Huh, I've never needed something like this. What kind of industries/hobbies/interests use this type of tool regularly?
I would love to use this as a teaching aid... to teach the practice and value of argument.
Argdown, like Markdown for argument mapping
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#12Ha I thought it was a tool for managing complex args for command-line tools
Yes, should perhaps change the title to "argumentation".
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#13Seems like you could train an LLM to read an op-ed and output the arguments in this form. Could be fun.
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#14Huh, I've never needed something like this. What kind of industries/hobbies/interests use this type of tool regularly?
I'm not actively using it, but I'm interested to play around with this for a bit.
At work, we have architectural decision logs, for example how to structure our authentication, how to deploy services and such. Some of these decisions are fairly obvious and straightforward, but some decisions come from days and weeks of discussions between different teams and people over the past few years.
This looks like an interesting way to provide an overview of what has been considered and what the take of the group is on these different points. This would allow new people in the teams to challenge things more substantially instead of going through four steps we've been through several times already.
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#15Wow, it’s crazy seeing your dreams randomly pop up on hacker news. Guess I’ll be switching to this syntax!
OP, if you’re the author: any plans for next steps? I’ll be folding this into my upcoming book and website (and almost certainly extending it a bit), so I’d be curious to hear if there’s other large scale projects underway.
Beautiful docs btw, this style should be a lesson for all of us. I guess you’d expect someone interested in arguments to write clearly lol
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#16Huh, I've never needed something like this. What kind of industries/hobbies/interests use this type of tool regularly?
Politics, philosophy, and science would be my go-tos. Basically anywhere where your audience doesn’t merely consist of subject matter experts tho
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#17Ha I thought it was a tool for managing complex args for command-line tools
checkout http://docopt.org then
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#20There was a website called (I believe) Arguman (way) in the past, that used this kind of thing. It allowed everyone to add arguments, rebuttals, such a thing, and up/downvote them. Last time I looked at it, it was down (still on wayback, but it was a webapp, so it never really loads anything).
Edit: it's... "up", but suddenly Turkish and broken: https://arguman.org