How do I incept (is that the right verb form of inception?) an open secret in a hive mind?
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This would be a secret which in theory is open & visible but distributed across the hive mind. A secret distributed in plain sight - with no one actor being able to see it?
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More holographic. All know the whole thing, but have doubt about whether others know it as well, but can assume with some risk that most do as well.
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Sounds like it's already incepted. Is your question, perhaps, how to get the hive mind (or, more likely, specific people) to take action based on the open secret?
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No, this is a true hypothetical. I have an idea and N minds. I want to get the idea into N minds, but without causing it to be public knowledge.
P(I know)=100%
P(he knows)=90%
P(he knows I know)=80%
Etc...
Falling certainty of knownness of knowledge
Ask questions you know the answer to, but not obviously leading ones. Abstracted recent example: "How many people are involved in workflow X?" Investigation -> process change, efficiency gain, and widespread curiosity re: workflow efficiency resulting in improvements elsewhere.


