0) Prohibit actual discussion of the subjects in question, with the understanding that comments transgressing this rule would be downvoted to oblivion by a conscientious readership (as they generally are already)
1) Request suggestions for dichotomies that people believe would split popular opinion. Let people upvote and downvote these on the basis of whether they’d be fit for the purpose of the poll.
2) Take the most popular dichotomies and put them in a poll, with a “don’t care” and “wrong dichotomy” option, which I hope are fairly self-explanatory.
2) a) To satisfy your curiosity on how well LW users can predict the beliefs of other LW users, also have a “what do you think most LW users would pick as an answer to this question?” option.
3) Have people vote, and see what patterns emerge.
How I imagined it going:
0) Prohibit actual discussion of the subjects in question, with the understanding that comments transgressing this rule would be downvoted to oblivion by a conscientious readership (as they generally are already)
1) Request suggestions for dichotomies that people believe would split popular opinion. Let people upvote and downvote these on the basis of whether they’d be fit for the purpose of the poll.
2) Take the most popular dichotomies and put them in a poll, with a “don’t care” and “wrong dichotomy” option, which I hope are fairly self-explanatory.
2) a) To satisfy your curiosity on how well LW users can predict the beliefs of other LW users, also have a “what do you think most LW users would pick as an answer to this question?” option.
3) Have people vote, and see what patterns emerge.