Morendil comments on You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event - Less Wrong
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Perhaps this is after all a litmus test for rationality, in a different sense than (I suspect) komponisto intended.
I mean, here I am looking at a 100+ comments thread, discussing a highly charged issue, and everyone is thoughtful, respectful, and willing to take others' points into account.
That is... extremely unusual.
Few of us have had much investment or interest in the case before, I'm thinking. Presented as an abstract almost-philosophical problem, with a common framework of epistemology, it's much easier to discuss well.