Thanks for sharing your work and talking through the metaphors on the Polis User Group discord, Rob 🙌🏻🙌🏻 polislike.short.gy/discord

#democracy #delibwave

If you're so lucky, people forget it was ever a story at all.

Bwaaaaahahaha 🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣

Oh jeez, I was not expecting this maniacle laugh to escape my face just now

Which one??? I am intrigued and confused, in the good way that I like to be

Not sure what else is good in there, but feel free to share if you find anything useful <3

Pol.is data collection is adjacently dystopic. As Colin Megill has said, it's an opensource "Cambridge Analytica". It's scary data. The only argument for collecting it, is that allowing all citizens access to realtime collective introspection is worth the risk.

You can't determine a troll via words contributed. If a troll is representative, it's a participant, tho perhaps one playing by diff rules. Pol.is marginalizes minority POVs, without erasure & makes all coherent groups legible to the whole, troll or otherwise

The danger is not that we fail to compromise -- it's that we fail to even recognize the fractal boundaries of our divides in sufficient resolution, and fail to fully understand the terrain of mutual understanding over which negotiation MIGHT BE POSSIBLE.

There is no half measure to reactions. We want your "full heart agree" or "full heart disagree". If you can't offer that, you don't have a "half agreement" -- that's a cop-out. You have a "pass" and a job to do. USE YOUR WORDS. Write something you can take a full-hearted position on. Throw it in.

& @ventrella.bsky.social, on watching your video explanation of Clusters (archive.org/details/clus...):

you might get a kick out of @cynthiarudin.bsky.social's description of her lab's #PaCMAP algorithm, which is the rising new hotness in dimensionality reduction :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD-u...

If anyone is interested in this stuff, @metagov.bsky.social is also a great place to join. metagov.org/join/community

h/t to the @radxchange.bsky.social foundation calls (in particular @glenweyl.bsky.social and Luis Razo for sharing generously on the open calls) -- for inspiration on the general idea of modelling humans/values with attractive-repulsive force simulations.