Adversarial Collaboration

In the Edge:

Adversarial Collaboration: In the Edge

Intro below. worth reading. Ultimately robotics and AI need to be able to do this.   - FAD 

[EDITOR'S NOTE: In marking this year's 25th anniversary of Edge, we are presenting original lectures from eminent scientists and other thinkers in th­e empirical world who are changing the way we think about science and our place­­ in the world.]

"People don't change their minds."    —Daniel Kahneman 

DANIEL KAHNEMAN is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton University, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, and co-author (with Cass R. Sunstein and Olivier Sibony) of Noise. He is the winner of the 2013 Presidential Medal of Honor, and the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Daniel Kahneman’s Edge Bio Page

Introduction  By John Brockman

Daniel Kahneman, while known for his work with Amos Tversky in the 1970s on judgment and decision-making, hopes that part of his scientific legacy will be the practice of adversarial collaboration, which he initiated in 2001.

Introduced as "a substitute for the format of critique-reply-rejoinder in which debates are currently conducted in the social sciences," Kahneman championed adversarial collaboration as "a good-faith effort to conduct debates by carrying out joint research."

He notes that the flowering of adversarial collaborations in various scientific disciplines is an indication that we are at the beginnings of a radical change in the way that science is done in psychology and other disciplines. "And," he says, "it's a major improvement."  ....'  ...