This line of thought caused me to think that it might be quite valuable to have some kind of “conversation escrow” that allows people to have [a] conversation in private that still reliably gets published. As an example, you could imagine a feature on LessWrong to invite someone to a private comment-thread. The whole thread happens in private, and is scheduled to be published a week after the last comment in the thread was made, unless any of the participants presses a veto button...
I’m not sure I understand either the problem or the proposed solution. If there’s a veto button, it’s not reliable publishing, is it? How is this any better or different than having a private exchange via e-mail, Slack, Discord, etc, and then asking the other person, “Do you mind if I publish an excerpt?”
More generally, I’m not sure what kind of problem this tool would solve. Can you name some kinds of conversations that this tool would be used for?
I don’t know how much the tool would help, but it seems like an importantly different expectation where “this will be published, unless someone actively thinks it’d be bad to do so” vs “this is by default private, unless someone actively asks to publish.”
Yeah, this is mostly it. Making things “by default public unless someone objects” feels very different than normal private google docs where asking whether you can make it public feels like a strong ask and quite weird.
I’m not sure there’s a difference. Either you’re asking up front (“Hey, do you mind if I set this timer to auto-publish in a week?”) or you’re asking later (“Hey, we just discussed something that I think would be of interest, do you mind if I publish it?”).
In fact, I think asking after the fact might be easier, because you can point to specific things that were discussed and say, “I’m going to excerpt <x>, <y>, and <z>. Is that okay?”
I’m not sure I understand either the problem or the proposed solution. If there’s a veto button, it’s not reliable publishing, is it? How is this any better or different than having a private exchange via e-mail, Slack, Discord, etc, and then asking the other person, “Do you mind if I publish an excerpt?”
More generally, I’m not sure what kind of problem this tool would solve. Can you name some kinds of conversations that this tool would be used for?
I don’t know how much the tool would help, but it seems like an importantly different expectation where “this will be published, unless someone actively thinks it’d be bad to do so” vs “this is by default private, unless someone actively asks to publish.”
Yeah, this is mostly it. Making things “by default public unless someone objects” feels very different than normal private google docs where asking whether you can make it public feels like a strong ask and quite weird.
I’m not sure there’s a difference. Either you’re asking up front (“Hey, do you mind if I set this timer to auto-publish in a week?”) or you’re asking later (“Hey, we just discussed something that I think would be of interest, do you mind if I publish it?”).
In fact, I think asking after the fact might be easier, because you can point to specific things that were discussed and say, “I’m going to excerpt <x>, <y>, and <z>. Is that okay?”