Thank you for adding this to our conversation. Just to kick things off… What does Deacon mean when he’s talking about groups of people tending to resent complex decision-makers? Is this something like resenting a school board for coming to a compromise, or does he mean that people resent self-appointed leaders within small groups?
There really does seem to be incredible promise in something that can reveal the ‘tyranny of structurelessness’ but I guess I have trouble visualizing how you could surface all of the hidden influences. Don’t people usually want those things hidden?
Also – and here’s my lazy journalist question – is there anything you’d like us to be asking you about this project?
I don’t recall the moment you’re talking about, but I wonder if it connects to his persistent theme of the trade-offs between complexity and simplicity—that complexity can be powerful but it can also turn away less well-trained participants. Based on these reflections, I am thinking that the right direction for CR is a bias for simplicity.
And I think you’re right that a ToS can arise regardless of any visualization or explicit rule-set. But I also think explicit rules reduce the amount of latitude that ToS can have.
No, I’m not fishing for questions—just sharing an interesting milestone!