I will apply for the Global Talent visa. Before that, I should contact different people and organizations. This is a multidisciplinary project and involves many organizations. First I’ll contact the Guardian and discuss the idea mentioned yesterday for a test scheme on ways the community can evolve an article. This requires collaboration with AI specialists. So I’ll contact people in that field too. Mustafa Suleyman is of course among the people I’ll contact with. Then will send an email to an economics professor in Oxford and discuss the economic aspect of the project. Read Jean-Paul Carvalho’s profile and I think he is a suitable person to contact. Then it’s important to contact design and music colleges because the project will not be like chatGPT averaging numerous inputs. There are more elements to it than simply producing a summation text.
Meanwhile, I’ll work on the math/physics articles too. In the morning I’ll continue working on the articles and spend afternoons communicating with people in different areas and disciplines.
UPDATE 1:
It’s clear that collaboration with the Guardian/Observer should not imply that the project belongs to any specific party or political spectrum. The aim is to gradually expand the project so it includes more and more institutions.
Writing an article is similar to writing a code. A programmer initially writes a crude sketch of the overall program and then works on the details. A writer does the same. He/she draws a map of the article. For example, simply speaking, they decide there are two main arguments to the story. A, B, and C support argument 1 and D and E support argument 2. Then A, B, C, D and E are developed (for example A1 and A2 construct element A and so on). So in a sense, a writer draws a map of the article. Not all steps might be written down nevertheless the process of writing an article resembles the one described above.
In a conventional article, a writer tries to make sure the final output is complete and coherent. All elements of the story have been polished and worked out thoroughly. In contrast, in an interactive article, the writer intentionally includes incomplete elements and empty boxes. These elements specify the possible trajectory of the evolution of the article. So in some ways the writer, very roughly, designs the evolution path. The same holds for users who add inputs. They too add incomplete elements as a nudge for other users indicating in which direction the evolution should take place.
At first, only a few interactive articles should be written. This is an experiment to see how things work in this setting. The aim of these types of articles is to develop a type of consensus mechanism for ideas, and therefore should eventually reach some sort of conclusion. The next phases of the project will involve more practical approaches to tackle the problems discussed in the article.
UPDATE 2:
This should be a real game. It means some companies fund the project (as a type of advertisement) so that users get paid for influential contributions. So users compete with each other to push the article toward their intended evolution path.
UPDATE 3:
It’s unlikely that isolated inputs make a huge difference in the overall evolution path. The same is true in nature, a sequence of mutations and genes make an observable difference. So a minimal forum platform should be developed so that users can team up and discuss ideas before they insert their input. So this is a semi-text-based game and incorporates researchers from various disciplines (social sciences, biology, creative fields, etc).
UPDATE 4:
As I said it’s important that the project is politically independent. I think the organizations and people I mentioned before don’t contradict that aim. Anyway, I think the best option for me is to apply in the tech branch but I will first contact a music professor I knew some years ago and discuss the project with him. Then start the project and collaborate with different people and organizations before entering the UK. When the project demonstrates tangible progression then I can actually apply for the visa. But, like any other project, one of the first steps is to find sponsors, because apparently, I cannot enter for a while and I should travel to different countries for some months. If the project starts I can meet and collaborate with people in different countries. I’m leaving Turkey (but I may be back), but if the project starts I can collaborate with people living in UAE for as long as I stay there. So I think the first step for me is to present the project and contact my previous teacher as the first point of contact.
The other option is to complete the math article and apply for the research visa. I will do both concurrently.
UPDATE 5:
This project tries to change journalism for good and starts a new path in this area, so it’s important to stick to the initial plan which includes the Guardian.