Personally I am not much trying to maintain the privacy of my own mind at this point,
This sounds like an extreme and surprising statement. I wrote out some clarifying questions like “what do you mean by privacy here”, but maybe it’d be better to just say:
I think it strikes me funny because it sounds sort of like a PR statement. And it sounds like a statement that could set up a sort of “iterations of the Matrix”-like effect. Where, you say “ok now I want to clear out all the miasma, for real”, and then you and your collaborators do a pretty good job at that; but also, something’s been lost or never gained, namely the logical common knowledge that there’s probably-ongoing, probably difficult to see dynamics that give rise to the miasma of {ungrounded shared narrative, information cascades, collective blindspots, deferrals, circular deferrals, misplaced/miscalibrated trust, etc. ??}. In other words, since these things happened in a context where you and your collaborators were already using reflection, introspection, reasoning, communication, etc., we learn that the ongoing accumulation of miasma is a more permanent state of affairs, and this should be common knowledge. Common knowledge would for example help with people being able to bring up information about these dynamics, and expect their information to be put to good use.
(I notice an analogy between iterations of the Matrix and economic boom-bust cycles.)
“get it all out on the table” conversation
“technical debt” [...] I’m hoping gets cleared out
These statements also seem to imply a framing that potentially has the (presumably unintentional) effect of subtly undermining the common knowledge of ongoing miasma-or-whatever. Like, it sort of directs attention to the content but not the generator, or something; like, one could go through all the “stuff” and then one would be done.
This sounds like an extreme and surprising statement.
Well, maybe I phrased it poorly; I don’t think what I’m doing is extreme; “much” is doing a bunch of work in my “I am not much trying to...” sentence.
I mean, there’s plenty I don’t want to share, like a normal person. I have confidential info of other peoples that I’m committed to not sharing, and plenty of my own stuff that I am private about for whatever reason. But in terms of rough structural properties of my mind, or most of my beliefs, I’m not much trying for privacy. Like when I imagine being in a context where a bunch of circling is happening or something (circling allows silence/ignoring questions/etc..; still, people sometimes complain that facial expressions leak through and they don’t know how to avoid it), I’m not personally like “I need my privacy though.” And I’ve updated some toward sharing more compared to what I used to do.
Ok, thanks for clarifying. (To reiterate my later point, since it sounds like you’re considering the “narrative pyramid schemes” hypothesis: I think there is not common knowledge that narrative pyramid schemes happen, and that common knowledge might help people continuously and across contexts share more information, especially information that is pulling against the pyramid schemes, by giving them more of a true expectation that they’ll be heard by a something-maximizing person rather than a narrative-executer).
This sounds like an extreme and surprising statement. I wrote out some clarifying questions like “what do you mean by privacy here”, but maybe it’d be better to just say:
I think it strikes me funny because it sounds sort of like a PR statement. And it sounds like a statement that could set up a sort of “iterations of the Matrix”-like effect. Where, you say “ok now I want to clear out all the miasma, for real”, and then you and your collaborators do a pretty good job at that; but also, something’s been lost or never gained, namely the logical common knowledge that there’s probably-ongoing, probably difficult to see dynamics that give rise to the miasma of {ungrounded shared narrative, information cascades, collective blindspots, deferrals, circular deferrals, misplaced/miscalibrated trust, etc. ??}. In other words, since these things happened in a context where you and your collaborators were already using reflection, introspection, reasoning, communication, etc., we learn that the ongoing accumulation of miasma is a more permanent state of affairs, and this should be common knowledge. Common knowledge would for example help with people being able to bring up information about these dynamics, and expect their information to be put to good use.
(I notice an analogy between iterations of the Matrix and economic boom-bust cycles.)
These statements also seem to imply a framing that potentially has the (presumably unintentional) effect of subtly undermining the common knowledge of ongoing miasma-or-whatever. Like, it sort of directs attention to the content but not the generator, or something; like, one could go through all the “stuff” and then one would be done.
Well, maybe I phrased it poorly; I don’t think what I’m doing is extreme; “much” is doing a bunch of work in my “I am not much trying to...” sentence.
I mean, there’s plenty I don’t want to share, like a normal person. I have confidential info of other peoples that I’m committed to not sharing, and plenty of my own stuff that I am private about for whatever reason. But in terms of rough structural properties of my mind, or most of my beliefs, I’m not much trying for privacy. Like when I imagine being in a context where a bunch of circling is happening or something (circling allows silence/ignoring questions/etc..; still, people sometimes complain that facial expressions leak through and they don’t know how to avoid it), I’m not personally like “I need my privacy though.” And I’ve updated some toward sharing more compared to what I used to do.
Ok, thanks for clarifying. (To reiterate my later point, since it sounds like you’re considering the “narrative pyramid schemes” hypothesis: I think there is not common knowledge that narrative pyramid schemes happen, and that common knowledge might help people continuously and across contexts share more information, especially information that is pulling against the pyramid schemes, by giving them more of a true expectation that they’ll be heard by a something-maximizing person rather than a narrative-executer).