Why aren’t presidential races already essentially ITT Tournaments? It would seem like that skill would make you really good at drawing support from lots of different demographics.
Organizing tournaments is something that requires little resources. Appointing presidents on the other hand requires resources that are fully out of reach.
When talking about colonizing Mars speaking about using warp drives to get there doesn’t read like “the idea is highly unpolished”.
Here’s an idea: we hold the Ideological Turing Test (ITT) world championship. Candidates compete to pass an as broad range of views as possible.
Points awarded for passing a test are commensurate with the amount of people that subscribe to the view. You can subscribe to a bunch of them at once.
The awarding of failures and passes is done anonymously. Points can be awarded partially, according to what % of judges give a pass.
The winner is made president (or something)
Why aren’t presidential races already essentially ITT Tournaments? It would seem like that skill would make you really good at drawing support from lots of different demographics.
That basically reads like “just so you know, I’m kidding”.
It’s supposed to read like “this idea is highly unpolished”
Organizing tournaments is something that requires little resources. Appointing presidents on the other hand requires resources that are fully out of reach.
When talking about colonizing Mars speaking about using warp drives to get there doesn’t read like “the idea is highly unpolished”.
Look, if you can’t appreciate the idea because you don’t like it’s delivery, you’re throwing away a lot of information
Given specific criticisms to proposals that people make isn’t throwing away information.
It seemed like Toon was trying to say “I have a cool idea for a tournament but haven’t thought about a good prize”
Prizes are not constraints for running tournaments and treating them like they are makes it harder to bring a tournament to reality.
I guess it depends on why you want to run the tournament.