#intuitionday

Why we need intuition apps today
#intuitionday

A number of real-world problems exist because it’s not possible to validate, evidence, prove or even simply show what we believe — often know — to be true.

These problems destroy trust in institutions, amongst communities, within families and in professional relationships of all kinds.

Problems we have identified

Outcomes of these processes include:

fake news
conspiracy theories
international conflicts
the undermining of legitimate governments
disinformation over decades targeted at specific organisations, regions, countries, localities, and individual citizens, cloaked always in respectability
broken careers
broken lives
unreported crimes: fraud, rape, abuse between partners and amongst families
unreportable and unknown crimes: gaslighting, neocrimes, and loopholes

Current solutions which solve some of the problems we see

Examples include:

local, national and investigative journalism whose aim is to engage with all sociocultural actors, give them a voice, and encourage political debate which might lead to Peter Levine’s definition of a Good Democracy
well-funded local, national and regional state provision, where purposeful politics and socioeconomic engagement are the tools and wider cultures (see the Peter Levine link)
a structured and longitudinally agreed upon scoping and delivery of strategies designed to create better and more inclusive societies (social engineering, though this probably will raise hackles as a term)
technology designed and delivered by the people who need such solutions, where such technology has the goal of making all citizens’ lives better step-by-step, and not to enrich periodically someone from outside: “nothing about us, without us”

Problems we see with current solutions

The solutions above are solutions, where they exist. Russia’s belligerence in respect of Ukraine, however, is just the most obvious example — awfully so — of how powerful individuals and organisations, sometimes even nation-states, sometimes just outliers of the same, may stealthily yet firmly ensure that none of the above solutions have the time or space to arise in effective enough ways.

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Justification for making today
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There exist in 21st century societies many spaces of communication and action which allow individuals and their organisations, both apparently legal and manifestly not, to create the situations which deliberately deliver the problems identified:

when a detective interrogates a suspect, knows practically for sure the person is not telling the truth, knows this because of a “sixth sense”, and yet has to wait months, maybe years, for the validation process to function as it must …
when someone in power — maybe in public discourse, maybe behind the all-too-closed doors of a relationship — abuses this power over years, perhaps decades … and nothing is ever done … because it’s a “matter of opinion” …
when the sovereign right of a country to reasonably conduct its own affairs is taken over by powerful and militaristic interests from within or without … maybe over such a long time that no one cares to show they’re noticing …
when public debate descends into “he said, she said”… and balance in the media means giving everyone a minute, whether what they say is possible to evidence … or not …
when a person is accused of having a certain illness which affects their mental capacity and the medical profession is no longer obliged to abide by the Hippocratic Oath …
when a government minister accepts the view of a “scientist” (they really are one, too) who, it turns out later, was funded directly by an interest group …
ultimately, when common sense is uncommon …

The justification for delivering on a range of intuition applications today is simply:

Add up, now, the number of times you knew something to be true and had to run away.
Add up, now, the number of times you watched another person’s life being destroyed and you did nothing … because the truth was not communicable to the relevant authorities. And you had to run away.
Add up, now, the number of times someone refused to help you when you most needed it, because you couldn’t prove to them what you understand to be the truth. And, actually, you couldn’t blame them … when they had to run away.

Now, add up how exactly you’d feel if 1, 2, and 3 had never happened.

The two solutions we want to deliver within one year

1. Law-enforcement and national security hunch-validation applications — always where “secrecy positive and total surveillance-compliant” software architectures were developed first: eliminate procedural waste from criminal justice and security processes, and begin to upskill and enhance existing capability in operational “thinking without thinking”.

2. Crime victim, crime witness and whistleblower intuition-validation applications — always using similarly “secrecy positive and total surveillance-compliant” software architectures: dismantle fake news and other corrosive discourses in Western and associated democracies; eliminate illegitimate mafia-like behaviours (for example, the use of symbolic language to exert power without trace) currently operating within a multitude of different groupings and power structures.

The one solution we want to deliver within three years

1. A technological return to a non-conformist thinking-space equivalent to the privacy and secrecy potential of existent pencil and paper solutions, but allowing for a total connectivity to the outside world: a Putin & Co “basher” to deliver stratospheric levels of geopolitical counter-strategic thought processes (the predictable delivery of unpredictable thinking) — but now, available to more good actors for the foreseeable decades such creative criminals already think in.