The thing that feels actually bad is getting into a protracted discussion, on a particular (albeit fuzzy) cluster of topics
I think I want to reiterate my position that I would be sad about Said not being able to discuss Circling (which I think is one of the topics in that fuzzy cluster). I would still like to have a written explanation of Circling (for LW) that is intelligible to Said, and him being able to point out which bits are unintelligible and not feel required to pretend that they are intelligible seems like a necessary component of that.
With regards to Said’s ‘general pattern’, I think there’s a dynamic around socially recognized gnosis where sometimes people will say “sorry, my inability/unwillingness to explain this to you is your problem” and have the commons on their side or not, and I would be surprised to see LW take the position that authors decide for that themselves. Alternatively, tech that somehow makes this more discoverable and obvious—like polls or reacts or w/e—does seem good.
I think productive conversations stem from there being some (but not too much) diversity in what gnosis people are willing to recognize, and in the ability for subspaces to have smaller conversations that require participants to recognize some gnosis.
I think I want to reiterate my position that I would be sad about Said not being able to discuss Circling (which I think is one of the topics in that fuzzy cluster). I would still like to have a written explanation of Circling (for LW) that is intelligible to Said, and him being able to point out which bits are unintelligible and not feel required to pretend that they are intelligible seems like a necessary component of that.
With regards to Said’s ‘general pattern’, I think there’s a dynamic around socially recognized gnosis where sometimes people will say “sorry, my inability/unwillingness to explain this to you is your problem” and have the commons on their side or not, and I would be surprised to see LW take the position that authors decide for that themselves. Alternatively, tech that somehow makes this more discoverable and obvious—like polls or reacts or w/e—does seem good.
I think productive conversations stem from there being some (but not too much) diversity in what gnosis people are willing to recognize, and in the ability for subspaces to have smaller conversations that require participants to recognize some gnosis.