“Forum feature update: debate poll” by Toby Tremlett🔹

A piece of feedback we've had a few times on our debate weeks is that the debate slider shouldn't be single-dimensional. When you agree or disagree with something, you also want to be able to signal your confidence in your belief. It's time-consuming to do so by explaining yourself in a comment, and percentage agreement isn't necessarily the same thing as confidence in your agreement. So, not to worry, we're now introducing a second axis, like so: …or, we were going to. However, once I finished designing this and we tested it internally, I realised that I was still pretty frustrated. I always wanted to express, especially with more controversial questions: how related is this belief of mine to the rest of the beliefs that I hold? Should people who come across this, in a year or two years, think of this as representing what I think? Should they use this in their model of me? Is this belief more like a leaf, which a tree can lose and remain itself, a branch, or the trunk? I'm adding one more axis which runs from correlated (with my web of beliefs) to anti-correlated with my web of beliefs: Once I [...] --- First published: March 31st, 2026 Source: --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO . --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts , or another podcast app.