The first, ahem, detail that needs clarification is the goals. The “social changes” aim to change LW in which direction? “Better” is not a good answer. What do you want to grow, what do you want to kill, what do you want to transplant? By which metrics will you decide whether you’re getting closer to your goals?
What sort of medium do you think is best for this? A Slack chat? A regular thread here?
Not chat—you want something slower and more deliberate. Maybe a set of forum threads, one per issue.
The “social changes” aim to change LW in which direction?
I don’t think there’s a good short answer to this, because if I try to point at individual shifts and say “shifts like those shifts” I need to give many examples to give a clear picture, and if I try to point at principles guiding the shifts and say “shifts that follow those principles” I need to give many details about the principles to give a clear picture.
So I’ll give a long answer, but that’ll take time. (Maybe in the course of writing a long answer I’ll discover the short version.)
It looks to me like there’s a progression from “no input or explanation” to “explanation but no input” to “input and explanation.” I’d say something is still transparent in the second case, but oftentimes what people are really interested in is input. (Me talking at you more isn’t as helpful as me listening to you more!)
Well, assuming the existence of some High Council, the transparency ranking would go like this:
You see a witch being burned at the stake. You assume the High Council ordered this.
The High Council proclaims “Let the witch be burned!”.
The High Council proclaims “Let the witch be burned for she consorted with Clippy!”.
The High Council proclaims “Let the witch be burned for reasons A, B, and C which we deem more important then the mitigating circumstances X and Y.”
The High Council proclaims “Let the witch be burned, and, by the way, here are the minutes of the meeting where we decided she is to be burned.”
The High Council proclaims “Behold the witch! We will now debate in public whether she ought to be burned. What makes you think she is a witch?” A LessWronger: “She turned me into a newt!” The public: “A newt?!” The Lesswronger: “I got better”.
The first, ahem, detail that needs clarification is the goals. The “social changes” aim to change LW in which direction? “Better” is not a good answer. What do you want to grow, what do you want to kill, what do you want to transplant? By which metrics will you decide whether you’re getting closer to your goals?
Not chat—you want something slower and more deliberate. Maybe a set of forum threads, one per issue.
I don’t think there’s a good short answer to this, because if I try to point at individual shifts and say “shifts like those shifts” I need to give many examples to give a clear picture, and if I try to point at principles guiding the shifts and say “shifts that follow those principles” I need to give many details about the principles to give a clear picture.
So I’ll give a long answer, but that’ll take time. (Maybe in the course of writing a long answer I’ll discover the short version.)
I was imagining some people works be elected/appointed and that they’d Skype and then write up their decisions.
That doesn’t look terribly transparent to me.
It’d still be a massive improvement on what we have now and I assume that’d discuss interesting submissions
It looks to me like there’s a progression from “no input or explanation” to “explanation but no input” to “input and explanation.” I’d say something is still transparent in the second case, but oftentimes what people are really interested in is input. (Me talking at you more isn’t as helpful as me listening to you more!)
Well, assuming the existence of some High Council, the transparency ranking would go like this:
You see a witch being burned at the stake. You assume the High Council ordered this.
The High Council proclaims “Let the witch be burned!”.
The High Council proclaims “Let the witch be burned for she consorted with Clippy!”.
The High Council proclaims “Let the witch be burned for reasons A, B, and C which we deem more important then the mitigating circumstances X and Y.”
The High Council proclaims “Let the witch be burned, and, by the way, here are the minutes of the meeting where we decided she is to be burned.”
The High Council proclaims “Behold the witch! We will now debate in public whether she ought to be burned. What makes you think she is a witch?” A LessWronger: “She turned me into a newt!” The public: “A newt?!” The Lesswronger: “I got better”.