Filtering mechanisms are bad because nerds want to be nice because they remember people not being nice to them. I know this has been retread many times both in broader society and here on LW, but given the state of pedagogy there is much territory that must be reconquered every generation (and even every cohort within a generation, with turnover of around 5-10 years). To have a sustained open conversation someone has to be ruthless about kicking out people who want to turn things to other considerations, including being right about the fact that the open conversation is not value-free and highly contextual. Yes, inquiry is highly contextual, good inquiry even generates whole new contexts that are wildly unequal in access. The early crypto enthusiasts who did it for fun did get the chance to get rich. If the search for truth included no artifacts of power waiting to be discovered out in the wild wastes we would likely have far less interest it.
Or, to put it blithely, ‘tolerance’ has a scope/abstraction level problem. This problem has manifestations both external and internal.
Oh, and alternately as well: filtering mechanisms are also hard because the very idea of ‘filtering’ can port in basically the whole of the problem space.
Filtering mechanisms are bad because nerds want to be nice because they remember people not being nice to them. I know this has been retread many times both in broader society and here on LW, but given the state of pedagogy there is much territory that must be reconquered every generation (and even every cohort within a generation, with turnover of around 5-10 years). To have a sustained open conversation someone has to be ruthless about kicking out people who want to turn things to other considerations, including being right about the fact that the open conversation is not value-free and highly contextual. Yes, inquiry is highly contextual, good inquiry even generates whole new contexts that are wildly unequal in access. The early crypto enthusiasts who did it for fun did get the chance to get rich. If the search for truth included no artifacts of power waiting to be discovered out in the wild wastes we would likely have far less interest it.
Or, to put it blithely, ‘tolerance’ has a scope/abstraction level problem. This problem has manifestations both external and internal.
Oh, and alternately as well: filtering mechanisms are also hard because the very idea of ‘filtering’ can port in basically the whole of the problem space.