When we are collecting information, the focus is on the reason. Why do we make that thing?

Nice-looking data mean nothing in projects. Only honest feedback is a useful tool. For making an organization addictive. Negative feedback is the thing that gives the most useful information. That thing involves data that should make better or other ways. If the homepages of the organization are poor the people should say that. That thing is the signal for making them better. 

And if nobody tells that the homepages are bad. That information would not reach the organizations' directors. So if the leaders of the organization would not know. If there is something wrong, they would not make anything. The reason for that is that leaders need information for making decisions 

But negative feedback is hardest to receive. So the person who collects information should realize that the purpose of the information collection is to bring the right information. Information that is shaped to please the receiver is useless. Only useful information. Is not censored and honestly given. 

When we collect information for some project, we must think a couple of things about the data collection tools. The key element is in the type of information that is collected. There are two ways to handle collected information. And only one is the right thing. The one way to collect and handle data is to select the data that supports us. Selection of the data that pleases us might be a very nice thing to us. 

We get what we want is the thing that might seem very nice. When we want to make some project for the customer we might also give real and honest information. That information might not support the opinions and images that those clients might have. But the fact is that the project makers would not have anything to use with the data that is only what they want. So then we might think about the method how to select the data. Forms and other things are very good tools. 

But how to motivate people to fill out those forms? And to make sure that those people would give the right information. The thing that the organization needs are the right information. And the most useful information for making things better is the negative feedback. 

Honestly saying, that thing is the hardest to read. But the negative feedback is the thing that makes it possible to make the organization better. So we don't do anything about the forms that are filled in 10 seconds. Or we don't do anything about the forms, where is only the series of words "nice-looking thing". 

If we want to improve the additivity of the organization we can make the seminar. Or open some kind of discussion forum. And in that case, we must ask one question. That is "are those people typical users or members of the organization and its services"? 

The problem is that. The people who will participate in the seminars are the most active members or users of the organization. And if there are about 1000 users of the organization and 20 persons are participating we might ask are those people typical users of the organizational services of that precise organization? 

That honest and noncensored data is needed for making marketing applications for the organization. The key element in marketing applications is how to make people choose that organization and the services of that specific organization. So the key question is what that organization can offer that others cannot? 

And what is the benefit of the certain organization to the persons who are selecting services or solutions that they use? The collected data is needed to make the organization more addictive than others. But if that data is faked or it's not right. There is no help from it. Negative feedback is the hardest thing to see. But it's the most useful thing to show what must be improved. 

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The barren plateaus problem and intelligence

 The barren plateaus problem and intelligence

The lack of stimulation is the thing that causes loss of the motivation for create new things. 

What if we would live all of our life on that lone island. Which portrait is above this text without a single contact with other people? Without the internet and other connections, we would not even know about the existence of other humans and things like meteorites and tsunamis. Would we in that case build things like spacecraft? 

This is one version of Barren plateaus problem. Because we think that we are alone. And because of that, we have no stimulus or motivation to make new things.  Without information, we don't recognize risks. And risks are the things that motivate us to create new technical solutions. 

When we are thinking about intelligence, we must remember that intelligence is not enough. When we want to create technology. We also need motivation for research and development. 

In most cases, the reason for termination of some technical advances or ideas is that somewhere is always some other objectives for the resources that some project needs? One of the resources is, of course, time. When we are doing something, we need to reserve time for that thing. And if we find something. That is more important there is no time for the first thing. 

The Game theory can answer why there are so few intelligent civilizations.

The game theory claims that all organisms are maximizing their benefit. That is the thing that unites but it also scatters the society. If the organism feels that the benefit for society is higher than the benefit of the individual organism would fight for a common goal. In most cases, the reason why individual actors forget their benefit is a threat. That comes outside. Or the threat that requires combining forces. That threat can be an incoming meteorite, hostile actor, or some kind of natural disaster. 

Those things are made possible that the entire society connects forces for reaching the united goal. That goal can be destroying the attacker or building a better irrigation system. But then for some reason, the individual actors are starting again to value their benefit higher than the benefit of society. There must be some motivation for developing new technology. In the intensive world of the military sitting on a chair is a destructive thing. 

While the western world believes that old technologies would be enough to give resistance against hostile actors the Chinese developed a great number of new weapons. Those weapons like hypersonic cruise missiles are impressive. And at the same time serious reminder that the world is always changing. Who would believe ten or fifteen years ago that someday Chinese would be the leading nation in quantum technology? 

What kind of thing could motivate to build an interstellar spacecraft? When does some civilization want to put all of its resources into creating interstellar spacecraft? 

That kind of case can be an outcoming attack. But when peacetime comes the personal benefit displaces the benefit of the entirety. So if the civilization would sit alone in a place where it has no outside contacts it would not see a need to develop interstellar technology. 

The outcoming threat connects people. And it motivates to create new solutions for challenging enemies. But then those innovations are forgotten. 

The thing is the same with the barren plateau problem. If the organism has lived all the time in some desert oasis without any social contact that creature believes in being alone on the Earth or some other planet. A similar case would be that organism has lived its entire life at the lone island at the ocean.

Organism feels that there is no other threat to paradise than sharks and flows in the ocean.  That means our organism would just lay on the sand and eat bananas that are dropping from the trees. There is nothing that can treat that organism. So why must that organism make anything for getting out from that island? 

There might be some materials for the boat. But because that island or oasis gives everything for that organism.  There is no need to build the boat or that is how the organism feels that thing. The organism would not know anything about Tsunami or any other threats like the tribes at the island about 1000 kilometers away. They do not exist for the organism that has lived on its island all of its life.

The lack of motivation is the reason why that organism would not build a boat. "There is nothing anyway". This is the excuse why that organism spends all the time eating bananas and looking at the clouds. For similar reasons, humans are not making interstellar spacecraft. We have no place to travel. 

There is no contact with aliens. So we don't need that kind of project. That is the reason why many things are resting at the level of the paper. And one thing that limits our ability to create that kind of thing is we have only our thoughts. 

We cannot exchange ideas with some other species that might have different opinions or points of view on those projects. But when we are thinking about the first contact. That thing might be our greatest threat. But at the same time, that thing can be the greatest opportunity for the human race.

In some scenarios that thing will unite humans. The outcoming threat is always united nations. And that thing can happen also if we find alien civilization. 

What if there are two intelligent alien races in the same solar system? In that case, the cultural and technological exchange between species could enrich the social and other kinds of environment. In that model, the species would not destroy each other. 

https://www.lanl.gov/discover/news-release-archive/2021/March/0319-barren-plateaus.php