{"path":"community-and-outreach.md","content":"# Deliberus Community & Outreach\n\n## Public Mentions & Social Proof\n\n### Key Formulations (Fredrik's own words across platforms)\n\n**\"Lean for all knowledge\"** (to Zarathustra Amareis Goertzel):\n> \"I want this. I want to build Lean for all knowledge and decision-making. I call it Deliberus.\"\n\n**\"Every word vetted\"** (to Ozzie Gooen, re: his Longterm wiki):\n> \"Isn't it a problem that the content is unstructured and the reasoning not necessarily bulletproof? I've always been fantasizing about a wiki where every word I read has been vetted both deductively and inductively etc etc etc. That's the whole idea behind Deliberus, my age old collaborative deliberation system.\"\n\n**\"Truth-seeking and shared values\"** (to Michael Barnathan):\n> \"Building something that helps humanity collaborate better on truth-seeking and reconciling our shared values and deducing what practical actions those shared values call for, given all available evidence. I've been calling this project Deliberus, since I started thinking about it in 2009 or so.\"\n\n**\"The platform for collaborative deliberation\"** (to Deanne Richardson Ramsey):\n> \"The platform for collaborative deliberation I've wanted to build since decades back\"\n\n**\"AI safety adjacent\"** (AI Safety post):\n> \"I have an old project idea to develop a highly usable, collaborative, deliberative sense-making and decision-making platform that ideally both visualizes, interweaves and bridges ideological silos and helps everyone's voice and values be expressed well and heard.\"\n\n**\"Scoreboard for claims\"** (responding to Joshua Vantard / Gary Stevenson video):\n> \"This is part of why I wanna build Deliberus, which I should put together a presentation/website for. Old idea that still mostly is in my head.\"\n\n**\"Gamla hjärteprojekt\"** (personal conversation, 2025):\n> References Deliberus as an \"old heart project\" alongside personal life growth\n\n**\"Rationality built into the software\"** (AI Safety Gothenburg):\n> \"Forum för strukturerad diskussion av etik kring AI. Möjligtvis med direkt inbyggd användning av LLM... men med en högre standard av rationalitet i argumenten, genom att vi bygger in i mjukvaran/forumet vad våra ideal och standarder för rationell argumentation innebär.\"\n\n**On fundraising** (to Michael Barnathan):\n> \"Probably not, my experience with fundraising is that by the time I finish the roadshow I could have just built the thing.\"\n\n### People Who've Engaged\n\n| Person | Context | Their angle |\n|--------|---------|-------------|\n| Ozzie Gooen | Facebook — building \"Longterm wiki\" | Overlap in structured knowledge goals; different approach (wiki vs argumentation) |\n| Zarathustra Amareis Goertzel | Facebook — AI-driven formalization | Excited about formal verification for knowledge; evidence trails |\n| Michael Barnathan | Facebook — fundraising discussion | Interested in small high-trust teams approach |\n| Deanne Richardson Ramsey | Facebook thread | \"Sounds pretty interesting. I hope you build it!\" |\n| Joshua Vantard | Facebook — economists/scoreboard | Similar vision: \"open source project like Wikipedia putting claims by experts in a scoreboard\" |\n| Andres Gomez Emilsson | Facebook post | \"I bet one of you could do this in an afternoon\" |\n| Philip van Nedervelde | Facebook — \"group hivemind\" post | Wants collective intelligence for epochal change preparedness |\n| Benjamin (surname unclear) | Facebook — dialectical opponent processing | Healing memetic tribal warfare through both/and synthesis |\n| Carl (Cybernetics Society) | Mentioned in ChatGPT analysis | Hyperhumanist framing — tech extending human essence |\n| digitaldemokrati.se | Interview (Swedish) | Overlapping values, potential consulting/collaboration |\n\n### Historical Outreach (2013-2014 Almedalen Era)\n\n**CRM Board** (Trello):\n\n| Status | Organizations |\n|--------|--------------|\n| Agreed trial | CUF |\n| Booked | Ung Pirat, Gröna Studenter, Ungdom mot Rasism, Ung Liberal |\n| Contacted | IVBAR, Stek (socialdemokratiska teknologer), Miklo, Mittuniversitetet, Miljöpartiet, S-studenter |\n| Leads | Movelo, Quatroporte, Hörselskadades riksförbund |\n\n**Deployed instances** (from FERMI Chrome local storage):\n- `caa-r2o9.deliberus.se` — Collaborative Argumentation Analysis (main)\n- `cuf-x6f5.deliberus.se` — CUF (Centerpartiets ungdomsförbund) trial\n- `gst-z2m2.deliberus.se` — Gröna Studenter (?)\n- `sst-g8p1.deliberus.se` — S-studenter (?)\n- `deliberus.dev` — development instance\n- `deliberus.meteor.com` — Meteor hosting\n\n**Note**: The platform was actually deployed and used by at least some of these organizations, not just discussed.\n\n### Community & Groups\n\n- **Facebook group**: \"Collaborative Argumentation Analysis\" (`facebook.com/groups/arguable/`) — 250 members (2012), now 452\n- **LessWrong**: Recruitment and rationality community overlap\n- **AI Safety Gothenburg**: Modern reboot context\n- **Effective Altruism**: adjacent community\n\n### Idea: \"Sprida Deliberus genom möten / Skolbesök\"\nFrom Simplenote notes — spreading Deliberus through meetings and school visits. Outreach strategy from the 2013-2014 era.\n\n## FERMI Drive Artifacts\n\n| File | Description |\n|------|-------------|\n| `deliberus-fb-group-posts.json` | **Empty** — failed Playwright scrape attempt (Oct 2025). 2 posts with no content. FB auth blocked it. Recovery plan: adapt kimonokittens Ferrum scraper (persistent Chrome session + Ferrum driver) |\n| `Deliberus.mbox` | **Email archive** — correspondence with collaborators, investors, orgs |\n| `deliberus-large.png` | Large logo/wallpaper image |\n| `CurtisSV-Deliberus/` | Backup copy of Curtis prototype code |\n| Chrome local storage files | Evidence of deployed instances on deliberus.se subdomains |\n\n**Recovery priority**: The `Deliberus.mbox` email archive and `deliberus-fb-group-posts.json` are potentially the richest unexplored sources of historical context.\n\n---\n\n## Public-presentation voice — outsider-accessible visionary framing\n\nFor CV cards, funder one-pagers, recruiter blurbs, and any \"explain Deliberus in 3-5 sentences to a non-AI-safety reader\" surface, the canonical distillation research lives at `~/dotfiles/docs/2026-06-05-deliberus-cv-card-distillation.md` (Opus subagent pass, 2026-06-05). Four variants + rationale + the visionary-but-outsider-pedagogic calibration Fredrik converged on. The landed CV-card text (currently in `~/Projects/codex-cv-work/fredrik-branstrom-cv-2026.html`) closes on *\"Deliberus also tackles normative issues\"* — accessible-yet-distinguishing from the verifiable-knowledge frame (SciencePedia, Bengio's ScientistAI). Re-use this reflection doc as the source-of-truth for future public-facing Deliberus framing rather than redrafting from scratch.\n\n---\n\n**See also**: [History](history.md) · [Vision](vision.md)\n"}