Hey Kialo community,
I'm Connor, and like many of you, I've spent years using Kialo to map arguments and explore complex questions. You can see my profile here if you're curious about my history with the platform.
I wanted to share a project I've been building that was partially inspire d by Kialo: Negation Game. It's designed to preserve what we love about Kialo — critical thinking, collaborative truth-finding, and genuine engagement with opposing views — while exploring some different structural approaches.
1. Relevance and truth-value are separate dimensions
You know that longstanding discussion about whether Kialo should separate impact voting into relevance and veracity? Negation Game treats these as distinct from the ground up. You can debate whether a claim is relevant to the discussion, not just whether it's true.
2. Graph-based canvas with real-time multiplayer
Rather than a tree structure, Negation Game uses a flexible canvas where you can spatially arrange arguments and see how claims relate to each other. Multiple people can work on the same board simultaneously, making it feel more like collaborative whiteboarding.
3. Built for strategic decisions, works for philosophy
While the tool is designed with strategic decision-making in mind, it handles philosophical discussions just as well:
4. Designed to reduce moderation needs
The structure aims to create a space where critical thinking and mind-changing can flourish without requiring heavy-handed moderation.
Most of the time instead of saying "delete, this doesn't belong here" you can just add an objection explicitly saying why it doesn't belong there.
Beyond debate mapping, we're exploring how to build a full collective decision-making tool that uses market mechanisms to reveal private preferences and align groups. If you're interested in the research direction:
I'd love to hear what you think, especially from fellow Kialo users who care deeply about structured discourse and collaborative reasoning.
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