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Social Intelligence: Knowledge
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A group of academics that work on various aspects of social intelligence will interact via the software on a sequence of web sites, upon the subject of social intelligence. The software will use evolutionary and other self-organising mechanisms to promote the development of knowledge beyond that of any of the individuals who participate. There will be an initial period where the participants will interact via a simple mailing list (or existing participatory software like Hypernews or Wiki), followed by three periods of interaction on each web-site. As well as informing the research of the participants in the field on social intelligence, the task of each period of interaction is to determine the design of the next web site. In this way it is hoped that the collective evolution of knowledge that occurs at one web site will can be utilised in structuring the next evolutionary process. Thus the sequence of web-site intermediaries implements a bootstrapping process, allowing the collective knowledge, the design of the web-sites and the participants' understanding to co-evolve.
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Social mining and social intelligence will enable organizations to discover and exploit the knowledge, behaviors and tendencies of Web societies. In these societies, participants generate and share rich content, and wield considerable power and influence.
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To build a working theory of mind, a more subtle extension of the model of social intelligence is required. In order to represent the knowledge and possible reasoning of one's peers, one requires some rather general rules such as “If Z is present and S happens, then Z will know that S” or “If I know rule script R, then probably Z ... knows rule script R”. Without such broad-range rules, an infeasibly large number of specific rules would be needed to represent a useful portion of another's knowledge and reasoning.
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