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From One Piece to One Pace - Vision and mission in temporary coordination of agents
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From One Piece to One Pace - Vision and mission in temporary coordination of agents

LessWrong · Jun 7, 2026, 5:09 PM

I work with vulnerable teenagers in an association and I want to build a system (using a metaphor) that reduces the time and cognitive cost it takes them to turn their mission and vision into microtasks for moments of low confidence.My hypothesis is that my main problem is not that their attention is misaligned because they are incoherent, but that it is misaligned because multiple legitimate processes (agents) are competing for a scarce resource without a good map.The conflict between multiple agents increases.↓The noise increases↓Direction is lost…So, a question algorithm that reduces the complexity of their processes (on your ship) would be useful to me. But:How do I translate an abstract purpose (mission, vision) and allocate your attention and time and decision-making capacity?Literature review in LessWrongI reviewed some posts here on Lesswrong and I first idea, It would be a "One Piece" treasure for me, that could to unify a little more all the productivity philosophy I've found into something mechanically designed, using processes similar to something I saw here:From Philosophy to math to engineering I would like help reviewing its coherence and cost-benefit analysis. I'm currently using cybernetics and systems theory as a foundation.I reviewed several productivity and mapping proposals I found here on LessWrong, and each one had interesting points I could incorporate. I want to briefly present each idea, its key question of what it's about, and then a proposal for unifying a little more for they.Minsky , Society of Mind asks: How is the mind constructed?- how a society of simple agents forms hierarchies and teams.What's missing? It doesn't explain where that society is headed, or how it organizes itself for external purposes.Dehaene / GNW , Consciousness and the Brain asks: How do agents compete for consciousness?- Through a global workspace where only one piece of content can be visible at a time.What's missing? It's a static amphitheater: it describes the

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