I’m happy to hear that you are keen on the anti-debates idea! I suggested it to the EA Global organizers a few years ago, but it seems they weren’t very interested. (Incidentally, the idea isn’t Will’s, or mine; it dates back at least to this debate between David Chalmers and Guido Tononi from 2016.)
A possible variant is to randomize whether the debate will or will not be reversed, and challenge the audience to guess whether the debaters are arguing for their own positions or their opponents’, disclosing the answer only at the end of the episode. (In some cases, or for some members of the audience, the answer will be obvious from background information about the debaters, but it’s unclear how often this will be the case.)
EDIT: I now see that I misunderstood what was meant by an ‘anti-debate’: not a debate where each person defends the opposite side, but rather a debate that is collaborative rather than competitive. I personally would be interested in anti-debates in either of those senses.
I’m happy to hear that you are keen on the anti-debates idea! I suggested it to the EA Global organizers a few years ago, but it seems they weren’t very interested. (Incidentally, the idea isn’t Will’s, or mine; it dates back at least to this debate between David Chalmers and Guido Tononi from 2016.)
A possible variant is to randomize whether the debate will or will not be reversed, and challenge the audience to guess whether the debaters are arguing for their own positions or their opponents’, disclosing the answer only at the end of the episode. (In some cases, or for some members of the audience, the answer will be obvious from background information about the debaters, but it’s unclear how often this will be the case.)
EDIT: I now see that I misunderstood what was meant by an ‘anti-debate’: not a debate where each person defends the opposite side, but rather a debate that is collaborative rather than competitive. I personally would be interested in anti-debates in either of those senses.