hot take: anon people with “hot takes” are the most beta of beta energy. 

sharing a strong POV takes a lot more courage when there is reputational, social, and financial capital on the line — and rarely is that ever the case when one is anon.

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🌶️- if you take a random person, based or not, and you impose the risk of loss of reputational, social, and financial capital...

that's just a more coercible person that will agree with others. especially if they know that the consensus is wrong.

so instead of encouraging people to speak freely and respect them for when they voice a contrarian opinion, you’d rather encourage them to say everything anonymously behind a mask?

I think it's not that axiomatic. if we wanted the most objective truth, we'd force the most rigorous dialogue to their logical ends (w/o derailing). a lot of that is automatically churned out when one presents a dilemma of either providing honest feedback as a sacrifice, or staying silent as a way to succeed.