Ethelo is a multi-party scenario analysis engine for solving complex, contentious problems.
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It’s a simple idea: decisions are complex
Ethelo is a multi-party scenario analysis engine for solving complex, contentious problems.
Ethelo’s strength is the last stage of decision-making: convergence and closure.
Ethelo provides workflows for dozens of different decisions types
Ethelo helps groups reach agreement, even when people want different things
Ethelo is optimized to search billions of possible outcomes in moments
Ethelo finds solutions that maximize satisfaction while minimizing inequality.
The decision on the right is a better plan than the one on the left. Why?
People on the right are roughly equally happy. They will be united in moving forward together, which increases the chance of success. The plan on the left is divisive and polarizing, with winners and losers. This means there will be conflict and resistance to moving forward. Traditional democracy, with its “rule by majority,” can easily lead to these kinds of divisive outcomes eg. Brexit and the US elections
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Ethelo Features
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Ethelo uses combinatorics to search for fair decision outcomes
Ethelo considers a variety of parameters to evaluate potential decisions
“Justice is Fairness”
Ethelo was inspired by the philosophy of John Rawls
Ethelo draws its philosophical roots from the work of John Rawls, a 20th-century philosophy and social contract theorist.
Check out our online learning guides!
“The evolution of democracy; using collective intelligence and combinatorics to solve complex social problems”
The Computer Science University of Waterloo optimized the Ethelo Engine
Can an algorithm be used for social good? Ricardo Fukasawa has made a career of studying algorithmic optimization, but the work usually centres around improving business efficiency to enhance a.
The Ethelo engine is open sourced under an Affero copy-left licence.
Read the Ethelo white paper
to get a deeper understanding of the algorithm
More Background Reading
There has been growing speculation about the potential impact of artificial intelligence, in particular machine learning, on how society operates at the macro level.
Morphological Analysis (MA), which means “the study of forms” is well established as a method for modelling structural relationships between objects and phenomena in a number of scientific fields.
Ethelo is collaboration technology designed for solving multi-factor decision problems, particularly when issues are contentious and there is a requirement for fairness.
Ethelo Theory “Ethelo” is a word from ancient Greek that means “intention” or “willpower.” The theory underlying ethelo is that complex problems can be solved by identifying decisions that will focus.
