From: jimruttshow8596
Game B, a framework for a possible better future, is characterized by the spontaneous emergence and self-organization of communities and collaborative efforts [00:17:31]. This phenomenon is distinct from traditional, top-down approaches to societal organization.
Emergence and Distributed Cognition
The development of Game B has seen a “totally spontaneous emergence of people gathering around and talking about and sort of co-discovering and co-creating” its principles [00:17:31]. This process involves:
- Emergent Distributed Cognition This refers to a group of individuals who are “not coordinated formally and don’t have any top-down structure that drives their coordination” yet “are able to actually collaborate” and produce valuable outcomes [00:18:40].
- Self-Organizing Initiatives Groups and meetups are beginning to self-organize, without needing guidance from a central authority [00:19:01] [00:19:56]. This allows individuals to find meaningful participation on their own terms [00:20:15].
Principles of Game B Communities
Key principles underpin the emergence of digital community structures and self-organizing nature of Game B:
- Meta Protocol for Hyper Collaboration Game B is described as a meta protocol for hyper collaboration, implying that everyone is “playing game B at level zero,” meaning the potential for collaboration is always present and accessible to those who choose to engage [00:20:49] [00:21:51].
- Non-Hierarchical and Network-Oriented The “deep principles” for Game B are that it should be “non hierarchical network oriented and long-term metastable,” fostering its self-booting and self-growing aspects [00:24:22].
- Synchronicity and Problem-Solving Hyper-collaboration allows for a form of synchronicity where individuals or groups, even those geographically distant, work on complementary problems without direct knowledge of each other. The meta-protocol facilitates connection when their needs align [00:22:10]. This works because participants are focused on real problems and communicate with integrity, supporting aligned efforts [00:23:27].
Capacity for Collective Intelligence and Specialization
Game B aims to cultivate a “collective intelligence” capable of exploring the adjacent possible through creative collaboration [00:30:21] [00:30:46]. This fosters specialization and division of labor while maintaining the integrity of the whole, a significant advantage over systems that cannot manage such distinctness [01:39:15].
Transitioning to Game B Communities
The transition to Game B involves several key aspects:
Finding the Others
This initial phase involves identifying and connecting with individuals who are also interested in or already practicing Game B principles, often through digital platforms like Twitter and Facebook [00:50:29].
Personal Transformation
Individuals must prepare themselves by making changes in their own lives to be “Game B ready” [00:51:00]. This includes:
- Transparent Agentic Mind Developing the capacity to be aware of and shift between different axiomatic assumptions based on the context [00:52:03].
- Orienting by Meaningfulness Making choices based on what feels genuinely meaningful rather than external pressures or ideologies [00:52:30]. This involves reconnecting with one’s own sense of meaning and aligning choices with held values [00:53:57].
- Financial Independence Detaching from status-oriented consumerism can lead to less financial dependency and greater freedom, supporting a Game B lifestyle [00:56:12] [00:56:39].
Experimenting with Piece Parts
Since Game B is a complex, emergent phenomenon, individuals and groups must actively experiment with various components required for its holistic functioning [01:07:37]. This includes:
- Parenting Embracing a symmetrical approach where parents and children are seen as equal souls, with parents supporting the child’s self-development rather than imposing knowledge [01:10:51]. Children also contribute to the parent’s growth and learning [01:12:19].
- Making a Living (Vocation) Aligning one’s work with a “vocation” or “calling,” that which one is uniquely capable of doing with exquisite care and capacity, and which also lights up one’s sense of meaningfulness [01:13:04]. This “Right Livelihood” is integrated with supporting the larger Game B project [01:14:10].
- Conviviality Meaning “living together,” conviviality is the conscious design of culture (including rituals, tools, and events) that fully supports personal and relational growth [01:15:07] [01:15:50]. It emphasizes face-to-face interaction and taking relationship as sacred, realizing it in the ordinary [01:16:23] [01:17:04].
- Sense-Making and Action-Taking The Rally Point Alpha Facebook group focuses on sense-making [01:19:14]. This sense-making must lead to effective action-taking [01:19:37]. When confronted with discomfort, curiosity and deep listening, rather than avoidance, allow for growth and problem resolution [01:25:50].
- Health and Well-being Encompasses physiological, psychological, and relational health, viewed as a whole system. Practices must support all dimensions of being without creating negative externalities or false optimizations [01:21:02].
- Policing and Justice In Game B, conflict or injustice is seen as an opportunity for increased capacity and meaningful relationship. It involves approaching problems with curiosity, prioritizing reconciliation and understanding, and maintaining a basis of conviviality. Boundaries are set to prevent harm, with the intention of supporting the well-being of all involved [01:27:03] [01:31:00]. This requires “discernment,” a reality-based understanding of human behavior, rather than non-judgmentalism [01:34:20].
- Coherence Defined as distinct parts generating a synergistic relationship to create an emergent whole, where the whole simultaneously enhances the autonomy of its parts [01:37:39]. This “coherent pluralism” is a challenging design problem that seeks to find the balance between agreement and liberty [01:39:15].
Scaling Beyond Dunbar’s Number
A major challenge for Game B is to apply these principles to groups much larger than the Dunbar number (approximately 150 individuals, the limit for face-to-face community social networks) [01:41:36]. This requires discovering an “attractor in reality itself” that allows distributed cognition groups to maintain continuity and accelerate with the adjacent possible without falling apart [01:44:00].
Proto-Game B and Meta-Learning
“Proto-B” communities are early attempts to create integrated Game B life that mix and match piece parts, likely still dependent on aspects of Game A (e.g., technology, hospitals) [01:49:14]. These proto-B’s will need to be skilled at “parasitizing Game A” to extract resources for their growth [01:50:27].
The development of Game B relies on “meta-learning,” the ability to effectively experiment and use the output of experiments to improve the experimental protocol itself [01:48:01]. This accelerates learning and innovation, moving beyond mere velocity to acceleration [01:48:50].
Challenges and Evolution
Game B development anticipates failures. Proto-B communities may fail, but if they do so “honorably” (due to unforeseen circumstances rather than internal toxicity), the individuals involved gain “deep learning” and wisdom that can be carried to future attempts [01:59:35]. This process of evolution through failure is crucial for advancing Game B [02:00:00].
Community Structures
While geographically anchored, face-to-face communities are considered foundational for conviviality, other models may also emerge:
- Episodic Physical Relationship Groups that meet periodically in physical space to build strong bonds, then maintain the relationship virtually [01:56:43].
- Inter-Group Collaboration Multiple, distinct, convivial groups that are geographically separate but collaborate synergistically at a virtual level, forming a “cloud of proto B’s” [01:57:47] [01:59:20].
This evolutionary process, marked by decentralized structures, experimentation, and a commitment to learning from failure, is expected to drive Game B forward [01:59:27].