Call For Adversarial Collaborations

A contest announcement + rules launching SSC's Adversarial Collaboration Contest: two people with opposing views co-write a balanced summary of the evidence on a factual question (e.g. 'Does gun control save lives?'), as a united front, MMTYWTK-length, for a $1000 prize. Clearly articulates the (later-influential) informal-adversarial-collaboration format and its rules.

Quality 53 · Solid. Announcement-tier as content, lifted slightly above the bare-stub floor because it clearly articulates a valuable, later-influential format. Solid (low).

Claude’s paradigm shift 42 · Moderate. Moderate. Adversarial collaboration predates Scott (scientific ACs), but framing it as an informal-writeup blog contest was a fresh, generative application.

Real-world impact 3 · Moderate. Moderate (3) — this launched the multi-year SSC Adversarial Collaboration Contest, a durable within-sphere institution that produced many substantive [ACC] entries and helped popularize 'adversarial collaboration' as a rationalist practice.