The perpetual conversation: a never-ending sensemaking room

💡🔥 idea: the perpetual conversation 💬🗨️ a zoom room that has at least 2 people in it at all times, making sense of what's going on in the world on various timescales, and others can fishbowl or join the conversation themselves, or check in with it

Apr 27, 2024

I think this could be a brilliant performance art project that would also be meaningful and helpful if done well like a fire that is kept going forever, but for conversation ...but there are many challenges.

one challenge is that you'd need... minimum 6 people in different timezones doing it full-time+ (8h/day not including weekends) more people means less time per person but also means less continuity, more catching people up. but could get v good at that.

another challenge is like... moderating who gets to join for what period of time if you had the right medium, I could imagine something where people could share something in chat, then be invited to speak

huh. you could use current AI tech to like, digest the last 1-30h of conversation into a summary on the scale of 30s-5mins, and the summary could vary depending on who is receiving it—like different things would be relevant to me than to you

honestly a funny technical challenge would just be... allowing people to not be at a desk all day but out in the sun, walking, etc... without that messing up the audio quality too badly. good enough mics might fix it. with this level of commitment, worth paying $$$ for core ppl

if this were going well, it could be a lovely context for co-what-now'ing people could come in with what's feeling alive for them, then stick around to sense-make or go off to work on their project, feeling how it's plugged in with the whole malcolmocean.com/2022/05/aiming…

cultivating superorganism vision on large scale

Richard D. Bartlett @RichDecibels · Jul 29, 2023

seeing like a super-organism is mega useful, it's the best way to answer "what should I do?" well, what are you a part of? what role are you suited for? listen for subtle signals from higher beings, they're present as surely as your muscles receive electrical impulses all day

we could realize a denser, more out-loud version of this edge-of-collective-consciousness sense

Friend Tasshin @tasshinfogleman · Dec 2, 2022

they don't tell you when you sign up for the internet that you're learning to notice, harmonize with, and participate constructively in a self-organizing, emergent collective consciousness at the very edge of humanity's shared capabilities