it disincentivizes making (nontrivial, falsifiable) commitments
I wonder if this could be fixed e.g. by making a table where columns are companies, rows are things that should be done, and the cells are e.g. black for “didn’t even say that would do that” and orange for “they said they would do that” and green for “they actually do that”? Or something similar that would by design show “made a promise” as an improvement over “didn’t even make a promise”.
Yeah that’s progress. But then you realize that ~all commitments are too weak/vague (not to mention non-standardized) and you notice that words-about-the-future are cheap and you realize you should focus on stuff other than commitments.
I wonder if this could be fixed e.g. by making a table where columns are companies, rows are things that should be done, and the cells are e.g. black for “didn’t even say that would do that” and orange for “they said they would do that” and green for “they actually do that”? Or something similar that would by design show “made a promise” as an improvement over “didn’t even make a promise”.
Yeah that’s progress. But then you realize that ~all commitments are too weak/vague (not to mention non-standardized) and you notice that words-about-the-future are cheap and you realize you should focus on stuff other than commitments.