5:30 – 6:30 BRI

• Catching up on email, etc.

8:00 – Research

• Patching IntelliJ
• enabling ‘no borders’ option
• Collective Intelligence 2017 Notes
• Geoff Mulligan
  • Copernicus EU project
  • AIME – Disease outbreak prediction
  • MetaSUB
  • English cancer xxx xxx?
  • ORID (Taiwan) Uses slideshare, discourse, pol.is, livehouse.in
  • Economics has been hopeless WRT developing models that pay for such collective intelligence assemblies
  • The enemies of collective intelligence
  • The economics of algorithmic decision making and human decisions queresha
  • Rare disease patients are driving this technology because of the need and low funds
  • Icelandic collective intelligence Iceland democracy is a good example?
  • Link into action and feedback is a problem common across many of these projects
• Tom Kalil
  • Prize – driven development
  • Prediction markets for technology forecasting
  • Philanthropy: Nimble, Prizes over grants and contracts. People who know how to build an effective prize
  • Bullet points as a way of driving through change. Magic laptop experiment. Any press release you write will come true. Look up. (Is this gamification?)
    • Provides Agency
    • Value of concreteness
    • Articulate who needs to do what
    • Has to be at least plausible (the entities could be expected to do these things)
  • Tony Bright(?) Networking of improvement communities.
  • R&D and pilots.
  • User-driven innovation (contributing to economies)
  • Funds to focus on access and participation
• Dana Lewit
  • Artificial intelligence is everywhere – stop waiting
  • DIY artificial pancrias
  • Inability to sway manufacturers
  • Twitter as a source of technical fixes? How?
  • Gateway technology – Rasbery PI is very cheap, good community makes it easy to work with
  • #OpenAPS maker movement for DIY medical devices
  • Thousands of hours of development
  • What about the risk/reward of sharing data – targeting ads at low blood sugar
• Darlene Cavalier
  • Citizen Science Projects
  • TPBS – The Crowd in the Cloud
  • 1500 projects (What about power law issues and bias from the main contributors?)
  • Charismatic vs. invisible science needs?
  • Facilitator – make the process attractive for users
  • Scistarter Solutions Lab
  • ECAST Citizen science ecastnetwork.org
• The field of ‘Frugal Science’ (low cost tools) Tool making science?
• Jordan Barelow
  • CA State Fullerton
  • Woolley et. al. 2010 – no correlation or small between individual and group intelligence
  • What happens at the limit? Minimum threshold, max ceiling?
  • Performance on one task may not correlate with performance on another task. Why? What is it about highly structured tools?
  • Production work being individual – what about pair programming?
• Carsten Bergen-Holtz – Ikea effect agent-based simulation
  • Ikea effect – we tend to overvalue our sulutions
  • Efficient vs. inefficient networks efficient – all information is seen (is this bad?)
• Then the batteries died
• Mark Ackerman
  • New architecture for crowdsourcing knowledge
  • 8chan’s /pol/community -> kicked off 4chan for being too extreme
  • Beginnings of PizzaGate/Podesta/etc
  • Dog-whistle memes
  • Every post is anonymous
  • Outraged that something bad is happening to america. Sense of rage. Conspiracy thinking
  • Deliberate gaming of the Facebook algorithms and media sources.
  • Click based advertising is heavily selected for
  • Overton Window
• Some Assembly Required: Organizing in the 20th Century
  • Noshir Contractor
  • Match.com for teams
• Noshir Contractor
  • too much too fast. Team building, but needs some disentangling, I think
• Hila Lifshitz–Assaf
  • Is innovation different at different scales and platforms
  • Best R&D practice fail with ‘makeathons’????