Comments on: RedBlue http://blog.logicalrealism.org/2006/10/29/redblue/ Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:08:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Brian http://blog.logicalrealism.org/2006/10/29/redblue/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Brian Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:07:12 +0000 http://www.blog.logicalrealism.org/?p=15#comment-23 This looks pretty interesting; I know a few other projects which seek to defuse polarization by giving people in a defensive posture--who would otherwise be excluded--a microsoapbox to talk with one or a few people about their concerns. A lot of our public decision-making processes are optimized for ease of data collection and providing speedy, unambiguous results. This is starting to look like a premature optimization: a society that relies on a winner-take-all method can't learn enough about itself to survive in the long term. This looks pretty interesting; I know a few other projects which seek to defuse polarization by giving people in a defensive posture–who would otherwise be excluded–a microsoapbox to talk with one or a few people about their concerns.

A lot of our public decision-making processes are optimized for ease of data collection and providing speedy, unambiguous results. This is starting to look like a premature optimization: a society that relies on a winner-take-all method can’t learn enough about itself to survive in the long term.

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