks are cellular autonomata .. they behave according to the shapes they are allowed.
I played "tribal wars" a few years ago .. it was all good except it was "tribal" and "wars". I got a tribe going and we killed lot of other players .. game-wise .. and i got it going well enough to set up safe-tribes to protect the little kids in "don't kill" tribes .. you know - for the little 6 and 7 year olds who hadn't learned how to be ruthless .. that worked for a while until I found many players were enslaving the kids for personal avantage .. so we had to eat all the kids.
Yes .. social networks "rule" .. but to what end?
Tao Ronz
You wrote: "We now have the the foundation to establish a social network that can basically govern a population and supply jobs."
To govern populations, supply jobs and also, to solve problems. We are two people discussing this kind of project. http://www.ted.com/conversations/16652/community_driven_website_that.html
The idea I had is this: Make a website that connects: The best ideas, the best workers and financing to make it happen.
It would be like a combination of Reddit, Ebay, Facebook etc.
The project I'm thinking of however does not focus primarily on jobs. It focuses on problem solving. Its a very basic idea right now. Anyway yea, join in if you're interesting. We started a forum.
Your idea is sort of abstract and at this point, ours is too. I'm just replying here so this topic is bookmarked as I might visit it again later.
John Gianino
Detroit is virtually bankrupt and it needs to change. The city has a user database already established through state identification. I had to set this possibility aside because the government in place is in crisis and things move slow so, I made and offer to buy detroit.org and set it up as a non profit to hand it over to the city after i can work the bugs out.
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Imagine no loss of profit in business. How could you make that happen?
Try imagining a situation existing in your mind that CAN BE, then try to defeat the idea. I'm not imaging people looking a videos and photos all day long, I'm imagining people going about their day as normal, talking to people on the phone, walking on the street, sleeping, its all about perspective.
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Pabitra Mukhopadhyay 30+
Do you propose that social capitalism can replace physical capitalism in economically meaningful way?
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Pabitra Mukhopadhyay 30+
Holiday time sharing is another example. Car sharing is another.
However, I am not so clear about basic products like food, energy or shelter. But it is an interesting thought.
I am not clear about social networks or what you mean by attention in this respect of course.
Robert Winner 50+
People have come to realize that this is not a workable solution and are kicking unions and that philosophy out for right to work and freedom of choice.
Those who continue to work for attention will become very hungry in bankrupt cities (Detroit) ... I do not suggest this.
John Gianino
I used "attention" in my statement in place of money because currency is just a medium of exchange and attention if more about focus of resources. Please maintain cogency in reading my idea. I can explain and clarify details better if I can understand your perspective.
Can you briefly explain in your own words what you think my idea is?
Robert Winner 50+
1. That you are suggesting that the value of the product is in the skill of the worker.
2. That each person should work / contribute in order to share .. but maybe not proportionally
3. That you embrace trading and bartering except that we do not exchange pigs, cows, and rice ... we gain credits. Another exchange just like money.
I just read it again and think that you are saying down with capitalism and bring on a socialist government ... which is the current popular political thought.
John, you ask for my opinion ... IMO I think you are begining to enjoy the taste of the kool ade.
I still wish you well. Bob.
John Gianino
I have absolutely no interest in public ownership of real or intellectual property and to me bartering and trading becomes a hassle because value perceived is value received.
My idea is to bring attention and resources to a community in much the same way the human body reacts to a wound. Imagine every person as specialized cells in the organ systems of the human body. We receive a signal (pain) and we dispatch resources to the affected area with great efficiency because everything is connected in a biological network.
Each person should be responsible for their own family, home, and community. A person's job should be to complete tasks for an organization within their community. This contains the opportunity costs and benefits within the region in which a person is most effected. People will respond to problems more quickly and effectively if the problems effect them directly.
Robert Winner 50+
Is this a fair comparison of what you suggest.
Bob.
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pat gilbert 50+
Your idea reminds me of the .com bubble...
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pat gilbert 50+
However the key is in what is exchanged and how that product or service is perceived.
The governing body on this is the individual who votes with his pocketbook.
It is impossible for anything but the free market to govern this as every individual makes 100 or more economic decisions per day times 7 billion = 700 billion decisions per day. This can only be governed by individuals freely exchanging without government perversions that create bubbles.
The free market embraces the free exchange of ideas which makes it elegant and complex and connects everyone in the world. Think about any product and how it is connected from raw material to communication to packaging to manufacture to transportation to advertising to marketing to training etc etc. Watch this video and you will get the idea.
http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.html
I don't mean to shoot down your idea it is just that I don't see it as workable.
John Gianino
Random Chance 30+
capitalizing on what others don't know, and then profiting by taking advantage of that.
It is also taking advantage of bad things that happen to others. Profiting off the illness, accidents,
crimes, mistakes and catastrophes that happen.
It is also capitalizing on these 'breaks' and using that advantage to keep others down, thus maintaining
a disadvantage that works to your advantage and then:
Capitalizing on that advantage to widen the distance between those with and those without.
It is fraught with reasons for fear, greed, crime, creating inequality, poverty, slavery and so on.
It is by default, an unjust system that cannot be made just.
Let's say you have a great job John. But many are out of work and need a job that pays well.
Why don't you give them your job? Because it is only one job and there are thousands out of work.
So, how do you reconcile one person stumbling upon a pothole first, through sheer luck, getting the credits and having others follow up, who didn't know the pothole was reported, i.e. taken?
I agree with you that Socialism can work and it must not have money involved. So far, we haven't had Communism or Socialism that didn't involve money and thus all the reasons for corruption. In fact, with money, any monetary system can only survive with corruption, greed, crime, and so on.
Why not make all jobs equal to begin with, because they are. It is only when we put money, value, credits or other forms of separating us from one another, on jobs, that we begin to see, believe and treat each other with different values that involve, lack of respect, disdain, contempt and so on when the truth is we need all jobs done and there are enough humans to do all jobs.
I believe we have to start, nay, we must start with Human Needs. There are a certain number of Human Needs that are the same for everyone. I think you touched on that. They should be Universal Human Rights and guaranteed, supplied and so on before we begin more fighting.
John Gianino
Why do people need jobs? All life needs resources to survive and life forms perform tasks to acquire the resources they desire. People do not have the same desire to perform all the tasks in humanity.
My idea is to be part of a system in which people create an awareness of a need and this awareness is the catalyst and the fuel to fill the need.
Correct me if I'm wrong but, is your comment more of a suggestion to focus on basic human needs?
Jedrek Stepien 10+
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John Gianino
Online Example: You are a writer for a blog and you post an article. The more views, comments, likes, karma, etc your article receives the more you credit you accumulate.
Offline Example: A pot hole is photographed and reported to the social network. The attention the issue receives by comments, views, alerts, etc is equal to the writers blog article. Someone in the network is connected to a person that can most effectively fix the problem and after which, he is awarded the credits.
This system of credit can take the place of currency and I'm sure I'm not the first to think of it. George, you have 10+ TEDCreds do you think that will be something of value on this website? A big difference with what I'm imagining and TEDCreds is that my idea for credits has more to do with currency than status. Status can fade with inactively.
Theodore A. Hoppe 200+
Your notions about the value of such credit system is not supported.
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