I wonder what would happen if we run the simple version of that algorithm on LW comments. So that votes would have “polarity”, and so each comment would have two vote-counts, let’s say orange count and blue count. (Of course that would be only optionally enabled.)
Then we could sort the comments by the minimum of these counts, descending.
(I think it makes more sense to train it per post than globally. But then it would be useful only on very popular posts with lots of comments.)
I wanna link to my favorite one: consciousness vs replicators. It doesn’t really fit into this grid, but I think it really is the ultimate conflict.
(You can definitely skip the first 14 min of this video, as it’s just ranking people’s stages of development. Maybe even first 33 min if you wanna go straight to the point.)