HumanMarkup TC - lessons

[Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga <rkthunga@humanmarkup.org>]

 

Thanks for the personal emails and postings yesterday.  Four things we must do, as I've gathered from us all...

 

   1) Focus on clarifying organizational structure and task structure by the first meeting on September 17th, 2001.

       This is critical for the continuation of HumanMarkup. 

       

   2) Encourage non-technical experts, and provide a clear and easy means for their contribution.

 

   3) Be clear about the idealism, realizing as Rex mentioned this is also _the_ most pragmatic course, painfully clear today.

 

   4) Ensure we are working in the RIGHT direction, continuing to learn from the mistakes of the past.

 

Some say that all calamities are, more than anything, are an opportunity to express our true humanity.  Incidents like this make us rethink our priorities, our infrastructure, and what we're all living and working for anyway. 

 

We are fully making transparent the human genome, the laws of physics and mathematics, our body's physiology, the structure of our brain, the stars in the sky, but not yet the myriad of human expressions and interaction.  Paul:  I've gotten a chance to briefly survey your paper, and your work certainly your project bears relevance.  There are various issues of implementation that we could talk about further, which lie outside the scope of the project's next steps, but very interesting how such systems can be built using various HumanMarkup sets. 

 

The context, antecedents and consequences, especially of social discourse, have to be explored and worth detailing in an _open non-proprietary_ fashion.  Hate, harbored and _hidden_ by what could turn out to be one or a handful of "pocket-knife weilding" individuals, has brought the most powerful country in the world to its knees.  All the military might and force, money, beauty, innocence, trust, intelligence, and proximity we enjoyed provided absolutely worthless protection.  

 

From my own spiritual understanding, it is balanced and heightened awareness _alone_ that is sufficient can bring out our genuine human goodness in all of us.  Certainly not easy, especially in bringing such systems to those violently against such things, on both sides.  Nonetheless, all other proposed solutions thus far are _absolutely_ impotent. 

 

Yes, there must be willingness for peace--and really there is in a sense.  Both us AND terrorists _tuly_believe God is on our side.  Unlike the movies, no one really deliberately kills thousands of innocents simply for greed, money, or fame.  People kill masses out of misguided spiritual venting, and out of retaliation for their OWN loved ones lost.   A cycle that, if mapped out and made completely transparent to _all_--could start to finally dissolve.

 

Nonetheless, after all is said in done, we must focus on the steps in front of us...

 

Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga

 

 

 

 

 

Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Paul Stephen Prueitt

To: Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga ; Humanmarkup-Comment

Cc: Intrusion Group Dialog

Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 4:07 PM

Subject: question of nurture as well as nature

Ranjeeth

 

It is difficult to know how to say things - because the cause of terrorism, like to cause of most crime, is a question of nurture as well as nature.

 

I am working on new kinds of mapping techniques to reveal the boundaries of organizations and to thus provide tools where by the behavior of groups and individuals can become more well understood - and even a predictive element develop.

 

I  wonder if the notion of human mark-up might lead into some degree of choreographing of deviant behavior.   I know that there is work on this, but not open work that involves academics.  Within a wider participation in developing a foundation for future work, there will be little progress (In My Opinion).

 

I can share the primary methodology that I am inventing.  It is based on a shallow link analysis followed by a scatter gather (used in text mining) and then a stratified categorization processes that reflects work done in the Soviet Union (applied semiotics).  Pair wise metrics on relationship are convolved into a global topology not unlike genetic algorithms or a reinforcement learning neural network. 

 

The specifics of choreographing deviant behavior is beginning to appear in the human markup concepts.  These concepts are not well organized for view by someone from the outside of the history that you have, for example.  I understand that the process is formative and that not all problems are solved.  Moreover, the primary driver of this work in interactive games and entertainment.

 

I will share two papers that I have published about gestures and state transitions - and perhaps some part of the group can develop a means to bring into the discussion those whom can fund the research and rapid development of a new generation of informational transparency to world wide communication in the internet.

 

http://www.bcngroup.org/admin/CIL/guide/events.htm

http://www.bcngroup.org/area3/pprueitt/forms.htm

 

Selective attention with rapid informational transparency is what is required, if the democracies are to keep to the principles of freedom in the face of this type of dedicated terrorism. 

 

Much of the selective attention can be automated and the results guarded so that privacy issues are accommodated. 

 

One should note that the types of information technologies that align to social and individual behavior has many very positive advantages, when used in training, learning, emotion or medical diagnostics... etc.