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Lisa Tansey

Vocaroo | Online voice recorder - 0 views

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    tool mentioned by Ken Morrison in cooplit - you can record your voice then share/send the recording via email, facebook, linkeditn, twitter, google+, etc. or download the recording as an mp3, ogg, flac, or wav. came up in the forum where Bernard mentioned the study where (most) student preferred the voice feedback on their work over the textual.
Charlotte Pierce

Wired for Culture: The natural history of human cooperation - YouTube - 0 views

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    Week 2, #COOPLIT Mark Pagel, one of the world's leading experts on human evolution and development, visits the RSA to investigate our species' capacity for culture, cooperation and community.
Lisa Tansey

Game theory and Nash equilibrium | Microeconomics | Khan Academy - 0 views

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    "Microeconomics Community Questions TOPICS Supply, demand and market equilibrium Elasticity Consumer and producer surplus Scarcity, possibilities, preferences and opportunity cost Production decisions and economic profit Forms of competition Game theory and Nash equilibrium"
Lisa Tansey

That Sneaky Exponential - 0 views

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    Reed's law or Group-Forming value-add affordance of networks grows much faster  than either Sarnoff or Metcalfe calculations of value.  Nice graphs showing how the three curves compare (scalar of n, square of n, and 2 to the nth power.)
Lisa Tansey

M/C Journal: "Stigmergic Collaboration: The Evolution of Group Work" - 0 views

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    recommended by Howard Rheingold,  He says: "Mark Elliott claims that Wikipedia is an example of how people use online media stigmergically." Mark Elliott says (from the site): "As stigmergy is a method of communication in which individuals communicate with one another by modifying their local environment, it is a logical extension to apply the term to many types (if not all) of Web-based communication, especially media such as the wiki."
Lisa Tansey

The Riddle of the Human Species - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Mentioned by Howard Rheingold who said: Wilson is controversial, but the rarity of what he calls "eusocial" species and the coincidence of the advent of hunting-gathering in cooperative groups with the acceleration of human cognitive, cultural, and social capabilities supports his hypothesis: "The riddle of the human species."
Lisa Tansey

All Things in Moderation - E-moderating, 3rd edition - 0 views

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    recommended by Amy Scatliff ; she said: Also, on this thread Gilly Salmon's model came up - http://www.atimod.com/e-moderating/5stage.shtml. I'd like to link that to Gregor, what you've posted on socializing through cooperative board games. I'd love to keep the conversation going on how to scale social interaction between learners by using real world simulations and games (in my case I'm usually thinking of learners 18+) as a way to train in the skills necessary to navigate micro-interactions--is that the word that's been used?--within social dilemmas. I like to see how games can relate as closely as possible to the real-life situations being navigated.
Lisa Tansey

Kill Decision: Daniel Suarez: 9780525952619: Amazon.com: Books - 0 views

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    Talking about ants, Andrés Acevedo mentioned this book saying: Dan  Suarez's novel Kill Decision, is about what might happen if  drones were run by software based on model of ant behavior.  There is a clear explanation of stigmergy and how ants use pheromones to coordinate action.  I don't think it's giving the plot away to say that bad thing happen.
Lisa Tansey

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds - 0 views

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    Tool that creates a tag cloud from various text sources.
Lisa Tansey

The Global Brain - Peter Russell - YouTube - 0 views

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    David Watkins recommendation - video by Peter Russell on the Global Brain.
Lisa Tansey

The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History: Howard Bloom... - 0 views

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    Bloom's theory of why "evil" will always be with us due it's evolving as an intrinsic part of our nature.  (Maybe a corollary to the Parable of the Tribes).
Lisa Tansey

Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    Recommendation from Gregor McNish: There's a TED talk (as usual) looking at cities as systems, subject to mathematical analysis. Perhaps this external view on a situation can help us work towards improving our subjective experience.
Lisa Tansey

The True Believer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    A tiny book published in 1951 by the longshoreman Eric Hoffer.  From wikipedia: The book analyzes and attempts to explain the motives of the various types of personalities that give rise to mass movements; why and how mass movements start, progress and end; and the similarities between them, whether religious, political, radical or reactionary. As examples, the book often refers to Communism, Fascism, National Socialism, Christianity, Protestantism, and Islam. Hoffer believes that mass movements are interchangeable, that adherents will often flip from one movement to another, and that the motivations for mass movements are interchangeable; that religious, nationalist and social movements, whether radical or reactionary, tend to attract the same type of followers, behave in the same way and use the same tactics, even when their stated goals or values differ.
Lisa Tansey

Powerless Philosopher: The Cloistered Hedgehog and The Dislocated Fox - 0 views

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    Recommended by Ted Newcomb - full of insight as to how we focus our attention, how that affects our personalities and life paths, and the results.
Lisa Tansey

Albert Einstein Institution - Publications - 005 From Dictatorship to Democracy - 0 views

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    Gene Sharp founded the Albert Einstein Institute. His book From Dictatorship to Democracy has been used as a field manual in numerous liberation movements in Eastern Europe, in the Arab Spring and elsewhere. In his three volume The Politics of Nonviolent Action he examines the nature and control of political power and the methods and dynamics of nonviolent action. He identifies and document 198 specific methods of nonviolent action. Over half of these methods come under one or another heading of noncooperation. 
Lisa Tansey

Gene Sharp: The Machiavelli of non-violence - 0 views

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    Again, from David Watkins, in rebuttal to the Parable of the Tribes
Lisa Tansey

Albert Einstein Institution - Advancing freedom through nonviolent action - 0 views

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    Another recommendation from David Watkins re the Parable of the Tribes.  He says: Gene Sharp founded the Albert Einstein Institute. His book From Dictatorship to Democracy has been used as a field manual in numerous liberation movements in Eastern Europe, in the Arab Spring and elsewhere. In his three volume The Politics of Nonviolent Action he examines the nature and control of political power and the methods and dynamics of nonviolent action. He identifies and document 198 specific methods of nonviolent action. Over half of these methods come under one or another heading of noncooperation. In this NewStatesman article Sharp is described as the Machiavelli of non-violence.
Charlotte Pierce

HUBzine - 1 views

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    The HUB has it's own special recipe for collaboration. Here's a quick guide on how to create a meaningful community from a beautiful space.
Charlotte Pierce

Minding mapping in the Social Media Classroom « Jenny Connected - 0 views

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    « Sharing as accountabilityThe beauty of endless distractions in discussion forums » Minding mapping in the Social Media Classroom January 30, 2013 by jennymackness Mindmapping is a big feature of Howard Rheingold's course - Towards a Literacy of Cooperation. We are not only expected to collaboratively mindmap in the live sessions…. …… but also the first individual mission (task) requires the production of a mindmap.
Lisa Tansey

The Evolution Of Cooperation Edge Master Class 2011 | Conversation | Edge - 0 views

  • In this beautiful book by Ernst Mayr, What Evolution Is, he points out very elegantly, loosely speaking, ‘we talk about the evolution of genes, the evolution of species, the evolution of the brain, but none of these things actually carry the evolutionary process.  The only thing that really evolves are populations.’
  • There is one thing that I have learned in my studies of cooperation over the last 20 years: there is no equilibrium. There is never a stable equilibrium. Cooperation is always being destroyed and has to be rebuilt. How much time you spend on average in a cooperative state depends on how quickly you can rebuild it. The most important aspect is really how quickly you can get away from the Always defect again.
  • What is very important for efficient indirect reciprocity is language.  Indirect reciprocity leads to the evolution of social intelligence and human language.  In order to evaluate the situation, you have to understand who does what to whom and why.  And we have to have a way to talk about what happened, to gain experience from others.
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  • for Indirect reciprocity you need a name
  • I cooperate with the people in the set and I try to join sets of successful individuals
  • five mechanisms for cooperation:  kin selection: the idea is cooperation with genetic relatives; direct reciprocity: I help you, you help me; indirect reciprocity: I help you, somebody helps me; spatial selection: clusters of cooperators or neighbors to help each other; group selection: groups of cooperators out compete other groups.
  • they must be generous, hopeful and forgiving.
  •  If we need to imagine some other entity that we're playing the game against in order to cooperate in a larger group than before.
  • In principle there would be an equilibrium when I say that I start to defect as soon as one person defects. It then would actually force everybody to cooperate with Nash equilibrium, but the problem is, this is not realized by people.
  • What defines in the US and Western Europe is many people use punishment to punish defectors. But in Eastern Europe, in the Arab world, in essence, defectors punish cooperators, and this is called antisocial punishment.
  • In the US, reward works amazingly well.  Reward leads to efficient cooperation. The reward that we gave was the following; we play the public goods game, and afterwards we can have bare base productive interaction. We can play repeated Prisoner's Dilemma, and that ends up being good for us in private, and in public. People who cooperate in public will also get his private deals.
  • What does strike me as quite plausible is that at any given time there's some state of equilibrium within a population of, say, psychopaths and saintly ascetics and probably the largest percentage of generous tit-for-tat-ers who keep track but also show a big generosity, probably some firm but fair people who stick by the rules.
  • NICHOLAS PRITZKER: I'm kind of like cooperate, but keep a loaded gun under my belt. That'd be me. In other words, cooperate but watch your back.  I find if you get away from simple A versus B you get to a situation where it's fine to cooperate but it pays to be cynical, you know, trust and verify, something like that. I find in the real world, for me, maybe outside of kinship relationships, or maybe even with, I have to really watch the nuance.  You're not going to defect immediately but you want to keep your running shoes on.
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    Why has cooperation, not competition, always been the key to the evolution of complexity? MARTIN NOWAK is a Mathematical Biologist, Game Theorist; Professor of Biology and Mathematics, Director, Center for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University; Coauthor (with Roger Highfield), SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed. Martin Nowak's Edge Bio Page In July, Edge held its annual Master Class in Napa, California on the theme: "The Science of Human Nature".  In the six week period that began September 12th, we are publishing the complete video, audio, and texts:  Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman on the marvels and the flaws of intuitive thinking; Harvard mathematical biologist Martin Nowak on the evolution of cooperation; UC-Santa Barbara evolutionary psychologist Leda Cosmides on the architecture of motivation; Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker on the history of violence; UC-Santa Barbara neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga on neuroscience and the law; and Princeton religious historian Elaine Pagels on The Book of Revelations. For publication schedule and details, go to Edge Master Class 2011: The Science of Human Nature.
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    Transcript of fabulous presentation on the evolution of cooperation with great Q&A at the end.
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