Striings is an online platform to document, debate and improve chains of reasoning. An example for a chain of reasoning would be: "Reasoning is difficult" -> "We should develop more tools to make it easier". Striings is an experiment to see if it is possible to develop new formats for knowledge exchange and decision making.
The basic building blocks of Striings are statements. Ideally, a statement is a concise, self-contained and unambiguous conjecture about the world. Each statement can be debated by adding supporting or refuting statements and the relation between statements can be rated. Statements support Markdown and LaTeX.
A chain of reasoning is a sequence of statements where each statement follows from the previous one. It has a reasoning direction and each step can be rated. A chain is a converging tree, so there can be multiple statements with different subtrees that converge to the same statement at the end.
One principle of Striings is reuseability. Ideally, statements should be reusable in different contexts. Another principle of Striings is crowdsourcing. Everybody can contribute and create new statements, new chains or debate existing ones. Striings is moderated by a mix of humans and LLMs.
The vision for Striings is to develop a large reasoning graph ranging from simple statements about everyday life to complex chains of reasoning explaining physical phenomena. Such a graph could then be used to e.g. help decision makers or improve reasoning capabilities of AI algorithms.
If you have any ideas, suggestions, feedback, hate, love or anything else to share, please contact us at hello@striings.com.