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Comment #47819467
The dude on your shirt is Mork from the show Mork & Mindy, played by Robin Williams.
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Comment #45922945
Perhaps asynchronous debate through written word exchanges undertaken over weeks, in the spirit of the Federalist Papers, could help mollify this risk. Logosive supports this forma…
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Comment #45918607
Thank you, very much appreciated! And thanks for the insights about priming the platform with non-mainstream topics
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Comment #45913227
Good point, thanks!
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Comment #45910322
That’s true, but I think even in those cases, debate unveils important questions that can help arrive at more definitive answers as future data comes in.
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Comment #45910229
I think much of the value is the funding infrastructure and also the debate creation and discoverability, similar in some ways to the role eventbrite serves for events. Thanks for …
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Comment #45910187
Thanks for sharing those other platforms. I think what differentiates Logosive is the funding mechanism, which could allow debaters, organizers, and promoters to earn substantial r…
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Comment #45909992
Thanks for the feedback. I’ll update the messaging to make this more clear.
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Comment #45909898
Thanks so much for your support and perspective. I’ve seen some debates where one debater dominates, but so far it hasn’t ended discussion of the given topic but has rather led to …
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Comment #45909749
Thanks for these considerations. I think even if a debate doesn’t help arrive at an ultimate truth, it can still be beneficial as a substrate for revealing important questions that…
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Comment #45909626
AI is used on the debate creation form on the homepage to generate the debate description and to suggest debaters or topics based on debaters. Alternatively, there’s a manual debat…
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Comment #45908782
First, thank you for the confidence about Logosive taking off. You describe an interesting problem with the moat. I'm hoping we can be the choice venue for debates by providing the…
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Comment #45908726
Thanks for the feedback. One mechanism we can use to address this is to update the debate descriptions if the debaters have suggestions about how they'd like their positions descri…
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Comment #45908662
This is true for many modern-style debates on podcasts on television, but my goal is for Logosive to elevate debate to truth-seeking again. One debate format I'd like to see on Log…
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Comment #45908633
That's a good point. Before a debater agrees to the debate, the debater is marked as "pending" on the debate page, but that could be made more clear on some other parts of the plat…
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Comment #45908582
Thanks for the feedback on what could be confusing messaging. The debates happen between real people. The AI is used to create the debate launch page based on the debate organizer'…
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Show HN: I built a platform where audiences fund debates between public thinkers
Hey HN, I built Logosive because I want to see certain debates between my favorite thinkers (especially in health/wellness, tech, and public policy), but there's no way for regular…
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Comment #36865266
Fatigue due to the 5 hour Wimbledon final he played about a week ago, not from long COVID.
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Comment #28386979
It’s not the second choice though, since the initial state is different, and thus so are the risks and rewards of getting the vaccine.
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Comment #28386086
There’s a third choice, which is not getting the vaccine because you already have natural resistance to COVID, such as through a previous infection with COVID. In this case, a vacc…
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Comment #23706125
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Comment #12631311
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Comment #12206764
DoseDr | San Francisco, CA | Full Stack Django Dev | Full-Time, Onsite DoseDr is hiring a Full Stack Django Developer: https://dosedr.recruitee.com/o/full-stack-django-developer We…