The bubble system enables group collaboration for decision-making or understanding. It serves as a transitional tool between authority-based organization and a truly collective mindset. However, it is not entirely sufficient as it has inherent biases.
How it Works:
The roadmap includes bubbles for members to indicate how they want Comind to evolve. In the future, we could initiate a split of Comind: one version where the staff makes decisions by considering the bubbles and one entirely directed by the bubbles.
This element is presented on a site, with each page accompanied by a boiling for questions/answers and improvements. The site editor must consider the bubbles to improve the content.
Starting with a bubble split into two sub-bubbles ("beginning" and "continuation"). Each continuation bubble is split into two sub-bubbles ("beginning" and "continuation"). This gradually expands the text.
Imagine a troll adding a bubble like "People against racism are engaging in anti-racist racism, so they are not legitimate."
Normally, such messages attract numerous responses. Not because people enjoy communicating with trolls but to counter such ideas. With bubbles, the message can be pushed down. But it can also be improved. The troll bubble will not only rank low but also be placed in a sub-boiling, discouraging pure trolling.
An improvement should not be a contradictory replacement, so it is not about simply providing a definition of racism. While this is always possible, improvement should reflect the original idea. How, then, to improve an absurd idea without contradicting it ? By expressing a truth the troll might agree with while addressing their motivations.
For example:. such ideas often come from individuals using reasoning as a tool with no other rule than serving a goal. This likely stems from emotionally harsh life conditions. Over time, they may have developed emotional survival strategies (empathy blockage, frustration expressed through hatred of an essentialized group, building a tough personality, etc.). An improvement might be: "Some people are angry at wokists." This statement is likely true, reflects the original bubble, and, through sub-boilings, could potentially improve relations between the two perspectives (though with limited optimism as the individual may be highly self-protective).
If you want to construct a complex idea, it will likely break down into simpler elements. To facilitate its creation, you can create sub-bubbles within your bubble. To do so, use the improve tag (a button is available for this purpose) to enclose the part of the text you want to improve.
However, you need to carefully consider what to include under improve because the connections might no longer hold. An option with minimal risk is to break everything down into improve.
For millions of years, natural selection has shaped us for life in small, closed groups with strong interdependence. Modern life is vastly different, but our instincts drive us to reconnect with this small-group life. This results in numerous biases, such as celebrity worship or elections based on the emotional appeal of politicians. One bias occurs in large-group communication, leading to extreme positions and a dumbing down of debates.
To address these issues, Comind offers only structured forms for large groups, like bubbles. The goal is to focus contributions on improvements, eliminating social positioning aspects, votes being anonymous.
A bubbling improvement of a bubble is intended for its replacement. The question arises: what is the replacement criterion. The approach here is to copy the bubble as a new, ordinary bubble but calculate its score by adding N and S from the parent bubble.
Even though the context is different, N reflects statistical robustness, and S reflects satisfaction with the idea.
In practice, a successful bubble will quickly attract improvement suggestions if possible. As the parent bubble's evaluation influences its copy in the bubbling improvement process, new evaluations of the parent bubble are reflected on the child bubble (but not vice versa).
Replacement Value ?
When a bubble is replaced by another from its bubbling improvement, what values of N and S does it take. Constraints:. The new values should not cause a significant drop or rise, so the score should remain close to the original.
The score in the bubbling improvement is slightly better than the score of the replaced bubble.
Whenever scores are transferred, the vote history is copied; otherwise, a member could vote twice. Neutral Votes. A member can vote +1 then -1, resulting in a neutral evaluation but not in reducing the number of evaluations for the bubble.
While it might seem logical to cancel such evaluations, itās better to keep them as the member has expressed themselves.
Improve or Compete. In a bubbling improvement process, one might be tempted to leverage the success of a bubble to try to replace it instead of competing with other bubbles in the main bubbling.