Here is a list of some of my top specific interests relating to deliberation, sense-making, and rationality:
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Deliberative Democracy Tools - Systems for structured citizen participation, including participatory budgeting platforms and stakeholder engagement tools
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Argument Mapping & Visualization - Platforms for making reasoning explicit and visually representing dialectical structures
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Deep Thinking Environments - Slow media and platforms designed for thoughtful engagement rather than rapid interaction
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Belief Tracking Systems - Tools for attestation, commitment to positions, and tracking belief revision over time
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Bayesian & Evidential Reasoning Frameworks - Platforms that make probabilistic thinking explicit and support coherent belief updating
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Epistemic Communities - Networks and platforms with explicit norms for truth-seeking and intellectual humility
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Structured Dialogue Systems - Tools supporting deep listening and methodical conversation beyond typical messaging platforms
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Cooperative Governance Frameworks - Sociocratic, holacratic, and other systems for managing shared resources and decision-making
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Knowledge Synthesis & Curation - Tools for collaborative sense-making with quality controls beyond popularity metrics
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Decision Support Systems - Frameworks making decision processes explicit, including values clarification and cognitive debiasing
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Consensus-Building Methodologies - Approaches for finding agreement through structured deliberation rather than voting or averaging
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Collaborative Forecasting - Platforms for collective prediction and long-term thinking across groups
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Distributed Sense-Making - Tools enabling groups to develop shared understanding of complex issues
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Platform Cooperativism - Digital platforms owned and governed by their users/workers rather than external shareholders
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Solidarity Economy Infrastructure - Tools supporting mutual aid, community wealth building, and non-extractive economics