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True Causes na online implementation of Structured Democratic Dialogue, di method wey grow from John Warfield Interactive Management and wey Alexander Christakis and Yiannis Laouris develop. E no new: fifty years of peer-reviewed work, hundreds of dialogues wey dem document. Laouris and Christakis call am harnessing collective wisdom, and dem name size as im hardest limit; to lift dat limit na wetin True Causes dey for. Few changes wey we make on purpose. One of dem: di method dey keep evri idea attached to di name of di pesin wey write am from start to finish, and im practitioners argue say anonymity dey weaken accountability. Here nobodi get name inside dialogue, becos for workplace or for community wey divide, na di name dey stop pipo from writing di true card. We tink say di trade correct; nobodi neva test am. See di research. Di science of di mechanism around am, di rules wey dem test against bloc voting, and di implementation na wetin we dey add.
Di wider literature: Structured Democratic Dialogue · Interpretive Structural Modelling · Interactive Management. Our own simulations and dia results dey come with di software and dem describe dem for di notes wey dey inside am.
Wetin else dey outside. Polis dey find wia crowd don already gree and e dey show you di clusters. Remesh and tools like am dey carry dat agreement-finding reach thousands of pipo. Di Habermas Machine dey write statement wey most of group fit sign. All three good for one question: wetin we gree on? Dis one dey ask anoda one — wetin dey cause wetin? — e dey settle am pair by pair, and e dey keep di disagreements wey e no fit settle instead of to smooth dem over. Di tool wey near pass na di method own: IdeaPrism, from Laouris team, dey run clustering and mapping asynchronously and e dey send disagreements back for justification.
No be di wisdom of crowds. Galton ox and evri prediction market since den dey work by averaging guesses wey dey independent: di errors dey cancel becos nobodi tok to anybodi. Na di correct tool for number — weight, date, price. E no get answer for A dey cause B?, wia one hundred guesses wey no get information dey average to guess wey no get information. Dis one dey work di oda way round: dem dey make pipo tok first, so wetin dem judge go get information; and dem no dey average dia judgements but dem dey count dem against bar wey dem must cross togeda. Independence na wetin crowd need; shared meaning na wetin group need.
For di words of oda fields. For computer scientist, dis na human-based computation: pipo dey answer each pair, and algorithm, interpretive structural modelling, dey arrange di map. For economist, e dey work on dispersed knowledge, for Hayek sense: wetin problem need dey spread among plenti pipo, and no one pesin hold all. For public question, na civic intelligence. And na collective problem solving, no be collective decision-making: e dey inform decision and e dey leave di decision for di pipo wey must answer for am.
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