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 So I have, I have the greatest respect for like these extraordinary men who ran the Catholic church and things they did. There's also, obviously you said some really evil ones and it's, but, but isn't an institution itself not, not Not naturally, not of God, because it can become corrupted. Like, how, how is the institution itself become the thing that you focus on?

A That's the, that's the, that's the, that's the trick, right? Because you have, um, the church is, um, Christ's, let's call it bride on earth, right? So on the one end, you have this deeply holy institution that has an unbroken line from Peter, right? By the way, started by all Jews. The, the, from Peter to Francis, who I'm not a huge fan of. The, um, But they're human. And they can go way, way off base and be susceptible to the deadly sins like anybody else. But it doesn't mean that their mission isn't divine. And so like, you know, Joe Biden can be whatever out of it, the, but it doesn't mean that America is, uh, uh, whatever.

AI assessment note: “deeply holy institution... But they're human. And they can go way, way off base”

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