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Dimension: Substantiveness

Represent complexity

Ability for final outputs to be nuanced, concrete, decisive, and comprehensive.

Maturity:

Low

Importance:

Extreme

Opportunity:

High

Neglectedness:

High

Transnational:

Low

How this is performed now...

Process organizers Process organizers create workflows that optimize for desired outcomes, properties such as concreteness and group agreement can be in tension.

Related Resources

Experimental Practice

Introducing Democratic Fine-Tuning

Joe Edelman's Democratic Fine-Tuning (DFT) process aligning LLMs with human values through collective deliberation using Values Cards (where participants articulate underlying values like "protecting my community" rather than divisive language) and Moral Graphs (collaborative data structures mapp...

Measuring concreteness (forthcoming)

Forthcoming paper on measuring concreteness in deliberative outputs

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Related goals and research questions

Goal: Recommendations that are effectively stress tested to be as robust as possible.

What are the best methods for providing impartial robustness checking and critical friend support for output refinement?

Relevant disciplines

Political Science Public Policy & Law

How can we ensure that outputs go beyond abstract, high-level principles to specific, actionable proposals?

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Public Policy & Law Communication & Media

Goal: Agreement is found on concrete proposals and not empty platitudes.

How can we measure the concreteness of statements and recommendations?

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Communication & Media Psychology

How to balance finding common ground within a limited time, while minimally sacrificing depth of final outputs?

Relevant disciplines

Political Science Communication & Media

Goal: Outputs that address the complexity and nuance of the issue.

How to balance finding common ground within a limited time, while minimally sacrificing depth of final outputs?

Relevant disciplines

Political Science Communication & Media