OGM Thursday, 2021-03-25

notes by @Peter Kaminski

Topics

• collective intelligence
  • Klaus: vs. consciuousness (Jan Smuts)

Pete's Reflections on Using Mmhmm for Call

• was hampered by sharing one window instead whole screen (didn't want zoom video feedback, so didn't share whole screen)
• hackmd on one page is nice, but doesn't show other wiki pages
• it made raising hand and doing jazz hands more challenging
• i had to turn off video mirroring, which i low-key don't like :-)
• on my computer at least, it looks like there is a small video lag for my picture
• not sure how good the resolution of the screenshare was

People

Mike

• wedding
• Pairagraph for debate

Ken

• measuring collective intelligence
  • gil: why / would measuring it increase it?
    • how do funders deal with measurement
  • julian: make
• the opposite of collective intelligence is groupthink

Judy

• dendritic stuff
• collecting success stories
  • equally effective with funders
• keep assessment "under the radar" so people don't freeze

Doug

• limitations of measurement compared to stories

John

• moderators on clubhouse
  • wokeness vs. free speech

George

• collective intelligence is a myth
  • varying degrees of intellectual efficacy / efficiency
  • we invented a lot of kinds of "intelligence"
  • vs. mind skills mastering a cluster of mental skills
    • have just done more practice than other people
• next big thing: Spaces by Twitter
• audio is sometimes better than video
  • inventor of the telephone focus group
  • "radio is better than television because the pictures are better"
  • jerry: audio carries ~80% of the emotional valence
  • "audio gestures" - body language

Trae

• syntropic world - https://syntropic.world/masterclass/
• FairShare Commons
• gratitudes:
  • jay golden
  • scott moehring
  • ken homer

Kevin

• how to interface with relative who's part of an antivax Waldorf school
  • rose quartz = embodier of love
  • jerry: “Your Ideas Are Not Your Identity”: Adam Grant on How to Get Better at Changing Your Mind (Evan Nesterak, Behavioral Scientist)

Marc

• value creation processes, on knowledge, natural resources, for a couple tribes/nations in Brazil

Michael

• Jim Fournier

Klaus

• thinking and working in sectors, rather than thinking of system
• consciousness (vs. collective intelligence)
  • are animals conscious? plants? is there an overarching consciousness

Gil

• side channel conversations (missing in clubhouse)
• droping the word "nature" (natural resources, natural capital)
  • (from pete, tweet about dropping the word "women's" from sports, or having to add "men's", either way)

Stuff to Look Up

• (pete) saw a twitter thread about "intelligence" in humans, that it's fractal and includes your whole body, not just your brain.