The end of Megan's antigay picketing career and life as she knew it was triggered in part by strangers on Twitter who showed me the power of engaging the other.
"There was no confusion about our positions, but the line between friend and foe was becoming blurred."
"Even when someone does call for empathy and understanding for the other side, the conversation nearly always devolves into a debate about who deserves more empathy. And just as I learned to do, we routinely refuse to acknowledge the flaws in our positions or the merits in our opponent's. Compromise is anathema. We even target people on our own side when they dare to question the party line."
The good news is that it's simple, and the bad news is that it's hard. We have to talk and listen to people we disagree with. It's hard because we often can't fathom how the other side came to their positions. It's hard because of that sense of certainty that ours is the right side, is so seductive. It's hard because it means extending empathy and compassion to people who show us hostility and contempt. The impulse to respond in kind is so tempting, but that isn't who we want to be. When we engage people across ideological divides, asking questions helps us map the disconnect between our differing points of view. That required us to stay calm, People often lament that digital communication makes us less civil, but this is one advantage that online conversations have over in-person ones. We have a buffer of time and space between us and the people whose ideas we find so frustrating. We can use that buffer. Instead of lashing out, we can pause, breathe, change the subject or walk away, and then come back to it when we're ready.
By developing a P2P MMOIDE the allows players to create and play Interactive Narratives with realtime collaborative editing of both 3d models and code and Compendium like knowledge base.
Not just a global Concept Map the scale of Wikipedia to solve the Wicked Problem of people demonizing the 'other', but the gamafication to get people to learn to love using it. $3220 incorporationBhai Kanhaiya Ji sewa with love and affection without any discrimination between the Guru's Sikh soldiers and the Mughal armies' soldiers. His act of compassion stirred up stern criticism amongst his fellow Sikhs, who complained to Guru Gobind Singh Ji, pointing out that Bhai Kanhaiya Ji was serving water to the wounded soldiers from the enemy camp. They were especially annoyed because the Mughals had surrounded the city and stopped all their food supplies, and here was Bhai Kanhaiya sharing with them what little water they had. They had tried to stop him many a time, but he would not pay any heed. Guru Gobind Singh summoned Bhai Kanhaiya and explained that he had received a complaint about his actions on the battlefield.
Guruji said, “These brave Sikhs are saying that you go and feed water to the enemy and they recover to fight them again – Is this true?”
Bhai Kanhaiya Ji replied "Yes, my Guru, what they say is true. But Maharaj, I saw no Mughal or Sikh on the battlefield. I only saw human beings. And, ... Guru Ji, .. they all have the same God's Spirit? – Guru Ji, have you not taught us to treat all God's people as the same? OUR SIKH HEROES DESTROY ENEMIES BY KILLING THEM, BUT I DESTROY ENMITY BY GIVING THEM WATER."
The Guru was very pleased with the reply. Bhai Kanhaiya Ji had understood the deep message of Gurbani correctly. Guru ji smiled and blessed Bhai Kanhaiya. Guru Ji said, "Bhai Kanhaiya Ji, You are right. You have understood the true message of Gurbani". He then continued and told the Sikhs that Bhai Kanhaiya had understood the deeper message of the Gurus' teachings correctly and that they all have to strive to learn lessons from the priceless words of Gurbani.
Guru also gave Bhai Kanhaiya Ji medical Balm and said “From now on, You should also put this balm on the wounds of all who need it”'
Then turning to the sangat Guru Ji said, "Saadh sangat ji, Bhai Kanhaiya is a God-fearing saintly soul. His impartial and non-biased behaviour towards others has led him to achieve Sehaj-avastha. Let him carry on with his mission. Many more will follow in his footsteps in the years to come and keep the tradition of Nishkam sewa alive."
And so it happened that Bhai Kanhaiya became the first of the Wholly Marines.
We have identified the MVP to sell the gamification to the masses and hope that with it I can attract volunteers to keep up with TOoHNA's mission after I'm gone. What we need is a 3d world with a text interface. I imagine doing something like Doom levels where you section off parts of a plan into sectors and each sector having a text description. Sectors could be nested and depending on your setting and how you move deferent descriptions would be displayers to on e.g. their is a sector 'Bob's House' with sub sector's 'Front Porch' and 'The Interior' with further sub-sectors 'Kitchen' and 'Dining Area. You enter the 'Front Porch' and it gives you the 'Bob's House' description and 'Front Porch' description, then you inter the dining area and you get 'The Interior' and 'Dining Area' description then you move to the kitchen and you get notice that your in "The Interior' that is part of 'Bob's House' and then the 'Kitchen' description. The nesting of sectors wouldn't necessarily be a tree e.g. A and B could be sub-sectors of C and B and D could be sub-sectors of E, C and E aren't sub-sectors of the other one even thou that share sub-sector B.
I imagine something like the Riot Engine(from Drakan: Order of the flame), layered heightfields for the outdoor areas, preferably with the ability to make vertical walls with different heightfields used on each side of the walls.
Requirements that game MVP must provide.After the MVP is done The plan is to use Pynadath's psychsim(not to be confused with PsychSim 5)https://github.com/pynadath/psychsim to allow program by example, Thespian: Using Multi-Agent Fitting to Craft Interactive Drama For more papers about psychsim https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=pynadath+psychsim
I imagine it to eventually having a textual interface like MKULTRA Described @ https://aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AIIDE/AIIDE18/paper/download/18123/17221 and source code on Github https://github.com/ianhorswill/MKULTRA
The goal is to gamify creating psycho-social simulations both to share one's own experiences but also to test your understanding of others(if someone has beliefs:X and values:Y then under situation:Z he should act this way)
The end product we want is basically Compendium integrated with a 3d multi user collaboratively edited social Sim. So you can just as easily click on an object in the sim and see what links to it in the Concept map as you can click on a variable in the code editor to see what people say about that.
So that we can form a global concept map the scale of Wikipedia to solve the Wicked Problem of people demonizing the 'Other'.
"Realtime collaborative concept mapping as an subjective knowledge sharing that trace everything back to it's original research, an anti Wikipedia if you will.")
We want more people have experiences like Megan Phelps-Roper. "But in the midst of that digital brawl, a strange pattern developed. Someone would arrive at my profile with the usual rage and scorn, I would respond with a custom mix of Bible verses, pop culture references and smiley faces. They would be understandably confused and caught off guard, but then a conversation would ensue. And it was civil -- full of genuine curiosity on both sides. How had the other come to such outrageous conclusions about the world? ... There was no confusion about our positions, but the line between friend and foe was becoming blurred. We'd started to see each other as human beings, and it changed the way we spoke to one another. It took time, but eventually these conversations planted seeds of doubt in me. My friends on Twitter took the time to understand Westboro's doctrines, and in doing so, they were able to find inconsistencies I'd missed my entire life. Why did we advocate the death penalty for gays when Jesus said, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone?" How could we claim to love our neighbor while at the same time praying for God to destroy them? The truth is that the care shown to me by these strangers on the internet was itself a contradiction. It was growing evidence that people on the other side were not the demons I'd been led to believe.
These realizations were life-altering. Once I saw that we were not the ultimate arbiters of divine truth but flawed human beings, I couldn't pretend otherwise. I couldn't justify our actions" Instead of of doing like youtube where they sent the flat eathers to the RI videos saying that the world is round. with just ended up with the videos getting down votes and comments explaining why they are wrong in the video I want to put the flat earthers' video's in the round eathers' feeds so that they engage with the flat eathers and then the conversation can be had that leads to the truth. Eventually we hope to develop a recommender system that introduces people with people they disagree with and are willing to engage them in conversation. But for the MVP just hoping to have a collaborative concept mapping system with basic integration with the Iris social networking system.
But the AntiWikipedia is just one side of our solution for the other side, which is how will we get people to learn how to use it and then actual do it see: http://toohna.ourproject.org/crap/kickstarter%20desc.html
We will study Iris and see how it can be intergrated into the Conceptmaping software or if we have to fork it to make our own social network. I plan on splitting the tasks during the first 2 weeks into UI design and programming using Konva Framwork and the other teammate working on research Iris/gundb and designing the database.
The 2week milestones should be we have figured out the design of the UI both of the UX and how to implement it in code and implemented it in a offline app and we should also have figured out how to do RealTime chat and user management and the design of the database used to store the Concept maps and wiki pages on gundb and implement that in a webapp.
After that we will write the app using the knowledge learn to write a new app integrating the two not being afraid of changing how things work if they have anything that doesn't work well with the other.