Latching on to the “hierarchy” keyword as an object of ire, and completely disregarding “position of trust and accountability”, does a massive disservice to the thrust of the argument.
You can easily repackage the concept as “role-based”, with someone taking the position of mediator or chairperson by collective agreement. The point is that the person is made aware of their responsibilities to promote a better conversation and is expected to be more sensitive to the peculiarities of their role, including accepting in their turn the potential for feedback or meta-meta-conversations.
Specialisation, separation of concerns, and checks-and-balances are neither unhealthy nor show a bug in the social graph. Neither does deferring decision making to a delegated individual. Good networks don’t need to be homogenous.
I am consistently able to pull off being that role for the first time by simply doing this. Not the way I interact here on lesswrong, of course, that would never work, I’m too spicy here. But I gave an example in another thread.
Latching on to the “hierarchy” keyword as an object of ire, and completely disregarding “position of trust and accountability”, does a massive disservice to the thrust of the argument.
You can easily repackage the concept as “role-based”, with someone taking the position of mediator or chairperson by collective agreement. The point is that the person is made aware of their responsibilities to promote a better conversation and is expected to be more sensitive to the peculiarities of their role, including accepting in their turn the potential for feedback or meta-meta-conversations.
Specialisation, separation of concerns, and checks-and-balances are neither unhealthy nor show a bug in the social graph. Neither does deferring decision making to a delegated individual. Good networks don’t need to be homogenous.
I am consistently able to pull off being that role for the first time by simply doing this. Not the way I interact here on lesswrong, of course, that would never work, I’m too spicy here. But I gave an example in another thread.