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draftKnowledge-OS™ Process Description... to develop authoritative domains based on competition, collaboration and explicit rewards.The ProblemIndividuals are generally interested in defining and rewarding ourselves first, above considerations of what might be optimal for larger societies. WWW pages are still mostly personal or corporate views, and while simultaneous global update is possible, the paradigm of paper publishing - based on intensive pre-publication efforts culminating in approval and then distribution of unchanging documents - still prevails. In part, this is because the software commonly used for collaborative work lacks important features needed to motivate individuals to augment the work of others and build inclusive works. The key features are annotatability, priced links, accounting for credits and debits, and process to support the merger of corrections and improvements into base documents. Once a general framework is widely adopted to motivate the collection of data, information and knowledge, the building of intelligent systems can begin in earnest. These will schedule and guide us in our daily lives, opening to humanity a world of cooperative effort and synchronicity perhaps unparalleled since the building of the pyramids. An increasingly omnipresent and omniscient network containing models of ourselves could also be used to enslave people, and will be, unless we learn to manage our egotisms. General Framework to Motivate the Collection of KnowledgeCommunities of practice/interest need knowledge economies based on the currency of their domains, whether professional fees, academic credit, or goodwill. Whether reading a document, watching video or listening to audio, users should be able to augment the piece and even earn a living thereby. A basic annotation capability is needed first, whereby one is able to indicate a context, assign a specific annotation type (such as question, disputation, re-statement of the context, or simple corroboration), create content, and finally suggest an appropriate price or credit to be charged to readers (viewers). Reader feedback is essential to establish the subsequent positioning and value of the new piece. It should be specific about both accuracy and relevance. The action may, at the same time, acknowledge the debt1, which will aggregated and normalized by means of periodic adjustments to prevent free-riding or over-payment. The reported values will be used to find cohorts and subsequently personalize the view of pieces and selections within them, based on usage patterns comprising explicit feedback from other members of the cohorts. Credits will flow to the piece owners through corporations operating as outwardly (e.g. publicly) accountable Internet hosting services and publishing houses as they are transformed into bona fide data transporters. Such credits may be drawn from an account funded by the user or his employer (e.g. subscription, membership, tuition), or created by a right, such as the right to vote. Cash payments will often be the best way to compensate substantive contributions, particularly where knowledge work is already highly paid. Fees will be deducted from the payments to cover excess costs for arbitrating and prosecuting disputes over illicit copying. A transaction cost will also be needed to discourage reputation inflation by circular purchasing, a covert form of advertising. Credits may be paid out, kept on the books as a debt or converted to stock in the piece. Brand new pieces will have a sole owner/manager/creator but when annotations are included, the piece manager will negotiate a stock swap. Using the cash flow from the clickstream as a basis, this may be done automatically. Obviously, investors may also commission pieces just as publishers now make advances. Where the credits are cash, the better hosting services will be bonded and provide banking services. Knowledge-OS™ will also enable automatic market making in the piece shares and facilitate governance of the lightweight virtual corporations underpinning every piece, such as the election of editor/manager(s) by the shareholders. Major for-profit and non-profit entities with various levels of public accountability will act as holding companies for the pieces' virtual corporations, which will be referenced both through keystone pieces of larger domains and syntactic/semantic indexing. The holding companies will be able to acquire copyrighted "seed" content, employ editors, offer distribution licenses, and sell pieces. Where they are concerned with creating and ensuring for the public good, these conglomerates must be completely accountable to a governing bodies by means of audit trails managed by their transport providers, or by the provisions in Knowledge-OS™ to ensure data integrity and juridic verifiability. 1. Prices or credits can be displayed against a two-dimensional background with relevance on the y axis and probability(true) on the x axis. The standard graphic will be a spectrum with red on the left, violet on the right and brightness determined by the y value. Hence there will be a black band at the bottom where the value is close to zero, or a black band in the middle if negative values are allowed, which would permit readers to charge for misleading or erroneous assertions. Mousing within the graphic then displays a continuously computed value using an adjustable polynomial function. Simple clicking accepts the computed price while alternate clicking (e.g. right-click) lets the user change the value at that point, adjusting the function parameters for subsequent evaluators. Optional value reporting mechanisms (e.g. using haptic I/O and morphing based on time, such as the length of time spent examining the piece) may be developed using up to four dimensions.
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