That’s not really “concrete” feedback though, right? In the outcome game/consensus game dynamic Stephen’s talking about, it seems hard to play an outcome game with that kind of feedback.
I’m not sure what “concrete” is supposed to mean; for the one or two senses I immediately imagine, no, I would say the feedback is indeed concrete. In terms of consensus/outcome, no, I think the feedback is actually concrete. There is a difficulty, which is that there’s a much smaller set of people to whom the outcomes are visible.
As an analogy/example: feedback in higher math. It’s “nonconcrete” in that it’s “just verbal arguments” (and translating those into something much more objective, like a computer proof, is a big separate long undertaking). And there’s a much smaller set of people who can tell what statements are true in the domain. There might even be a bunch more people who have opinions, and can say vaguely related things that other non-experts can’t distinguish from expert statements, and who therefore form an apparent consensus that’s wrong + ungrounded. But one shouldn’t conclude from those facts that math is less real, or less truthtracking, or less available for communities to learn about directly.
That’s not really “concrete” feedback though, right? In the outcome game/consensus game dynamic Stephen’s talking about, it seems hard to play an outcome game with that kind of feedback.
I’m not sure what “concrete” is supposed to mean; for the one or two senses I immediately imagine, no, I would say the feedback is indeed concrete. In terms of consensus/outcome, no, I think the feedback is actually concrete. There is a difficulty, which is that there’s a much smaller set of people to whom the outcomes are visible.
As an analogy/example: feedback in higher math. It’s “nonconcrete” in that it’s “just verbal arguments” (and translating those into something much more objective, like a computer proof, is a big separate long undertaking). And there’s a much smaller set of people who can tell what statements are true in the domain. There might even be a bunch more people who have opinions, and can say vaguely related things that other non-experts can’t distinguish from expert statements, and who therefore form an apparent consensus that’s wrong + ungrounded. But one shouldn’t conclude from those facts that math is less real, or less truthtracking, or less available for communities to learn about directly.