[HN Gopher] Adversarial Collaboration Project
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       Adversarial Collaboration Project
        
       Author : sebg
       Score  : 57 points
       Date   : 2023-06-25 18:40 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | acidburnNSA wrote:
       | Love this idea. I've always thought it'd be interesting to try to
       | rank contrary replies to threads based on how much the opposing
       | view ranked the reply. It'd certainly be more productive than
       | just going around dunking on each other as is now normal, e.g. on
       | Twitter. Of course dealing with the fact that people are smart
       | and will game such a system is a hard problem.
        
       | 78124781 wrote:
       | Some of the most interesting recent academic work has come out of
       | adversarial collaborations, e.g.
       | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/152910062311631...
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       | The list of research projects on this website looks fascinating.
       | Hope that these kinds of projects continue to get funded.
        
       | mhoad wrote:
       | This is a million times better than some attempt to talk over the
       | top of the other person an a Joe Rogan podcast and pretending
       | that something even vaguely resembling science or a debate has
       | occurred.
        
       | fovc wrote:
       | Phil Tetlock is there. Would love to see him and NN Taleb jointly
       | publish on expertise!
        
         | cinntaile wrote:
         | That's not happening, Taleb hates him.
        
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       | schoen wrote:
       | Scott Alexander was inspired to run a contest for adversarial
       | collaborations on his blog, which were really cool. I actually
       | participated in one (roughly about the evidentiary value of
       | spiritual experiences), which I enjoyed a ton; I feel like I
       | learned a lot and made a new friend (my collaboration partner).
       | 
       | I did notice that my research question was kind of ill-defined.
       | The "classic" adversarial collaboration topic is something like
       | the effectiveness of a medical intervention, or the effectiveness
       | of a policy intervention. The format probably works best for that
       | because there is some somewhat clearer notion about what it would
       | mean for each position to be correct!
        
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