diff --git a/the agora as a social knowledge graph.md b/the agora as a social knowledge graph.md index fbe371b38..beea59e67 100644 --- a/the agora as a social knowledge graph.md +++ b/the agora as a social knowledge graph.md @@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ - On a system level, there exists a [[reference Agora]] that provides a minimum viable implementation for the [[underlay]], [[interlay]], [[overlay]] components of the [[distributed knowledge graph]]. - We are using said reference Agora to refine the proposed system and run experiments. - Some hypotheses that we are testing: - - Individual contributions can be useful on average when served best-effort in a social context provided only an cheap additional stance (at little extra effort over baseline), and this mechanism benefits from network effects. + - Individual contributions can be useful on average when served best-effort in a social context at the cost of adopting a default social stance (at little extra effort over baseline), and this mechanism benefits from network effects. - A [[knowledge commons]] model can provide utility to participating communities efficiently, as the cost of systemic integrations with a hub design such as the Agora can scale with `O(N)` instead of the `O(N^2)` provided by a naive full mesh. - - Social composition and integration might be sufficient to yield meaning and sufficient order, or at least significantly complement both taxonomic approaches (hierarchical) and individual-scoped eventual convergence (non hierarchical). + - Social [[composition]] and [[integration]] of notes might be sufficient to yield higher level meaning and order, or at least significantly complement both taxonomic approaches (hierarchical) and individual-scoped eventual convergence (non hierarchical). - A composition of personal [[hierarchies]] yields a social [[heterarchy]]. - The social context afforded by an Agora provides a path towards faster eventual convergence (that is, `K` people contributing to `N` nodes as categorized using loose or implicit personal ontologies can converge on useful emergent categories as `K` increases). - Going from a set of voice-preserving [[individual contributions]] to a shared [[group resource]] might be an efficient way to foster opportunistic collaboration at scale.