Re: Changing ones mind

From: Hal Finney (hal@finney.org)
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 11:35:33 MDT

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    I remember reading a science fiction novel which depicted a sort of
    structured debate similar to what Harvey and Anders are describing.
    I think it may have been Earthweb or David's Sling. It was written
    by one of the Drexleristas anyway.

    There was some kind of auditorium, I think with live debaters, and people
    could add comments in text which would appear on screens, they could
    fact-check each other and revise their opinions. Highly rated questions
    would get highlighted and float to the top of the screens where they
    would be posed to the experts arguing the two sides, all in real time.
    I think it was supposed to be a depiction of the idea of a Science Court.

    Does anyone remember how it worked? Is it something we could experiment
    with online? I think our recent terrible failure to achieve anything
    more than name-calling in political debate here demands a new approach.

    Hal



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