That’s all up to the judges, audience, and participants. If you took a typical comedy crowd, then of course you’d basically just get comedy out, with maybe a bit of a philosophical twist. If academic philosophers started doing stand-up philosophy with each other, then you’d get something else. LWers would get yet a third thing.
If we assume that the judges are the best we could select, well, then you still get some distortion from the fact that they probably have to judge fairly quickly and will be prone to certain human biases (eg judging attractive people more highly).
I think it’s totally desired to have some originality bias; accuracy, precision, and convincingness are legitimately not worth much without originality. OTOH, yeah, this can train some bad habits.
Most judges (in my very limited knowledge) don’t go completely on gut feeling, but rather, have a rubric. For example, judges might rate contestants on Originality, Accuracy, Precision, and Convincingness and add up the scores. Or subtracting points for each standard bias/fallacy, or whatever. This sort of thing can help avoid overly skewed judging.
That’s all up to the judges, audience, and participants. If you took a typical comedy crowd, then of course you’d basically just get comedy out, with maybe a bit of a philosophical twist. If academic philosophers started doing stand-up philosophy with each other, then you’d get something else. LWers would get yet a third thing.
If we assume that the judges are the best we could select, well, then you still get some distortion from the fact that they probably have to judge fairly quickly and will be prone to certain human biases (eg judging attractive people more highly).
I think it’s totally desired to have some originality bias; accuracy, precision, and convincingness are legitimately not worth much without originality. OTOH, yeah, this can train some bad habits.
Most judges (in my very limited knowledge) don’t go completely on gut feeling, but rather, have a rubric. For example, judges might rate contestants on Originality, Accuracy, Precision, and Convincingness and add up the scores. Or subtracting points for each standard bias/fallacy, or whatever. This sort of thing can help avoid overly skewed judging.