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TL;DR version: the idea is that "content you might like" should recommend not only the relevant information of your views, but also the helpful information of opposite views from highly ranked authors. This will milden the polarisation of views and make everyone more informed of the issue.

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There should be some kind of ranking algorithm for "the best people on our side for talking to people on the other side." This is often very different from the people that my side enjoys listening to, since that often includes a lot of puffery about how our side is obviously correct to anyone with half-a-brain.

http://www.opposingviews.com/ does a good job here. It lets you see the best arguments from either side at least.

Edit: I dunno what came over me. I had the address transposed in my head. I meant to post a link to debate.org.

Where? I just paged through and saw a bunch of mildly controversial news headlines (which did seen an intriguing collection of conversation starters, like hard income limits for Medicare), and then a pile of ad spam for "hot celebrity pics" and testosterone for sale.

Corrected, with apologies.

Thanks! Debate.org looks good. It even has three sections for highbrow, middlebrow, and lowbrow; labelled dabatew, views, and polls respectively.

a) The best people of your side, may not be the best people to talk to the other side. Think rhetorics and clarity, vs depth, knowledge and insight. b) It can be gamed, especially online, by people being moles. c) There is usually a lot of context, "axioms" that make something "obvious" to you, but are too many to easily say to the other side.

I've found that subreddits like /r/changemyview do a good job of stating opposing views, I know people aren't big fans of reddit here, but there are subreddits where polar opposing views are actually encouraged. I think(hope) one day people might get bored of their filter bubble, and may one day seek solutions to answers that aren't one dimensional as left or right.

Glad I CTRL+F for this subreddit before posting. Anyone that hasn't been on /r/changemyview before, it's great.

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