Every argument clarity score on this site is built from rows on this page. Each
question and answer was assessed with names hidden, the host's own answers included, on
four things from 1 to 5:
directness (does it answer the question asked), coherence (do the ideas follow),
precision (concrete details and clear references), compression (says a lot per word). The weighted
mix (30/30/25/15) is the exchange score. A person's published score averages their exchange
scores on raw tape only, at least 8 of them, shrunk toward the cohort mean.
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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5.
An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression.
The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the
cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only
toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.
Answered produced feed
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q Is it just not the inevitable cyclical progression that happens throughout history, or is there something different happening right now?
A No, it is the cyclical progression, but we ceased believing in that. So in America, you have the progressive movement, which has its left-wing form, but on the right, there's its classical liberal libertarian form. Where you think things will just keep on getting better, and markets will liberalize, and we'll spend more on social welfare, and poverty will be alleviated, and we'll all be freer, and we've had that vision since, I think, sometime in the 19 sixties, at least educated classes, and we're now learning that was a kind of lie, and we told it to ourselves to make ourselves feel better, but there's no guarantee we can deliver on most of it, and we're seeing a lot of backward movements, including on gender equality. It's not clear. That's moving forward anymore.
AI assessment note: “No, it is the cyclical progression, but we ceased believing in that.”
Answered produced feed
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q Is it just not the inevitable cyclical progression that happens throughout history, or is there something different happening right now?
A No, it is the cyclical progression, but we ceased believing in that. So in America, you have the progressive movement, which has its left-wing form, but on the right, there's its classical liberal libertarian form. Where you think things will just keep on getting better, and markets will liberalize, and we'll spend more on social welfare, and poverty will be alleviated, and we'll all be freer, and we've had that vision since, I think, sometime in the 19 sixties, at least educated classes, and we're now learning that was a kind of lie, and we told it to ourselves to make ourselves feel better, but there's no guarantee we can deliver on most of it, and we're seeing a lot of backward movements, including on gender equality. It's not clear. That's moving forward anymore.
AI assessment note: “No, it is the cyclical progression, but we ceased believing in that.”
