I'm really happy this topic is surfancing on HN as I've made it my mission to build experiments to try to tackle social wicked problems. Dinnertable Chat is an

I'm really happy this topic is surfancing on HN as I've made it my mission to build experiments to try to tackle social wicked problems. Dinnertable Chat is an online chatroulette-style conference matchmaking system based on mixing people based on same and different viewpoints. The same idea could be used to mix people on any category (by skill, field, etc): https://www.dinnertable.chat/about https://www.dinnertable.chat/about The Mix Opinions service matches people in physical spaces by dividing people up into groups, such that each group has maximized viewpoint diversity of each of the members. I could also adapt this to be applied to online conferencing and maximize on both diversity as well as interests (based on weights). https://www.mixopinions.com/ https://www.mixopinions.com/ Some of the philosophy of why I was focusing on 'mixed viewpoint' conference software: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Q5KWhxhBMLWSvrYoEoWPWAO-YqgPwGRakvRNUnxtz1M/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Q5KWhxhBMLWSvrYoEoWP...