Everything quoted below seems pretty plausible, but I’d be keen to get more gears.
I strongly believe that “Thinking out loud” is one of the key virtues to cultivate in the technological era we’re in, and has major positive externalities,
Is it a virtue because of the positive externalities, or for other reasons? How does “technological era” factor in?
and any moves to hide discussion and thought, especially when simultaneously centralising power, often have surprisingly disastrous consequences.
There’s probably something to that, but just because there’s a rock on one side doesn’t mean there isn’t a hard place in on the other.
There are also details which affect the situation, such as there are different ways you might have people share their thinking:
1) Everyone shares thoughts whenever they feel like it, even when it’s likely to misconstrued and be difficult to correct.
2) Everyone shares their individual thoughts, but only after care has been taking to ensure there’s no misunderstanding, e.g. sharing a group statement about moderation to which individuals appends their individual thinking.
The latter does add some friction and is stifling, but for some topics that might just be the correct balance? It’s not clear to me yet that your considerations outweigh the others.
Everything quoted below seems pretty plausible, but I’d be keen to get more gears.
Is it a virtue because of the positive externalities, or for other reasons? How does “technological era” factor in?
There’s probably something to that, but just because there’s a rock on one side doesn’t mean there isn’t a hard place in on the other.
There are also details which affect the situation, such as there are different ways you might have people share their thinking:
1) Everyone shares thoughts whenever they feel like it, even when it’s likely to misconstrued and be difficult to correct.
2) Everyone shares their individual thoughts, but only after care has been taking to ensure there’s no misunderstanding, e.g. sharing a group statement about moderation to which individuals appends their individual thinking.
The latter does add some friction and is stifling, but for some topics that might just be the correct balance? It’s not clear to me yet that your considerations outweigh the others.