Can you define more precisely what you mean by “private discussion?” If by that you mean that all discourse is constrained to one-on-one conversations where the contents are not available to anyone else, I don’t intuitively see how this would be less destructive and more collaborative. It seems to require that a lot of interactions must occur before every person is up to date on the collective group knowledge, and also that for each conversation there is a lossy compression going on—it’s difficult for each conversation to carry the contents of each person’s history of previous conversations.
On the other hand, if you’re advocating for information to be filtered when transmitted beyond the trusted group, but flows freely within the trusted group, I believe that is less complicated and more efficient and I would have fewer objections to that.
By “private discussion” I mean discussions amongst small groups, in contrast with discussions amongst large groups. Both of them occur constantly. I’ve claimed that in general political considerations cut in favor of having private discussions more often than you otherwise would, I didn’t mean to be making a bold claim.
Can you define more precisely what you mean by “private discussion?” If by that you mean that all discourse is constrained to one-on-one conversations where the contents are not available to anyone else
I recently wanted to raise an issue with some possible controversy/politics in the main EA facebook group. Instead of approving the post I was told, “this post isn’t a good fit for the group, how about posting it instead in this secret facebook group.
That secret facebook group isn’t for one-on-one conversations but it’s still more private.
Can you define more precisely what you mean by “private discussion?” If by that you mean that all discourse is constrained to one-on-one conversations where the contents are not available to anyone else, I don’t intuitively see how this would be less destructive and more collaborative. It seems to require that a lot of interactions must occur before every person is up to date on the collective group knowledge, and also that for each conversation there is a lossy compression going on—it’s difficult for each conversation to carry the contents of each person’s history of previous conversations.
On the other hand, if you’re advocating for information to be filtered when transmitted beyond the trusted group, but flows freely within the trusted group, I believe that is less complicated and more efficient and I would have fewer objections to that.
By “private discussion” I mean discussions amongst small groups, in contrast with discussions amongst large groups. Both of them occur constantly. I’ve claimed that in general political considerations cut in favor of having private discussions more often than you otherwise would, I didn’t mean to be making a bold claim.
I recently wanted to raise an issue with some possible controversy/politics in the main EA facebook group. Instead of approving the post I was told, “this post isn’t a good fit for the group, how about posting it instead in this secret facebook group.
That secret facebook group isn’t for one-on-one conversations but it’s still more private.