tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47382058120712620062024-03-04T21:12:44.347-08:00Swarm Creativity BlogAll about the creativity of swarms.Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.comBlogger233125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-13180644875392057862023-10-22T13:12:00.000-07:002023-10-22T13:12:16.609-07:00Taking control of your emotions leads to a more meaningful life - The ERM Way to Happiness!<p>It’s all about relationships: interacting with other people can be the biggest source of happiness, but it can also be the biggest source of misery! The quality of your relationships is determined by your emotions: When you manage your emotions during a disagreement with your best friend, it helps keep your friendship intact. However, if you lose control and get really angry, it can lead to losing your job or even causing harm in situations like road rage.</p><p>Your relationships also determine the meaning in your life. If you have spent years searching for the meaning of life but nobody else cares about it, your hard work won't bring much satisfaction.You will only get meaning from what you do if you are surrounded by likeminded people. Even more, the people who make you happiest will also tell you WHAT makes you happiest!</p><p>To measure and improve happiness, I thus came up with the “Emotions, Relationships, and Meaning” (ERM) Way to Happiness.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBYedjeiw98dV5KWDm_PeJEOBEwCgDjdvOrug_tf3kE00cxPqNcczbloh8TMZ24RdGyftfpSjTZBzkNR5RNTDWqcRmRwjIWBQliHtGwSea4hXuit1k806w4Ia4X01y2QlTIVabKAL443v7doc7jFVr0SIFMVwy0K7tPJef6NZ3htPHH0j5pCLshmc6YIE/s3612/fig1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1772" data-original-width="3612" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBYedjeiw98dV5KWDm_PeJEOBEwCgDjdvOrug_tf3kE00cxPqNcczbloh8TMZ24RdGyftfpSjTZBzkNR5RNTDWqcRmRwjIWBQliHtGwSea4hXuit1k806w4Ia4X01y2QlTIVabKAL443v7doc7jFVr0SIFMVwy0K7tPJef6NZ3htPHH0j5pCLshmc6YIE/w400-h196/fig1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div>We have previously used the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology" target="_blank">PERMA model</a> from positive psychology to measure happiness and satisfaction in our research. However, users have sometimes found it too complicated and not actionable enough (PERMA is an acronym for P – Positive Emotion; E – Engagement; R – Positive Relationships; M – Meaning; A – Accomplishments). </div><div><br /></div><div>The ERM Way to Happiness starts with your emotions. All too often we are stressed or depressed without realizing it. And even when we do, we may not know why we're feeling that way. We also frequently misjudge what makes us happy. We expect a huge boost in happiness from vacations, a new car, or a sports match, only to be disappointed because the beach was not perfect, the suspension of the car was too hard, or our team lost. </div><div><br /></div><div>In our approach we measure human emotions from “honest signals”, the body language that gives away true feelings from the expressions of the face and the body, the words in the WhatsApp and email messages, how I mirror the body language of my friends, and how quickly I answer them.</div><div>Measuring my emotions when interacting with others will tell me if my interaction partners make me happy, angry, or sad. This means that hanging out with others that make me happy is a simple way to increase my happiness, as is getting out of the way of others that make me unhappy.</div><div>We also judge others by their friends. Friends usually share similar value systems, they are either nature-lovers, sports fans, traditionalists, believers in science and technology or believers in MAGA. If I look at which of my friends make me the happiest, and with whom I hang out the most, this will also tell me what my values are. </div><div><br /></div><div>For instance, as an academic at the MIT Sloan Business School, I attended a few Academy of Management (AOM) annual conferences. These are huge events, where tens of thousands of business school professors and management scientists in business suits convene in thousands of sessions trying to convince their audience how smart they and their management frameworks are. I quickly realized that this style of conference does not fit my personality. Rather we started the small, friendly “Collaborative Innovation Networks” <a href="http://www.coinsconference.org" target="_blank">(COINs) conference series</a> where forty to hundred researchers and graduate students meet in an intimate setting to share results of how collaboration and wellbeing in teams and larger organizations can be improved. More recently, I also found that I very much enjoy researching the impact of nature on the human mind, working with half a dozen colleagues on an agricultural plot to measure <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/15/6971" target="_blank">EEGs of plants interacting with humans</a>. Similarly, a few years ago I started measuring the emotions of animals (dogs, cats, horses, cows) leveraging AI, and found that interacting with the students who joined me in this endeavor gave me a lot of happiness. Therefore, this year we created a new startup, <a href="https://fauna-ai.com" target="_blank">FaunaAI</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>In other words, I find what gives me meaning from the happiness when interacting with others – which become also my friends – who pursue the same goals. In summary, by becoming aware of your emotions when you interact with others, you can discover which relationships bring the most meaning into your life, ultimately increasing your happiness and well-being.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4yz1SITNtLpgmhhMc9GCYmUEEn_K5XejC-aWdXMvNiMDKrd2V2QVbKcgJ6_c5QGoBY0mbKqdRlFxIFQd6vC-KAzoo38wYpP2eCa34aqxV7IJqYqAwylS1gSQjjwy2p-ffg4MXAP87iWKV0kXZ6SS7S8Dyx5led6MSR_KhyVWDjVDzaJQh0tcViCmZB9g/s2360/fig2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1804" data-original-width="2360" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4yz1SITNtLpgmhhMc9GCYmUEEn_K5XejC-aWdXMvNiMDKrd2V2QVbKcgJ6_c5QGoBY0mbKqdRlFxIFQd6vC-KAzoo38wYpP2eCa34aqxV7IJqYqAwylS1gSQjjwy2p-ffg4MXAP87iWKV0kXZ6SS7S8Dyx5led6MSR_KhyVWDjVDzaJQh0tcViCmZB9g/s320/fig2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>In our research we have developed different tools to measure happiness when interacting with others, in particular the <a href="https://sc.galaxyadvisors.com" target="_blank">Social Compass</a> and the <a href="https://www.happimeter.org" target="_blank">Happimeter</a>.</div>Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-31347713275750724002023-08-03T10:45:00.010-07:002023-08-03T12:16:35.961-07:00From Psychohistory to Babelfish – From predicting the future to mind-reading<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipesu1Y5A0Zh1q0RM44UWL65BbY23KpWfyS3yLl1sKMCf45fsz7yHwGafb5uVDaBQe9qKDQVOxI9E7ZQg2p2l6JwUy23E9wuXNbvwRaGmg_m1JyGwzi0NXpPFhIOnXBKWPqqM-q5FvaV_Uyvbnj1IztMu9fKq50ED56erMY4naIjGopMn1uiWOgtCPldg/s1408/Untitled.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1408" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipesu1Y5A0Zh1q0RM44UWL65BbY23KpWfyS3yLl1sKMCf45fsz7yHwGafb5uVDaBQe9qKDQVOxI9E7ZQg2p2l6JwUy23E9wuXNbvwRaGmg_m1JyGwzi0NXpPFhIOnXBKWPqqM-q5FvaV_Uyvbnj1IztMu9fKq50ED56erMY4naIjGopMn1uiWOgtCPldg/s320/Untitled.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My <a href="http://galaxylabs.org" target="_blank">research of the last twenty years</a> was inspired by Isaac Asimov’s fictional science of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional)" target="_blank">psychohistory</a>. In his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series" target="_blank">Foundation Series</a> science fiction stories, Asimov describes how mathematician Hari Seldon was able to predict the future a thousand years ahead through the discipline of psychohistory that Seldon invented. Its premise was that while it is impossible to predict the behavior of an individual, the aggregated behavior of millions and billions of people extending over the galaxy can be predicted accurately by studying their communication patterns. However already in his stories Asimov posited that it is impossible to predict “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory" target="_blank">black swan events</a>”, i.e. unexpected random events. In Asimov’s story, the appearance of the “Mule”, a mutant conqueror who could read and manipulate the mind of others, a few hundred years after Seldon made his predictions, threw Seldon’s predictions totally off.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This is where Babelfish comes in, a tool envisioned by Douglas Adams in his science fiction classic “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(novel)" target="_blank">The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy</a>”. If you slide a Babelfish into somebody’s ear, they will be able to understand any language of anybody from anywhere in the Universe. Babelfish does this by directly reading the brainwave matrix of the counterpart, and beaming it into the mind of its wearer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In my psychohistory-inspired research over the last twenty years, I have used online social media and email to predict external events, for instance <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042811023895" target="_blank">predicting stock markets from Twitter</a>, or the <a href="https://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1185&context=ecis2008" target="_blank">outcome of Academy Awards from online forums</a>, or <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296317300577" target="_blank">performance of organizations from their email archives</a>. However, just like in Asimov’s psychohistory, while we were able to perfectly predict the past, i.e. fitting our regression and AI machine learning models to past data with high accuracy, and then claiming that the same prediction model would also be true in the future, any unexpected black swan event threw off our prediction model. For instance, the election of Donald Trump, or Covid-19, nobody saw them coming, and it invalidated any stock trend prediction model running at that time. Another black swan event are the changes Elon Musk imposed on Twitter, now renamed X, after he acquired it. This means that any elections/stock trends/epidemiological/etc. model based on Twitter will have to be rebuilt from the ground up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Motivated by the deficiencies in psychohistory, I started building in baby steps tools resembling “little Babelfishes” for the last six years, trying to read the minds of individuals from their words, body language, and other “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Honest-Signals-Shape-World-Press/dp/0262515121" target="_blank">honest signals</a>”. Just like Asimov’s “Mule” through his mind reading skills was able to conquer the universe, throwing off safeguards put into place by Hari Seldon through the mathematics of psychohistory, our research tries to read what people are REALLY thinking – in spite of what they say. We use AI-driven natural language processing (NLP), face emotion recognition, and other body signal recognition to build a series of tools to read the minds of people, animals, and plants.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Reading the mind - Communicating with people, animals, and plants through AI</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">If you stick a <a href="https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Babel_Fish" target="_blank">Babelfish</a> in your ear, you can immediately understand anything that has been said in any form of language by any alien anywhere in the galaxy. The Babelfish decodes the brainwave matrix of your counterpart and transmits their intent directly to your mind. Similar to Babelfish, our goal is to build tools leveraging the latest advances of today’s AI to better communicate with animals, plants, and other people.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;">How can we better communicate with other people?</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Just like Babelfish, we try to read what the other person is REALLY trying to say. Spoken language is just a small part of it, albeit the one which is the easiest for others to (mis)interpret. But humans also speak for instance with facial expression, body posture, gaze direction, and pheromones.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.galaxylabs.org" target="_blank">Our approach</a> consists of reading the emotions of other people. It analyses their personality characteristics from their word usage, social networking dynamics, facial expressions, and body language. Towards that goal we have developed our own personality model, made up of different personas (personality archetypes). We developed the <a href="http://swarmcreativity.blogspot.com/2023/06/if-good-people-make-ai-can-ai-make-good.html">groupflow personas</a> (bee/ant/leech) and alternative reality personas (fatherlander/nerd/spiritualist/treehugger). We also <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Happimetrics-Leveraging-Surprising-Happiness-Management/dp/1035312158/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1K50IUR71FTB6&keywords=happimetrics&qid=1691084165&s=books&sprefix=happimetri%2Cstripbooks%2C391&sr=1-1" target="_blank">compute</a> the FFI characteristics (openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeability, neuroticism), Schwartz values (tradition, achievement, power, benevolence), Haidt moral foundations (care, fairness, loyalty, authority, sanctity), and DOSPERT risk attitudes (financial, health, recreational, ethical, social risk taking) from the words people use, but also from their facial expression in response to provocative movies, or simply by observing how they move their body, or the tone and pitch of their voice.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Our tools provide both a lens and a mirror. Similar to the magic mirror of the evil stepmother of Snow White, we provide a virtual mirror to a person, that tells them their beauty in comparison to others. It tells them what others think about them and how much they trust them, so they can improve themselves. It also provides a lens to look at others to gain insights about how they see me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">While we have focused for the last twenty years mostly on the dynamics of online interaction using text and online social media, our team recently has developed a series of new video and audio analysis tools to offer a magic mirror for face-to-face interaction:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/15/6789" target="_blank">Measuring body entanglement </a><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/8jf7z195raqdc1t/Thesis_JvD.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">developed by Josephine Van Delden</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Measuring <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/7iv5e79t4k3lbt9/Tobias_Zeulner_Master_Thesis.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">turn-taking or diarization developed by Tobias Zeulner</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Using <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/93kflar1g195vit6130du/neu_TUM_MIT_Master-s-Thesis_Moritz-Mueller.pdf?rlkey=dc5kg1pj0bdyr3n4mw1mgz0nx&dl=0" target="_blank">gaze-detection to measure its direction developed by Moritz Mueller</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">4.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Measuring<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ykc3qq5v3dsoll/JakobKruse_Thesis_Final.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank"> emotions using multimodal approaches developed by Jakob Kruse</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The objective is to build and test a real-time magic mirror that analyses teams collaborating face-to-face, and gives team members real-time feedback on the quality of their interaction, and how they can improve their teamwork to get into <a href="https://www.elgaronline.com/monochap/book/9781803924021/book-part-9781803924021-8.xml" target="_blank">groupflow</a>. It combines the tools and methods (1) to (4) described above. The goal is - as our and the research of many others has shown - to become a better team player by being more conscientious, caring, collaborative, and creative!</div><h4 style="text-align: left;">How can we better communicate with animals?</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">What if we could build a Babelfish to talk not just to humans, but also to animals? In fact, at least in humble beginnings, we can. We can apply similar AI algorithms we developed to read human emotions to <a href="http://fauna-ai.com" target="_blank">reading emotions of animals</a>. In past research we have measured the emotions of dogs, cats, horses, and cows based on their facial expression, body posture and voice.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In further work we want to extend this to reading the intents of animals (defining a list of actions the animal wants to do), analyzing for example interaction between a dog and a human, or two dogs solving a task. This will give a similar magic mirror to dog owners interacting with their dog, helping them to communicating their intent to the animal by getting immediate feedback.</div><h4 style="text-align: left;">How can we start to communicate with plants?</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Until recently, the vegetative nature of the plant as laid out over 2000 years ago in Aristotle’s treatise “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Soul" target="_blank">On the soul</a>” was recognized as accepted wisdom. But recently, it has been shown that far from just reproducing and growing, plants show awareness of their environment, communicating with numerous senses. Tomato plants produce sounds when stressed, mustard plants respond to the munching sounds of caterpillars by producing defensive chemicals, mimosas learn not to respond to harmless shaking, to name just a few examples. In our own research we measure the potential differences of plants such as basil or mimosas between their leaves and their roots. This is similar to the action potentials occurring in the brains of animals, which are responsible for the signaling of information in the body.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In our work we are using the <a href="https://backyardbrains.com/products/plantspikerbox" target="_blank">plant spiker box</a> to measure “emotions of plants”, i.e., potential differences in response to <a href="https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202307.0399/v1" target="_blank">interaction with humans</a>. In our work we have trained machine learning models to predict emotions of humans interacting with basil, mimosas, and garden plants. In new work we are building machine learning models which will, based on the plant spikerbox, recognize human movement, emotion, and different individuals.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We still have a long way to go from psychohistory to Babelfish. But if everybody eventually will wear a Babelfish, psychohistory might even work!</div><br />Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-34539867405258598102023-06-06T04:16:00.002-07:002023-06-06T04:31:18.478-07:00If good people make AI, can AI make good people?The developers of ChatGPT built extremely useful software, putting a “Wikipedia on steroids” at our fingertips by leveraging collective intelligence in ways never seen before. In this sense, as defined by Plato and Aristotle over two thousand years ago, they are “good people”. This means they are morally good or virtuous by giving away a highly beneficial software product for free that makes many chores of the daily life of knowledge workers much easier. These AI developers are thus acting according to the golden rule (of reciprocity), treating others as they would like to be treated.
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The problem is that not everybody who writes AI software is a “good” person. If only one percent of AI developers acts entirely egoistic, or even malicious, there is the risk that these “bad apples” will abuse the power of AI for their own sinister purposes, without any consideration for the wellbeing of the rest of us. But what if we could turn the power of AI on these “bad apples”, to identify them before they get a chance to put their hands on the levers of AI and pervert AI’s power in criminal ways. And even better, what if we could help these “bad apples” to become self-aware of their bad habits and convert them into “good apples”?
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This is where our Social Compass comes in. It uses AI to show you if you are a good or a bad person, based on honest signals extracted from your words, social network structure, and network dynamics. (There is also a version that measure honest signals from your facial expressions, your speech energy, and your body posture with the same goal). Social Compass is the latest of our social network analysis, natural language processing, and forecasting and prediction tools that are based on over twenty years of research on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_innovation_network" target="_blank">COINs (Collaborative Innovation Networks</a>) at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. Social Compass analyses your WhatsApp, Email and LinkedIn and computes your personality based on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits%20" target="_blank">FFI (Five Factor Inventory</a>), your moral values based on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_foundations_theory" target="_blank">Haidt moral value theory</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_basic_human_values" target="_blank">Schwartz value system</a>, and risk taking behavior based on the <a href="https://business.columbia.edu/cds/dospert-scale%20" target="_blank">DOSPERT survey</a>.
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These moral values are combined into virtual personas, the bees – creative team players, the ants – hard working but highly competitive, and leeches – selfish and extrinsically motivated mostly by money.
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To give you actionable advice how to be(come) a happy bee, Social Compass measures your <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.817244/full%20" target="_blank">PERMA</a>. PERMA has been defined by the founding father of positive psychology, Martin Seligman, and consists of five components: Positive attitude, Engagement (how much are you in flow), Relationships (how good are they), Meaning (how much meaning does your daily life give you), and Achievement (how much recognition are you getting).
Each of us can show different faces and personalities to different groups of people. In WhatsApp we manage our friends and family, these are what sociologists call our “strong ties”.
Email is still the workhorse in large companies; thus the Social Compass analysis of the mailbox will show my professional business personality within my company.
LinkedIn shows my outside professional face, it is my showcase of the personality I want the outside world to see.
The pictures below show my WhatsApp, Email and LinkedIn personalites. As you can see, they are quite different!
The first picture shows the Social Compass analysis of my WhatsApp. This is the personality that my family and my friends get to see. I am mostly a spiritual bee, with a smaller share of spiritual ant behavior. My leech personality is minimal.
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The picture below shows the Wellbeing and PERMA analysis of my WhatsApp personality, telling me what I can do to improve my mental wellbeing. While my mindstate is ok, Social Compass still recommends me some relaxing time. Regarding PERMA, it seems right now my relationships are in good shape, and I am getting a lot of recognition (high achievement). However, I am still searching for more and new meaning in life, and my entanglement with my closest friends could also use some strengthening.
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The next picture shows the Social Compass analysis of my Email. While I am still a strong spiritual bee, my leech personality is larger in my business life. This is not surprising, because as an entrepreneur running a small company, I have to negotiate software licensing and consulting fees, and show my more selfish side to assure the continued success of my business. As the mindstate chart shows, this also leads to some stress.
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The Email PERMA analysis tells me that positivity and relationships are in good order, but again, just like in my private personality, I still need to find more meaning in what I do and get more entangled with my colleagues.
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The final picture shows my LinkedIn tribes, reflecting the personality I show to the outside business world. It confirms a consistent personality as a spiritual bee, with a very small share of competitive “antness”, and a smaller share of spiritual leechiness.
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Knowing my own personalities, in all three spheres, private, company-internal, and outside business world, will help me to become a better person, to manage my leechiness consciously, and to use PERMA to improve personal happiness and wellbeing, by focusing on my identified weaknesses.
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If you would like to try out Social Compass for yourself, you are welcome to sign up for a free trial account at <a href="https://sc.galaxyadvisors.com" target="_blank">sc.galaxyadvisors.com</a> and discover your own bee, ant, and leechiness, and your PERMA.
Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-70644467467795732552023-02-21T08:07:00.002-08:002023-02-21T08:40:02.358-08:00Will AI (artificial intelligence) ever replace psychotherapists? - a dialog with ChatGPTIncreasingly people confess their deepest psychological problems to artificial intelligence instead of a human psychotherapist. While I don’t think AI will fully replace human psychotherapists in in the near future, ever since Weizenbaum in 1964 created the psychotherapy program “Eliza”, people discuss issues about their inner self with seemingly ever more intelligent AI. My co-author Marc Schreiber and I just finished a short book for the Springer Essentials series <a href="https://link.springer.com/book/9783662668658" target="_blank">discussing the role of AI for different aspects of psychology</a> (in German).
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As ChatGPT is capable of leading increasingly <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/technology/chatgpt-ai-twitter.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">sophisticated dialogs</a> about basically <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-microsoft-chatgpt.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">any topic</a>, we decided to let it rewrite our book, using the same chapter structure as the Springer book, but all content written by ChatGPT. Here is the l<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k5u7UkDI17raojk_JjGfr5xLh4L9sW5g/view?usp=share_link" target="_blank">ink to the formatted book rewritten by ChatGPT</a>, as well as the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/15jXwstgdVjI32zO_BLWnmHQcpuD8LtZG/view?usp=share_link" target="_blank">transcript of our dialog with ChatGPT</a>, both in German, as well as the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/11X7s6hrQuWQgEU3vdrmy2NEFYRfBfXbm/view?usp=share_link" target="_blank">translation to English by Deepl</a> of the ChatGPT book.
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On a side note, as Springer wanted the book in German, the German title “KI in der Psychologie - Ist der Mensch eine Maschine?” has been translated by Deepl to “AI in Psychology - Is Man a Machine?” using the gendered “man” instead of the neutral German noun “Mensch”.Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-71416340331633520352022-12-15T08:53:00.001-08:002022-12-15T08:53:17.848-08:00My new Happimetrics book just came out!<p> </p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(46, 52, 64); color: #2e3440; font-family: Oxygen, Helvetica, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><h2 class="h4 mb-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Larken, "Optima Bold", Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.4rem; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.25rem !important; margin-top: 0px;">Happimetrics: Leveraging AI to Untangle the Surprising Link Between Ethics, Happiness and Business Success</h2><p class="small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875em; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="book-authors" style="box-sizing: border-box;">By Peter Gloor</span></p></div><p class="
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Based on 20 years of rigorous MIT research, this book introduces “virtual mirroring”, analyzing individuals’ communication patterns with AI, and making them self-aware by mirroring their behavior back to them in a privacy-respecting way. It applies artificial intelligence to identify personality characteristics and ethical values based on body language and interaction with others. It builds on the concept of groupflow—when teams collaborate at their best through intrinsic motivation and positive stress. The book suggests tracking communication by combining machine learning and social network concepts, to measure emotions, social network change, morals, and tribes</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">leading to entangled teams of humans and other species such as dogs, horses, and mimosa and basil plants.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">get it <a href="https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/happimetrics-9781803924014.html" target="_blank">here</a> or <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Happimetrics-Leveraging-Surprising-Happiness-Management/dp/1803924012/" target="_blank">here</a></span></p></div></div>Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-89639314176484966682022-10-31T07:12:00.004-07:002022-10-31T07:14:38.729-07:00The best books about interspecies communication<p>Today Shepherd published a list with my <a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/interspecies-communication" target="_blank">favourite five books about interspecies communication</a>. There is also a bookshelf with more <a href="https://shepherd.com/bookshelf/human-animal-relationships" target="_blank">book recommendations</a> about similar topics. Check it out!</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc9mnunSrBvrrpA2NK45tAK8lkZJPgp4L1kwcFV_Crxa1080n3kvIZTDSSZkI07zm7iGA1ftHJYDQ-CY3z5GlgM3_Q7E9w6BUKAYcGfTqphY9heiXwPkkYHm5Psl96IhxhgEJB2Gt_F2vnYIyihz6GaFg78G3huBKjKL3cAt5cjibeG1bfaA_IEDbW/s1200/blank.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="1200" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc9mnunSrBvrrpA2NK45tAK8lkZJPgp4L1kwcFV_Crxa1080n3kvIZTDSSZkI07zm7iGA1ftHJYDQ-CY3z5GlgM3_Q7E9w6BUKAYcGfTqphY9heiXwPkkYHm5Psl96IhxhgEJB2Gt_F2vnYIyihz6GaFg78G3huBKjKL3cAt5cjibeG1bfaA_IEDbW/s320/blank.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-79724776291424640212022-10-30T14:46:00.002-07:002022-10-30T14:52:57.038-07:00Can leeches be turned into bees?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi--iurTTEhStNICR0F__RIH_1wQx50757u-RKkVHckNhOcTf3SaSX42tZ_SSaDllyonVQ_TbSW3QJWiTUsBcS-5xGbEICoc09o4_QLdIEEA5ZQCyN-6hFsPepDaJQfbthYZC7PAK7SBxnX2c-suMjnSLAYuqv-4qeAQ8kM7S_DHBIcDpwj5hxbq5Oy/s156/1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="156" data-original-width="156" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi--iurTTEhStNICR0F__RIH_1wQx50757u-RKkVHckNhOcTf3SaSX42tZ_SSaDllyonVQ_TbSW3QJWiTUsBcS-5xGbEICoc09o4_QLdIEEA5ZQCyN-6hFsPepDaJQfbthYZC7PAK7SBxnX2c-suMjnSLAYuqv-4qeAQ8kM7S_DHBIcDpwj5hxbq5Oy/s1600/1.jpg" width="156" /></a></div>In the German fairytale of the princess and the frog, a malicious witch had turned the prince into a frog. Only when a princess kisses the frog, will he become a human prince again. <p></p><p>Is there such a kiss by the princess, to turn a human leech – a selfish person sucking the energy of others – into a bee – a creative highly collaborative person?</p><p><br /></p><p>The good news is that it seems there indeed is a way to turn a leech into a bee. Our approach is based on <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296317300577?casa_token=_Ubnz7QdxNsAAAAA:mfjnUhJ8wgE1x7z50o8vvipP_gqA3peHHl6mvm5rFeN0Y5xyXbwMDGvTK5oEfN5b6qyal-Nqag" target="_blank">virtual mirroring</a>. This means that in the privacy of their own phone or social network analysis, all members of an organization get an individual assessment of their “leechiness”. This is either shown in a social network <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-14101-4" target="_blank">based on communication structure, dynamics and content</a> in email in the <a href="https://griffin.galaxyadvisors.com" target="_blank">Griffin</a> tool, or using our <a href="https://vm-sc.galaxyadvisors.com" target="_blank">SocialCompass</a> tool on the smartphone.</p><p>The left picture shows the Griffin student network of a team of students participating in a seminar, the green nodes are “bees”, the red nodes are “ants”, and the few blue nodes are “leeches”, showing that there are very few “leeches” in this course. The right picture shows the SocialCompass of my own “beeness”, “antness”, and “leechiness” based on my own mailbox.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVqtEzq2mGTeKSOsbjubyIXUoFlPw9gOw6VMBNt9TqdhtczHJf5SppWbf4igIt7JlLGU8oiTIEkuIHDZOQwYs6BTEBTpwgOre5A6Rvm1NhBh3sRcYUot1JvlNsve_EeidxXTZkppGwH85Eum-hw6KMFQQM8rfDjMD8tz7XU_F_1L1clUYg8oDpHl6d/s254/2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="226" data-original-width="254" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVqtEzq2mGTeKSOsbjubyIXUoFlPw9gOw6VMBNt9TqdhtczHJf5SppWbf4igIt7JlLGU8oiTIEkuIHDZOQwYs6BTEBTpwgOre5A6Rvm1NhBh3sRcYUot1JvlNsve_EeidxXTZkppGwH85Eum-hw6KMFQQM8rfDjMD8tz7XU_F_1L1clUYg8oDpHl6d/w357-h318/2.jpg" width="357" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVawhYN8jvEygpNvmBRyRpgCbamGggGohDdIDw5YkUDTV_ny67cXcA7oSJG7vsizgcPJpmPoD1Q5dh1nuGPJRRFDmvyn7hxo_XO853xNHwWbQd2K0NZjdglJrGKWrkC8BE7nryMsLim959cuJbkLZkVDqwAMukCK15k0mNBii87IaOXIE7elBC8L1W/s266/3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="134" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVawhYN8jvEygpNvmBRyRpgCbamGggGohDdIDw5YkUDTV_ny67cXcA7oSJG7vsizgcPJpmPoD1Q5dh1nuGPJRRFDmvyn7hxo_XO853xNHwWbQd2K0NZjdglJrGKWrkC8BE7nryMsLim959cuJbkLZkVDqwAMukCK15k0mNBii87IaOXIE7elBC8L1W/w161-h320/3.jpg" width="161" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div>For the few students in this course which the system found to be leechy, knowing that they are mostly leeches has been very effective in changing the behavior of these leechy students for the better. So it seems there is indeed a “princess” available to kiss the leechy frog, and turn it into a bee!<br /><p><br /></p><div><br /></div>Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-7933615720446250552022-10-28T15:38:00.003-07:002022-10-28T15:56:52.626-07:00Ethical AI or Ethics by AI?<p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw-F-LW9hzo2s6LglG7VPQMgQ9GcGUTsQic_B6Cwywnk1Msl36jjOCQZoDsnn0N3QJb4XauFowKXb8im5qcUqSUJAn8pAf23e8PAoAu3B2p1s9_qxSrrBhQIvtFwukKM6qOSyEdQ5-mOZwdgP6bjG9zmUawh4QvkgpxXvmc4bKJyu4kWrQYvzVbsCX/s170/bee-ant-ethics.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="170" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw-F-LW9hzo2s6LglG7VPQMgQ9GcGUTsQic_B6Cwywnk1Msl36jjOCQZoDsnn0N3QJb4XauFowKXb8im5qcUqSUJAn8pAf23e8PAoAu3B2p1s9_qxSrrBhQIvtFwukKM6qOSyEdQ5-mOZwdgP6bjG9zmUawh4QvkgpxXvmc4bKJyu4kWrQYvzVbsCX/s1600/bee-ant-ethics.png" width="170" /></a></b></div><b><br />Making AI ethical might be impossible, but AI can make us more ethical!</b><p></p><p></p>I don’t think it will ever be possible to guarantee that AI will behave fully ethical. Marvin Minsky once said: “Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.” What he means is that because we made them, the robots will follow our ethical understanding and thus be ethically well-behaved - unfortunately there will always be unethical hackers, leading to unethical robots.<p></p><p>Isaac Asimov defined the three law of robotics which say that (1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. (2) A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. (3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. Looking at the military uses of AI, where both Russia and the US announced that they are working on self-guided missiles that use AI to find their target autonomously, the first law has already been violated. Unfortunately, there will always be rogue programmers that either for amorally selfish purposes, or under the premise of jingoistic nationalism will program AI and robots to do their unethical calling.</p><p>However, what we can do, is use AI to measure our own ethical and moral values. In a series of research projects, we have developed AI models that measure one’s <a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-48993-9_4" target="_blank">ethical values based on body signals tracked with a smartwatch</a>, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-14101-4" target="_blank">based on the words that one uses</a>, and even <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/14/5/133" target="_blank">based on the “honest signals” computed from the email interaction network and dynamics</a> – without even looking at the words that are used.</p><p>This approach will enable you to know your personal moral and ethical values, as well as the ones of the people interacting with you. As has been shown in previous research projects, we are very bad judges of our own personal and moral values; our family and friends are much better in assessing them for us. Our tools will show you a virtual mirror of your own moral values and ethics, thus assuming the role of family and friends in showing you how caring, fair, honest and collaborative you truly are - not how you see yourself, but through the eyes of the people you are interacting with, aggregated and computed through AI.</p><p>Getting such a virtual mirror will help us to live up to the ethical values that we are aspiring to, and become the good person that we would like to be!</p><p>If you would like to know more, my <a href="https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/happimetrics-9781803924014.html" target="_blank">new Happimetrics book</a>, which just came out this week, will lay out all aspects in great detail.</p><div><br /></div>Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-65490455360675164712022-07-16T09:18:00.003-07:002022-07-16T09:24:35.895-07:00Are you a Bee, an Ant, or a Leech? – find out for yourself with the Social Compass!<p>Social Compass will tell you if you behave like a creative and collaborative <b>bee</b>, like a hard-working and competitive <b>ant</b>, or like a selfish egoistic <b>leech</b>. </p><p>Enter “vm-sc.galaxyadvisors.com” on a browser like Chrome on your smartphone.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd5OjY0pO0XOAaSV2jOP9qyc4TOSrBJynQM6bXYtfh2AJoXyHVf06676EDlGPjEKibamcI_Kaz5CcVf8IONmkpCeeuizU2scE6VWZaroZiTJ9CjHA3LDlghWxK8lP0dewnU502wAHWeZgeVXZhV9uBtwikK6rZVO8cQ5hff5uoxsM5i2tMSdlE44B-/s614/fig1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="516" data-original-width="614" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd5OjY0pO0XOAaSV2jOP9qyc4TOSrBJynQM6bXYtfh2AJoXyHVf06676EDlGPjEKibamcI_Kaz5CcVf8IONmkpCeeuizU2scE6VWZaroZiTJ9CjHA3LDlghWxK8lP0dewnU502wAHWeZgeVXZhV9uBtwikK6rZVO8cQ5hff5uoxsM5i2tMSdlE44B-/s320/fig1.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><p>The Social Compass will also tell you your state of mind, are you currently happy or stressed. In addition it will tell you your tribes, are you a nerd, a fatherlander, a treehugger, or a spiritualist. This is all done based on the words you are using, which are compared anonymously and encrypted using the latest advances in AI trained with the words that tribal leaders are using (e.g. Elon Musk is a prototypical nerd). In the current version, Social Compass takes as input your emails (gmail, outlook) or teams messages, plus the messages you are receiving. We are currently working on a version that will also include your WhatsApp messages.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTXixfLe2xt5mO0WKX09a-KJ9auEyYPOLPAv4xVMRI2p2KoxsXT7bTanKqq2RT_T8wyahA6p8HoB9NLiI9mfInL1nmBMsOqr7qexwnhTFS3jmpmCA4HRZnamHpqNmM5wK3u8TwlopOEpXXQbwDfJhTh1A4ivSvtzO_fQl_Go__C6M3BNMHITFyJKfG/s581/fig2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="527" data-original-width="581" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTXixfLe2xt5mO0WKX09a-KJ9auEyYPOLPAv4xVMRI2p2KoxsXT7bTanKqq2RT_T8wyahA6p8HoB9NLiI9mfInL1nmBMsOqr7qexwnhTFS3jmpmCA4HRZnamHpqNmM5wK3u8TwlopOEpXXQbwDfJhTh1A4ivSvtzO_fQl_Go__C6M3BNMHITFyJKfG/s320/fig2.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Social Compass will also give you an overview of your current discussions, showing the happy or angry tone of the messages you are exchanging with your colleagues and friends.</div><div><br /></div><div>You also have the option to look at your social network, which shows you at a glance the people which are most important for you in your daily interaction. Even more, you can also look at the tribes of your colleagues, (if they have sent you enough messages), to see if they are bees, ants, or leeches, and behave like nerds, spiritualists, treehuggers, or fatherlanders.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWtmg0RqvfqdtzUcqzNyxwfFUstoeLIoRqxKSnYvI7rV_SME25MyNt-OnX70depA6tgbmw9fdjOdLrxAYBYeo3CzgESWprr8Td8RraloHgssPuX1A01e8_pi1sFhWk8cmM3bncofGxPXXIxMmRnbTDBhuBeLNixhiXuWIK-Y5XNub49I2QeDssSlC9/s554/fig3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="491" data-original-width="554" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWtmg0RqvfqdtzUcqzNyxwfFUstoeLIoRqxKSnYvI7rV_SME25MyNt-OnX70depA6tgbmw9fdjOdLrxAYBYeo3CzgESWprr8Td8RraloHgssPuX1A01e8_pi1sFhWk8cmM3bncofGxPXXIxMmRnbTDBhuBeLNixhiXuWIK-Y5XNub49I2QeDssSlC9/s320/fig3.png" width="320" /></a></div><p>Even more, you can construct your own dream teams, by either choosing the tribes you want your team members from, or by selecting some role models, and then adding others who are very similar in their tribes and behavior to the role models.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv2tNhQO1d3Jq9SpakhTK41iaTBfOsjMUTlRis6GuRSbhrUBDmqPrqCqpDrY2mdr0EM5LtA_F_gCDzIfgl4-g5h7Kzb1NfhXYUtGf6XQFUqfcdv6xCE6Y6b3WsJhEko_8eeEk-vpyAISaD0IHjqDmIoTZ3I9gxM_MaCncW6Rdc6a3A_faHEhPqlCn0/s676/fig4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="312" data-original-width="676" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv2tNhQO1d3Jq9SpakhTK41iaTBfOsjMUTlRis6GuRSbhrUBDmqPrqCqpDrY2mdr0EM5LtA_F_gCDzIfgl4-g5h7Kzb1NfhXYUtGf6XQFUqfcdv6xCE6Y6b3WsJhEko_8eeEk-vpyAISaD0IHjqDmIoTZ3I9gxM_MaCncW6Rdc6a3A_faHEhPqlCn0/s320/fig4.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>To get started, you have to choose an email or teams account on your phone, and log in with it on vm-sc.galaxyadvisors.com:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC4ybQzhGBt9wzsJZB-jPiXHKEipkCmJCOmn0TNP_g5NExjS5SZNbxDTsi50NWutOlyE-Lkr1Ac1yJ2Zzw7MEvQ2Ngy3UOSg38MeLmlO9Yy3q2vGwykW7e_dRhoTyrFVKelXa3dK2fUtayEToaPEmtDxRlRwtkpNR0nK1Ws1QzTncSZcVoU6_pMFVi/s505/fig5.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="505" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC4ybQzhGBt9wzsJZB-jPiXHKEipkCmJCOmn0TNP_g5NExjS5SZNbxDTsi50NWutOlyE-Lkr1Ac1yJ2Zzw7MEvQ2Ngy3UOSg38MeLmlO9Yy3q2vGwykW7e_dRhoTyrFVKelXa3dK2fUtayEToaPEmtDxRlRwtkpNR0nK1Ws1QzTncSZcVoU6_pMFVi/s320/fig5.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>The concept of “bee-ant-leech” groupflow and all the other tribes is explained in my new book “<a href="https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/happimetrics-9781803924014.html" target="_blank">Happimetrics</a>”, a full online version is available at <a href="http://www.happimetrics.com">www.happimetrics.com</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Please tell me what you think, I love to hear back from you!</div><div><br /></div>Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-78384555692454504612021-12-03T09:00:00.007-08:002021-12-03T19:45:25.783-08:00From boiling lobsters alive to measuring happiness of cows<p>Happiness = Respect + Compassion = Kindness</p><p>Respect and compassion are the two key properties of a benevolent society. To have happy citizens, it is essential to have both. China is respectful but not compassionate, the US is compassionate but not respectful. And citizens of both countries are not particularly happy, at least compared to small Northern European countries like Denmark, Finland, Iceland, or Switzerland. Finland makes sure that workers in less qualified professions still get a decent wage sufficient to lead a dignified life. Switzerland is compassionate even with lobsters, it is the only country on the world with a law that forbids to boil them to death alive. Unfortunately, in this regard the two most powerful countries on Earth, both vying for global leadership, still have a long way to go.</p><p>Americans are empathetic to their weak, but show no respect to their unqualified workers. Living in the US nearly half the time over the last twenty years, I observed that people with low professional qualifications, like janitors, waiters, and cleaners, get little respect. People on the higher rungs of society try to pay them as little as possible, so much so that it is impossible for members of these poorly paid professions – essential for the functioning of cities like Boston, New York, or San Francisco full of millionaires and billionaires– to actually live there. Rather, they have to either sleep in shifts in one-room apartments in windowless basements, or spend many hours per day in gruelling commutes from poorer towns far away to get to their jobs. Children from such backgrounds, mistreated by their peers from kindergarten, then take their frustrations out in school shootings, or by robbing high-end stores as flash mobs. </p><p>On the positive side, in the US, there are numerous charities and individuals that engage in acts of kindness and benevolence, assisting the homeless, mistreated animals, and others hit by misfortune through no fault of their own.</p><p>China is the opposite. The Chinese treat each other with respect independent of where in the social ladder somebody resides, but they have little compassion with animals and people who are seen as outsiders. In my frequent stays in China over the last eight years, I observed that my hosts, usually well-paid academics, company executives, and bureaucrats, treat others of lower social status with much more respect than their US peers do. Unfortunately, I did see little of this compassion against animals and outsiders. In a monastery I saw vendors offering caged birds whose freedom could be bought by tourists as a good deed, for the vendors only to go catch the birds again for the next tourist. Similarly, I was shocked that in a restaurant I could choose from pigeons sitting in a cage, which would then immediately be grabbed by the cook to be slaughtered and brought back to my table plucked and grilled twenty minutes later. Even worse, workers disinfecting an apartment vacated by a Covid-quarantined dog owner, bludgeoned her dog to death with iron bars, with the horrified quarantined owner forced to watch the scene over a remote camera. Unfortunately, that was <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/social-welfare/article/3156097/china-coronavirus-apology-after-government" target="_blank">not an isolated incident.</a> Chinese are also really stingy when it comes to giving money to a beggar. This has been confirmed by the World Giving Index, which ranks the US as the most generous country, while China has been among the <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2019-12-20/the-worlds-most-generous-countries" target="_blank">ten least generous countries</a> on the world ten years in a row. </p><p>Therefore respectful China shows little compassion, while compassionate America shows little respect. In the end, it is in society’s best interest to show respect and compassion to all. Treating others with respect is the best antidote against a violent society where the one who has lives in constant fear of being robbed by the have-nots. At the same time, treating others with compassion ensures that if misfortune hits, others will return the care that one has previously shown, leading to safer and happier lives for all. The world would be a better place if more people would show compassion with lobsters. In a similar vein, we are about to start a project where we read the emotions of cows through AI and image recognition, aiming to recognize and reduce their stress as much as possible.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-40217526255547137102021-11-28T13:13:00.001-08:002021-11-28T13:13:22.780-08:00The Blessings of COVID-19<p>While we are still stuck in the fangs of Covid-19, we all hope that soon the virus will fade away, and we will be able to go back to our old lives. However our old existence will not come back! For better or for worse, live will never be as it was before. Actually, I think it is for the better! Covid-19 has profoundly and positively changed the way how we are conducting our private and professional lives.</p><p>For a start, being stuck at home for months has got many of us to questioning the meaning of our old jobs. Many decided that they did not want to return to their nine to five office job anymore, and switched careers for something more meaningful.</p><p>But also the ones sticking to their old jobs are experiencing profound change. One of the main changes is in the way how business meetings are conducted. Before Covid, salespeople, managers, and many others would hop into a plane taking multi-hour flights for a short meeting with a customer or manager, assuming that there is no substitute for a face-to-face meeting. Well, now we know there is a substitute: a zoom call. Real estate brokers can sell houses over zoom, while buying a car does not even need the zoom call and can be done with a few mouse clicks.</p><p>Teaching and learning has also become much more virtual, particularly on the secondary and tertiary level, where students occasionally come to the classroom to meet the professor and each other, but for the most time just attend college and university classes using videoconferencing.</p><p>But also regular meetings changed in character and became more useful, as people can passively participate in boring video meetings where attendance is required - with the camera turned off, while using their time more productively to assist their children doing their homework.</p><p>And finally, Covid-19 has really taught us to appreciate our strong ties, our family members and closest friends. If anything, these ties only got stronger during the pandemic, becoming our lifesaver in keeping us sane and spiritually healthy while being stuck at home. Thank you family and close friends!</p><p>So, in summary - "no pain, no gain"! While being stuck at home with all the uncertainties and life-threatening risks of Covid was definitively painful, many positive things have come out of it. I am sure there are more blessings of Covid, I would love to hear if you have other examples of how Covid has changed your live for the better!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-7904696344278189972021-06-25T10:45:00.002-07:002021-06-25T10:47:23.674-07:00Converting “Human Resources” to Creative Swarms<p><i>We are not resources. </i></p><p><i>We are not capital. </i></p><p><i>We are not talent. </i></p><p><i>We are not labor. </i></p><p><i>We are not manpower. </i></p><p><i>We are bees. </i></p><p><i>We are all members of the same swarm. </i></p><p><br /></p><p>In preindustrial times, people were like bees, creating what they needed, growing their grain, baking their bread, sewing and stitching their clothes, and building their furniture and houses. With the onset of industrialization, division of labor arose, and managers started to manage their resources - one of which happened to be their human resources. But humans don’t particularly like to be resources – being a resource implies being a passive asset, which is being moved around like a pawn in a game of chess, without agency and own will. Synonyms like “human capital”, “talent”, “labor”, or “manpower” are not much better. “Human capital” is even worse, as it conveys the connotation of foreign ownership: according to definition, capital is an asset owned by an individual or organization available for a purpose such as running a company or investing. I don’t think people want to be owned by their manager or company. “Talent” is somewhat better, as a synonym for natural aptitude or skill, however the word’s origin is similar to “capital”, it also has monetary roots as the “talent” was a currency unit of the Greeks and Romans. Again, I don’t want to be a piece of money owned by my manager or company for my skill. “Labor” implies hard work and great effort with little interest in creativity and imagination. “Manpower” is not much better, it stands for the (amorphous and anonymous) number of people available for work and service, without valuing individual ingenuity and originality.</p><p>Happiness research has clearly shown that we humans highly value what psychologists call “<b>agency</b>” and “<b>experience</b>”: Agency means the capacity to make independent decisions and being in control of one’s own destiny. For instance, happiness researcher Bruno S. Frey has found that in already quite happy Switzerland, those Swiss cantons whose citizens have the most to say, that is they get to vote the most, are the happiest. He also found that being stuck in traffic, when we totally lose control over where to go, is assured to reduce happiness and make us miserable. The second psychological property is experience, the capability to enjoy and to suffer, to experience compassion and empathy for others. </p><p>As “human resources” we are denied both agency and experience.</p><p>Applied to the corporate environment, agency and experience are well described by the four management principles of W.L. Gore & Associates, a highly successful inventor and manufacturer of the water-resistant fabric Gore-Tex. Established by its founder Bill Gore, W.L. Gore & Associates operates by the four principles freedom, fairness, commitment, and waterline. Since its inception, Gore has consistently been ranked as one of the best companies to work for. Gore’s associates, as their employees are called, have the freedom to make their own decisions, are expected to treat each other fairly, are empowered to make their own commitments and to stick to them, and for wide-ranging decisions affecting the “waterline” of the company, they are counted on consulting with other associates. In other words, they become members of a self-organizing swarm, operating in agency and experience. They are happy bees, and highly successful in that!</p><p>The time has come to take back agency and experience from human resources, and create an environment for self-organizing swarms of happy bees. Take a look at our <a href="http://swarmcreativity.blogspot.com/2019/04/navigating-human-emotions-with-social.html" target="_blank">social compass,</a> who uses AI to map the social landscape of each individual for more agency and experience!</p><div><br /></div>Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-58795532783078536742021-05-08T08:38:00.002-07:002021-05-09T01:31:25.205-07:00Are you a Bee, an Ant, or ............. a Leech?<p>In my p<a href="http://swarmcreativity.blogspot.com/2021/05/beeflow-antflow-and-leechflow-is-all.html" target="_blank">revious post I introduced human bees, ants and leeches</a>. Swarms of bees are motivated by creating something radically new, to draw satisfaction from inventing something that has not been there before, pollinating others and creating honey in the process. Ants are social insects too, who show loyalty to their swarm, but are obsessively competitive, motivated primarily by trying to win at all costs, be it in sports or in professional life. Leeches are more solitary insects, living off the blood they suck from others, motivated by money, and by trying to get rich as quickly as possible through whatever means available.</p><p>I created the three tribes in <a href="http://galaxyscope.galaxyadvisors.com" target="_blank">tribecreator</a>, training the machine learning system with the Twitter feeds of Tim Berners-Lee, Jimmy Wales, JK Rowlings, and the profiles of 150+ other creatives such as designers, musicians and artists. The ant tribe was trained with the Twitter feeds of 150+ athletes such as Rafael Nadal, Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods, plus Nascar racers, boxers and wrestlers, football coaches, and professional computer gamers. The leech tribe was trained with the tweets of activist investors such as Bill Ackmann and Steven A. Cohen, hedge fund managers, venture capitalists, and peddlers of “get rich quick” schemes.</p><div class="separator"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuUTEPNK_YdNphvzKy3m1jQaSG7fQ5Im-falix2YDxl3Z0XJrobp27wu-O2o9W0UnnfujZxlfEFTZlGgQy3yfoJ5hymIZQFf6sNxSsW-Kb50qCYL3qmC-DIZfpB3FWLLYPnH2pyPuIXMg/s327/Picture+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuUTEPNK_YdNphvzKy3m1jQaSG7fQ5Im-falix2YDxl3Z0XJrobp27wu-O2o9W0UnnfujZxlfEFTZlGgQy3yfoJ5hymIZQFf6sNxSsW-Kb50qCYL3qmC-DIZfpB3FWLLYPnH2pyPuIXMg/s320/Picture+1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>The picture above shows the alternative reality tribal affiliations for the bee, ant, and leech tribes. We find that none of the three tribes are big fatherlanders, they all have other priorities. Leech tribe members are the biggest nerds, most likely because venture capitalists and hedge fund managers talk about the startups they are investing in. Surprisingly, ants are the bigger spiritualists than the bees, while leeches don’t care much about spiritualism.</p><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFauIFz-MDySXOKbSaaA0EpyjLUC1bNLMKUDbiirxd8DcF42jIvvrqikFF2t8EdK_HhZMN37vk0q0sc5WH2IcjsHgSwirZsBePiJUF7_p2BhoZz1UynP__cpDdJFYcFmM5xrOOQzEmyjg/s324/Picture+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFauIFz-MDySXOKbSaaA0EpyjLUC1bNLMKUDbiirxd8DcF42jIvvrqikFF2t8EdK_HhZMN37vk0q0sc5WH2IcjsHgSwirZsBePiJUF7_p2BhoZz1UynP__cpDdJFYcFmM5xrOOQzEmyjg/s320/Picture+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The picture above illustrates the personalities of the three tribes, ants are the biggest risk-takers, followed by the bees which also take risks, leeches, as expected, are huge stock-traders, i.e., predominantly interested in money. On the other hand, bees talk mostly like journalists, i.e., using honest, matter-of-fact language.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdj8pen67imfCJt6gVlhOg_LI1Z6uWbkxP0VjrmuYnS205hvPLLqzSTqVlxTMcA2rGmGE6BdNDKosozEVfp3nLcr8Mrv4zFQEDSbtM4iCfCwphjai9DkuBGEjPrQ3ZuZXOPgq4HOwDD2E/s332/Picture+3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="257" data-original-width="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdj8pen67imfCJt6gVlhOg_LI1Z6uWbkxP0VjrmuYnS205hvPLLqzSTqVlxTMcA2rGmGE6BdNDKosozEVfp3nLcr8Mrv4zFQEDSbtM4iCfCwphjai9DkuBGEjPrQ3ZuZXOPgq4HOwDD2E/s320/Picture+3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div>The picture above shows the ideological tribal affiliations, leeches are the biggest capitalists, while the bees are more inclined towards liberalism. Ants are complainers.</div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIXp7oiUphDJpKGMnOZSGz8BxWu956RMdQKZCBEcIWMvp8DaI19tlNP36fKKBdKzFHsc9TC9V4kAIBojozdyOfheK5VuEbFjs0sUdoBONrsKo-ceNxSIVsYFVDL0bfjdsTgA3BexiFfB0/s342/Picture+4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIXp7oiUphDJpKGMnOZSGz8BxWu956RMdQKZCBEcIWMvp8DaI19tlNP36fKKBdKzFHsc9TC9V4kAIBojozdyOfheK5VuEbFjs0sUdoBONrsKo-ceNxSIVsYFVDL0bfjdsTgA3BexiFfB0/s320/Picture+4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The picture above shows the lifestyle tribes of bees, ants, and leeches. Not surprisingly, the ants are huge fitness buffs, while the leeches are the most sedentary, followed by the bees. The bee tribe has the largest proportion of vegan tribe members.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXr2cg815_-96Rk5lEKaCIw-mj5uwSomW-JPImCuUMaMI31DPWR_cGXbCoweGtxiUvy-A6_1vO9SFSvDCgqi0yoLlnfsEL2pKVaqNFI7Y6wi_Izkw4j1DQwcUZgRkQgeoT1QK4cx-Zlow/s298/Picture+5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXr2cg815_-96Rk5lEKaCIw-mj5uwSomW-JPImCuUMaMI31DPWR_cGXbCoweGtxiUvy-A6_1vO9SFSvDCgqi0yoLlnfsEL2pKVaqNFI7Y6wi_Izkw4j1DQwcUZgRkQgeoT1QK4cx-Zlow/s0/Picture+5.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The picture above shows the recreation tribes, not surprisingly ants dominate in sport, while bees and leeches are prevalent in art, with the bees producing it, and the leeches trading it as an investment or as part of their philanthropic activities.</div><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_uZ49NDWHAzyn84XxOcaCzUIQ4Rq0TRBYcCCMRHr34fWOyb5qInyBMX50VL2gWFv-PmiIznPttChUo7jYZ2dwF-MU_D31IskwzWCO4UkvKJrA30QUUVXDxyQZ_PJ7Gg-qT_1gqOaVoY0/s296/Picture+6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="229" data-original-width="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_uZ49NDWHAzyn84XxOcaCzUIQ4Rq0TRBYcCCMRHr34fWOyb5qInyBMX50VL2gWFv-PmiIznPttChUo7jYZ2dwF-MU_D31IskwzWCO4UkvKJrA30QUUVXDxyQZ_PJ7Gg-qT_1gqOaVoY0/s0/Picture+6.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The picture above shows the emotions of bees, ants, and leeches. Bees are the happiest tribe, followed by the ants, leeches are the least happy! Leeches are angry, while ants are fearful! It seems there is an intrinsic reward in being a bee!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_tBGv4XJY8WisFFbzyFzUOShRCqyT6xu-cwcoERe4YFQa2ZdAVjRKKolzTKcXdJC7bRsPXcgSOKs0g-K-bsTnj6HeJm0II25Q8SBZYynmg6ZQXj02z2dREzSc77VwZCXJfzuVmb4k6uU/s348/Picture+7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="262" data-original-width="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_tBGv4XJY8WisFFbzyFzUOShRCqyT6xu-cwcoERe4YFQa2ZdAVjRKKolzTKcXdJC7bRsPXcgSOKs0g-K-bsTnj6HeJm0II25Q8SBZYynmg6ZQXj02z2dREzSc77VwZCXJfzuVmb4k6uU/s320/Picture+7.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The picture above illustrates the clustering by tribe of the hundreds of tribe leaders who have been used to train the machine learning system to create the word embeddings for the three tribes. Each dot is representing a person. Dots representing people who use similar language are shown together using a layout algorithm called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-distributed_stochastic_neighbor_embedding" target="_blank">tSNE</a>, that reduces the multidimensional word vector to two dimensions which can thus be plotted in a two-dimensional space. As the picture illustrates, members of the same tribe are close together, illustrating that each tribe forms a cohesive community based on common word usage.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This word embedding can now be used to identify the tribal affiliation of any person based on their word usage. The picture below shows six months of my mailbox computed and drawn with our new <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/coinseminar21/materials" target="_blank">Griffin/Phoenix </a>tool, with the people colored by flow-tribe.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixGx3mSLfZ-d6yZsDXh1E-ztegmCISAI9rbP9LOvnOFVF8ql1g16mpPyvyTJrZRP7zIyPrbFnduNceSFdxuXlDaKuboytzCAkfDVlrrjlOEC9CrFrC0LjWnf1cuD0BjPVB3jveSo6v2gc/s392/Picture+8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixGx3mSLfZ-d6yZsDXh1E-ztegmCISAI9rbP9LOvnOFVF8ql1g16mpPyvyTJrZRP7zIyPrbFnduNceSFdxuXlDaKuboytzCAkfDVlrrjlOEC9CrFrC0LjWnf1cuD0BjPVB3jveSo6v2gc/s320/Picture+8.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>As the picture illustrates there are many bees in my community, with smaller groups of ants and leeches. The red dots show the people who did not have enough words in their e-mail for the machine learning to make a tribal assignment with sufficiently high confidence. I am happy (!) to be a bee!<div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy9PXg0GHaoxlD5HCMZfSEuIQVCh5NP64xW2KlHBm6n7HKqNeADvpnxVFj7Esd-7W5PxYzEVLGVSiAZJyI23ad9uTo7GvnccHaap3gH6Q1lmxJGPkEnUiRis9rjAzkJ-bY_Js6AXCZFSE/s577/Picture+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="577" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy9PXg0GHaoxlD5HCMZfSEuIQVCh5NP64xW2KlHBm6n7HKqNeADvpnxVFj7Esd-7W5PxYzEVLGVSiAZJyI23ad9uTo7GvnccHaap3gH6Q1lmxJGPkEnUiRis9rjAzkJ-bY_Js6AXCZFSE/s320/Picture+1.png" width="320" /></a></div>The figure above shows what percentage of the messages in my mailbox included content related to beeflow, antflow, and leechflow over time. Most of the time, beeflow is dominant, as we are mostly discussing new features for our software and other creative endeavors. Occasionally, for instance on February 11 and March 4, leechflow takes over, meaning that we talk about money, most likely negotiating about the price of our software and services with customers. This chart illustrates that reality is not white or black, but always grey, including all facets of daily life. What we can do, however, is decide where we want to put the emphasis in our daily lives.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /></div>Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-69265643696894541482021-05-08T07:57:00.000-07:002021-05-08T07:57:12.621-07:00Beeflow, Antflow and Leechflow ...... is all TribeFlow<p>In an earlier <a href="http://swarmcreativity.blogspot.com/2020/04/about-bees-sheep-and-leeches.html" target="_blank">post</a> I have spoken about human bees, sheep and leeches. This post extends this concept to the flow experience of groups of humans collaborating in <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/coinseminar21" target="_blank">groupflow</a>. </p><p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)" target="_blank">flow experience </a>per se can be reached in many areas, from sports, art, and music, to professional teamwork. Csikszentmihalyi even describes criminals enjoying their burglaries, and the extreme example of the Marquis de Sade enjoying his sadistic behavior. On the flip side, perfectly legal flow activities might cause pain to some of the involved parties, for instance the dog and cock fights in some parts of the World, the bull fighting in Spain, or the boxing matches in the US and elsewhere. It is therefore worthwhile dividing flow experiences in three different categories sorted by positivity for the involved parties: first, the enjoyable experience of creating something radically new that has never been there before, second the gratification derived from competing against others or oneself in sports ranging from mountain climbing to computer games, and third the pleasure one gets from ripping off others, leading to pain for the losers and delight for the winners.</p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="GridTable4-Accent11" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black;"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color: #4472c4; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-left-width: 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-top-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120"><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;"> </span></b></p></td><td style="background-color: #4472c4; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 81pt;" valign="top" width="108"><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">goal<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style="background-color: #4472c4; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 99pt;" valign="top" width="132"><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">benefits<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style="background-color: #4472c4; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-top-color: rgb(68, 114, 196); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 180.75pt;" valign="top" width="241"><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">example<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color: #d9e2f3; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120"><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Beeflow</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style="background-color: #d9e2f3; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 81pt;" valign="top" width="108"><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">create</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style="background-color: #d9e2f3; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 99pt;" valign="top" width="132"><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">to self + to others</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style="background-color: #d9e2f3; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 180.75pt;" valign="top" width="241"><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">Create painting, play Jazz in a band, designing new product</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120"><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Antflow<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 81pt;" valign="top" width="108"><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">win<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 99pt;" valign="top" width="132"><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">to self<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 180.75pt;" valign="top" width="241"><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">Play online game, play soccer match<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color: #d9e2f3; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120"><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Leechflow</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style="background-color: #d9e2f3; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 81pt;" valign="top" width="108"><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">exploit</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style="background-color: #d9e2f3; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 99pt;" valign="top" width="132"><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">to self (from others)</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style="background-color: #d9e2f3; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(142, 170, 219); border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 180.75pt;" valign="top" width="241"><p class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">Devise pyramid scheme, engage in mobbing</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><div>Bee hives are entangled organizations with the bees being masters of entanglement. Bees communicate through the waggle dance, by touching each other’s bodies rhythmically, similarly to jazz musicians swinging their bodies to the tune of their music. Bees are also good for everyone. Not only are they producing honey which is widely loved and was the main sweetener for millennia, honey also has valuable medical properties. But most importantly, bees are absolutely essential as pollinators, pollinating up to 80% of all cultivated crop plants. Without bees there would be no apples, no cherries, no peaches, no nuts, and no herbs. Without bees, life as we know it would be impossible. </div><div><br /></div><div>Ant hives are similarly entangled organizations capable of amazing feats, self-organizing to solve complex tasks, for instance creating pheromone trails to food sources and herding larvae of other insects to drink the fluid that these larvae secrete. However, if two ants from two different ant hives meet, a fight to death will arise. This means that ants are immensely competitive. While they collaborate inside their hive, they conduct epic battles between different hives. For instance, the invasive Argentine ant forms super colonies with up to one trillion individuals in Southern Europe and the US. At the border between the super colonies there is constant warfare, for example at the border between two super colonies in Southern California researchers estimate that up to thirty million ants per year die in monumental battles. </div><div><br /></div><div>Leeches are unentangled, each fighting for their blood meal on their own. Leeches are parasites, that attach their suckers to their prey animal, and feed on the blood of their host. In the front of their mouth, they have three teeth, which they slice through the skin of the host. Once attached, they use a combination of mucus and suction to stay attached to the skin of their host, while consuming their blood meal. While leeches have been used for medical bloodletting at least for 2500 years, they carry parasites in their digestive system, and bacteria, viruses and other parasites from previous blood meals can survive within a leech for months and infect the next host. Although leeches have limited medical use, life without leeches, without having to worry about a leech bite in leech infested water would be a better life. If bloodletting really is necessary – most of the time it is not, more people have been killed through excessive bloodletting than have been saved – this can also easily be done by the doctor in other ways.</div><div><br /></div><div>There are also human bees, ants, and leeches that offer valuable lessons about flow and entanglement. Human bees are people who derive their joy and meaning in life from creating new things. It seems there is a subgroup of the overall population that draws particular pleasure from creating new things and gaining new insights. Researchers have found that for some people, creative insights, the “eureka moment” triggers the same neural reward as when we eat food we like, have an orgasm, or consume addictive substances . In other words, some people experience creative insights as intrinsically rewarding. This explains the puzzle solvers, starving artists, underpaid researchers, and innovators tinkering with new ideas in their garages. Human bees are creators. Creating new things creates joy for the creator. While the creation process might include painful moments along the way, the joy at the end of the process, when the final product is there, more than pays for it. One of the main reasons for experiencing the joy of creation is the flow experience. For instance flow is prominent when making music. This starts with little children who experience flow in music learning and making . Flow is experienced when composing music, and the flow experience is the main motivation for musicians playing together in bands and orchestras. Other typical human bees might be inventors, authors, painters, sculptors, researchers, and engineers. They pollinate society with new ideas, ensuring innovation and progress. Bees create positive entanglement among themselves by creating human creative swarms.</div><div><br /></div><div>However not everybody draws intrinsic satisfaction from gaining creative insights. There is a large(r) part of the population that does not like change, but likes to follow the example of others, and would like to keep everything as safe and solid as it “has always been in the good old times”. Those are the ants. Ants are (most of the time) not hurting anybody, but they are not creating anything new. Ants are followers. Their happiness comes from being in company with others like them. Human ants like to aggregate in large crowds and occasionally demonstrate the madness of crowds. A prominent example of human ants following each other were the nearly 500,000 participants of the Sturgis Harvey Davidson motorcycle festival in August 2020, flouting Covid19 distancing rules, and leading according to one study to an additional 260,000 Covid19 infections, 19 percent of the US total of that month, and resulting in 12,2 billion dollars of additional public health costs. People investing in bitcoin and other pyramid schemes for speculative purposes are today’s successors of the Dutch investors creating the black tulip craze in the 17th century in Holland, where prizes of black tulip bulbs spiked to astronomical heights before crashing and losing any value. When buying a highly prized unique black tulip bulb, the Dutch investor probably reached the flow state. Ants can also reach the flow state just being on their own. For instance, playing computer games provide a pleasurable flow experience. Researchers investigating flow of computer gamers found that indeed the feeling of flow was a key reason for online gaming addiction. </div><div><br /></div><div>Human leeches are different from bees and ants by being obsessed about getting as much money and power as possible, and do whatever it takes to grab it. Leeches are bloodsuckers. Their happiness comes from winning the competition, and getting everything for themselves. Human leeches are the people that are trying to profit from others, by bending the rules to their own advantage. Their goal in life is to amass as much wealth and money as they possibly can. They consume the honey of the bees and profit from their pollination and also milk the ants. Hedge fund managers, M&A bankers, and “activist investors” would be archetypical professions preferred by human leeches, for instance the investors of drug price gouging companies Valeant and Turing Pharmaceuticals. While a leech might get into flow, leeches destroy the entanglement of others. Leeches might reach groupflow for example by becoming the head of a mafia family.</div><div><br /></div><div>Obviously, the world is neither black nor white, and we all possess attributes of all categories, and are sometimes bees, frequently ants, and if we get the opportunity, we might even behave like leeches. In every society there are taking leeches and giving bees. An entangled organization would like its members to be givers, not takers. A single selfish leech has the potential to destroy the entanglement of the swarm of bees. The goal is to make sure that in the end there are only bees in the group, and prospective leeches are turned into bees by making their parasitic behavior obvious to them. While it is up to each individual to decide their behavior, choosing to be a bee, an ant or a leech, their honest signals and virtual tribe memberships will give them away. </div><div><br /></div><div>Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi does not distinguish if flow is reached as an individual, for instance as a lonely rock climber, or as a group, for instance being a member in a Jazz band. In my work I focus on reaching the flow state as a group. For instance, a great exemplar of group beeflow has been described by Dietmar Sachser in his <a href="https://www.alexander-verlag.com/programm/titel/180-Theaterspielflow.html" target="_blank">book on theater flow</a>. A theater ensemble reaches groupflow through many rehearsals, developing collective awareness and feeling as one unified whole. As German actor Fritzi Haberlandt says “It’s a form of intoxication that makes you happy.”</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-71020101634139007242020-10-22T01:19:00.001-07:002020-10-22T01:29:35.459-07:00Too many Covid Experts - Whom should we trust?<p> The answer seems to be: nobody!</p><p>With Covid raging on, we are all living under fear and stress. Countries such as China, New Zealand, or Japan that succeeded in keeping it contained, are hunkering down behind Chinese Walls, while the rest of the World is desperately searching for miracle cures. Our daily life is heavily influenced by coping and surviving under Covid19. Self-proclaimed Covid19 experts are inundating us with a never-ending stream of news and insights. These experts come from two opposing sides: mainstream science and government experts on the one side, and conspiracy theorists on the other side. Figuring out whom to believe, with so many “experts” contradicting each other can become a real headache. Politicians, regulators, and scientists in different countries, and even within the same country, are fundamentally disagreeing and fighting with each other about the best strategies for coping with the disease. </p><p>To shed some light, we did a coolhunting using <a href="http://galaxyscope.galaxyadvisors.com/" target="_blank">Galaxyscope</a>, creating two digital tribes, “Covid-Experts”, and “Alt-health” (spiritual healing believers, Covid deniers, and fringe conspiracy theorists). The picture below shows the two networks. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYNOBypiTUeSWU8m3jl_1f36hSTVuMzt9Bjxmpqq2a69H7dLFqvAVbDCq51WQqqX5pdik-TOJhKNXNoKg4rJLEKSmufZFIANRsliCFJvaiOE8nQeQ8Fv-EH5TCaRyuuewMcoN4f_8btPM/s2048/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1121" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYNOBypiTUeSWU8m3jl_1f36hSTVuMzt9Bjxmpqq2a69H7dLFqvAVbDCq51WQqqX5pdik-TOJhKNXNoKg4rJLEKSmufZFIANRsliCFJvaiOE8nQeQ8Fv-EH5TCaRyuuewMcoN4f_8btPM/s320/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">While the Covid-Experts form a solid cluster, Alt-health has some separate clusters, connected by a few gatekeepers. However, the most shocking insight is that <a href="https://twitter.com/DrTedros" target="_blank">DrTedros</a> the director of the WHO, the World Health Organization, who should take the lead in the fight against Covid19, appears in both networks – at the periphery. This means that mainstream science and spiritual healers are both desperately looking for leadership – and not finding it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In the Covid Experts community, people like <a href="https://twitter.com/EricTopol" target="_blank">Eric Topol</a>, Director of the Scripps translational institute, <a href="https://twitter.com/HelenBranswell" target="_blank">Helen Branswell</a>, a Canadian global health reporter, and <a href="https://twitter.com/MarionKoopmans" target="_blank">Marion Koopmans</a>, a Dutch virologist, occupy the central positions. In the Alt-Health cluster, activists like <a href="https://twitter.com/FLAutismMom" target="_blank">FLAutismMom</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/BretWeinstein" target="_blank">Brett Weinstein</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/o_rips" target="_blank">Spiro Skouras</a> are in the center.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The picture below shows the two Twitter word clouds of the two tribes, with the central term “Covid19” removed, because it would overly dominate the word cloud. While the experts talk about approaches for fighting Covid such as contact tracing and NIH, the alt health members talked about the Fox TV show “the masked singer” which became highly popular as a way of coping with Covid-related stress, but almost went under in the summer when its host Nick Cannon made anti-Semitic remarks.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDcAcKegAZB3xN9NaijZvj8bPu2ctIp2XpwcKMnALwSGGy5JJ3wuunLq57r-fqyVTlc7Rv-We3h57-Kzrncauxn1Oj7fLDYjtcfrq5CgPhbEVV3Eb6KH5jac4JFIJFQIczCzRuvnM8RDs/s2048/2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1155" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDcAcKegAZB3xN9NaijZvj8bPu2ctIp2XpwcKMnALwSGGy5JJ3wuunLq57r-fqyVTlc7Rv-We3h57-Kzrncauxn1Oj7fLDYjtcfrq5CgPhbEVV3Eb6KH5jac4JFIJFQIczCzRuvnM8RDs/s320/2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>The picture below shows the main words used by experts and alt-health members as word networks, where a connecting line between two words means that the two words appear in the same tweet. Experts recommend wearing a mask as the key Covid-prevention measure. Alt-health members lead a far more wide-ranging discussion with different word clusters, the Bill Gates conspiracy is in the center, and attacking Dr Fauci, the main US government Covid expert. Trump, Maga, and the “proud boys”, appear in the periphery.</div></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHa3xlMWc-Gz0ER3SwTMOHFalAjEHGMx5FvwbA7hho94eIDSxEcRd3j8WVRTgJFg28pv0df3-qlwH7V-nmx0KL9DBnONV_unU9ErRnW869DVtUzJsCrLtkAzDfuvB_ROxU6TFoNEpQfu4/s2048/3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1074" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHa3xlMWc-Gz0ER3SwTMOHFalAjEHGMx5FvwbA7hho94eIDSxEcRd3j8WVRTgJFg28pv0df3-qlwH7V-nmx0KL9DBnONV_unU9ErRnW869DVtUzJsCrLtkAzDfuvB_ROxU6TFoNEpQfu4/s320/3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Looking at the tweeting activity on the charts below, the experts are far more active tweeting about Covid than are the alt-health members. Alt-health members tweet more about non-Covid topics related to conservative politics, such as bikingthebattleground of conservative commentator Cheryl Chumley. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx09Uxm_4IsmejbHQP-NiBs0zeMGlR9vA6jDdqZId9_xdnU8cumm-eng6g7TdTHdYPo8B8jTEqsEacWgyMQN_cq9M-DocalbPByvFraowZahZL8Jrq39B4Pivh7z1W4ZqqApzDVJxv_Qc/s2048/4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1111" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx09Uxm_4IsmejbHQP-NiBs0zeMGlR9vA6jDdqZId9_xdnU8cumm-eng6g7TdTHdYPo8B8jTEqsEacWgyMQN_cq9M-DocalbPByvFraowZahZL8Jrq39B4Pivh7z1W4ZqqApzDVJxv_Qc/s320/4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>Looking at the emotions associated with Covid, there is no noticeable difference between Covid experts and alt health. Fear and sadness dominate for both experts and alt health members in the emotion charts below. Happiness is low for experts and even lower for alt health members, and fear is high for experts and alt health members alike. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiygtueaxSWqWr2aBJniHh6yrmiPZ3aftcXHbmyLiJaiZaBuuy_Kmiqdc7y_BvlJe_97_5tGW6XPYMgez6YmaF97pb-BUR3Qh5d_S1uKb7etav7PVp0rUgAnQr9ca0-neQlceP5fHpdOxA/s2048/5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1071" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiygtueaxSWqWr2aBJniHh6yrmiPZ3aftcXHbmyLiJaiZaBuuy_Kmiqdc7y_BvlJe_97_5tGW6XPYMgez6YmaF97pb-BUR3Qh5d_S1uKb7etav7PVp0rUgAnQr9ca0-neQlceP5fHpdOxA/s320/5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>In the comparison charts of the two tribes below, we see that while experts tweet much more, the two tribes have little overlap in membership, although some Covid experts are positioned right among the alt health tribe members by our positioning algorithm. The dark blue dots at the bottom of the scatter plot below at right stand for <a href="https://twitter.com/mbeisen" target="_blank">Michael Eisen</a>, a biologist at UC Berkeley and <a href="https://twitter.com/DoctorYasmin" target="_blank">Seema Yasmin</a>, an epidemiologist, who use language in their tweets more typical of alt health.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhuxmu3rNiXSCRjbbyRVolDpm4yUC18xiCR3sw0_RDwG3qyr2jKa2pF7KWLv-edzTwBmoqF3DWNbawgCBryUUjA0WDHubZ6zT8nN-Ro2b4y_0bOVZ-PURUIgneZ5dEwEoYEH1RR71ZBmc/s2048/6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhuxmu3rNiXSCRjbbyRVolDpm4yUC18xiCR3sw0_RDwG3qyr2jKa2pF7KWLv-edzTwBmoqF3DWNbawgCBryUUjA0WDHubZ6zT8nN-Ro2b4y_0bOVZ-PURUIgneZ5dEwEoYEH1RR71ZBmc/s320/6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>Looking at the membership in predefined virtual tribes below, we find that the experts are more treehuggers, while the alt health members are also fatherlanders (ultrapatriots), while there are none among the experts. Some alt health members not surprisingly have been categorized as spiritualists.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJSf4DVK2HC2Mu7Gy5M3sCOAXL1KKoIk6Q0aMmK6c85YknTmWNW6HzQHP9ZBunPlHBSCpPZ_2wgpHLbJ0e5nGOHWKLm9rWBz_BfVYQ83CdGRzL79Re-r0bAE6a2PC4IX7KHcgthX1Bb34/s2048/7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1182" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJSf4DVK2HC2Mu7Gy5M3sCOAXL1KKoIk6Q0aMmK6c85YknTmWNW6HzQHP9ZBunPlHBSCpPZ_2wgpHLbJ0e5nGOHWKLm9rWBz_BfVYQ83CdGRzL79Re-r0bAE6a2PC4IX7KHcgthX1Bb34/s320/7.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>Personality-wise, the experts use a lot of political and journalist language, while the alt health members are more categorized as risk-takers and stock traders.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxMqW9mxpKS0-OpI91EvFVhkxQVWBuTr7vLXEc6o-vkLk5w5BJBgK3tqIWvJvLtKYvOMa5BsUdCc8t6ZNEf5rWsBSh5cLzNkarcTa81nWU7roaHAZAVbEkSCnPfAjH9_tDWulxM301bj0/s2048/8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1115" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxMqW9mxpKS0-OpI91EvFVhkxQVWBuTr7vLXEc6o-vkLk5w5BJBgK3tqIWvJvLtKYvOMa5BsUdCc8t6ZNEf5rWsBSh5cLzNkarcTa81nWU7roaHAZAVbEkSCnPfAjH9_tDWulxM301bj0/s320/8.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>Covid experts are more capitalist than alt health members, which is not surprising as they work for the US government, pharmaceuticals, and academia, while some alt health members are seen as socialist in the way they speak.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQcULnMhKgi0igAMJP67dgobeMjZEIkYjfXpg81G_HrcOXJzfYpjhpaG-ioxVjsSQTF2HcFUXsxNOJpTdRjgRHwmTvUHYPH6L5RCloLAn2tp6RmaMYTE2SOWUFmkJWFd18XKxX2YRFWmk/s2048/9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1167" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQcULnMhKgi0igAMJP67dgobeMjZEIkYjfXpg81G_HrcOXJzfYpjhpaG-ioxVjsSQTF2HcFUXsxNOJpTdRjgRHwmTvUHYPH6L5RCloLAn2tp6RmaMYTE2SOWUFmkJWFd18XKxX2YRFWmk/s320/9.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>In conclusion, we see that fear and sadness dominate the Covid19 discourse, with experts recommending handwashing and mask wearing, while the alt health members see conspiracies everywhere, and recommend miracle cures against Covid such as Melatonin and Vitamin C instead of having to wear masks. Both groups place strong emphasis on maintaining mental health among all the chaos. The main insight is that there are no accepted leaders, and very little trust in science. Everybody seems to hunker down and hope for better times – which undoubtedly will come, as they always have, we just don’t know when!</div><div><br /></div><div>Many thanks again to <a href="https://www.gdi.ch/en/frick-karin" target="_blank">Karin Frick</a> from <a href="https://www.gdi.ch/en" target="_blank">GDI</a> for doing the coolhunting.</div>Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-59718469844372439422020-10-15T03:20:00.004-07:002020-10-15T03:27:47.478-07:00Using People Analytics for Analyzing “People Analytics” Thought Leaders<p>Increasing workplace satisfaction and recognizing employee burnout before it happens are core issues in today’s Covid-19 home office workplace. People analytics has become a key technology to support these goals, thanks to recent progress in AI, machine learning, and other computer technologies. Using our own people analytics tools we analyzed the virtual tribe of key people working in the area of people analytics. If anything, this analysis shows that people analytics has become even more central in the Covid-world. </p><p>Using our <a href="http://galaxyscope.galaxyadvisors.com" target="_blank">Galaxyscope Tribefinder tool</a> we created a virtual tribe of 57 Thought Leaders in the space of HR analytics, people analytics, and corporate culture. The picture below shows the social network of the people analytics thought leaders based on their Twitter network. Thought leaders are connected through who is retweeting and mentioning whom. It also categorizes each thought leader into an “alternative reality” tribe, identifying if somebody is a fatherlander, nerd, treehugger, or spiritualist (. As we can see in the picture below, the large majority, 38 out of the 57, are nerds, based on the language they use in their tweets. This is not surprising as they tweet about technology.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifGe1j7SQCCdS7MKFr7Y0jKdlJLFNYNdPmOQoDWExesqhl7eAx88Qcp1kfUtM3_W3dv1e4VXaHhMJPxordD22dOYgA8XvVDing8wwuPXY9obGewjYKvR4V4oOGOyzljIDFEO72vV_yRw4/s1891/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1891" data-original-width="1879" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifGe1j7SQCCdS7MKFr7Y0jKdlJLFNYNdPmOQoDWExesqhl7eAx88Qcp1kfUtM3_W3dv1e4VXaHhMJPxordD22dOYgA8XvVDing8wwuPXY9obGewjYKvR4V4oOGOyzljIDFEO72vV_yRw4/s320/1.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Among the 57 people who are popular tweeting about people and workplace analytics, we find that the most central people analytics thought leaders are <a href="https://twitter.com/david_green_uk" target="_blank">David Green</a>, Wharton professor <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamMGrant" target="_blank">Adam Grant</a>, ABN Amro HR analytics manager <a href=" https://twitter.com/PatrickCoolen" target="_blank">Patrick Coolen</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/AndySpence" target="_blank">Andy Spence</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/Josh_Bersin" target="_blank">Josh Bersin</a>, to name just a few. A connecting line in the network means that two people are retweeting or forwarding or mentioning each other.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The word cloud below shows the most frequent terms in their tweets of the last two months. “HR”, “HCM” (Human Capital Management), “people analytics”, and “future of work” are most popular.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6VZN1bkLGR7bbsOBotau8_0xcmCD8_TUS3hiI6zN38Wff1s99iFOmMDM5h-c6Z1OUoGuUXgH8x2Kf6hx67QODvvVZRtGEzGhBK8CtgtKK-PCqCNQdSJzmJJd9d62F3N8fmquAIbe_bL4/s1879/2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1691" data-original-width="1879" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6VZN1bkLGR7bbsOBotau8_0xcmCD8_TUS3hiI6zN38Wff1s99iFOmMDM5h-c6Z1OUoGuUXgH8x2Kf6hx67QODvvVZRtGEzGhBK8CtgtKK-PCqCNQdSJzmJJd9d62F3N8fmquAIbe_bL4/s320/2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The next picture drills down into the word cloud by showing the links between two terms, if they are mentioned in the same tweet. The word network nicely illustrates how Covid19 has created a second separate word cluster about the leadership of remote teams, which is a key issue in the home office workplace mandated by the Covid19 lockdown.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDo1iQOCiXt2k_-oYXp3vMjgD1-FbRhM2wUa5ZPp92C4MbFVUpYj9JwqhAaPlALSRUjVVK2weC7KURUBaXE_YE0VtBlDSH-M6xxqeOc9RR8X4Kw4aBpdcd4LaPJWydESPSjGjKcEPkpWA/s1879/4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1533" data-original-width="1879" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDo1iQOCiXt2k_-oYXp3vMjgD1-FbRhM2wUa5ZPp92C4MbFVUpYj9JwqhAaPlALSRUjVVK2weC7KURUBaXE_YE0VtBlDSH-M6xxqeOc9RR8X4Kw4aBpdcd4LaPJWydESPSjGjKcEPkpWA/s320/4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div>When looking at the popularity of hashtags over time, shown below, we find that the importance of “culture” is growing, together with “HR”, “future of work”, and “HCM”.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga_okNnADv786YleThC3lX1zGovaRdjFNHNGELmkUBQfiwnbne8kk3SW70NyKTVuyeGC_O1SK39BRtZ5k-K4uZV71yrqMiiCMBjdiV2xPpKEzr_ONrcZRCQHd6F27x1uND3EXm-g4SCgg/s1879/5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1541" data-original-width="1879" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga_okNnADv786YleThC3lX1zGovaRdjFNHNGELmkUBQfiwnbne8kk3SW70NyKTVuyeGC_O1SK39BRtZ5k-K4uZV71yrqMiiCMBjdiV2xPpKEzr_ONrcZRCQHd6F27x1uND3EXm-g4SCgg/s320/5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><div><br /></div><div><div>The last chart shows the characteristics of the tribe. It very well reflects the personalities of the people analytics thought leaders as a group of nerds. They are mostly fitness nuts, like to travel, are ingrained in capitalism (not surprising as people analytics is popular with large multinational corporations), but they are also risk takers, writing about early trends ahead of the mainstream.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGLG6eRnwuL4TFAhGdHgl3Iz1Sa6QqHnDiGAVTwmqZMbjffV-_x4AfBU3O8ayHaKlqnNN4RUDgLyi2BfvuFWdVaIOeWb0D0EciX3meutDLtOR7qQAPPXs6XPgmHRU18Fh-Z63ByK5XMQM/s2048/6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1192" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGLG6eRnwuL4TFAhGdHgl3Iz1Sa6QqHnDiGAVTwmqZMbjffV-_x4AfBU3O8ayHaKlqnNN4RUDgLyi2BfvuFWdVaIOeWb0D0EciX3meutDLtOR7qQAPPXs6XPgmHRU18Fh-Z63ByK5XMQM/s320/6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>For more information about how tribefinder and galaxyscope works, see my<a href="http://swarmcreativity.blogspot.com/2017/09/galaxyscope-finding-influencers-and.html" target="_blank"> earlier blogpost</a> and the papers on <a href="http://www.ickn.org/publications.html" target="_blank">www.ickn.org</a>, for instance<a href="http://www.ickn.org/documents/Tribefinder_proof_JJIM_1924.pdf" target="_blank"> this one</a>. Many thanks to <a href="https://www.gdi.ch/en/frick-karin" target="_blank">Karin Frick</a> from <a href="https://www.gdi.ch/en" target="_blank">GDI</a> for doing the coolhunting.</div><div> </div></div><div><br /></div></div>Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-34442788458420002672020-09-02T03:31:00.003-07:002020-09-02T03:31:55.861-07:00How to Find Interesting Research Problems?<p> This morning I was asked this great question, which I am struggling to answer, as this is a problem with many dimensions. Anyway, here is my try to give a partial answer.</p><p>The first answer is “never ending curiosity”. I wake up in the morning just wondering why things are how they are. Why are trees growing towards light, and not towards darkness? Why do we need light to live? Photosynthesis describes a pattern, but does not give the fundamental answer. There is always so many more questions than answers, and every answer brings more questions.</p><p>The second answer is “I want to find answers to questions I am passionate about”. So, you need to find your passion. How to find your passion? One answer is looking at other people. Whom do you admire most? What are people whom you find cool doing? For instance, Elon Musk said that he was most inspired by Nikola Tesla, as a consequence he started exploring electricity, ultimately building electric cars and naming his company “Tesla”. The area of research you choose also has to do with your personality. I noticed that an economist, a marketing researcher, a computer scientist, a psychologist, and a zoologist have very different personalities. The personality differences are even larger between soldiers, physicians, professors, entrepreneurs, and managers.</p><p>If the most exciting thing for you is being a professor at a top university, then choose your research questions opportunistically. Try to find answers to “hot” research problems in your area. For instance, a hot area right now is fake news detection and prevention, using AI. </p><p>Personally, I am much more interested in “cool” things than in “hot” things. The difference between “hot” and “cool” is that “hot problems” are in everybody’s awareness, which means it will be much easier to get your paper accepted, if you offer an incrementally new solution extending an existing solution. “Cool” problems are ahead of their time. There is a small group of other “crazy researchers” working on them, but it will be much harder to get papers accepted about “cool” topics. Papers addressing “hot problems” will offer incremental innovation, papers addressing “cool problems” will offer radical breakthrough innovation. The problem is that at first people will say it’s crazy, does not work, or is not a problem worth investigating, until it is suddenly “obvious”. I have seen that many times. For instance, in 2003 or 2004 I was in a meeting with VCs who were discussing investing in face recognition startups. They had invited a famous professor from a top university, an expert in image recognition, who told them that computers would never be able to recognize faces as accurately as people could. Well, fast forward a few years, and computers have become much better than humans in this task – isn’t that obvious! </p><p>The pebble rolls down the hill, inspiring the concept of the wheel. Innovation consist of applying existing solutions from other fields to the problem at hand. How to find new ideas? Talk to as many smart people from as many different backgrounds as possible. This is why I like to teach at universities around the world, students in Finland, Chile, the US, China, Italy, Germany, etc. have very different perspectives of the same problem. In my research I am straddling mathematics, computer science, management science, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and biology which I find immensely enriching. As is bringing computers to children in the developing world, working on reducing infant mortality in the US, and trying to understand how plants, horses and dogs communicate. In the end this will even inspire a better understanding of how fake news spread. </p><div><br /></div>Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-33695482890931104982020-08-30T03:58:00.001-07:002020-08-30T03:58:22.824-07:00AI-Enhanced Interspecies Communication<p> While we humans have a hard time communicating among ourselves, we find it even more difficult to communicate with individuals of other species. The main interaction between species consists of eating members of other species, or being eaten. We humans consume huge amounts of pig, cow, and chicken meat, drink milk, eat eggs, bread, rice, corn and other veggies. However, when we are not eating plants and animals, we also like to talk to them. Some people even talk to their houseplants. And owners of dogs, cats, and horses of course talk to their pets all the time, maybe even considering them their soulmates. But do the plants and animals really understand what we are trying to say to them? And even more important, can we understand what the dog, horse, cat, or a mimosa or basil plant is trying to say to us?</p><p>Before we can start talking to others, we need to listen to what they have to say, and try to make sense of their output. Computers and artificial intelligence have made huge progress over the last twenty years helping us both to listen and to talk to each other. Today’s New York Times gives a great <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/opinion/sunday/brain-machine-artificial-intelligence.html" target="_blank">overview of using computers to read the brain</a> which explains how computers are capable of knowing what we are thinking by tracking the activation of combinations of brain cells indicative of certain words. In the currently best implementations computers can read up to 250 different words at 90 percent accuracy by looking at our neurons. In genetically engineered mice, computers have also spoken to the mice, telling them when to drink water by turning on their neurons, “<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959438820300775">playing them like a piano</a>”. Google Translate and Deepl have become language geniuses, dynamically translating from English to Chinese, with me talking to my phone in English in the hotel in Beijing, and the phone repeating my sentence to the hotel receptionist in Chinese.</p><p>What if we could do the same when talking to a horse, a dog, or a mimosa, with the computer telling the animal or plant what I would like to say, and then the animal or plant talking back to me.</p><p><a href="http://www.ickn.org/publications.html" target="_blank">Our research group</a> has been studying how humans communicate online and face to face for the last two decades. In our work we have been building many tools for happier, more creative, and more productive collaboration among humans, leveraging the computer and AI to read the "honest signals" and emotions of what a human really wants to say beyond the literal meaning of words.</p><p>In the last few years we have been applying these algorithms and technologies to interspecies communication. We have used body sensing technology to better understand communication with horses, and facial emotion recognition to understand <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/z5i8p64osur2m4r/Animal_Emotions_Group6.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">emotions of dogs</a> and of <a href="http://www.ickn.org/documents/Horse_Happy_COINs18.pdf" target="_blank">horses</a> . </p><p>In our most recent projects we are trying to listen to plants. We have put “brain sensors” on mimosas, as they talk back to the outside world quite visibly: when their leaves are touched, they fold them. We found that they seem to <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04591" target="_blank">sense the electrostatic discharge of human bodies</a> and the rhythm of body movement near them. When putting our sensors on other plants such as basil they show the same response. We also recorded the leaf movement of the “dancing plant” (Codarialcalyx Motorius) in response to human voice and <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/l3ldney06r3z1hk/Codariocalyx-schubert_silence.mp4?dl=0" target="_blank">music</a>. Using automatic image recognition we found that its <a href="http://www.coinsconference.org/talks_pdf/Josephine_VBB.pdf" target="_blank">leaf movement was different in reaction to male and female voices</a> talking nearby.</p><p>As this is a brand-new emerging area of research, we are at the very beginning. Imagine how wonderful it will be not just talking to your dog, cat, horse, or houseplant, but being talked back in understandable words, and engaging into a real dialog. </p><p>Much more research is needed, if you are interested in collaborating in our research, we love to hear from you. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-42600281449209331422020-06-15T13:36:00.002-07:002020-06-16T01:10:05.004-07:00Is Covid19 breeding humans for optimal dissemination?Noah Harari in his book “Sapiens” makes the argument that humans make pigs, chicken, and cows the most successful species by breeding them in immense numbers and thus creating a huge gene pool. Humans are doctoring around in this gene pool, for instance breeding chickens to gain weight rapidly for more meat production. But as these poor chickens can not even walk anymore, this gene doctoring leads to evolutionary dead ends.<br /> <br /> Coronavirus seems to be doing the same to humans, it is treating us like we are treating the pigs, breeding us to provide the best possible living environment for Covid19. Towards that goal, it kills the least attractive hosts, old people that will not live much longer to spread the virus, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">bald men, which have too much testosterone</a>, and overweight people who frequently have preexisting conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and lung disease. <br /><br /> It seems thus that Covid19 is weeding out the weak to improve the gene pool of the human race for further successful dissemination of the virus. <br /> <br /> What does this say about Brazil and the US having huge infection and death numbers, and Germany having comparatively very low numbers?<br /> <br /> From an evolutionary perspective, people with poor health such as obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes are also predominantly poor and the least successful economically, and that is why the Coronavirus is attacking them the most. <br /> <br /> As empathic and compassionate human beings, what we have to do is to level the playing ground, and give poor people the necessary support to be resilient against failure, then their health will also increase and Coronavirus will not be the killer it is for them right now. It has been shown many times that economic success and good health are strongly correlated. In particular, the theory of <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">ACEs</a> demonstrates that having a supportive childhood is the greatest predictor of adult success. Therefore we should try to give all children the same high level of physical and emotional care right from when they are born. This is for instance the goal of the<a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"> Healthy Start </a>and<a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"> Infant Mortality CoIIN</a> projects in the US.<div style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12px;">
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Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-92113833378790009152020-05-26T00:35:00.001-07:002020-05-26T00:35:49.403-07:00My Truth is NOT your Truth - Predicting Truth Based on Ethical Values<b>What is “truth”? </b><br />
Truth is highly subjective and depends on the individual context, likes, personality, and ethical values of a person. What is “truth” for you depends in whom you trust and in whom you believe. If you are a farmer and Republican voter of Donald Trump in the rust belt of the US, you believe China needs to be punished for ripping of the US and you trust the words of Donald Trump and are willing to sacrifice sales of your grain or pork to China for the greater good of your country. If you are a Chinese Communist party member, you believe the US is striving for World domination and is using whatever means available to subdue China, you trust the words of Xi Jinping and are willing to bring personal sacrifices for the greater good of the Chinese nation. The same split perception of what is “true” applies to many other issues, from the effectiveness or dangers of vaccines, miracle cures against the Coronavirus, to when the world was created (4.54 billion years ago according to science, less than 10,000 years ago according to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationism" target="_blank">creationists</a>). As nobody can actually go back and check for themselves, we have to trust and believe either the scientists, or the spiritual leaders of the Christian fundamentalists. To back up their claims, both the creationist leaders and the scientists show us long chains of “facts”. “Facts” can be photos of fossilized dinosaur feet stepping over human feet, proving according to creationists that dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time, about 8000 years ago. “Facts” can also be the physical formulas that prove the existence of spacetime curvature predicted by Einstein. Both of these “facts” are impossible to verify for the person on the street, and so believers of a particular “fact” take them at face value thanks to their trust in the people coming up with these “facts”.<br />
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<b>Ethics and Personality Define How to Interpret Somebody’s Claim to Truth</b><br />
Depending on our motivation, we will apply a different definition of truth to solve a particular problem:<br />
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<li>Donald Trump’s mantra is “truth is what gets me re-elected”. If he says that hydroxychloroquine will cure Corona virus infection, this is because he assumes that having a cheap and easily available "miracle cure" will increase his chances of re-election.</li>
<li>A sales guy’s mantra is “truth is what sells my product”. If a pharma vendor of hydroxychloroquine says that hydroxychloroquine will cure Corona virus infection this is because the sales guy wants to sell more of his pills.</li>
<li>If a doctor tells a patient that hydroxychloroquine will cure her Corona virus infection this might be because this is the only drug he has available to help the sick patient.</li>
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What Donald Trump, the sales guy, and the doctor do, is closely tied to their ethical values.<br />
It has been shown that particular personality characteristics go along with certain <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780124072367000024" target="_blank">ethical values</a> and <a href="https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/806" target="_blank">professions</a>. For instance, using the FFI personality test, agreeability and conscientiousness is prevalent in <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886900002336" target="_blank">highly religious people</a>, while academics show very different personality characteristics: A scientist will be open to new ideas, and willing to question existing beliefs and authority, but will be much less agreeable and less conscientious. A creationist will value tradition and authority over progressive ideas. As “birds of a feather flock together”, creationists will all believe similar facts, and they will show similar personality characteristics. In other words, they will flock together in “<a href="http://swarmcreativity.blogspot.com/2017/02/finding-fatherlanders-nerds-and.html" target="_blank">virtual tribes</a>”.<br />
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<b>4 Main Belief-Systems define alternative realities</b><br />
In an <a href="http://swarmcreativity.blogspot.com/2017/01/" target="_blank">earlier blogpost </a>I introduced a belief system based on digital virtual tribes which has now been extended to four categories:<br />
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<li><b>Fatherlanders</b> – like to maintain the status quo, they do not like change, and they very much distinguish between “us” and “them”. Not surprisingly, fatherlanders show the same characteristics as highly religious people. Usually their value system combines “god and fatherland”. On a side note, over the course of human history more people have been killed for “god and fatherland” than for anything else. </li>
<li><b>Nerds</b> – are believers in science and progress, looking for solutions to their problems from new insights in science and technology. At the same time, many nerds are also shrewd investors converting their technological savvy into personal fortunes, just look at Bill Gates, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk.</li>
<li><b>Treehuggers</b> – are environmentalists fighting for the protection of nature and the environment, against global warming, and against unfettered growth and robber capitalism.</li>
<li><b>Spiritualists</b> – believe in supernatural forces, and in the power of their own mind to achieve a higher level of awareness, mindfulness, and happiness.</li>
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A challenge to a deeply ingrained belief will only be accepted from an established leader in the same belief-realm. This means that if a Nobel-prize winning scientist would tell another person, another nerd with a similar personality and belief system that “the world has been created less than 10,000 years ago”, this would be far more credible to the nerd than if a fundamental Christian would say the same thing. On the other hand, fundamental Christians will accept the claim that the world was created less than 10,000 years ago as a fact, as it is supported by their spiritual leaders, while they don’t really trust science, speculating that many claims of science might be just a ploy to justify world domination.<br />
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As the picture above shows, the ethical values and personality characteristics define if somebody is a fatherlander, nerd, treehugger, or spiritualist. And if we know to what belief category (fatherlander, nerd, treehugger, or spiritualist) somebody belongs, we will know which rule somebody will apply to come to truth about how the world was created. A fatherlander, who usually is also highly religious, will take the book of Genesis in the bible at face value, and thus accept that the world has been created in seven days. A nerd will trust scientific cosmology and accept a creation date of the universe 4.53 billion years ago as truth. A treehugger might accept a creation date in the very distant past, but might show skepticism towards science and care more about how to keep nature intact, accepting global warming as truth. The spiritualist might similarly distrust cosmology, but will accept that some supernatural forces created the universe a long time ago, with these supernatural forces still ruling our behavior today.<br />
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<b>The Belief System Predicts Individual Behavior</b><br />
To predict how somebody will react, we thus will need the believe system of a person. If I know your personality and your ethical values, I will. know what is truth for you. The picture below shows how the four different tribal belief systems lead to four different truths about curing a Corona virus infection.<br />
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Knowing your virtual tribe we can predict what you will do if you fear you are down with the Coronavirus: if you will go buy Remdesivir, you are a nerd; if you will pray for healing, while maybe swallowing a few pills of Hydroxychloroquine, you are a fatherlander, if you will scour the web for herbal remedies – a Madagascan herb (artemisia annua) seems a current favorite – you are a fanatic treehugger, and if you muster the inner forces of your body through meditation to fight the virus you are a spiritualist.<br />
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<b>Can we Discover your Ethical Values and Personality?</b><br />
It would be great if we could put a magic bracelet on anybody, and then know what their truth is – this will also relieve their need to lie, as their magic bracelet will show their truth to the world anyway. Well, there is such a bracelet. Over the last four years, based on <a href="http://www.ickn.org/documents/IJODE%20Social%20Sensors5.pdf" target="_blank">prior work using sociometric badges</a>, we have developed the <a href="http://www.happimeter.org/" target="_blank">Happimeter</a>, which measures the body signals of an individual such as heartrate, movement through accelerometer, and speech patterns (no content) from sound, and location changes through the GPS. It works with smartwatches (the current version runs with Android Wear and Apple Watch) and will predict your personality characteristics and <a href="http://www.ickn.org/documents/Value%20Draft%20V5.pdf" target="_blank">ethical values</a>.<br />
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As second way to discover ethical values, personality, and belief system of an individual is through the words that one uses. We have shown that word usage in e-mails predicts <a href="http://www.ickn.org/documents/MoralsEmailR1_v2.pdf" target="_blank">ethical values</a>, <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042811024001" target="_blank">personality characteristics</a>, and <a href="http://www.ickn.org/documents/tribes_Enron_final.pdf" target="_blank">tribal belief system</a>.<br />
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This means that using AI and machine learning, the way how you talk, and the way how you move your body will predict whether you say the truth – that is, what you believe is the truth, and nothing but the truth!<br />
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Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-60585827892966970932020-05-16T13:49:00.000-07:002020-05-16T13:49:06.381-07:00Is the next Einstein an AI System?Technically, AI can now do many cognitive tasks much better than humans, molecular modeling is one of them, NLP and image recognition are among the most well-known. But will AI become truly creative? Or in other words, can AI predict <b>unknown</b> unknowns. We already know it is great in discovering and solving <b>known</b> unknowns?<br />
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Philosophically speaking the question is if the next Einstein will be an AI system. The answer is most likely yes. The saying is that humans are unbelievably complex. I have found that humans are extremely simple, always applying simple heuristics. The point is that we are not aware of these heuristics and come up with super complex models and explanations, leading at times to wild conspiracy theories. Mr.Trump is embodying this with his wild theories, ranging from vaccination theories to Obamagate, while his simple heuristic is “do what will most likely get me re-elected”, unimpeded by any ethical constraints and restrictions.<br />
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We just need to apply Occam’s razor “the simplest solution is most likely the right one”.<br />
<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iw7cepUAAAAJ&hl=en" target="_blank">Gerd Gigerenzer </a> has written a series of books, the most well known is “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Heuristics-Smart-Evolution-Cognition-dp-0195121562/dp/0195121562" target="_blank">Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart</a>”, where he explains that many complex problems can be much better solved with simple heuristics,<br />
In my own research over the last twenty years I have been trying to uncover as many of these really simple heuristics as possible. The <a href="https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/978-1-78714-112-420171004/full/html" target="_blank">honest signals of collaboration</a> are some of them, <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0268401218313057" target="_blank">digital virtual tribes</a> is another one.<br />
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Once we have found all of these simple heuristics, we will teach them to the AI system, which then can take over and be the next Einstein. But this is still a long process, as it is awfully hard to discover these simple heuristics.<br />
In the meantime I think we still need to try to obtain a deep understanding of each problem, to identify the underlying simple heuristic that solves it. In the case of Einstein himself, he was using his famous thought experiments to come up with simple and intuitive solutions to fiendishly complex problem that other physicists had been unable to crack. For instance, Einstein was famously riding an elevator in the patent office of Berne, when eureka struck him and he saw the principle of relativity, leading in the end to the simple equation E=m*c^2.<br />
Once this library of simple heuristics is large enough, they can be combined into the next Einstein.<br />
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When will we have it? I don’t know, I am not Einstein.<br />
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Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-60461452717237598292020-05-02T13:57:00.000-07:002020-05-03T10:18:06.198-07:00Social Networks Give Meaning in LifeThere are four main motivators that drive all our actions: money, power, glory and love, see e.g. <a href="https://swarmcreativity.blogspot.com/2017/09/why-hillary-clinton-was-not-elected.html">t</a><a href="https://swarmcreativity.blogspot.com/2017/09/why-hillary-clinton-was-not-elected.html" target="_blank">his previous post</a>, and <a href="https://swarmcreativity.blogspot.com/2011/01/to-be-better-manager-means-not-to-be.html" target="_blank">this</a> <a href="https://swarmcreativity.blogspot.com/2011/01/to-be-better-manager-means-not-to-be.html" target="_blank">post</a>.<br />
These motivations are all driven by social interaction in networks. So it does not come as a surprise that Social Network Analysis (SNA) has huge potential to measure and improve an individual’s and an organization’s money, power, glory, and love.<br />
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<b>Glory<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Oscar prediction<o:p></o:p></div>
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Developing Covid19 tests, drugs, and vaccine<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Money</b> – Through SNA, advertisers will find the prospective customers who are most willing to spend money to buy their product. Mining their social network data this way is how Facebook and Google make their billions.<br />
<b>Money</b> – Using social media information and other traces of human interaction allows algorithmic traders to make a lot of money by predicting the stock market. Most Wallstreet quants today are using some sort of social media tracking to improve their automated trading algorithms.<br />
<b>Power</b> –Twitter, Facebook and the other social media sites provide a perfect testing ground for politicians and election strategists to test campaigns to gain power by winning the next election. Cambridge Analytica popularized this type of SNA for the benefit of the Trump election campaign.<br />
<b>Glory</b> – Social media is teeming with “influencers” who are doing all they can to increase their glory by increasing the number of their followers. Analyzing what people say on Twitter and other social media sites also allows statisticians to predict who will win the next Oscar, or any sort of online election or voting.<br />
<b>Love</b> – Optimizing their organizational network enables companies and other organizations to improve their culture, collaboration, and creativity with the goal of creating an environment where people do not come to work because they are paid, but because they love working there. Optimizing their individual network behavior permits individuals to engage in more equal, respectful and rewarding relationships.<br />
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In this time of social distancing enforced by Covid-19, this means making the best use of social networking technology and online communication to increase personal happiness. To share my own example the picture below shows my happiness measured with our <a href="https://www.happimeter.org/" target="_blank">Happimeter</a> since the enforced stay-home order in mid-March. My happiness has plateaued on the highest level since I had to stay teleworking at home, as I had much more time to pursue my research interests and hobbies, while still being able to communicate with my colleagues, friends, and customers using zoom and other videoconferencing tools.<br />
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My personal challenge will be to maintain this high level of happiness once we will be able to travel and fly again. I suspect, however, that there will be no way around experiencing some travel pain along the way – no pain no gain!<br />
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-->Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-84725776465738955872020-04-20T13:07:00.002-07:002020-04-20T13:15:48.949-07:00About Bees, Sheep, and Leeches<b>Bees</b> are good for everyone. Not only are they producing honey which is widely loved and was the main sweetener for millennia, honey also has valuable medical properties. But more importantly, bees are absolutely essential as pollinators, pollinating up to 80% of all cultivated crop plants. Without bees there would be no apples, no cherries, no peaches, no nuts, and no herbs. Without bees, life as we know it would be impossible.<br />
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<b>Sheep</b> produce useful and less useful things. Their wool is great for keeping us warm in the winter, and if slaughtered their mutton is tasty. Their poop can be useful as fertilizer, but it can also get greatly in the way when we step into it. And if there are fruit trees on a pasture where sheep are grazing, they will chew up their bark and leaves, and kill the trees in no time.<br />
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<b>Leeches</b> are parasites, that attach their suckers to their prey animal, and feed on the blood of their host. In the front of their mouth they have three teeth, which they slice through the skin of the host. Once attached, they use a combination of mucus and suction to stay attached to the skin of their host, while consuming their blood meal. While leeches have been used for medical bloodletting at least for 2500 years, they carry parasites in their digestive system, and bacteria, viruses and other parasites from previous blood meals can survive within a leech for months and infect the next host.<br />
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<b>There are also two-legged bees, sheep, and leeches.</b><br />
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<b>Human bees</b> are people who derive their joy and meaning in life from creating new things. It seems there is a subgroup of the overall population that draws particular pleasure from creating new things and gaining new insights. <a href="https://drexel.edu/now/archive/2020/April/Creative-Insight-Triggers-Neural-Reward/" target="_blank">Researchers have found</a> that for some people, creative insights, the “aha moment” triggers the same neural reward as when we eat delicious food, have an orgasm, or consume addictive substances. In other words, some people experience creative insights as intrinsically rewarding. This explains the puzzle solvers, starving artists, underpaid researchers, and innovators tinkering with new ideas in their garages. Typical bees might be inventors, authors, painters, sculptors, researchers, and engineers. But obviously not everybody draws intrinsic satisfaction from gaining creative insights. There is a large(r) part of the population that hates change, likes to be told what to do, and would like to keep everything as safe and solid as it “has always been in the good old times”. Those are the sheep.<br />
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<b>Human sheep </b>like to aggregate in large herds, and being with other sheep like them. They might get their neural rewards from being together in large flocks with other sheep and by getting recognition from other members of their herd. Sheep follow others, are being shorn by others, and in the end might be slaughtered – by the leeches described below. Leeches are different from bees and sheep by simply caring about getting as much money and power as possible, and do whatever it takes to grab it. Those are the leeches.<br />
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<b>Human leeches</b> are the people that are trying to profit from others, by bending the rules to their own advantage. Their goal in life is to amass as much money and power as possible by shearing the wool of sheep, and slaughtering them. They also consume the honey of the bees and profit from their pollination. Hedge fund managers, M&A bankers, and venture capitalists would be archetypical examples.<br />
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In the current Covid-19 world, bees would be the researchers developing opensource blueprints for respirators, and working on developing new vaccines and antibody tests. The sheep in the Covid-19 world are sharing cooking recipes, Covid-19 diaries and baby pictures as coping strategies for surviving uncertainty while hoarding toilet paper and hand sanitizer. Leeches in the Covid-19 world might be selling face masks for 400 times actual costs, or Covid-19 miracle cures. Little leeches might tack the “Covid-19” label to their products, giving whatever they have to sell the “cool” Covid-19 spin.<br />
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Obviously, the categorization of a person as a bee, sheep, or leech is a huge oversimplification. While the doctors caring for Covid19 patients, or Ebola victims are certainly bees, I would not give that label to a beauty surgeon. And the CEO of a pharmaceutical company is walking a thin line between optimizing the profitability of a Covid-19 test and making it available at an affordable price. In reality the world is neither black nor white, but somewhere in the middle. Therefore, we all possess attributes of all three categories, and are sometimes bees, frequently sheep, and if we get the opportunity, we might even behave like leeches.<br />
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<b>Don’t be a leech! It’s ok to be a sheep, no harm done, but try to be a bee!</b><br />
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Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-56761713057074361742019-08-05T01:51:00.002-07:002019-08-05T01:51:39.879-07:00Does Measuring Emotions Increase Happiness?Thanks to <a href="https://www.mpg.de/307762/verhaltensbiologie-wikelski" target="_blank">Martin Wikelski </a>and his colleagues at Max Planck Institute and <a href="https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/en/collective-behaviour/" target="_blank">University of Konstanz</a> for inviting me to give a talk about "whether measuring emotions increases happiness"?<br />
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If you would like to hear the answer, and see how the "Social Compass" might help in achieving this goal, watch the talk <a href="https://streaming.uni-konstanz.de/neue-talks-und-events/measuring-human-emotions/" target="_blank">here</a>.Peter A. Gloorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335333374953572914noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738205812071262006.post-31480929236290592332019-04-06T18:38:00.000-07:002019-04-06T18:40:13.638-07:00Navigating Human Emotions with the “Social Compass”Navigating human emotions can be extremely difficult. Just ask politicians such as former US Vice President Joe Biden who was hit by a firestorm of protests by getting too touchy-feely with supporters, or US senator Elizabeth Warren who ran into unexpected criticism for claiming Native American ancestry. While trying to behave rationally, they become victims of their emotions.<o:p></o:p>
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In an <a href="https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/25-years-later-interview-linus-torvalds" target="_blank">interview Linus Torvalds said</a> “I absolutely detest modern "social media"—Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. It's a disease. It seems to encourage bad behavior.”…. “When you're not talking to somebody face to face, and you miss all the normal social cues, it's easy to miss humor and sarcasm”…”The whole "liking" and "sharing" model is just garbage. “ In our research we are developing a “Social Compass” that helps individuals navigate their emotional world, just like Google helps a person to navigate the relational world of facts and science. Just like Google Maps shows where somebody is in the physical world, where they can go, and where the bottlenecks and traffic jams are, the “Social Compass” helps individuals navigate the social landscape of their emotions and the emotions of others. It tells individuals how others see them, and what they can do to be happier, and more collaborative and productive. It gives an individual a “virtual mirror” of their own communication behavior, and shows them how others see them.
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The “Social Compass” is calculated based on an individual’s communication behavior, by analyzing the communication archives arising from the individual’s interaction with others (see picture below). <o:p></o:p>
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The “Social Compass” takes as input communication signals, and through machine learning and AI gives recommendations for more happiness, better collaboration and higher productivity. It analyzes body signals measured through smartwatches, organizational communication from E-Mail or chat like Slack or Skype, and online social media from Twitter, Reddit, or YouTube. <o:p></o:p>
From these three types of communication archives, it calculates the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Swarm-Leadership-Collective-Mind-Collaborative/dp/1787142019" target="_blank">seven honest signals of collaboration</a> (strong leadership, balanced contribution, rotating leadership, responsiveness, honest sentiment, shared context, social capital) and the emotions of the person (joy, sadness, fear, anger). These honest signals and emotions are used as input for machine learning, to calculate the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits" target="_blank">FFI personality characteristics</a> (openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeability, neuroticism), the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Basic_Human_Values" target="_blank">Schwartz ethical values</a> (openness - conservation, self-enhancement – self-transcendence) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_foundations_theory" target="_blank">moral foundations </a>(care, fairness, loyalty, authority, sanctity). <o:p></o:p>
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The Social Compass presents this information to the user in two ways. As a Virtual Mirror, it shows each person in an anonymized way how they are doing compared to their peers. In addition, it also gives users “social driving directions” similar to Google Maps.<o:p></o:p>
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The Virtual Mirror shows the seven honest signals of collaboration for each individual, calculated from e-mail or from body signals. It respects individual privacy, by only showing individual information to the individual and aggregating other people’s values to group averages. The picture below shows the <a href="http://swarmcreativity.blogspot.com/2017/09/e-mail-based-social-network-analysis-is.html" target="_blank">individual dashboard of the e-mail based Virtual Mirror,</a> computed from the e-mail archive of the individual.
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The picture below shows the comparison of the individual’s communication behavior with other team members with regards to the 7 honest signals of collaboration.<o:p></o:p>
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The picture below shows the scatter plot visualization for comparison of the different honest signals of the individual (dark dot) compared with all other individuals in the company. In this picture the contribution index (ci) is shown.<o:p></o:p>
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The Social Compass also allows an individual to track the location of their emotional experiences such as how happy the individual has been at a particular day, and where on the map that happiness was measured on that day. The picture below shows a screenshot of my Happimeter Android phone app on February 20, 2019. In addition, the social compass also shows which variables have influenced my happiness, and who has positively or negatively influenced it.<o:p></o:p>
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Finally, the same virtual mirroring information can also be shown on the <a href="http://www.happimeter.org/" target="_blank">Happimeter smartwatch</a>, this function is also used to improve the machine learning accuracy of the emotion prediction of the wearer of the smartwatch.<o:p></o:p>
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In addition to the virtual mirroring function, the Social Compass can also give recommendations to increase happiness and reduce stress of the user, based on the insights automatically generated by the honest signals of the user.<o:p></o:p>
The system might advise the user to take a walk or do a mindfulness exercise to reduce stress, or to talk with a person that has shown a positive influence. Alternatively it might tell the user to change the location, if the Social Compass finds that the current location has had a negative influence on the user.<o:p></o:p>
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