OK, @trafalgar's post gave me more details and clarity about Tau's possible real-world applications.

Recognizing the problem and stating it as "discussions are not scalable" seems pretty good to me.

I'm still not clear on how people's inputs will be converted into computer code.

Another thing in relation to the social governance and scaling of discussions is that to me both of these have to look at data as the starting point of a discussion (at least most of the time, when we're not on a meta level of discussion). So when there is discussion around vaccination or GMOs or defecation postures or anything else, the data of every related experiment has to have already been entered into the blockchain, along with the metadata (who designed and conducted the experiment, which devices collected the data and how, etc.). So then the data from all the experiments is immutable and it can be aggregated, so clear patterns will start to emerge - or not, in which case we need to perform more and different kinds of experiments. When there is data as the starting point, discussions can be more informed and generally geared towards (making progress on) solving actual problems. Do you see discussions (on any scale, even between two people) often leading to any solutions otherwise?