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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
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Answered produced feed
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q Explain that. What does that mean? Young people will be upset to know that, that both things happen.
A You've got to be able to hold two thoughts at the same time. Again, not my thought, but if you believe October seventh is resistant, you can still believe sexual violence happened. The fact that a group of feminists, none I'm particularly close to, have actually signed letters saying this didn't happen is crazy. Absolutely crazy. I mean, look, I'm going to read this. The UN special representative on sexual violence Pramila Patton traveled to Israel, and here is what she wrote. She said, Eyewitnessed in Israel were scenes of unspeakable violence perpetrated with shocking brutality. Catalog of the most extreme and inhumane forms of killing, torture, and other horrors, including sexual violence. That's the UN. They're not exactly a pro-Israel group.
AI assessment note: “if you believe October seventh is resistant, you can still believe sexual violence happened”
Answered produced feed
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q come from? Have you, have you spent time trying to unpack, like, how do you start to get to a place where you say clearly people were killed, but then when it goes into war crimes and sexual violence, we're actually going to stop it there because it basically pulls our cause back. So we can't agree that that actually happened. How, how does that happen? Why is that happening?
A I mean, you're framing it exactly right, Shamath. That's exactly what happened. So, I mean, you all talk about this a lot, but there's huge polarization. What does that mean? Polarization means I have a view that is so firmly entrenched that I see the word is black and white. Everything has to fit into my view and my narrative, and when it doesn't fit, I don't know what to do, so I reject it. And that's, I think, what's happening, that there is, there are people out there who believe that October seventh was resistance. I want to be clear. I'm not that person. I do not believe that. I'm horrified by what's happening in Gaza. Every life lost is too much. I want two states living peacefully beside each other. I really want that. But let's say you think October seventh was resistance. Then all of a sudden you're like, wait a second. Mass rape. Genital mutilation of men and women, women and men. Women tied to trees, naked, bloodied, leg spread. That doesn't fit your narrative. So what can you do? You can, wow, think maybe the world isn't so black and white. Maybe I have to rethink my narrative. Or you can say this didn't happen. And I think it is a travesty and a tragedy that anyone could say that. And I want to be clear, Jason, you started this by saying you always have positions. You always give people room for two sides. And that's fantastic. I think there are Not just two sides…
AI assessment note: “when it doesn't fit, I don't know what to do, so I reject it.”
Answered produced feed
D 4 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.60
Q have empathy for the resistance after feeling this sort of pain? And this is the age old story of war, Eye for an eye. It never ends. It always goes on. What's the right path here to hear the other side, to hear the kids on campuses, to hear the, the people in Palestine, uh, to hear the, the world saying we feel free Palestine, um, after going through this?
A Well, I can tell you what I believe. I believe we need peace. I believe we need two states. I believe that those states need to be run by peaceful leaders who want prosperity for the other side. Look, I believe we should be able to look at anyone anywhere in the world, but certainly the Palestinian people living in Gaza and say, any death is too much. One death is too much. No innocent lives should be killed. No women, no children, no innocent lives should be killed. But I think also as part of that path to peace, there needs to be forgiveness, but there needs to be a clear, clear articulation of what is not acceptable ever. And the sexual violence is not acceptable ever.
AI assessment note: “I believe we need peace. I believe we need two states.”
