Open Discussion
Open thread: where has disagreement gone well for you?
On the idea: Can disagreement be made productive at scale?
Opening note
Concrete cases only, please. No theories of the internet.
NSNoémie SimardOpened 11 Jun 2026
Participants: Noémie Simard, Rosalind Grant, Ouattara Bamadou, Amara Moyo, Lian Chen
Evidence on the table
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OBOuattara Bamadou12 Jun 2026
A WhatsApp group of eleven economists in Abidjan, running six years. What makes it work is that everyone will meet everyone else again, in person, within the month.
RGRosalind Grant13 Jun 2026
Peer review, occasionally — specifically double-blind review with a named editor who arbitrates. The arbitration is doing most of the work, not the anonymity.