Your story provoked my own AI conversation asking Gemini to elaborate on the chronology of increasing polarization, then asked for strategies to rebuild consensus - finding that a bought Congress would never pass such reforms and then asked it for more radical short term efforts to prevent further polarization. https://gemini.google.com/share/09d0be2057b7 It's complicated and perhaps beyond the scope of your Aha! methods. Could your methods deal with this extent of complexity. Could you feed in the ranked 25 causes of polarization and ask for a CLD and a story?
Ken, you could get the current prompt to do what you're asking. One has to keep asking questions about the relationships and develop the understanding that is to be included in the map. The prompt purposely won't simply create a map until some underlying understanding for it has been exposed. I now realize I spent years creating maps that I never fully understood. This forces me to slow down and actually learn something during the process.
Gene, thanks, good to hear. I felt that I already knew more than your story revieled and that the questions it asked were too elementary though I did not experience them. I don't have the time or energy to explore now. My hunch is that I would do the Gemini conversation first, input the output and perhaps Aha! Mystery would ask me more advanced questions and the then perhaps it would draw the more comprehensive diagram. Aha Mystery as presented didn't touch on racism, didn't follow the money, didn't follow the changes in legislation which prevented the social engagement necessary.
It was meant more as an example rather than an exhaustive investigation as I didn't want the video to be an hour long...though I think I just resolved that problem.
Aha! Mystery promises an insight. There's something in the format of the story that there needs to be an individual with insight rather than a major strategy multi-dimensional system fix. Perhaps there;s a science of writing issues at different levels of cognitive abiity. The higher the level of cognitive ability, the more complex the issues dealt with and more complex the nudges seem to be. The genius of the Powell Memorandum was its comprehensive and multidimensional genius and the Republicans' have executed it perfectly, even brilliantly.
Exactly, that's what I'm saying about level of cognitive capabiity, insights might be classified by level of capability... as of course classified in other ways. Perhaps a story is written to help a target group to get an insight. That story started sensate, the noise of friction with no machine movement - perhaps understood by a machine operator and the insight - oh the insight perhaps is that relationships among people have something to do with the stuck machine...but no awareness of root causes of racism, billionaire buying of democracy, that are tracked at higher levels of awareness. E.g. the story is fine for one group but not for people at higher levels. where it's not Aha! but Ho Hum!. Perhaps we need some discussion about inquiries at different levels with different groups...to get an Aha! I would design a story to help managers move from level 3 over the difficult transition to level 4 where systems thinking begins.
Gene,
Your story provoked my own AI conversation asking Gemini to elaborate on the chronology of increasing polarization, then asked for strategies to rebuild consensus - finding that a bought Congress would never pass such reforms and then asked it for more radical short term efforts to prevent further polarization. https://gemini.google.com/share/09d0be2057b7 It's complicated and perhaps beyond the scope of your Aha! methods. Could your methods deal with this extent of complexity. Could you feed in the ranked 25 causes of polarization and ask for a CLD and a story?
Ken, you could get the current prompt to do what you're asking. One has to keep asking questions about the relationships and develop the understanding that is to be included in the map. The prompt purposely won't simply create a map until some underlying understanding for it has been exposed. I now realize I spent years creating maps that I never fully understood. This forces me to slow down and actually learn something during the process.
Gene, thanks, good to hear. I felt that I already knew more than your story revieled and that the questions it asked were too elementary though I did not experience them. I don't have the time or energy to explore now. My hunch is that I would do the Gemini conversation first, input the output and perhaps Aha! Mystery would ask me more advanced questions and the then perhaps it would draw the more comprehensive diagram. Aha Mystery as presented didn't touch on racism, didn't follow the money, didn't follow the changes in legislation which prevented the social engagement necessary.
It was meant more as an example rather than an exhaustive investigation as I didn't want the video to be an hour long...though I think I just resolved that problem.
Aha! Mystery promises an insight. There's something in the format of the story that there needs to be an individual with insight rather than a major strategy multi-dimensional system fix. Perhaps there;s a science of writing issues at different levels of cognitive abiity. The higher the level of cognitive ability, the more complex the issues dealt with and more complex the nudges seem to be. The genius of the Powell Memorandum was its comprehensive and multidimensional genius and the Republicans' have executed it perfectly, even brilliantly.
Might one person's insight may be another person's old news?
Exactly, that's what I'm saying about level of cognitive capabiity, insights might be classified by level of capability... as of course classified in other ways. Perhaps a story is written to help a target group to get an insight. That story started sensate, the noise of friction with no machine movement - perhaps understood by a machine operator and the insight - oh the insight perhaps is that relationships among people have something to do with the stuck machine...but no awareness of root causes of racism, billionaire buying of democracy, that are tracked at higher levels of awareness. E.g. the story is fine for one group but not for people at higher levels. where it's not Aha! but Ho Hum!. Perhaps we need some discussion about inquiries at different levels with different groups...to get an Aha! I would design a story to help managers move from level 3 over the difficult transition to level 4 where systems thinking begins.