IDH VICTORIES & THE "LAST MANHATTAN PROJECT STANDING"
PRESS + AWARDS + RESEARCH + EDUCATION + CIVIC VICTORIES + SCALING = AMERICA WINS
AI ALIGNMENT / DISINFORMATION / FREE SPEECH / PRIVACY
THE IDH IS PHASE 3 OF A 20-YEAR "MANHATTAN PROJECT."
Teams of top world experts plus hundreds of students, lawyers, teachers, and artists.
working across religious, cultural, and political lines to correctly align technology,
try to stop civil war, and let our country
win the 21st century.
The last crew got the receipts.
Then our city blew up. Twice.
THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS FROM BOTH SIDES OF REALITY
VERIFICATION DOSSIER
WHAT THE AI SEES (FWIW) AND ANY HUMAN CAN TOO
- Same operating system for everything for 20 years.
- Already scaled 3X across disciplines, industries, and "both sides"
- We have AI in a catch-22: Heads we win, tails it loses.
20 years R & D = one holisitc meta-method for the whole mess
let's be perfectly clear: dollar for dollar & on the merits
IDH was likely the most successful fix AI, disinfo, college
initiative in history.
For the 3.5 years we were allowed to operate (2019-23) a handful of top experts & students lapped everyone in wartime condition (& under NDAs, research embargoes, & prohibitions on monetization).
Now (after 3 year), we're back, we have 20 years of receipts, & America wasted $500m on fake exeperts.
IDH BACKSTORY = DR M's STORY = BLACK MIRROR BANANAS
#1 one holistic "meta-method" for the whole mess
ai law, policy, and governance / disinformation / free speech / privacy
THIS IS A RAT'S NEST OF INTERCONNECTED CODE, CULTURE, AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.
IF YOU AREN'T FIXING IT CORRECTLY -- AND EVERYTHING AT ONCE -- YOU ARE ACTUALLY ONLY MAKING IT WORSE.
research receipts + greatest hits
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#2 DEAD NEUTRAL, BIPARTISAN, & CONSTITUTIONAL
The upside of using a 2,000-year-old method already in the DNA of the Constitution and our civic republic
And the academics agreed was a neutral, interdisciplinary, multi-industry solution 20 years ago.
#3 TEACHABLE TO ANYONE: K-CEO + ALL CITIZENS
ABLE TO CONNECT CLASSROOMS, COLLEGES, AND CITIZENS ACROSS THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
This is probably where we say we scaled this via homework.
#4 SCALABLE and USABLE ACROSS ALL INDUSTRIES and DISCIPLINES
GOVERNANCE / SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE / EDUCATION PLATFORMS / CIVIC AND INDUSTRY NETWORKS
Again, the upside of the method already agreed to plus 20 years to figure out multi-industry cross-functional "showrunning."
This is not our first rodeo. The IDH was build #3.
#5 ABLE TO REUNITE DIVIDED AMERICANS
A STORY EVERYONE CAN GET BEHIND: "IMPOSSIBLE" BI-PARTISAN + MULTI-FAITH COALITIONS and CIVIL CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Every IDH initiative "bursts the bubble" by bringing together "impossible" coalitions of humans who have been programmed to hate each other
Runner-Up: Next Team Challenge Award
(NPR: Gifted time from a Marketplace producer).
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