This is technically beside your point and doesn’t take away from your larger thesis, but I think you misunderstand the primary value of guess culture in the guess/ask/tell divide you reference. In fact, your description of guess culture seems at odds with what it is like to work well within it.
It’s to some extent true that guess culture relies on “subsystems” to automatically notice and respond to patterns in subconscious and reflexive ways and in this way largely does not make a bid for deliberative thought except when an anomaly is detected (you might say you mostly do it with S1 unless you aren’t sure what to do and then need S2 whereas the other cultures more ignore S1 in favor of S2), but what is primarily of value in guess culture is ambiguity. If anything guess culture is not a request to shift burden but a request for more burden in order to increase ambiguity (and politeness and maybe other things but certainly not to reduce “burden” other than maybe something like the “burden” of risk of offence).
This is technically beside your point and doesn’t take away from your larger thesis, but I think you misunderstand the primary value of guess culture in the guess/ask/tell divide you reference. In fact, your description of guess culture seems at odds with what it is like to work well within it.
It’s to some extent true that guess culture relies on “subsystems” to automatically notice and respond to patterns in subconscious and reflexive ways and in this way largely does not make a bid for deliberative thought except when an anomaly is detected (you might say you mostly do it with S1 unless you aren’t sure what to do and then need S2 whereas the other cultures more ignore S1 in favor of S2), but what is primarily of value in guess culture is ambiguity. If anything guess culture is not a request to shift burden but a request for more burden in order to increase ambiguity (and politeness and maybe other things but certainly not to reduce “burden” other than maybe something like the “burden” of risk of offence).