I appreciate the summary, and I’m especially glad to see it done with an emphasis on relatively hierarchical bullet points, rather than mostly paragraph prose. (And thanks for the reference to my comment ;)
Soliciting counterarguments or other forms of relevant information (e.g., case studies) from a crowd of people who may just want to focus on or make very specific/modular contributions, and
Showing how relevant counterarguments and information relate to each other—including where certain arguments have not been meaningfully addressed within a branch of arguments (e.g., 3 responses down), especially to help audiences who are trying to figure out questions like “has anyone responded to X.”
I’m not even confident that this debate necessarily has that many divisive branches—it seems quite plausible that there are relatively few cruxes/key insights that drive the disagreement—but this question does seem fairly important and has generated a non-trivial amount of attention and disagreement.
Does anyone else share this impression with regards to this post (e.g., “I think that it is worth exploring alternatives to the way we handle disagreements via prose and comment threads”), or do people think that summaries like this comment are in fact sufficient (or that alternatives can’t do better, etc.)?
I appreciate the summary, and I’m especially glad to see it done with an emphasis on relatively hierarchical bullet points, rather than mostly paragraph prose. (And thanks for the reference to my comment ;)
Nonetheless, I am tempted to examine this question/debate as a case study for my strong belief that, relative to alternative methods for keeping track of arguments or mapping debates, prose/bullets + comment threads are an inefficient/ineffective method of
Soliciting counterarguments or other forms of relevant information (e.g., case studies) from a crowd of people who may just want to focus on or make very specific/modular contributions, and
Showing how relevant counterarguments and information relate to each other—including where certain arguments have not been meaningfully addressed within a branch of arguments (e.g., 3 responses down), especially to help audiences who are trying to figure out questions like “has anyone responded to X.”
I’m not even confident that this debate necessarily has that many divisive branches—it seems quite plausible that there are relatively few cruxes/key insights that drive the disagreement—but this question does seem fairly important and has generated a non-trivial amount of attention and disagreement.
Does anyone else share this impression with regards to this post (e.g., “I think that it is worth exploring alternatives to the way we handle disagreements via prose and comment threads”), or do people think that summaries like this comment are in fact sufficient (or that alternatives can’t do better, etc.)?