Decision Duels

post by Josephine · 2021-07-23T09:22:13.294Z · LW · GW · 3 comments

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(Crosspost from my more casual blog.)

Decision duels are a feature of David's Sling, a novel by Marc Stiegler about technology, nuclear suppression and human rationality. They're used as an organizational means of decision-making, not dissimilar to the double crux - they're not quite debates or policy meetings or games, but they have elements of all three. This is a description of them as they appear in the novel, so that any useful marrow can be extracted. 

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comment by Trevor Hill-Hand (trevor-hill-hand) · 2021-07-23T16:45:02.788Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I like it, sounds like it's just a debate format that works well in a virtual setting.

I wonder if there's a way to add an opening ceremony that helps determine whether this is a question of fact (proceed with the duel) or a question of politics/axioms/goals (cancel the duel).

comment by Daniel Kokotajlo (daniel-kokotajlo) · 2021-07-23T11:32:26.772Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Is this fictional or real? If it's real, which organizations use it?

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comment by Josephine · 2021-07-23T12:05:15.558Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Fictional.