Child Dialogue nodes

When we have multiple responses to one Intention node based on different entities, we can offload the dialogue stream onto different child nodes to ensure the response matches the input.

For example: With the #hours_info intent, our response changes depending on the @location entity, so when we build our dialogue, we create a child dialogue with multiple responses based on the different entities in the user input.

⥅ [[Define_Domain_Specific_Intents.pdf]]

• What time is your Vancouver store open?
  • #hours_open intent
    • @location entity

We want to be able to change the response based on the entity.

• What time is your @location store open?

So we add child nodes as below.

Main considerations

1. Delete the text response from the main node
2. Change the "What for user response" option to "Skip user input" so it will hand off to the child nodes
3. Use the cog symbol in the child node to change to "multiple conditioned responses" so each entity can have its own response.

Fallback child node

Like having the "Anything else" node last, you should always have a [[Fallback child node]] last.

child poverty

Tags

#child-rights #literature-notes #mad #posco

childcare

• In 1959, Boris [[Nikitin]], aeronautical engineer, met Lena, a literature teacher. They found the [[education]] system painful, and wanted to try something else. They applied for funding for a new kind of school, but it fell through.
  • They started a family, and simply applied the principles they wanted to test to their own lives. Their principle was to let their children play freely and only offer support rather than control.
  • Their goal wasn't to create geniuses, but just 'decent people'.
  • Boris and Lena did not stop their kids from trying things. They figured if their kids were told what was dangerous, they would not know how to figure out what is dangerous for themselves.
  • Lena believed it was better for their kids to get in a little trouble in front of them, rather than for the kids to live in safety. She called it a 'safety vaccine', which you may identify as 'hormesis'.
  • They let their kids climb and move freely, figuring that they would develop strength and agility more easily if they were allowed to move where they wanted, and the perception to know what was dangerous and what was not when they fell of their own will.
  • They didn't do any sterile cleaning, and made books, chalkboards, and gymnastics equipment available the children. There were no lessons or mandatory practice, so the children moved between subjects with ease.
  • Boris and Lena came up with games for their kids to play, and these appear to be accessible in a German-language book. I assume all of this is more accessible in Russian.
  • The children appeared to get their habits by following their parents example. Later in life, they reported that they had a lot of trouble doing what they did not want to do, which was a difficult adjustment to society. One of them used martial arts to learn this.
  • Another issue was public attention. Apparently both their parents and the children got a lot of it, though they've gone on to carve out lives for themselves. The children appear to have a 90s-style website now, which documents their family. http://nikitiny.ru/pro-semyu-nikitinyh#Principy

Children of Men

One of my favourite films. Just so well done. So much detail.

I wrote this in January 2016 about it:

A bit exaggerated, but not entirely unimaginable picture of the not-so-distant future, if the present took a darker path. In the midst of a massive global crisis, the world turns insular and closes its borders. England has become a fascist state, with anyone foreign treated as subhuman and deported. Underground groups fight against the system, but also amongst themselves. Bexhill is a squalid refugee camp policed by gun toting thugs (e.g. if EDL ran the UKBA). People in dire circumstances put their faith in uncertain ships to take them to a better place.

Children of Men. Great film. Hopefully not too prescient. The premise for the global crisis is far fetched (although, extrapolate the current Zika virus out a bit…) but swap that idea out for some other vehicle of global instability (climate change anyone?), and you can watch Children of Men as a cautionary tale. To not just sit idly by and let the pernicious shit-stirring of the media get a toe hold in the nation's consciousness. You can laugh at the Daily Mail all day, but people actually read and believe that bullshit, and it's one of the most widely circulated propaganda devices in the UK. Disseminate information at every possibility to inform and debunk. Stick up for what's right, and never lose hope in humanity.

Also this article said it a lot better in December 2019: Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men Is a Dystopian Masterpiece

Tags

#transactional-analysis #ego #permanent-notes