About disputation arenas, I wish more people were at least thinking like Brin.
There are many projects for hypertext debate and analysis, but I don’t know of any which would let analysts break down a hard ambiguous question using the Bayesian formulations of evidence, explaining-away, or transfer learning from related cases through hierarchical priors. And no project lets analysts reduce disagreements about instrumental values to disagreements about parameters or approximations in decision theory. Also, I know of no game-theoretic analysis of participants’ incentives to enter evidence selectively or falsely, even though those incentives affect the conditional probabilities of observing that evidence.
About disputation arenas, I wish more people were at least thinking like Brin.
There are many projects for hypertext debate and analysis, but I don’t know of any which would let analysts break down a hard ambiguous question using the Bayesian formulations of evidence, explaining-away, or transfer learning from related cases through hierarchical priors. And no project lets analysts reduce disagreements about instrumental values to disagreements about parameters or approximations in decision theory. Also, I know of no game-theoretic analysis of participants’ incentives to enter evidence selectively or falsely, even though those incentives affect the conditional probabilities of observing that evidence.