When you look at the question using that native architecture, it becomes relatively simple to find a reasonable answer. This is the same way that we regularly find solutions to complex negotiations between multiple parties, or plan complex situations with multiple constraints, even though many of those tasks are naively uncomputable.
I’m not confident that it does. I perhaps expect people doing this using the native architecture to feel like they’ve found a reasonable answer. But I would expect them to actually be prioritising their own feelings, in most cases. (Though some people will underweight their own feelings. And perhaps some people will get it right.)
Perhaps they will get close enough for the answer to still count as “reasonable”?
If someone attempts to give equal weight to their own needs, the meds of their interlocutor, and the needs of the forum as a whole—how do we know whether they’ve got a reasonable answer? Does that just have to be left to moderator discretion, or?
If someone attempts to give equal weight to their own needs, the meds of their interlocutor, and the needs of the forum as a whole—how do we know whether they’ve got a reasonable answer? Does that just have to be left to moderator discretion, or?
Yes basically, but if the forum were to take on this direction, the idea would be to have enough case examples/explanations from the moderators about WHY they made that discretion to calibrate people’s reasonable answers. See also this response to Zach which goes more into details about the systems in place to calibrate people’s reasonable answers.
I’m not confident that it does. I perhaps expect people doing this using the native architecture to feel like they’ve found a reasonable answer. But I would expect them to actually be prioritising their own feelings, in most cases. (Though some people will underweight their own feelings. And perhaps some people will get it right.)
Perhaps they will get close enough for the answer to still count as “reasonable”?
If someone attempts to give equal weight to their own needs, the meds of their interlocutor, and the needs of the forum as a whole—how do we know whether they’ve got a reasonable answer? Does that just have to be left to moderator discretion, or?
Yes basically, but if the forum were to take on this direction, the idea would be to have enough case examples/explanations from the moderators about WHY they made that discretion to calibrate people’s reasonable answers. See also this response to Zach which goes more into details about the systems in place to calibrate people’s reasonable answers.