You have an entire copy of the post in the commenting guidelines, fyi :)
What’s often going on in unresolvable debates among humans is that there is a vague definition baked into the question, such that there is no “really” right answer (or too many right answers).
E.g. “Are viruses alive?”
To the extent that we’ve dealt with the question of whether viruses are alive, it’s been by understanding the complications and letting go of the need for the categorical thinking that generated the question in the first place. Allowing this as an option seems like it brings back down the complexity class of things you can resolve debates on (though if you count “it’s a tie” as a resolution, you might retain the ability to ask questions in PSPACE but just have lots of uninformative ties and only update your own worldview when it’s super easy).
For questions of value, though, this approach might not even always work, because the question might be “is it right to take action A or action B,” and even if you step back from the category “right” because it’s too vague, you still have to choose between action A or B. But you still have the original issue that the question has too few / too many right answers. Any thoughts on ways to make debate do work on this sort of tricky problem?
You have an entire copy of the post in the commenting guidelines, fyi :)
What’s often going on in unresolvable debates among humans is that there is a vague definition baked into the question, such that there is no “really” right answer (or too many right answers).
E.g. “Are viruses alive?”
To the extent that we’ve dealt with the question of whether viruses are alive, it’s been by understanding the complications and letting go of the need for the categorical thinking that generated the question in the first place. Allowing this as an option seems like it brings back down the complexity class of things you can resolve debates on (though if you count “it’s a tie” as a resolution, you might retain the ability to ask questions in PSPACE but just have lots of uninformative ties and only update your own worldview when it’s super easy).
For questions of value, though, this approach might not even always work, because the question might be “is it right to take action A or action B,” and even if you step back from the category “right” because it’s too vague, you still have to choose between action A or B. But you still have the original issue that the question has too few / too many right answers. Any thoughts on ways to make debate do work on this sort of tricky problem?
Oops, sorry. My bad. Fixed.