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March 16-25, 2018
November 11, 2018
Nicholas Gruen's piece from 2014,
"The middleware of democracy": http://clubtroppo.com.au/2014/07/30/from-knowledge-to-wisdom-or-at-least-knowledge-2-0/
sub-titled:
"Or from knowledge to wisdom: or at least knowledge 2.0"
"One of the issues of the day is how one might be able to
use the internet to scale such things. It's not an easy
question. As I've argued, in some ways the internet makes
things worse, as it speeds the pace of deliberation and
people refine their clickbaiting capabilities. But the
Melbourne based website YourView tries to scale YourView is
democratic deliberation by hosting discussions with the since defunct.
back end of the website helping to work out who is
contributing to the conversation in the way that others
find most constructive. Thus it rewards what it calls
'epistemic virtues' by giving those that exhibit them
higher credibility scores. It's more complicated than
this, but it will do for discussion to say that those
with high credibility are those who make comments on
issues which are rated most highly by those who disagree
with them."
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