Plurality in Japan - NISHIO Hirokazu's Scrapbox (Auto-translated from Japanese)

(concept) Connecting to the Japanese context will help Japanese people better understand Plurality, and it will also provide an opportunity for people around the world to gain new insights from Plurality. Many still find Plurality difficult to understand. I believe that increasing layers of understanding through descriptions from diverse perspectives, connections with various examples, and parallel rephrasing is beneficial.

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story outline draft

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Asynchronous knowledge network building via Wiki

Asynchronous knowledge network building through Wiki

Announcement of Planned Japanese Publication

short announcement of planned Japanese version publication(1 page)

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The English version was released on 5/20.

Written by Audrey and Glenn and the community

Japanese version is under preparation, to be published by the end of this year.

In Japan, a community communicating in Japanese facilitated in a public forum using a wiki system, 44 participants.

The book has already had a major impact on Japanese society.

The English version was released on May 20th.

It was written by Audrey, Glen, and the ⿻Plurality community.

The Japanese version is in progress and is scheduled to be published within the year.

In Japan, a community communicating in Japanese on a public forum using a Wiki system, with 44 participants.

This book has already had a significant impact on Japanese society...

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broad listening in the Tokyo gubernatorial election

anno2024

Broad listening is a concept introduced in this book. In Japan, Takahiro Yasuno, a candidate in the recent 7/7 Tokyo gubernatorial election, has made broad listening a part of his manifesto.

Broad listening is a concept introduced in this book. In Japan, ANNO Takahiro, a candidate in the recent 7/7 Tokyo gubernatorial election, has made broad listening a part of his manifesto.

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ANNO Takahiro Manifesto p.81

High-speed reflection of the will of the people

Instead of "broadcast," we should use "broad listening."

Broadcast: One voice for many

Existing Request for Opinions

Puncture on the receiving end

Too much information

Broad Listening: Collecting Many Voices Well

Broadlistening: Collecting Many Voices Well

Using technology to update not only "outgoing" but also "incoming

Using technology to update not only "outgoing" but also "incoming"

Source: "From the subjectivity of one to the subjectivity of many, not subjectivity or objectivity" Yasukazu Nishio This work is marked with 0 1.0 (This figure is from CCO license)

Source: "From the subjectivity of one to the subjectivity of many, not subjectivity or objectivity" NISHIO Hirokazu (2023) This illustration is CCO licensed

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We collected publicly available quote posts in response to Anno's posts on X (Twitter), used the Perspective API to exclude offensive comments, got 1,191 posts. We use an OSS tool "Talk to the City" by AI Objectives Institute to create this visualization.

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p.86

This is a visualization of the proceedings of the Metropolitan Council.

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broadlistening

I love this concept.

It is an augmentation of human cognitive abilities.

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Changes in organizational structure brought about by LLM

This illustration of broad listening derives from "Changes in organizational structure by LLM"

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managerial thinking

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hierarchical organization structure

necessitated by an increase in the size of the organization beyond human cognitive capacity.

Hierarchical organizational structures were necessitated by an increase in the size of the organization beyond human cognitive capacity.

LLM will decrease this necessities.

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Broad Listening is Important in Japan, Where Air Rules

Cultures of Japanese Organization

Erin Meyer found that Japan is a hierarchical, consensus-oriented culture of extremes.

Erin Meyer's research shows that Japan is a hierarchical, consensus-oriented culture of extremes.

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To Lead Across Cultures, Focus on Hierarchy and Decision Making

from Words as Public Goods

Erin Meyer's research shows that Japan is a hierarchical but consensus-oriented culture.

Japanese culture is different from that of many countries around the world. Mutual understanding of each other's cultures would be beneficial in building a new society.

Vulcan belief that beauty, growth, progress -- all result from the union of the unlike.

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Broad Listening is Important in Japan, Where Air Rules

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Avoids Confrontation

Anonymity

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The majority of Japanese people do not want to express their opinions using their real names.

All Japanese speakers at international conferences are outliers of Japanese culture.

Leaders must listen broadly to the anonymous voices of those in conflict (listen broadly).

Leaders of Japanese organization must listen broadly to the anonymous voices of those in conflict.

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KJ Method to make collective wisdom

1: Jiro Kawakita's idea of "not fitting into known groups,"

Jiro Kawakita's KJ method was developed in Japan as a way to gather public knowledge.

The KJ Method (also known as Affinity Diagram or Affinity Mapping) developed by KAWAKITA Jiro is a way to gather collective wisdom that was developed in Japan.

The KJ Method is a technique for generating collective intelligence from large amounts of descriptive data.

The KJ Method (also known as Affinity Diagram or Affinity Mapping)

developed by KAWAKITA Jiro in Japan is a way

to make collective wisdom from large amounts of descriptive data

Also known as affinity map, but there appears to be a major misunderstanding in translating and exporting the concept.

But there appears to be a major misunderstanding in translating and exporting the concept.

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Jiro Kawakita and Broad Listening

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Jiro Kawakita(1967)

Good: Democratic / Bad: Autocratic

Even a distant monkey fits naturally

Even a distant monkey that could not join a group naturally merges into the group.

Theme

It is totally unwise to go from a large division to a small division. [You must always go from small to large. This is one of the decisive problems of this method (see Figure 7)....

In his mind, he has an arbitrary principle of grouping, such as, "In my opinion, it is correct to divide the contents of this many paper materials into three major categories: market research, quality control, and labor management. The company simply applies this dogmatic classification scheme and fits paper scraps of data into the ready-made framework. In this way, the conceptual significance of the KJ method is completely lost.

way of thinking p.77

It is completely wrong to move from broad categories to finer ones. We must always proceed from finer categories to broader ones. This is one of the critical issues with this method. ...

This is because in your mind, you already have a preconceived notion about how to categorize the pieces of information, such as "According to my understanding, it is correct to broadly categorize these pieces of paper into market research, quality control, and labor management." You are merely applying this arbitrary classification framework and sorting the pieces of information into these preconceived categories. This completely nullifies the creative significance of the KJ Method.

The KJ method's conceptual significance is completely lost if you just apply the grouping principles you have in your mind and simply sift and fit paper scraps into the ready-made wak. (Nishio summary)

Merely applying the existing principles of grouping in your mind and sorting the pieces of information into these ready-made frameworks completely nullifies the creative significance of the KJ Method.

We must let go of existing frameworks.

"ready-made grouping frameworks"

Group boundaries created by preconceived notions must be broken.

We must break down the boundaries of groups created by preconceptions.

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Ken Suzuki's idea of "NAMERAKA(smooth)" boundary blurring,

Let's make the world not flat, not step, but NAMERAKA(smooth)!

FLAT

homogeneous

homogeneous / singular

STEP

Differences.

dividing into parts

differences / divided into parts

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smooth boundary without division

Not to make it uniform, but to eliminate fragmentation and smooth the boundaries.

We should not to make world homogeneous to resolve division. We should make the boundaries NAMERAKA(smooth).

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Augmenting people's cognitive abilities smoothes boundaries.

Augmenting human cognitive abilities smoothes boundaries.

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I think this is what we need to do to work together across the divide.

this is what we need to do to work together across the divide

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