NUSID/SI

Collective Intelligence Architecture (2014)

New Universal System of Interactive Data / Social Interaction

A theoretical model of data engineering and human interaction conceived long before terms like DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations), Liquid Democracy or Knowledge Graphs became popular.

Structural Vision

We continuously talk about problems: peak everything, pollution, climate change, overpopulation, bubbles... In contrast, very few of the theoretical solutions point to resolving the structural root of it all: how we interact with each other, how we process knowledge, and how we use this data for decision making.

NUSID/SI was not a political manifesto, but a data architecture problem. The challenge was to define an integrated and self-regulated database where knowledge was structured, avoiding noise, redundancy, and empowering flows of knowledge delegation and decision-making towards the users of each field (a delegation and evaluation system that avoided the cognitive dissonance of traditional social networks).

Data and Network Architecture

Multiple layers: Unlike a commercial recommendation algorithm, the user is not located in a single "feed," but fragmented into different layers of authority based on their level of knowledge or emotional distance. Generalized reading was accessible, but writing was restricted to levels of expertise and horizontal validation.

Without a decision center: There was no centralized control; it would function through multiple autonomous sub-units interacting by delegation and validated in a distributed manner as an intelligent entity.

One Truth / Multiple Layers: The algorithmic core would ensure that a "single reference" (for example: a technical problem, a concept) appeared only once, avoiding duplications in the system, but endowed with depth in "multi-layers" of understanding depending on who reads it.

Recovered Archive: The Manifesto (2015)

Original fragments of the informative text that defined the system's imaginary for the first time as a narrative manifesto under the title "Plan A?":

Imagine an integrated database in a social network, where associations and contents were filtered through algorithms and users who validated, quantified, and indexed them correctly without redundancies, spam, trolls, and derivatives... a social/informative architecture that, among other things, had implicit mechanisms to channel user interactions, correctly guiding the flows of knowledge delegation and decision-making... The user would be located at various points, i.e., in different groups at different "levels"... points that would partly determine their information flows and knowledge delegations... different groups would have different structures, filters, and ways of interacting... and the user with their "actions" would locate and be located, being part of the system's control. [...] In the end, each reference would have a "single" definition with different layers of understanding... servers for access security and for alphanumeric data, delegating images and videos to the cloud... the algorithms would run with redistributed computing... For the first time, we have the appropriate technology to create a functional collective intelligence, tools that will allow us to alleviate the defects of our evolutionary heritage... only the hardest part is missing: a human group to create the architecture/software to make it possible. Plan A?... we had better start one soon, knowing what is coming... because in the long run, no individual or local Plan B is feasible if we do not collectively create a minimum of Plan A...

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