I think people can create an effectively unlimited number of “outsider theories” if they aren’t concerned with how likely they are. Do you think ALL of those should get their own champions? If not, what criteria do you propose for which ones get champions and which don’t?
Maybe it would be better to use a frame of “which arguments should we make?” rather than “which hypotheses should we argue for?” Can we just say that you should only make arguments that you think are true, without talking about which camp those arguments favor?
(Though I don’t want to ban discussions following the pattern “I can’t spot a flaw in this argument, but I predict that someone else can, can anyone help me out?” I guess I think you should be able to describe arguments you don’t believe if you do it in quotation marks.)
I think people can create an effectively unlimited number of “outsider theories” if they aren’t concerned with how likely they are. Do you think ALL of those should get their own champions? If not, what criteria do you propose for which ones get champions and which don’t?
Maybe it would be better to use a frame of “which arguments should we make?” rather than “which hypotheses should we argue for?” Can we just say that you should only make arguments that you think are true, without talking about which camp those arguments favor?
(Though I don’t want to ban discussions following the pattern “I can’t spot a flaw in this argument, but I predict that someone else can, can anyone help me out?” I guess I think you should be able to describe arguments you don’t believe if you do it in quotation marks.)