I see my proposal of two quarantined threads, as a proposal to lets stop messing up the map by all of us drawing with the same color at the same time, and first draw out "is" in black and then once the colour is dry add in should with red so we don't forget where we want to go. Then use that as our general purpose map and update both red and black as we along our path and new previously unavailable empirical evidence meets our eyes.

I didn't point this out before, but this is actually a good argument in favor of the 'ethics later' approach. It makes no sense to start drawing paths on your map before you've filled in all of the nodes. (Counterargument: assume stochasticity / a non-fully-observable environment).

Also, if this technique actually works, it should be able to be applied to political contexts as well. PUA is a relatively safer area to test this, since while it does induce mind-killing (a positive feature for purposes of this test) it does not draw in a lot of negative attention from off-site, which is one of the concerns regarding political discussion.

I am majorly in favor of researching ways of reducing/eliminating mind-killing effects.