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This reminds me a bit of an application I wanted to build many years ago: A platform for collections of arguments. For example, the question "are humans contrib
by JoelMcCracken 8y ago
This reminds me a bit of an application I wanted to build many years ago: A platform for collections of arguments. For example, the question "are humans contributing to global warming?" Allow crowd-submitted answers. Collect information about facts cited (similar to how this works).
Mostly-rational people can be swayed by evidence and arguments, yet often disagree with each other because they doubt the truth of the other side's statements (fact checking), they believe the other side has missed important context in their argument, the other side has implicit assumptions that they disagree with (this is something that should be explored as a sub issue, then).
I'm very happy to see this. I'd love to see more of this kind of thing in the future.
- devinplatt 8y agoHi Joel. In case you didn't see my top level comment (it's buried quite low), I'm working on a similar project to document evidence for and against claims: https://www.wikiclaim.org https://www.wikiclaim.org The tech is dumb (just MediaWiki on Heroku), but it's been sufficient to allow me to spend several hundred hours creating about 200 wiki pages so far.