The best things I’ve seen in this space have been under headings like “facilitated double crux”. This generally happens in person, between people of roughly equal prominence, in private or semi-private spaces. The private or semi-private nature seems important; if people have to optimize for public presentation at the same time as they’re trying to figure things out, these goals conflict in a way that makes people dig in on whatever stance they started with. I’m not aware of much in the way of good writeups on how to facilitate that well, but I do know that people are actively working on that question.
Vitalik Buterin recently made a very similar point, that caused him to change his mind regarding the value of privacy. Brief quote:
[One of the key things that caused me to update was reading] Robin Hanson and others’ literature on signalling, and seeing just how large a portion of our lives it still is. Basically, I see privacy as a way to prevent signalling concerns from encompassing all of our activity, and creating spheres where we are free to optimize for our own happiness and just our own happiness, and not what other people think about us.
The best things I’ve seen in this space have been under headings like “facilitated double crux”. This generally happens in person, between people of roughly equal prominence, in private or semi-private spaces. The private or semi-private nature seems important; if people have to optimize for public presentation at the same time as they’re trying to figure things out, these goals conflict in a way that makes people dig in on whatever stance they started with. I’m not aware of much in the way of good writeups on how to facilitate that well, but I do know that people are actively working on that question.
Vitalik Buterin recently made a very similar point, that caused him to change his mind regarding the value of privacy. Brief quote: