Cheers. Live long and prosper. Bye.

Thank you. I have a Cabinet meeting to attend. Sorry about that. [laughs]

Thank you.

The second point is more to counter this “uniquely homogeneous” – I don’t know, Confucianism or whatever – part. Here I would highlight the fact that for the newer democracies, and especially successfully transitioned ones, people collectively don’t want to go back to non-democratic norms.

I think we need to be honest and say that upfront, but I would also say that “rational self-interest for public good” is the main message that we’ve been spreading. For example, wear a mask to protect oneself from one’s own unwashed hands. Wear a mask because pink is the ...

The “blah, blah, blah” part is right. We’re a very chaotic bunch, and we do get a lot of public opinions. In Taiwan’s case, I guess I will say two things. First is that there is a collective memory of martial law and a collective rejection of martial law. That ...

So for the idea that always spreads. I would, instead of saying digital democracy which is specific to democratic polities, I think augmented collective intelligence or ACI is a much more universal term for the kind of thing that we’re doing.

Our work is just to make those tensions, in a sense, grow upwing. In every place, there’s a left wing and right wing. If we can apply this X in RadicalxChange, the crossover ideas, that momentum always works, and that’s ideas worth spreading.

From the books coming out of the SLT, I understand that your faith is strong — but you needed proof. The idea here is simply to make the proof really solid. In the sense that it will be adapted to different forms everywhere else because everywhere you can find different ...

So I wouldn’t say it like in a blanket statement. I will say two things, though. The first thing is that it’s been proven to work in Internet governance. The core norms of the Internet has not been broken. People have largely seen it in their interest, even the .cn ...

I wouldn’t say we work anywhere and everywhere, all the points in space time obviously. [laughs] The PRC, which stands for the People’s Republic of China regime, probably even if they are using Microsoft technology, it will take some time for this kind of augmented collective intelligence to work there.

Yes, go ahead. Go ahead.

Go ahead.

Yeah, the Halifax Security Forum, not known for radical transparency, but I pasted it too. I’m pasting on the chat. Halifax is not known for radical transparency, but we managed to make that work, anyway.

I’m fine with that. The so-called internal discussion is simply just one-side-recorded discussions. I am fine. I will make sure that if you don’t want to be quoted, like if you don’t want me to reiterate your specific question because it’s a trade secret or something, I will make sure ...

That’s right.

Yeah, just share the deck to me. That’s the easiest. PowerPoint, built for sharing. [laughs]

I am fine with just having 10 minutes because the four topics in the order you just listed, I only need 10 minutes for that.

If you want to do it on the 1-minute mark, 16-minute mark, or 45-minutes mark, that’s your choice.

That point is that if you just say that upfront, then from that second onward, the transcript or the YouTube description will simply say, “This is local recording only because the SLT asked to opt out of their side of the recording,” and that’s it.

Exactly, exactly. You will see only my side of the video and my side of the audio. This is better because in case of network connection issues and so on, you have the entire footage later on. You can – I don’t know – read my microexpressions using GPT-3 technology ...

Of course, because that’s entirely up to you. Radical transparency means at the root, meaning that it takes effort to take yourself out of the transcript. All you have to say is that you’re opting out.

That’s right. Yes.

Whether that is amenable to you or whether you would like the open discussion part to be both sides recorded and we weave them together, I’m fine either way.

There’s really only one format question on the table. Because I always locally record everything, so I can just cut the pieces that I talked. There’s zero chance for people to gain knowledge into what your side of speech is, like zero-knowledge stuff.

Basically, anything that starts with, “Maybe let’s just censor a little bit, takedown a little bit,” is a nonstarter because people will be like, “Oh, you prefer the White Terror?” That’s a quite unique innovation constraint, but that also makes it easier for the whole of society to be aligned ...

As for your question, whether there’s challenges to this kind of work, I think it’s partly because we all – by we, I mean Taiwanese people above my age – remember martial law, and nobody want to go back to the censorship days or to the places where the media ...

The shorter-lived sectors – I don’t mean the government is neccessarily short-lived, but four-year terms and all that – should have less legitimacy by configuration, because otherwise, we risk these lower-on-legitimacy parties concentrating power to manufacture legitimacy out of thin air, kind of QE on legitimacy, citing for example the ...

Yeah, my position statement on this, I just posted on the chatroom. I think the idea of cross-sectoral collaboration, which I would sometimes even put the social sector first, so it becomes the social sector first, then the business, and then the governance sector, means that the longer-lasting sectors have ...

The point is that as long as the feedback cycle is open, as long as people have a way to just pick up the phone and call 1922 and get a more than 95 percent of not only getting their questions answered but also their demands met in timely fashion ...

Just like in the mask rationing map example, we did detect the systemic issues with the pharmacists handing out take-a-number systems and the idea of people using their ID card to collect on the spot, but we then just reconciled the two models to make sure that the pharmacists had ...

If you detect bias, if everyone is equipped to detect bias or the bias on their friends and families’ prescriptions, and maybe it’s just an honest data collection error or whatever, and then they can just feed back to it.

Of course, I think bias is the symptom. The underlying cause, from our perspective, is the idea of equity in access to not only broadband but also media competence and digital competence.

Yes.

We’re also looking into GAN-based synthetic data toolkits to get more data usability. If you want run it on the computational infrastructures that you do not directly control, we’re also looking into fully homomorphic encryption.

The NHI just released the de-identified data of everyone who has passed away because they don’t have – under the current legal framework – the right to privacy anymore. Anyway, these are raw data, de-identified and open for any research. If you want to do the research on live records, ...

Yeah, of course. You can download, of course, everything about yourself from the MyData portal, which is the blue button thing. You can also opt in to additional data collection and things like that simply using the National Health Insurance app, which I think has more than four million or ...

There’s a few factors in her research, and she correlated that with the Health Bank data without compromising privacy of the individual citizens.

Prof. Shih-Chun Candice Lung, a researcher from our national academy did this kind of longitudinal study, which correlates the factors of heat damage to not only temperature but also I guess the angle of the sun, wind, and things like that.

You can download it to your phone for analysis or use some SDK or things like that to authorize third-party applications to do analysis on those. It also provides privacy-preserving analysis possibilities for people who want to do exploratory computation.

Anyone can use the app, which is the same app that you use to dedicate the masks to international humanitarian workers or preorders your masks to look at all the prescriptions and also X-ray and maybe CT scans also nowadays.

Sure. There’s a single-payer health insurance system in Taiwan. It’s already recording all the insurance data in the Health Bank system, in the National Health Insurance Administration.

Yeah.

I guess all five are qualifying as augmented collective intelligence, and it’s up to you to do whatever. Their pitch films are there, and I think there are subtitles. I will just stop here.

Instead of displaying its prices, this displays its environmental impact, and maybe in the future, social impact so that people can use more informed choices as well as to push for the Ministry of Economic Affairs to publish the GPS coordinates of all the environmental fines and environment penalties so ...

The last one is about reporting illegal factories in agricultural lands. This builds upon the previous work of the WaterBox which is about water pollution monitoring in a participatory way, like AirBox but easier to model. This one in the supermarkets and convenience store, you can use their app to ...

The push notifications they send is delivered to multiple apps including the tea-serving one, the bottle refilling one that I just mentioned to you.

The fourth one is about getting workers and other frontline workers, especially agricultural workers and the families that care with them. Again, this is a heat damage thing, but also it uses the Health Bank or National Health Insurance Databank on a privacy-preserving computation to get the likelihood of people ...

The third one is using smart meters to train a deep learning network to learn about the specific behavior of home appliances so that you can save energy by replacing or augmenting those appliances without any intrusive in-house installations.

The second one is a Pokémon Go-like game to get people to go out and refill their water bottles instead of buying new plastic bottles. They can redeem their coins for local agricultural goods and so on. It also doubles as a push notification for heat damage potential so you ...