As described, this type of event would not make me unrestrained in sharing my opinions.
The organizers have additional information regarding what opinions are in the bowl, so are probably in a position to determine which expressed opinions are genuinely held. This is perhaps solvable but it doesn’t sound like an attempt was made to solve this. That’s fine if I trust the organizers, but if I trust the organizers to know my opinions then I could just express my opinions to the organizers directly and I don’t need this idea.
I find it unlikely that someone can pass an Ideological Turing Test for a random opinion that they read off a piece of paper a few sentences ago, especially compared to a genuine opinion they actually hold. It would be rather depressing if they could, because it implies that their genuine opinions have little grounding. An attendee could deliberately downplay their level of investment and knowledge to increase plausible deniability. But such conversations sound unappealing.
There are other problems. My guess is that most of the work was done by filtering for “a certain kind of person”.
As described, this type of event would not make me unrestrained in sharing my opinions.
The organizers have additional information regarding what opinions are in the bowl, so are probably in a position to determine which expressed opinions are genuinely held. This is perhaps solvable but it doesn’t sound like an attempt was made to solve this. That’s fine if I trust the organizers, but if I trust the organizers to know my opinions then I could just express my opinions to the organizers directly and I don’t need this idea.
I find it unlikely that someone can pass an Ideological Turing Test for a random opinion that they read off a piece of paper a few sentences ago, especially compared to a genuine opinion they actually hold. It would be rather depressing if they could, because it implies that their genuine opinions have little grounding. An attendee could deliberately downplay their level of investment and knowledge to increase plausible deniability. But such conversations sound unappealing.
There are other problems. My guess is that most of the work was done by filtering for “a certain kind of person”.