MichaelHoward comments on 3 Levels of Rationality Verification - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 March 2009 05:19PM

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Comment author: MichaelHoward 15 March 2009 08:12:32PM 2 points [-]

Vladimir Gritsenko mentioned Rational Debating on an old post. It looks like it would be a useful addition to the list.

Comment author: steven0461 17 March 2009 03:04:35PM 4 points [-]

As the post mentions, RD participants have an incentive to argue dishonestly. They also have little incentive to say anything informative at all. To solve this, I'd propose Paranoid Debating: everyone is scored on the correctness of a team estimate, except for one participant who's secretly designated an Advocate and one participant who's secretly designated a Naysayer. The Advocate gets more points for higher team estimates and the Naysayer gets more points for lower team estimates. Variants: give points for figuring out who the A and N are, or let it be known publicly.