An Instant Knowledge Communication System

Arctalk.

Conversation Internet

Chris Hollister
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Summary. A prompt conversation internet protocol would enable anyone with an internet connection to exchange knowledge with anyone else with without first deliberately converting it into information.

Of course, all knowledge is converted from engrams to exograms.

A prompt conversation internet protocol would enable anyone with an internet connection to talk via the internet without using the Web. So anyone can exchange knowledge without first converting it into information.

Arctalk is a conceptual idea to accelerate the internet from an information exchange to a knowledge exchange. To achieve this a “Conversation Internet” protocol would be required for anyone with an internet connection to communicate with anyone else online without creating information or interrupting. No offline equivalent exists as a comparison. Open Communication protocols such as the analog telephone, digital VOIP and scheduling meetings provide part of the solution. But they require all parties to be constantly available and signaling. We propose a solution to this use of a prompt that act as a conversation container. The prompt’s core parameters are a Topic, Terms & Rights. The prompt acts a gateway where any knowledge seeker who accepts the prompts requirements can initiate a conversation with the holder without playing phone tag or scheduling. This is called Arcing a conversation. Each conversation contains moments that can be independently ‘Minted’ by each participant, whether they speak or not. These minted moments can then serve as the foundation for new prompts, initiating new knowledge communication as conversation, information or open communication. This ‘missing internet’ system is temporarily referred to as The Conversation Internet.

Intro

What is needed is a protocol that generates a ‘seemingly instant’ conversation for exchanging knowledge without coordinating or interrupting the recipient. Also, each communicator should not be required to manage their own communication as information. It should be offloaded to a conversation controller.

This paper describes the Arctalk system and the cocojack which is a conversation controller. The coco is based on the timeless model of a secretary. A coco enables each human to offload communication management from engrams to exograms. Before The Web.

The Internet (née Arpanet) was conceived for the US Department of Defense in the 1960s as a telephone line alternative to communicate knowledge in times of war. Internet usage was catapulted with it’s 2nd major evolution, The World Wide Web. The Web was conceived for CERN in the 1980s as a paper and pencil alternative for keeping track of “large projects”.

Today, we dream of becoming a space-faring civilization. We dream of unlimited clean energy. We dream of self-driving transportation. We Think Big. We need a knowledge communication system that will help accelerate these achievements. The velocity of human achievement depends on the knowledge liberation.

Knowledge is the fuel that powers these (and other) great human achievements. Essential to success is our ability to create new knowledge through conjecture & criticism. To leverage a this knowledge we must be able to communicate it. The faster we can move through this create⇄communicate process, the faster we can turn visions of the future into our reality.

Artificially created knowledge will play a large role. Yet this intelligence is dependent on knowledge humans explicitly create/store online or capturing actions we take (or don’t) through our use of digitally connected devices.

“Your gut is the most sophisticated machine learning model ever created. It’s the best supercomputer we’ve got. Billions of them on the planet. They’ve been trained over tens of thousands of years with tons of training data. The people who wrote the code, have been tweaking the code for you and you can now use it. We discount it. Instead we should leverage it.”

Anonymous

Natural

Artificial

Knowledge

New knowledge is created through a process of conjecture coupled with criticism that seeks a “good explanation”. Mostly stored in natural supercomputers (ie. in human head). This process is being done everyday in roughly 8 billion people on the planet. Sometimes this knowledge is converted to information and stored artificially (ie. in a database).

There are four main transfers of this knowledge:

Human to Human
Human to Artificial
Artificial to Human
Artificial to Artificial

Communication

Meanwhile, we humans evolved to communicate in 3 related phases:

Simulation (Mimetic) ~ birth
Conversation (Mythic) ~ 12 months
Information (Symbolic) ~ 24 months

liberating natural knowledge trapped offline may provide

We propose a 3rd internet architecture that enables us to tackle humanity’s largest opportunities without having to create information. It is outlined it here.

Without technology, humans primarily share knowledge via conversation.

Online we share knowledge via information.

So most natural knowledge (tacit) is trapped offline.

In the analog library model:

Create: a knowledge holder created a book
Store: The book is stored at centralized location. Catalogued by section, author &
Access: A recipient can search/browse system the library to find/discover this book.

The knowledge was passed from it’s holder to recipient once read!

Technology

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The internet

For The Web model, it is like a digital library:

a knowledge holder creates information
it is stored on a database
the knowledge search/browse the database to find/discover.

The knowledge is passed from it’s holder to recipient once consumed!

For The Web model, it is like a digital library:

a knowledge holder creates information
it is stored on a database
the knowledge search/browse the database to find/discover.

The knowledge is passed from it’s holder to recipient once consumed!

A Knowledge gap

Elon wants to go to Mars. He does a web search and finds a scientific paper written by David on quantum computing for reusable rockets. Elon reads it in one night. Then realizes the paper was written 2 years ago.

Since then, David has conducted 56 experiments, made 3 breakthroughs and has conjectured 1 new big idea. But he hasn’t recorded this information and made it accessible on the web.

Elon doesn’t know David’s progress. David doesn’t know Elon’s dream.

This is The Knowledge Gap.

1a. Ahoy

A conversation prompt.

Since the telephone, conversations are initiated by one party and received by another. If the receiving party was not available or not interested the initiator would not be connected. Then a game of ‘phone tag’ may ensue. Alternatively, a conversation would be scheduled by trading messages back-and-forth.

The initiator aka (the caller) would have a specific topic they want to discuss with the receiver. Yet this was rarely known ahead of time. In the last 10 years with the rise of text messaging it is become most common to schedule calls via text message instead of answering incoming calls.

1b. Seek

A conversation locator.

results

Seek is the protocol to query conversation prompts. For example,

Seek can be used in a myriad of ways.

Find
Discover: Who knows about a specific topic but has not yet created information on it.
Connect: The best way to speak with a specific person.

2. Arc

A conversation container.

Arc is a process to converse instantly without phone tag, scheduling or text tennis. The protocols assumes if both parties (or more) meet the criteria then a conversation can be instantly arc'd.

3. Jack Mint

A conversation converter.

In every conversation where knowledge is exchanged. This knowledge is an asset. Yet most is lost. This is because today people consider only the downsides and there is currently limited upside.

+ CoCo

"Conversation Controller".

Lastly we need a simple way to control all communication. We call this unique DNS-based naming system a communication controller or 'coco' for short.

Lastly we need a simple way to control all communication. We call this unique url a communication controller or 'coco' for short.

Recap

Arctalk, a Prompt Conversation Internet Protocol.

We’ve outlined a system for internet conversations that enable knowledge exchange without coordinating with or interrupting the recipient.

The internet was originally conceived as a way to communicate knowledge between networks and devices as information. The 2nd internet revolution happened in the 1990’s with the conception of the World Wide Web¹. It was originally conceived as a scalable way to communicate knowledge as information within CERN for important projects. We believe The Jack is the 3rd internet revolution.

This plan is about turning the internet from an information repository into a knowledge exchange. To achieve this, the internet must be a talk-first experience.

the next evolution of knowledge sharing

Elon wants to go to Mars. He does a web search and finds a scientific paper written by David on potential for reusable rockets. Elon reads it in one night. Then realizes the paper was written 2 years ago.