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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 Can you explain cancel culture in your framework?

A Yeah. So, um, I like to use a couple terms here. There's, there's social bullying, which is no one, uh, uh, if you disagree with me, you can't be my friend. Um, and again, that's okay, right? I don't, I don't think you're an awesome person if you act like that, but you're allowed to. Um, then there's what I would call idea supremacy, um, which is, you know, it's kind of, um, it's, it's, it's like, like I've been saying, you know, no one is allowed to say this thing, whether you're my friend or not. And, and, and, you know, if you want to run something on your own property, you can make all the speech rules, but cancel culture is specifically going into Places that are supposed to be high rung. You know what, you know what it says on top of Harvard College ? Veritas, right? Veritas, which is, which is them, that is, that is them putting their stake down on the ground and saying, we are a high rung place. They're not, say, using those words, but they're, that is what they're saying. We are a place that cares about truth, that cares about diversity of ideas, right? It cares about openness and inquiry and curiosity and all of this. Uh, and so cancel culture goes into places like that. Google, you know, You, you know, started off, they had their all hands meetings. It was all about, you know, and every idea is good. Criticize the leadership, like, you know, you know, right? So these…

AI assessment note: “cancel culture is specifically going into Places that are supposed to be high rung”

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