This document codifies and expresses some of my thinking on cooperation on complex problems, for the sake of the benefit of humanity and nature: Open Process Manifesto
It is based on the recognition of our universal fallibility, need to be comprehended, and to be able to share out tasks between people across space and time. To achieve those purposes, we need to be open about our reasoning and evidence, because that’s the way to treat others as intelligent partners who may be able to support the same cause through methods totally unknown and unavailable to you, across the world or centuries in the future.
This is another quite decent NotebookLM audio overview.
Thank you for article on the Open Process Manifesto. I found it quite interesting. I could see it would be contrary to how politics is acted on, such as referenced by Machiavelli.
I have also heard from science is more akin to the open process. Scientists build on the work of others. Results can be replicated and tested
For people who engage in it by reflex, the point about how self-deception prevents learning in footnote 4 on page 2 might be the most important.
When defence mechanisms are so strong that they make a person forget or distort what really happens, it robs that person of the chance to ever understand or learn from the experience.