The Exchanges

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. Full method →

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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.

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Q We're in a proxy war with Russia. What is the vital national interest in the United States that compels us to be in a war, admittedly through a proxy, with Russia that has 6000 nuclear weapons? Even if I were to grant that we should be trying to, out of humanitarian motives, expel the Russians, From Ukraine, do you believe that we should be trying to destabilize and topple Putin?

A Let me come to that with a question. It's funny, I feel like I'm debating two people, but like I, like I joked in my tweet, the odds are even worse for the Ukrainians, so I'll take it. But, um, I, I mean, I asked you this question in Miami not too long ago, David. Um, you're the one who said, oh, we're threatening World War III, we're engaging in nuclear brinksmanship. By the way, things that we did all throughout the Cold War, right? I was raised as an eighties kid here in Miami. We used to do this thing all the time. At what point would you stop? At what point do you think it's actually worth rolling the dice? At what point between Lviv and Warsaw and your front door would you stop and say, actually, World War III and nuclear war is worth risking? Because that's an answer I don't get out of the appeasers. At what point do you actually put your foot down?

AI assessment note: “Let me come to that with a question.”

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