Organization

Building an unstoppable good force

To make most Goodness, scale is key. We adopt best practices from traditional venture-scale software startups but with a few modifications to ensure more Goodness such as Capped Investment, Conditional Open Source and Goodness Decision-making. Traditional venture-scale software startupsTo make more impact, we adopt best practices such as using venture capital to hire faster, building a culture of excellence, ensuring defensability against competition as well as working in an emerging field with “no competition”. As individuals, we make sure we always work on the most important task and are not afraid of “reinventing” ourselves, being recRead more Capped investmentCapital-raising to scale faster, without losing decision-power to investors. Read more Briefing OpenAI was the first company to pioneer capped venture investments. Capped Investments allow rapid growth (main reason to seek to venture captail) while remaining in control of the company to ensure its pursues its mission, and not purely shareholder value maximization (the drawback of venture capital). This works through offering a capped investment, ex. 100x the money, and thereafter the non-profit buys back the shares.

1. Why we do capped investment
2. How it works
3. For contributors
4. For investors

Open in full-screen Conditional open sourceOpen-source has provided immense benefits to progress. Yet, some innovations may prove to be Black Ball. Some open-source may also strenghten power of those reducing Goodness. By having a conditional open-source, we aim to have the cake and eat it. Read more Goodness Decision makingMost (all) private companies producing public utilities (like Google’s searchHow Goodness Decision Making relate to Google’s Search as a public utility These concepts are below described as a group. Hover a word to see general definition.Had Goodness been in mind then reinforced beliefs would be combated with easy UX like topic-perspectives. However, this reduce engagement and ad-revenue. Google could also paid Wikipedia for their contributions., YouTube’s video-network, Facebook’s social media, Walmart’s groceries etc.) make their decision based on shareholder value maximization. In September 2019, the Business Round Table (a CEO group featuring ex. Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook) stated that “Shareholder Value is no longer everything [..and that..] companies have obligations to society”. Actual implementables to make the companies more responsible are yet to be invented. We are certain that a key driver to speed up change is a Goodness framework.

As an organization that is highly incorruptible, intentional, productive and accountable, we’re building the most important application for the 21st century. IncorruptibleBy evaluating the organization’s contributors based on Goodness, and removing most incentives for corruption, we reduce our risk of being corrupted highly, in relation to ex. capitalistic or communistic organizations (ex. Google or China’s Communist Party). Read more IntentionalCompared to capitalism and communism which indirectly might provide Goodness (human well-being), we are intentional in measuring our output in terms of benefit for humanity, intelligence and consciousness. Read more ProductiveTo make meaningful change, we have to be able to compete with China’s Communist Party and the global Tech Giants. This pushes our organization to be immensely productive.Read more AccountableTo ensure contributors work toward Goodness we have randomized public revisions of our organization, in to the deepest details. This accountability makes it that we can’t be evil. Read more

Products

Capturing collective intelligence

Our current undertaking is deep-diving into interesting product areas for our first product-release. It’s ranges from making fundamental improvements of Roam, to a networked-blog platform, to a 10x podcast app, to a news & social media aggregator, to a next-generation debate platform. What matters most, is getting enough fuel to develop the long-term product: an argument protocol. Fundamental improvements of RoamRoam is currently capitalistic and any more they grow is uncertain whether they are net positive. On one hand, they increase collective intelligence. On the other hand, if they do become powerful, they will likely become like Google, scraping their initial philosophy moto of doing Good. As such, we hold on to our fundamental Roam improvements until Roam listens to community-pressure of becoming conditional open-source. Networked-blog platformMedium.com is for blogging, tho mainly used for articles. Twitter is for microblogging, tho mainly used for debates and knowledge sharing. Blogging never took off for mass-usage. Can Networked-blogging revive blogging? It depends on its features and how well it can democratize the “influencer” status. As #roamblog is trending, we have chosen to withhold features of networked-blogging. 10x podcast appFeatures like taking notes-on-the-fly with your microphone, automatically transcribed (both the podcast content and your quoted note to it). Hearing other’s notes (ex. podcast-hosts / celebrities commenting other podcasts). Saving time by listening to compliations (best snippets) of podcasts, collectively-user-generated. With enough traction, it could pull of a monetization-strategy for podcast-hosts beyond ads. News & social media aggregatorThe 24h news cycle need to be stopped, partly to reverse sensationalism, partly to give humans freedom of staying up-to-date without being hooked. That is a very small UX-feature that can have big impact. We also have big-features that will bring an entirely new content-consumption experience. Next-generation debate platformToday’s online debates (on FB, Twitter, Reddit and Quora) were designed to drive engagement – not to find truth. If that was the goal, the platforms would of looked and functioned entirely different – and that is the mission we are working on. Argument protocolIf human civilization survives, it is very likely we will invent an argument protocol. We are just trying to ensure that the protocol is managed with Goodness in mind, not for capitalism or communism. As one big challenge after the other gets tackled, we’ll steadily get closer to mapping all human knowledge. Given that knowledge is power, the argument protocol can be used to create global governance and individual freedom.

Examples of argument-protocol interfaces

Once the argument protocol, with much of human knowledge mapped, how will it presented around the web? One example is by adding “Truthfulness-metrics” to any claim made online. Such as:

That Flat Earthers are wrong84% Argument: Flat Earthers are wrong
if 1: 61%flat Earthers believe earth is flat and 2: 73%earth is not flat then 3: 91%Flat Earthers are incorrect 1: flat Earthers believe earth is flat 1.1: understandable from the name 1.2: stated in Wiktionary: “A person who believes or advocates the theory that the planet Earth is flat.” ReferenceHide[advanced_iframe use_shortcode_attributes_only=”true” src=”https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/flat-earther#noun” width=”100%” height=”600px” scrolling=”yes” id=”advanced_iframe” name=”advanced_iframe” enable_lazy_load=”true” enable_lazy_load_threshold=”400″]Wiktionary [Flat Earther] 1.3: stated in Wikipedia: “The flat Earth model is an archaic conception of Earth’s shape as a plane or disk.” 2: earth is not flat 2.1: See same sunset from different heights 2.2: Boats disappear/appear in horizon with height-differences 2.3: On a flat surface on a really clear day, one still can’t see very far 3: Flat Earthers are incorrect 3.1: If a premise is invalid, the premise-holder is incorrect. 3.2: Flat Earthers belive in the premise 1.1. 3.3: Because they belive in the premise, and the promise is invalid, they are incorrect. 1.1: understandable from the name 1.1.1: A name doesn’t necessarily imply belief (logical fallacy (disprove entire argument)) 1.1.2: According to Argument Conspiracy theory names the name are often directly linked to the belief 2.1: Deep-diving of each argument 2.1.1: If you see the sunset, and as the sun is setting, climb up to a higher altitude, ex. 100m higher, you will be able to see the sun again. This proves that the higher up you are, the larger distance to the horizon, meaning an increased radius and thereby proving that at least the place you are watching the sunset from must be round and as such suggesting that the whole world is round. 2.2.1: “The horizon is the line at which the Earth’s surface and the sky appear to meet. When ships sailing away disappear into the horizon, they do so bottom-first. The top vanishes later, which creates the illusion that the ship is sinking. Similarly, when ships appear from the horizon, the top appears first, and then the rest of the ship.” [Source: Medium 2.3.1: If the world was flat, then on a clear day one should theoretically see extremely far. However, one cannot see very far because the world tilts by the horizon. is easy to prove.

Because exercising is healthy84% Metrics (total 84% true)Hover to see moreSlide items to vote Vote if you believe the Claim is truthful, by moving each slider below on the grade-scale. Hover each Metric to see more information on how to score on just that Metric. Very low Low Medium High Very high How clear is the question? 27%Determines if an argument can be clearly understood or if there is a risk of misinterpretation. A highly scored claim can’t be misunderstood, ex. “Homo Sapiens is a specie” while a low score has various interpretations, ex. “Apple is growing”. How much do you agree? 48% Determines if you agree (validate) a Claims premises and its conclusion, or if you disagree (invalidate) the claim. A high score you agree on, ex. “I exist” and a low score you disagree with ex. “Earth is flat”. How qualified are you in this topic? 72% Determines your knowledge on the topic, ex. if you’re an expert in a topic, you can vote with higher certainty, while you may use a lower certainty if you’re unsure about a topic but still like to raise your voice. High score, ex. “I exist”, low score ex. “Aliens exist”. Give rating Top specified claims Human workout is increasing physical/mental well-beingand make you live longer 98% true 92% usage Top alternative meaning Carrying out an activity is not necessarily good or bad 96% true 3% usage Top opposing claims Excessive exercise is not not healthy 67% true 5% usage Support of Top specified claims exercising = Human workout (which) is healthy = increasing physical/mental well-beingand make you live longer 98% true 92% usage Metrics (total 84% true)Slide items to vote Vote if you believe the Claim is truthful, by moving each slider below on the grade-scale. Hover each Metric to see more information on how to score on just that Metric. Very low Low Medium High Very high Clarity 27%Determines if an argument can be clearly understood or if there is a risk of misinterpretation. A highly scored claim can’t be misunderstood, ex. “Homo Sapiens is a specie” while a low score has various interpretations, ex. “Apple is growing”. Validness 48% Determines if you agree (validate) a Claims premises and its conclusion, or if you disagree (invalidate) the claim. A high score you agree on, ex. “I exist” and a low score you disagree with ex. “Earth is flat”. Certainty 72% Determines your knowledge on the topic, ex. if you’re an expert in a topic, you can vote with higher certainty, while you may use a lower certainty if you’re unsure about a topic but still like to raise your voice. High score, ex. “I exist”, low score ex. “Aliens exist”. Give rating is why its recommended.