some sort of implication by suggesting bets that has some sort of negative connotation that I’m not picking up
That you don’t think the other party is capable of marshaling arguments to make you update, or of updating on your arguments.
The LW community probably considers betting on a disputed proposition to be much more normal, natural, and non-confrontational than most people do. This is likely because of our Overcoming Bias heritage and Robin Hanson’s work on prediction markets. Betting seems like a good quick way to get people to publicly quantify the probabilities that they assign to propositions. And this, ideally, could help the disputants approach Aumann agreement more quickly.
The LW community probably considers betting on a disputed proposition to be much more normal, natural, and non-confrontational than most people do. This is likely because of our Overcoming Bias heritage and Robin Hanson’s work on prediction markets. Betting seems like a good quick way to get people to publicly quantify the probabilities that they assign to propositions. And this, ideally, could help the disputants approach Aumann agreement more quickly.