"I want a wrong question button!! :/"

https://arbital.com/p/6z4

by Anna Salamon Dec 16 2016


I want a wrong question button!! :/


Comments

Anna Salamon

CFAR should be about "Rationality for its own sake, for the sake of existential risk". Which is totally different. I just, um, haven't figured out how to say the actual thing clearly. Help very welcome.

Eric Rogstad

In other words, promoting this claim as worded, is misleading?

Anna Salamon

Uh, well, it's hard to reply-to, or something? Like, it wants to jam the conversation into questions about whether the claim is "true" or "false", instead of on questions about what is meant by it or what 3rd alternatives might be available or something?

Eric Rogstad

I'd be interested to know if you find yourself having that feeling a lot, while interacting with claims.

If it's a small minority of the time, I think the solution is a "wrong question" button. If it happens a lot, we might need another object type --something like a prompt-for-discussion rather than a claim-to-be-agreed with.