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First heard from Miki Kashtan, on an Extinction Rebellion call:
Now I want to introduce the next aspect of process. This is a basic technology that is ingenious. It's called SYNANIM. Let's say you want to change a principle within XR. Then, because it's impossible to know who's going to be impacted by it, you put out a call, asking anyone who believes they'll be impacted or who has expertise about this, to sign up here. Let's say 2,000 people sign up. They're also asked to choose which time slot for participation. The program will randomly assign people to groups of six, based on time slot. You then get into an anonymous session. Then you're asked a series of questions. You answer the questions, then you see everyone's responses. And you're asked to choose one of them and improve on it, based on what you see from others. You're aiming to find something that represents your group of six when you don't know each other. Then, it goes through a second round ... there comes a point when you select the answer of the six that best represent the group. In the session, you have several questions, you do that with all of them. The system tracks two things about each individual, which correlates with the qualities of leaders: the number of times your response gets chosen, and the number of times what you selected was selected by others. The person whose score is the highest gets selected for the same layer. The same thing happens with the leaders of Round One. It continues like this until the end there is one group of five or six people, and they digest everything from everyone. It's unbreakable in terms of hierarchy, as it's based on interaction.