Yeah, the positioning/size of the circles has nothing whatsoever to do with their actual size/degree of overlap, and everything to do with how to make the graph clearly legible at a glance (including the fact that the local-communities are in truth—that’s where they happen fit while being easy to label).
(I edited the image to explicitly say that so if anyone uses it elsewhere in the future hopefully people can avoid getting caught up on that particular nitpick. :P)
I have more thoughts about the rest that is taking longer (which could basically be summed up as “politics, however that plays out”. Basically, what matters (for any given community), is not which circle is most important, but rather:
what degree of overlap you have between values
insofar as people don’t share values, do they have reason to stick together anyway? If not, maybe a schism is fine.
if they’re sticking together, how can we resolve differences in such a way as to get everyone the most of what they want, look for pareto improvements, etc.
(epistemic status: thought about it 5 minutes, and am aware that if I thought about it a lot longer would probably have phrased some of that different)
Yeah, the positioning/size of the circles has nothing whatsoever to do with their actual size/degree of overlap, and everything to do with how to make the graph clearly legible at a glance (including the fact that the local-communities are in truth—that’s where they happen fit while being easy to label).
(I edited the image to explicitly say that so if anyone uses it elsewhere in the future hopefully people can avoid getting caught up on that particular nitpick. :P)
I have more thoughts about the rest that is taking longer (which could basically be summed up as “politics, however that plays out”. Basically, what matters (for any given community), is not which circle is most important, but rather:
what degree of overlap you have between values
insofar as people don’t share values, do they have reason to stick together anyway? If not, maybe a schism is fine.
if they’re sticking together, how can we resolve differences in such a way as to get everyone the most of what they want, look for pareto improvements, etc.
(epistemic status: thought about it 5 minutes, and am aware that if I thought about it a lot longer would probably have phrased some of that different)