[ExI] canonizer of sorts

[Brent Allsop]

Thanks Spike,
For all the stuff, for which there is consensus, all you need is a
crowdsourced wiki system.  You only need canonizer camps, when some people
still think something that is wrong, or even just different.  You need a
system that can not only track that, but is architected to get people to
focus on what they agree on (in the super camps) while working to build and
track consensus in the lower level supporting sub camps.
All the bleating and tweeting just finds minor things to disagree on, then
polarize around those, ripping us all apart.  That's what we need to fix to
save society.




On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 9:58 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> I have never made a comment on Brent’s notion of a canonizer that I can
> recall, but something occurred to me today.  AncestryDNA created something
> like a canonizer as an offspring of their DNA project.  That project
> allowed people to construct family trees like nobody’s business.  It really
> took off where written records generally failed.  It was what allowed me to
> figure out that an error had been made on my great great grandfather’s
> death certificate, which caused his mother in law to be listed as his
> mother on numerous online family trees.
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> After the DNA evidence proved otherwise, I laboriously contacted those
> with the wrong name on there and offered both the correct name along with
> the story on how the error occurred.  Gradually and canon was corrected.
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> Now anyone can put together a biologically accurate family tree, thru the
> collective effort which constructed over the last two decades, public
> records and DNA evidence to prove it all out.
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> The plethora of family trees, taken as a collection, guide one into the
> right answers, along with documentation and in some cases DNA evs.  This is
> a kinda specialized version of Brent’s more generalized concept of a
> canonizer perhaps.
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> spike
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