I want to get more experience with adversarial truth-seeking processes, and maybe build more features for them on LessWrong. To get started, I’d like to have a little debate-club-style debate, where we pick a question and each take opposing sides to present evidence and arguments for. Is anyone up for having such a debate with me in a LW dialogue for a few hours? (No particular intention to publish it.)
I have a suggested debate topic in mind, but I’m open to debating any well-operationalized claim (e.g. the sort of thing you could have a Manifold market on). The point isn’t that we’re experts in it, the point is to test our skills for finding relevant evidence and arguments on our feet (along with internet access). We flip a coin to decide which of us searches for evidence and arguments for each position.
If you may be up for doing this with me sometime in the next few days, let me know with comment / private message / thumbs-up react :-)
I want to get more experience with adversarial truth-seeking processes, and maybe build more features for them on LessWrong. To get started, I’d like to have a little debate-club-style debate, where we pick a question and each take opposing sides to present evidence and arguments for. Is anyone up for having such a debate with me in a LW dialogue for a few hours? (No particular intention to publish it.)
I have a suggested debate topic in mind, but I’m open to debating any well-operationalized claim (e.g. the sort of thing you could have a Manifold market on). The point isn’t that we’re experts in it, the point is to test our skills for finding relevant evidence and arguments on our feet (along with internet access). We flip a coin to decide which of us searches for evidence and arguments for each position.
If you may be up for doing this with me sometime in the next few days, let me know with comment / private message / thumbs-up react :-)