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Glossary

Some terms that I either made up or mistakenly believe that I made up. Also some terms that I’m pretty sure I did not make up.

• Acceptance vectors. possible directions that the group can go and the corresponding magnitudes of acceptance.
• Acceptance voting
• Awareness indicators
• Collective-player games
• Collective providence
• Coordination potential. like potential energy in physics. if coordination failure is a missed opportunity, then coordination potential is the opportunity.
• Creative compliance. compliance with a rule in a way that achieves an outcome that is different than the expected outcome.
• External coordinating factors. things like common languages, info beacons, standardization, metronomes, calendars, time zones, scripts, contracts, etc.
• Holarchical Group Improv. Organizational model where large groups pretend to be small groups so that they can use small group dynamics to spontaneously self-organize.
• Igloo Spiral Model
• Info beacons. Information broadcasting mechanisms accessible by everyone in a group. Example: randomness beacon.
• Leadership bottleneck. the constraints that leadership structures impose on the group, particularly the intelligence ceiling that constrains bottom-up collective intelligence of groups to the top-down individual intelligence of leaders.
• Meta-awareness handshake. when people establish mutual awareness of each others’ awareness of some given information as well as each others’ awareness of each others’ awareness of that information. IOW, establishing as common knowledge the fact that everyone in the group knows that everyone else in the group knows the information.
• Neutral empathy. Ability to sense what others feel without feeling it yourself. like the overlapping part of the venn diagram between theory of mind and empathy.
• Observation access. access to other people’s observations.
• Path of greatest acceptance. equivalent to path of least resistance
• Pick-a-lane decisions. decisions where it doesn’t matter what you choose, only that you choose.
• Reciprocal commitments
• Reciprocal integrity. generalized steelmanning. interpretting the words and actions of others in the most charitable way and reflecting their integrity back to them. noticing their integrity in the same way that you want others to notice your integrity.
• Symmetrical synergy. synergy in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and the parts are greater for being included in the whole. Both sides benefit.