As a software engineer, it seems strange to me that Arbital is trying to be an encyclopedia, debate system, and blogging site at the same time. What made you decide to put those features together in one piece of software?
Eliezer said he wanted all of those features. (And he is using basically all of them.) But also we worked on it for 2 years, so a lot of features accumulated as we were trying different approaches.
Resources required for each application would tend to be useful to the others
The debate system settles disputes over encyclopedia maintenance
Monitoring activity in the encyclopedia can potentially feed the debate system with user qualification metrics for use in filtering comments
A sufficiently well structured debate effectively is an outline of an explanation
Systems for presenting articles and displaying structured debates are blog-complete: Blogs and articles are basically the same kind of information, and the debating stuff could presumably be simplified into a comment section.
As a software engineer, it seems strange to me that Arbital is trying to be an encyclopedia, debate system, and blogging site at the same time. What made you decide to put those features together in one piece of software?
Eliezer said he wanted all of those features. (And he is using basically all of them.) But also we worked on it for 2 years, so a lot of features accumulated as we were trying different approaches.
Resources required for each application would tend to be useful to the others
The debate system settles disputes over encyclopedia maintenance
Monitoring activity in the encyclopedia can potentially feed the debate system with user qualification metrics for use in filtering comments
A sufficiently well structured debate effectively is an outline of an explanation
Systems for presenting articles and displaying structured debates are blog-complete: Blogs and articles are basically the same kind of information, and the debating stuff could presumably be simplified into a comment section.