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  • - stupid question: i really dont understand what your product does

    - mind explaining it like how you would do to a 5yr old kid

    by vivzkestrel
  • I expected scores and justifications to show up all the time, not just hover, no matter the view. Did you consider styling edge types differently to replace labels?
    by aitchnyu
  • Seems like an interesting way to both refine and serialize thoughts about something tricky. I think it could be a really useful backbone, but I question if the interface is optimal for creating the graphs vs something more conversational and using the graphs to hold and iterate on the state. Also, I think I would want some kind of essay version as a consumer of someone else's argument rather than reading thru the graph itself.

    Really cool space to explore!

    by hankbond
  • In which direction are you supposed to read these charts? The arrows seem to point from conclusion/solution to reasoning, but the reasoning is at the top which makes me feel like I should read it first. It would be less confusing for there to be a single convention (eg “reasoning/evidence at the top with arrows flowing mostly down towards the conclusion”).

    Similarly, I was confused by the use of both active and passive: eg sometimes “creates” and sometimes “created by,” with different arrow directions for each.

    by rappatic
  • This might be more interesting if you could read other people's discussions. As it is, it's like visiting an empty forum.
    by skybrian
  • This reminds me a web 2.0 startup in 2006. It was similar in that it wanted people to break down arguments into a flowchart. Had more of a public collaboration flavor to it at the time.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20060427152801/http://www.standp...

    Though I like this angle a bit better, it'd be interesting to look into why standpoint had a hard time.

    by iamwil
  • Cool to see this posted :) I'm the creator.

    For those interested, I've slowed work on the app in favor of refining the app's ontology in markdown form[1], building an ontology playground[2], and building a prototype[3] to show off features that the updated ontology enables. I had some major changes I wanted to make and making it work in the real app was going to be too much effort.

    I'll likely be making a Show HN for one/some of these soon^TM (in the next month or two?) but they're currently still a bit early.

    [1] https://github.com/keyserj/reasoning-tools/blob/main/amelior...

    [2] https://keyserj.github.io/reasoning-tools/ontology-playgroun...

    [3] https://github.com/keyserj/reasoning-tools/tree/main/amelior... (not yet deployed)

    by keyserj

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