Howdy, I’ve always enjoyed a good argument/debate. In 2012 I got in the middle of two friends argument about the health of being a vegetarian and decided to do my own research and settle the issue. I was disappointed that there was not an easy way to prove a point. That sent me down a rabbit hole of decision making systems and theory.
I have listened to every episode of “Rationality: From AI to Zombies”. I’ve also researched several of the decision tools on http://lesswrong.com/lw/1qq/debate_tools_an_experience_report/
I am a software engineer and my latest experiment to build tools to help people agree is Reason Score and I would appreciate any time people have to provide feedback and debate with me on the tool.
I also work on the Pro-Truth Pledge and I am on the board of Intentional Insights which is an educational nonpartisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit devoted to promoting science-based truth-seeking, rational thinking, and wise decision-making.
I look forward to learning with you, Bentley
Hello everyone, I hope you don’t mind me joining in on this 8 year old post. I’ve been working on ideas like this since 2012 and just found this. My current experiment is Reason Score where I am working on a way to measure the reasonableness of a claim based on the pro and con claims added to it. This will hopefully reduce cognitive biases by forcing people to add reasons to affect the score instead of votes. In the least it will encourage people to think through their claims.
It’s not documented well so it might be best if someone has some time to debate me on a topic and see if it provides benefit. Any takers?