Recently @soylentqueen gave me the tiniest of glimpses into the world of competitive policy debate and oh wow I am still a naive idiot about this subculture but I am SO! FASCINATED!
First! Some of them make arguments at ~six trillion WPM?? Please listen:https://youtu.be/WlatopR63e0?t=957 …
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Also: any claims one team makes which aren't specifically refuted by the opposing team are taken to be true! The fast-talkers are fast-talking to make as many claims as possible—and the opposing team has to track and then refute each one!
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I still don't understand anything that's going on when I watch one of these things, but I'm totally fascinated and impressed! (And my apologies,
@soylentqueen, for my inevitable butchery of what you described)Show this thread
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Sounds like you may be looking for a system similar to
@fortelabs’s “progressive summarization.” Would love to hear what you make of it:https://praxis.fortelabs.co/series/ps/ -
Indeed, I actually thought of Tiago‘s work when I saw this! Very interesting to see a whole subculture adopt something like this.
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