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I made this tool after spending countless hours bookmarking replies on HN that changed my worldview. Its stated goal is to encourage the use of data when arguin
by dekervin 6y ago
I made this tool after spending countless hours bookmarking replies on HN that changed my worldview.
Its stated goal is to encourage the use of data when arguing in debates. It aims to extract debates out of
threads on HN and propose data already used elsewhere on HN to add.
It started with me noticing two ways I experience joy on HN.
The first is when I discover links to obscure data about topics I know nothing about.
The second way is when I stumble upon carefully constructed arguments hidden inside a deeply nested thread.
Previously, there were times when I wanted to retrieve some arguments in their original form
and all my HN-fu ws of no use. I started to track them more seriously and enjoyed having access
to them when needed.
I was influenced for a long time by both Arguman.org( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10405288 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10405288 )
and Hypothes.is ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13729525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13729525 ), and mulled over doing something similar.
I became progressively convinced that it was more important for it to be "joyful" than "useful" and that it should be more organic.
Then covid came. And with it a big amount of debates (and data ) on what to do, with an uneven quality.
I reasoned that if people debating were more familiar with the universe of existing arguments,
of analytical frameworks, they might quickly converge to the area where they have an
original take and add value to the global mind.
I am happy to discuss those assumptions !