Tools for decision-support, deliberation, sense-making, reasoning

post by David James (david-james) · 2025-04-04T02:27:51.766Z · LW · GW · 0 comments

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I'm actively researching and cataloging various kinds of projects relating to decision-support, deliberation, sense-making, and reasoning. Some example categories include:

• Deliberative Democracy Tools - Systems for structured citizen participation, including participatory budgeting platforms and stakeholder engagement tools

• Argument Mapping & Visualization - Platforms for making reasoning explicit and visually representing dialectical structures

• Deep Thinking Environments - Slow media and platforms designed for thoughtful engagement rather than rapid interaction

• Belief Tracking Systems - Tools for attestation, commitment to positions, and tracking belief revision over time

• Bayesian & Evidential Reasoning Frameworks - Platforms that make probabilistic thinking explicit and support coherent belief updating

• Epistemic Communities - Networks and platforms with explicit norms for truth-seeking and intellectual humility

• Structured Dialogue Systems - Tools supporting deep listening and methodical conversation beyond typical messaging platforms

• Cooperative Governance Frameworks - Sociocratic, holacratic, and other systems for managing shared resources and decision-making

• Knowledge Synthesis & Curation - Tools for collaborative sense-making with quality controls beyond popularity metrics

• Decision Support Systems - Frameworks making decision processes explicit, including values clarification and cognitive debiasing

• Consensus-Building Methodologies - Approaches for finding agreement through structured deliberation rather than voting or averaging

• Collaborative Forecasting - Platforms for collective prediction and long-term thinking across groups

• Distributed Sense-Making - Tools enabling groups to develop shared understanding of complex issues

• Platform Cooperativism - Digital platforms owned and governed by their users/workers rather than external shareholders

• Solidarity Economy Infrastructure - Tools supporting mutual aid, community wealth building, and non-extractive economics

Does this interest you as well? Please reach out or comment. I'm hoping to connect with other people with similar interests.

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