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Connect or Collect Data?

Should WikiSim connect to data rather than collect it?

Icebreaker One (IB1) aims to make trusted data more available to organisations and people by focusing on governance first. This is a good approach and a laudable goal, and I wish it was already in pl… (1287 words)
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Conversation Upgrade #1 - GBP to EUR exchange rate around Brexit

TLDR: validating claims in conversations is hard without good tools & data. Data is sometimes hard to find, or hard to make sense of as our online tools / mediums do not allow for quick calculations, visualisations and validations to be performed.

The original conversation The original conversation happened in the comments section of an opinion article about the UK Labour government's recent budget changes. Whilst I thought upgrades could be f… (1932 words)
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Conversation Upgrades

All conversations have a seed of something interesting, but not all reach their full potential. Some instead devolve into name calling ad hominem attacks, straw man arguments, motte-and-bailey doctri… (352 words)
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What are good conversations?

A first pass at mapping out what makes good conversations

We live in democracies, they work when we have good conversations. I don't think it's controversial to say that we are not having good conversations about many important topics. This is a function of… (510 words)
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Sub-citations for efficient recall and validation of references

We already use sub-citations for books and legal documents, why not academic / scientific papers?

A flood of unstructured data in PDFs During the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, I was fortunate to be employed by CCI to analyse data from Covid-19 diagnostic EUAs (Emergency Use Authorisations… (1175 words)

Thoughts on "What can one person do?"

@nonzerosumjames.bsky.social just published What can one person do? It's a good article and questions what we should do when faced with the challenge of tyranny, of an oppressive state. Do we put ours… (51 words)

Thoughts on "Dear ACM, you're doing AI wrong but you can still get it right"

*edit* on re-reading this it sounds a bit curt, rest assured it's not meant to be! I think Anil's article is great, I'm just curious & being brief. @anil.recoil.org posted "Dear ACM, you're doing AI w… (71 words)

Opportunity / Problem Statements Repository for Collective Flourishing

*edit* you can see and edit the latest version of this doc on WikiSim. -- why is this proposal on WikiSim? Data, calculations, simulations, proposals and narratives relating to how we could organise a… (80 words)
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How to unify conflicting perspectives - v2

Some initial thoughts on how one or more people can unify their conflicting perspectives.

"What is both a rectangle and a circle?" Mahomed Hussein asked me. Was it a trick question? "Nope". Ok?... that's a head scratcher! And the solution to this question is found by moving from a lower… (561 words)