Society · Protocols
Doubtshelter
Make voicing uncertainty or asking for evidence cost no standing in a group
Definition
Mechanism
Before a group records agreement, each member is asked for remaining doubts, and each doubt is recorded beside the agreement, scoped to the specific point it concerns. A point for which evidence is absent is marked Uncertain. Voicing a doubt, or asking for clarification or evidence, is answered on its merits and never treated as a fault.
Invariants
- Before agreement is recorded, each member is asked for remaining doubts.
- Each doubt is recorded beside the agreement, scoped to the point it concerns.
- Voicing a doubt, or requesting clarification or evidence, is never itself treated as a fault.
Risks
Failure modes
Doubthush
members withhold uncertainty because the group seems more certain than they privately are.
Questiontoll
asking for clarification or evidence costs the asker standing.
Doubt theatre
doubts are invited and recorded but never change anything.
Relationships
Builds on
References
Mind
Epistemic status: genuinely don't know
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
Reference