From: Andrew Clough (aclough@mit.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 16:18:47 MDT
At 10:35 AM 4/10/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>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
I've read Earthweb, and don't remember a scene like that, so it was
probably in David's Sling.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Don't assign
to stupidity what might be due to ignorance. And try not to assume you
opponent is the ignorant one-until you can show it isn't you.
-M.N. Plano
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