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