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Program: | SBIR |
Topic Num: | OSD10-CR3 (OSD) |
Title: | Immersive Scenario Based Training Environments for Intuitive Decision Making | Research & Technical Areas: | Information Systems, Human Systems |
Acquisition Program: | Objective: | The objective of this topic is to develop a capability to enhance and augment warfighters' intuitive decision making skills by embedding neurocognitive measures of intuition into immersive scenario based training applications.
| Description: | The shifting emphasis of warfare from symmetric and predictable to asymmetric and unpredictable, combined with changing military doctrine that provides greater autonomy to Warfighters, has placed an increasingly important requirement to develop Warfighters who are as cognitively ready as they are physically prepared [1]. One important consequence of this shifting emphasis is that our Warfighters are now being called upon to make decisions under vastly different operational situations and conditions. Whereas previous types of military missions may have allowed for logically reasoned responses to threats based on analyses of multiple sets of information, military missions in this new combat environment require a more dynamic kind of decision making, made under time constraints and based on partial or incomplete information [2,3,4]. This type of decision making is commonly referred to as 'intuitive decision making' or, more simply, as 'intuition' - a rapid, non-conscious, cue to the existence of meaningful information detected through one or more sensory modalities, often accompanied by affective and somatic reactions [5,6]. Intuition can be understood as the interaction between one's existing knowledge structures and incoming information enabling one to rapidly make sense of partial or incomplete information, and subsequently take necessary actions although they may not be fully understood [7,8]. Intuition therefore requires a level of domain knowledge in order to establish the required knowledge structures to make sense of incoming information [3].
The tight coupling between effective intuitive decision making and extensive domain knowledge suggests that the processes driving intuition may be improved through training. Moreover, because the type of knowledge that underlies effective intuitive decision making emphasizes an understanding of context, environment, and how relevant cues within those contexts and environments are perceived, the type of training most likely to support effective intuitive decision making should be experiential and interactive, instead of simply didactic and classroom based. Immersive environments, like virtual environments or serious games, present one approach for providing the kind of experiential and interactive experiences needed for training intuition [9,10]. Yet, immersive environments must still be populated with a training methodology. Scenario Based Training (SBT), which emphasizes embedding training approaches within an evolving and dynamic scenario, provides a promising technique for training in environments which require complex interactions supported by immersive technologies, such as virtual environments and serious games [11].
The focus of this topic is on leveraging recent advances in quantifying the neurcognitive dynamics of intuition [2, 12] and coupling these with Scenario Based Training approaches, within an immersive environment to enhance effective intuitive decision making. The final product would include an interactive environment, incorporating, neurcognitive tools to provide metrics that the system could then use to demonstrate trainee progression towards improving their intuitive decision making processes.
| PHASE I: Define requirements for developing an immersive Scenario Based Training system for training intuitive decision making that is driven by neurocognitive and other types of performance measures. Identification of at least one military-relevant scenario, together with metrics definition is necessary. A final report will be generated, including system performance metrics and plans for Phase II. Metrics shall include both measures of effectiveness and measures of performance. Phase II plans should include key component technological milestones and plans for at least one operational test and evaluation. Phase I should also include the processing and submission of any necessary human subjects use protocols.
| PHASE II: Develop a prototype system based on the preliminary design from Phase I. All appropriate engineering testing will be performed, and a critical design review will be performed to finalize the design. Phase II deliverables will include: (1.) a working prototype of the system, (2) specification for its development, and (3) test data on its performance collected in one or more operational settings using validated measures.
| PHASE III: This technology will have broad application in military as well as commercial settings. The military requires its warfighters to make increasingly complex and important decisions under conditions of uncertainty and stress. The proposed system will provide today's warfighters with the ability to quickly hone their innate intuitive decision making skills for a broad range of contexts and tasks. In a similar way, commercial workforce personnel in disaster management, air traffic control, and emergency medicine/first responders, and other environments in which decisions must be made under conditions of uncertainty and stress, will benefit from this type of training.
| References: | [1] DoD Directive 3000.07 (December 1, 2008).
[2] Luu, P., Geyer, A., Wheeler, T., Campbell, G., Tucker, D., & Cohn, J. (2010). The Neural Dynamics and Temporal Course of Intuitive Decisions. (Submitted) Public Library Of Science.
[3] Volz, K. G., & von Cramon, D. Y. (2006). What neuroscience can tell about intuitive processes in the context of perceptual discovery. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(12), 2077-2087.
[4] Soldier's intuition and situational awareness a lifesaver in Iraq.(UPDATE ON Operation Iraqi Freedom)Publication: Army Reserve Magazine Publication Date: 22-MAR-07Author: Coleman, Chris COPYRIGHT 2007 U.S. Army Reserve.
[5] Hogarth, R.M (2001). Educating Intuition. University Of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL.
[6] Winerman, L. (2005). A 'sixth sense?' Or merely mindful caution? Monitor on Psychology, 36(3):62.
[7] Hodgkinson, G. P., Langan-Fox, J., & Sadler-Smith, E. (2008). Intuition: A fundamental bridging construct in the behavioral sciences. British Journal of Psychology, 99, 1-27.
[8] Bowers, K.S., Regehr, G., Balthazard, C.G., & parker, K. (1990). Intuition in the context of discovery. Cognitive Psychology, 22, 72-110.
[9]Lathan, C., Tracey, M., Sebrechts, M., Clawson, D., & Higgins, G. (2002). Using Virtual Environments as Training Simulators: Measuring Transfer In: Handbook of Virtual Environments: Design, Implementation, and Applications (Ed: Kay M. Stanney); Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002 p. 403-414.
[10] Greitzer, F., Kuchar, O., Huston, K. (2007). Cognitive science implications for enhancing training effectiveness in a serious gaming context. Journal on Educational Resources in Computing 7(3).
[11] Oser, R.L., Cannon-Bowers, J.A., Salas, E. & Dwyer, D. J. (1999). Enhancing human performance in technology-rich environments: Guidelines for scenario based training. In E. Salas (Ed.), Human Technology Interaction in Complex Systems. JAI Press, Vol. 9 p. 175-202.
[12] Volz, K. G., Rubsamen, R., & von Cramon, D. Y. (2008). Cortical regions activated by the subjective sense of perceptual coherence of environmental sounds: a proposal for a neuroscience of intuition. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 8(3): 318-328.
Keywords: | Intuition, Scenario Based Training, Neurocognitive, Decision Making, Virtual Environment |
Questions and Answers: |
Q: Can you elaborate on what you mean by neurocognitive measures? Is the intent of this topic to electrically measure brain activity or physical responses? |
A: We are primarily interested in the measurement capabilities as delineated by Luu et al. 2010 (second reference in the Topic description). Essentially, we are looking at Neuro-imaging and we are open to any other Phsyiological measures that will help us to understand the intuitive construct underlying decision-making in scenario based training. |


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Day 03: Kalimpong-Gangtok (85 Km/3hrs)
After breakfast, we transfer you to Gangtok- the bustling, friendly hill station of Sikkim. On arrival at Gangtok, check in to the hotel. Later get outside to see Ganesh Tok and Hanuman Tok, Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, and Rumtek Monastery, Banjhakari Falls, Tashi View Point etc. overnight stay at Gangtok.
Day 04: Gangtok
Early in the morning, we take you to an excursion trip to Tsongo Lake or Changu Lake which is a glacial lake in East Sikkim, Baba Harbhajan Temple- a temple made and revered by soldiers to owner a famous Indian Army officer named Captain Baba Harbhajan Singh and Nathu La Pass (a mountain pass in the Himalayas which connects the Indian state of Sikkim with China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The pass is at 4,310 m (14,140 ft) above mean sea level, and forms a part of the ancient Silk Road). Overnight stay at Gangtok.
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Day 05: Gangtok- Pelling (130 kms/4 hours).
After breakfast, we transfer you to Pelling, Pelling gives a spectacular views of the Mount Kanchandzonga, the Guardian Deity of Sikkim and the world's third highest mountain along with other sister mountains bowing before the Godly figure in reverence. Pelling is an ideal getaway for tourists as its vicinity has numerous waterfalls, soft trek routes, villages and soothing atmosphere for all discerning. Overnight stay at Pelling.
Day 06: Pelling
After breakfast, we take you to Pemayangtse monastery, Khechepalri Lake and Sangay waterfall. overnight stay at Pelling.
Day 07: Pelling-Darjeeling 120 Kms/4 hrs)
After breakfast we transfer you to Darjeeling . On arrival, check in at the hotel. Rest of the day is meant for relaxation or you can go for a joy train ride in Toy Train (optional). In the evening, you can visit the local market for buying some thing special of the place. overnight stay at Darjeeling.
Day 08 :Darjeeling
Very early in the morning (at around 0300 hrs), we take you to Tiger Hill to catch a glimpse of sunrise over Kanchandzonga (Subject to clear weather conditions). On the way back you can see Ghoom monastery and Batasia Loop. Later in the day after breakfast, we take you to some of the famous spots in Darjeeling such as HMI (Himalayan Mountaineering Institute), Zoological Gardens, and Dhirdham temple, Ropeway, Happy Valley Tea Estate, Lebong Race Course, Tenzing, Gombu Rock, Peace Pagoda and Japanese temple. overnight stay at Darjeeling.
Day 09: Transfer to New Jalpaiguri/Bagdogra (100 kms/4 hours)
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Here tour ends with happy memories as you drop to the Bagdogra airport or New Jalpaiguri / railway station for journey to onward destination.


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NEW LISKEARD, Ontario, May 5, 2012 - An investment in the Témiskaming Francophone community will help stimulate the economy and create jobs. Funding for the Centre culturel ARTEM (ARTÉMISKAMING) was announced today by Jay Aspin, Member of Parliament (Nipissing–Temiskaming), on behalf of the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages.
The Centre culturel ARTEM, a not-for-profit organization, will present a variety of cultural and artistic experiences, such as performances and visual arts exhibitions, to promote the cultural vitality of the Témiskaming Francophone community. These activities will support the long-term development of the Francophone minority community while contributing to the economic vitality of the region.
Our Government received a strong mandate from Canadians to invest in the economic future of Franco-Ontarian communities," said Minister Moore. "By supporting the activities of the Centre culturel ARTEM, our Government is delivering on its commitment to strengthen our economy and support official-language minority communities.
Our Government is proud to support an organization that works for the development of the Témiskaming Francophone community," said Mr. Aspin. "The Centre culturel ARTEM provides local Francophones and Francophiles with access to programming that focuses on Francophone culture, thus fostering a strong sense of pride and identity.
On behalf of the Centre culturel ARTEM, I would like to express our sincere thanks to Canadian Heritage for this financial support under its Development of Official-Language Communities program," said Ruth Belliveau–Blain, President of the Centre. "For 27 years, ARTEM has presented cultural, musical and social activities in the Témiskaming community. Without this support, ARTEM could not carry out its projects and programs.
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In my bedroom, we have a nice wooden wastebasket that, more-or-less, matches my parents' antique dressers. It was a good find at Costco some years ago. For the kids, however, I'm not interested in anything other than an inexpensive plastic wastebasket. Sure, it's tacky and cheap looking and maybe even bad for the environment, but there's a very good reason I wouldn't have anything else.
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Monday, February 13th, 2012The Shallowness of Parenthood
Sunday, September 4th, 2011Yes, like just about everyone else these days, it seems, I'm on Facebook. Most of my Facebook "friends" are either family, parents of my kids' friends, or fellow writers from the parenting world. It's a good way to keep in touch and share ideas, news, and information with them. Sometimes, however, it becomes a source of revelation and insight as well. Such was the case last evening as I was catching up on the day's posts at bedtime.
Too Much Information
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011There is a lot of information that can help a teacher figure out how best to help a student learn. Seemingly irrelevant data such as who the child lives with, what language (or languages) are spoken at home, and if the child has any medical issues are all clues a teacher can use tailor lessons to a child's specific situation. There's one bit of information, however, that I simply can't imagine anyone at a child's school needing to know — but that didn't stop one school district from asking for it.
The Nuggets Really Are That Good
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011About once a month, we let our kids buy the school lunch. It's a welcome break for my wife who normally puts together their midday repast and there are a few menu items they really enjoy. More so than any other, their favorite meal is the chicken nuggets. They really look forward to that. Apparently, they're not the only ones with a special fondness for school lunch nuggets; two men in Florida really, really like them as well.
Restaurant Responsibilities
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011How much responsibility does a restaurant have to ensure that healthy options are available for kids and families? At some restaurants, the only healthy item available might be a glass of water and that's okay, if that's the sort of establishment they want to be. How about, though, restaurants that try to be "family-friendly" and that offer a "kid's meal"? Do they have any obligation to make healthy options available, at least as part of the kid's meals?
Anti-Vax'ers Lose In California
Saturday, January 1st, 2011Remember the bit I posted a while back about autism causing whooping cough? Some parents, afraid that vaccines caused autism despite plentiful evidence to the contrary and even outright debunking of the original "study" that first made the claim, have been deciding not to get their children immunized, including opting out of the whooping cough vaccine. Not surprisingly, that resulted in an increase in the incidence of the disease. That won't be happening in California any more, however, thanks to a new law going into effect.
No Pot While Pregnant
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010Did you know that you're not supposed to smoke marijuana while pregnant? I didn't. My wife didn't. No one told us during any of our three pregnancies. Not that it was an issue; neither of us uses marijuana. Still, given its prevalence and acceptance in California in general and the Bay Area in particular, I'm surprised it wasn't part of the classes we took and that my wife's doctors never mentioned it. Sadly, we're not the only ones who didn't know.
Kids Banned From Playing In The Snow
Monday, December 6th, 2010"I'm a trained risk assessor," says one parent "and this is not a health and safety issue." That's the point of view most parents would take, I think. In fact, some pay a lot of money just so their kids can enjoy this activity. But what is this situation that is so dangerous that some schools in Scotland are banning it? Playing in the snow, of course, because snow is, well, wet and cold.
Beware the Juice
Monday, November 22nd, 2010Soda, it's pretty well agreed, isn't good for kids, especially the younger ones. It rots teeth and, generally, contains caffeine, not to mention being a huge source of empty calories. Milk, well, it does a body good, but it too can be fattening — something, sadly, I know from personal experience. Of course, no one would recommend coffee for kids and, in the US at least, beer, wine, and other "adult" beverages are right out. So what's left, if your kids want something other than water? Juice is one option — except that even that has problems now.
The Dangers of Working at McDonald's
Monday, November 1st, 2010Like a lot of people, I did my time at McDonald's, working at the Opera House McDonald's restaurant here in San Francisco the summer before I started college. I am quite convinced that taking advantage of the free, unlimited access to soda was directly responsible for some serious dental issues I suffered subsequently. I don't blame the company, however; it was completely my own fault. I should have known the damage excessive amounts of soda could do to my teeth and, perhaps more importantly, no one forced me to drink the soda. One store manager in Brazil, however, faced a different set of circumstances.


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Wired: Do you ever get letters from kids who have been inspired by your books to become hacker anarchists?
Doctorow: Yeah, all the time — at least to become hackers, and political activists. My first young-adult novel Little Brother had an afterword with a bibliography for kids who want to get involved in learning how security works, learning how computers work, learning how to program them, learning how to take them apart, learning how to solve their problems with technology as well as with politics. And the number of kids who have written to me and said that they became programmers after reading that, I couldn't even count them. I've had similar responses to my second young-adult novel, For the Win, and I've also heard from kids who've read Pirate Cinema. In fact, we published an editorial by one of them on Boing Boing — an anonymous reader who makes her own movies out of Japanese anime, and who talked about what drives her and how the book resonated with her.
Wired: Do any of those fans have websites?
Doctorow: For Little Brother, if you go to craphound.com/littlebrother and just click on the remixes tab, there's a whole ton of these that I've collected over the years.
Wired: So in Pirate Cinema, the protagonist Trent writes, "I realized that the press always asks the same questions, so I'd just plop down on the sofa with my laptop and my headset and take the call while Jem fed me so much jet fuel it was a race to see whether I could finish the interview before I attained lift off and sailed into gabbling, babbling coffee orbit." Is that how you actually do interviews?
Doctorow: [laughs] A little bit. I mean, my friend Steve Gould, who wrote the novel Jumper, which became the not-very-good movie Jumper, went on a press tour when the movie came out, and he's said the reason it's called a "press" tour is because it's like being pressed between two boards. And it is true that most of the questions are the same, but I don't mind answering them because I find that talking about the stuff helps me think it through. It's a productive task for me.
I do actually really dislike writing out the same answers over and over again. For some reason, typing the same block of text twice feels remarkably wasteful in a way that saying the same thing twice doesn't. Maybe because if you say it a lot it gets better, because you can inflect it better, and you can practice it. Whereas if you type the same thing over and over again, I don't think you get better at it. I mean, maybe you get better at typing, but you don't get better at expressing the underlying ideas.
So I've often thought that what I might do for the so-called e-mail interviews — which I just hate, I hate the kind of "Well, I've just got a few quick questions for you," and the quick questions are questions that are quick to type but not quick to respond to, like "What is art?" or "What is virtue?" or "How should the world be governed?" I mean, that is a very quick question, but not necessarily a quick question to answer.
I've often thought that what I might do is take all the questions I've been asked before in writing and just post them on a public page, and whenever anyone asks to e-mail interview me, say, "You may ask me two questions that aren't in this list. You can use this list as much as you like, and you can ask me two more, but with the understanding that as soon as I answer them for you, I'm going to add them to that page." Because it just seems to me that a lot of e-mail interviews, the real underlying pitch is, "Will you write me five short essays that I can publish under my byline?"
Wired: Well, and what you just described is what Trent does in the novel.
Doctorow: Yeah, well, if it's a good idea in real life, it's a good idea to beta test in fiction.
Wired: So you just wrapped up your book tour. Do you have any funny stories from the tour that you want to share?
Doctorow: I'm trying to think of any particularly funny stories. I mean, I've had funny road stories before. I got interviewed once when I was on tour with For the Win. I was in San Francisco, and I had an interview scheduled at 5 a.m. with a British newspaper. My friend Aleks Krotoski was writing for the Independent in London — and obviously 5 a.m. on the West Coast is a reasonable hour in London. I'd had room service bring up breakfast, and I had to get dressed while I was talking to her, because I had to get out of the hotel right after we were done and go to the airport, and so I answered her Skype call sitting down at my desk — still not dressed — and she said, "You're naked." And I went, "Shit! The camera is on."
I was at the desk, so you just saw sort of halfway up my chest and up. It wasn't anything that you wouldn't see on a beach, certainly, and it wasn't anything particularly embarrassing, except that I'd answered the video phone naked, essentially. And so I went and turned the camera off. And I kept walking around the room, and getting dressed, and eating my breakfast, and answering her questions, and carrying the laptop around as I did.
And then I was finally dressed, and I'd eaten my breakfast and was finishing up the interview, and I sat down again and put the laptop down again and looked, and the camera light was still on. And I said, "Aleks, has the camera been on the whole time?" And she said, "Yeah, I didn't want to embarrass you." And I'm like, "You could have just told me." [laughs] And again, she's a very good friend. She's a good friend of my wife's. She stayed over at our place. She's seen me get out of the bathroom with a towel around my waist, and I'm sure she didn't see anything much ruder than that. But it was a bit embarrassing.
And then the other one was, I did a signing in Austin. And I think it was also on a For the Win tour. And a guy came up, and I said, "So what can I write in your book?" And he said, "Drama hobbit." And I said, "Drama hobbit?" And he said, "Yeah, drama hobbit." And I was like, "Really?" And he was like, "Drama hobbit." And so I drew this "drama hobbit," a hobbit that was very dramatic — a little guy with a pointy hat and pointy ears and furry feet and a kind of knife, and he had drama lines coming out of him, which in hindsight probably looked a bit like stink lines.
And I handed the book to him and he said, "What's that?" and I said, "It's a drama hobbit." And he said, "No, no, no. Draw Mohammed." It was "Draw Mohammed Week," and it was during the Danish cartoon thing. But so I've always wanted to do a "Drama Hobbit Week" where everybody draws the most dramatic hobbits they can, but I've yet to convince anyone else that it would be a good idea.
Wired: You have a new nonfiction book coming out called Information Doesn't Want to be Free. You want to tell us about that?
Doctorow: Sure. I mean, my agent has just started to get offers on it — because he just started shopping it — and I haven't heard much from him because he lives in New Jersey and has no power or water or heat, and has been talking about barbecuing his cats, but as far as I know the sales process is in the offing and the book will be out at some point. It's a short business book about copyright, and it's meant to be three sensible things that you can take into your understanding of copyright as you structure your business around the digital age.
The first thing is that if you let someone else put a lock on your file, and if that person doesn't give you the key, that lock can't be there for your benefit. That lock will eventually be used against you. And so, for example, Apple and Audible won't allow you to sell audiobooks without their DRM on it — without their digital lock on it. And because it's illegal to remove a digital lock, what that's really doing is tying all of your customers, as someone who makes audiobooks, to their platform.
And so if later on someone has a better platform, what you are doing is guessing or hoping or betting that all the people who have ever bought your audiobooks in the old platform follow you to the new one, even though it means maintaining two separate library management tools, or else throwing away all their old audiobooks, including the ones you sold them. So as someone who invests in making this media, if you're a publisher or studio or a newspaper or a record label, you really need to focus on making sure that you're not handing control over your business to a company who doesn't really contribute to the business; they just put locks on it.
The next piece of advice is that although fame won't make you rich, you can't get rich in the arts without fame. On the one hand there are lots of people whose works have been widely downloaded and who didn't make any money from it, but all the people who made money in the arts made money by being widely known to their audiences. And the internet allows us to have all kinds of paths to have our work discovered and shared among audiences, and promoted within those audiences. It's still up to us to figure out how to turn that into money, but without the fame you don't even have the opportunity to do that.
And the copyright laws that the entertainment industry has been agitating for — particularly the ones that make it more expensive to operate any of these services like Blogger or Google or Facebook or YouTube, because they require that you pay unimaginable armies of lawyers to make sure that nothing uploaded infringes on copyright — that what those end up doing is putting independent distribution and independent audience discovery outside of the reach of individual artists, such that you always have to sign up with a label or a studio or a publisher to get a decent deal, or to reach an audience at all, and that when they control all of the distribution channels and all the audience discovery and audience interaction channels, that they can basically command incredibly abusive terms from the artists that they deal with. And so it's really in artists' interests that the intermediaries — the people who sit between us and our audiences — have low barriers to entry, so that they're continuously being disrupted and there are lots of new businesses entering all the time and vying for our business.
And then the third one is that information doesn't want to be free but people do, and that when we focus on the question of "information" when we make internet policy, instead of recognizing — as you see in Pirate Cinema — that the internet is really fundamentally about everything that we do in the 21st century — not just how we entertain ourselves — that we end up putting everyone at risk. That designing devices, for example, to prevent copying involves designing devices that hide things from their users. You can't design a device that when you say, "Copy the file please, HAL," and it says, "I can't let you do that, Dave," you can't design that device in a way that's effective if there's a program called "HAL 9000″ on the desktop that you can just drag into the trash. So it has to be able to hide programs and processes from users.
And once you start doing that, once you start designing devices so that they hide things from their owners, you get into really serious trouble, because the devices that we use, we use them for everything. They're not just our entertainment tools, they're how we live our whole lives, and they know lots of things about us. They know where we are, and who we talk to, and where we've been. They know all the secrets of our lives, and so we really want to be sure that they're honest servants and that they're not hiding things from us and that they're not disobeying us when we tell them to do things.
Wired: I saw that Amanda Palmer wrote an introduction to the book.
Doctorow: Yeah, and so did Neil Gaiman.
Wired: And recently there was this big brouhaha online about the way that Amanda handled her Kickstarter campaign. What was your take on that?
Doctorow: Yeah, I was on tour when that happened. I have to say that I didn't really understand the brouhaha, particularly. It seems to me that what she wanted was to allow people in different cities who had bands and who loved her music to come and perform with her, in the same way that sometimes authors who are coming to town will say to their publicist, "You know, there's this other author who's not as well known as me but whose work I really admire. Maybe that author would like to interview me on stage?" I've done a ton of those gigs, and I've done them in the other direction too. And it's often the case that when an author is brought to town they're paid for it — or at the very least they're selling a book — and the author who's the kind of junior partner in that, they do it not for money, they do it because for them it's an opportunity to I guess ride on the other author's coattails a bit, and also it's a mutual aid situation — "I'll help you a little and you help me a little."
I don't doubt that Amanda could have paid for musicians to go around with her, or could have arranged things so that she didn't need as many musicians, but I think that what she did she did from a fairly generous impulse. The people who complained about how she was organizing that part of her business weren't the people who she was nominally exploiting. It wasn't like there were people who showed up to perform with Amanda Palmer, went backstage afterwards, saw her lying in a bathtub full of hundred-dollar bills, and went, "Oh my god, I've been robbed." They were instead people who, when Amanda announced, "I would like to get some local performers to come up on stage with me so I can promote these people to the audiences that come out to my gigs and so that we can all perform together, we can play together," those people jumped at the opportunity. They even queued up to audition for that opportunity, competed for the chance to be on stage at an Amanda Palmer gig and to be within the penumbra of her performance.
The thing that's confusing about the arts is that it's both a business and a cultural activity, and there are lots of things that we do in the arts that are not economically rational. I have neglected my own work — rather a lot, in fact — to do things like read young writers' books so that I could write reviews and blurbs for them, sometimes dropping everything to get a blurb in on time for an author that I really believed in. I didn't have any rational expectation of making money from that, and the author who asked me was going to make money directly as a result — or at least believed that they would make money directly as a result — of my writing the blurb.
The reason I did that was not a commercial reason. The reason I did it was a cultural reason. It's because the arts consist of a cultural conversation as well as a series of economic transactions, and those can't be interrogated according to the same criteria. That's not to say that you can't do the wrong thing in a cultural context, but something that might seem wrong or exploitative in an economic context in many cases I think looks great and right in a cultural context.


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OK, Pladio, allow me to summarize as well. Keep in mind that I'm also responding to the broader issue here, so my answer might not line up word-for-word with your exact position. I'll try to keep it close.
Even if you propose gun control as part of a broader initiative (WHICH YOU DID NOT until faced with the Chicago evidence), it has been demonstrated that your proposal failed in the real world. Now, the gun control folks haven't said jack shit about poverty, and you know it. "Take away the guns and you take away the opportunity." Throwing it in there after you've gotten a logic wedgie is sloppy and disingenuous. But let's allow it for a moment.
Presumably, over the 28 years where Chicago had a gun ban in place, you folks have been working on poverty as well, yes? Let's call all those fantastic ideas, programs, activities, and feel-goodie hubbub, X. Now, unless you've got a major unveiling waiting in the wings, you intend to continue doing X, yes? After all, that's working on the problem of poverty. For my purposes, I don't give two shits what is contained in X. You get full credit for doing it, you get impressive medals for its rousing success, and you get full credit for continuing it forever and ever going forward.
guns + X = baseline quantity of gun-related violence
gun ban + X =
Let's say that you feel that X is, in truth, a dismal failure. For clarity, let's call that, Y. We can even say that Y means we didn't do shit about poverty, wealth distribution, mental health, and phases of the moon—whatever it is in that completely undefined lump that you're so hung up on.
guns + Y = level of gun related violence
gun ban + Y =
So, unless you've got new things to offer that make up X, all your whining about outside factors makes no difference to the topic whatsoever and the continued attempts to hang a gun ban on it would have to be considered, at the most generous possible, misdirection.
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