It seems that the text of what you’re saying implies you think humans have no agency over discourse norms, regulations, rules of games, etc, but that seems absurd so I don’t think you actually believe that.
How much agency we have is proportional to how many other actors are in a space. I think it’s quite achievable (though requires a bit of coordination) to establish good norms for a space with 100 people. It’s still achievable, but… probably at least (10x?) as hard to establish good norms for 1000 people.
But “public searchable internet” is immediately putting things in in a context with at least millions if not billions of potentially relevant actors, many of whom don’t know anything about your norms. I’m still actually fairly optimistic about making important improvements to this space, but those improvements will have a lot of constraints for anyone with major goals that affect the world-stage.
How much agency we have is proportional to how many other actors are in a space. I think it’s quite achievable (though requires a bit of coordination) to establish good norms for a space with 100 people. It’s still achievable, but… probably at least (10x?) as hard to establish good norms for 1000 people.
But “public searchable internet” is immediately putting things in in a context with at least millions if not billions of potentially relevant actors, many of whom don’t know anything about your norms. I’m still actually fairly optimistic about making important improvements to this space, but those improvements will have a lot of constraints for anyone with major goals that affect the world-stage.
Yes. This, exactly. Thank you for putting it so succinctly.
Furthermore, you have a lot more ability to enforce norms regarding what people say, as opposed to norms about how people interpret what people say.