I can do that, if you can agree on a comment to link to. It’ll double-blind it in a sense—I do have a vague opinion on the matter but haven’t been following the conversation at all over the last couple days, so it’d be hard for me to pick a friend who’d be inclined to, for example, favor a particular kind of argument that’s been used.
That is true of one of the two people I have in mind. The other has participated on less than five occasions. I have definitely shown articles from here to the latter and possibly to the former, but neither of them have done any extended reading here that I’m aware of (and I expect that I would be if they had). Also, neither of them are the type of person who’s inclined to participate in LW-type places, and the former in particular is inclined toward doing critical analysis of even concepts that she likes. (Just not in a very LW-ish way.)
I’d suggest using the primary thread about the conjunction fallacy and then the subthread on the same topic with Brian. Together that makes a long conversation with a fair number of participants.
I can do that, if you can agree on a comment to link to. It’ll double-blind it in a sense—I do have a vague opinion on the matter but haven’t been following the conversation at all over the last couple days, so it’d be hard for me to pick a friend who’d be inclined to, for example, favor a particular kind of argument that’s been used.
The judge should be someone who’s never participated on Less Wrong before, so there’s no chance that they’ve already picked up ideas from here.
That is true of one of the two people I have in mind. The other has participated on less than five occasions. I have definitely shown articles from here to the latter and possibly to the former, but neither of them have done any extended reading here that I’m aware of (and I expect that I would be if they had). Also, neither of them are the type of person who’s inclined to participate in LW-type places, and the former in particular is inclined toward doing critical analysis of even concepts that she likes. (Just not in a very LW-ish way.)
I’d suggest using the primary thread about the conjunction fallacy and then the subthread on the same topic with Brian. Together that makes a long conversation with a fair number of participants.