Sometimes the work done makes the communal space worse for some particular user. For example, if the redecorator puts in some pretty potted plants that one other user is allergic to, then calling the redecorator’s work “pro-social” implies that it’s perfectly fine for society to exile the allergy-sufferer. The criticism “hey, I’m allergic to those plants you put in; your redecoration effort has exiled me from the communal space” is valid, and the response “well, if you didn’t want to be exiled, you should have done the redecoration yourself” would be quite bad!
Sure, if someone’s critique is “these detailed stories do not help” then that’s quite different, but I think most people agree that how the immediate future goes is very important, most people are speaking in vagueries and generalities, attempting to write detailed stories showing your best guess for how the future could go is heavily undersupplied, and that this work is helpful for having concrete things to debate (even if all the details will be wrong).
Sometimes the work done makes the communal space worse for some particular user. For example, if the redecorator puts in some pretty potted plants that one other user is allergic to, then calling the redecorator’s work “pro-social” implies that it’s perfectly fine for society to exile the allergy-sufferer. The criticism “hey, I’m allergic to those plants you put in; your redecoration effort has exiled me from the communal space” is valid, and the response “well, if you didn’t want to be exiled, you should have done the redecoration yourself” would be quite bad!
Sure, if someone’s critique is “these detailed stories do not help” then that’s quite different, but I think most people agree that how the immediate future goes is very important, most people are speaking in vagueries and generalities, attempting to write detailed stories showing your best guess for how the future could go is heavily undersupplied, and that this work is helpful for having concrete things to debate (even if all the details will be wrong).