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 much ever. Uh, the product is Equally amazing, right? Like everyone I know is using it every single day being like, this thing's insane. Like it's crazy. I can do the most nuts things with it. Right. And then with the investors hat on, you're just like, how does this business ever make sense? Right. And so there, it's such a dichotomy. It's like hard to, hard to work through.

A Like I have no, I don't knock anyone who has done these rounds and participated in these rounds. Like I, Like, I understand why people would do it, and also most of the funds that are putting the money into these rounds have very different Their needs and wants, and they, their capital that's in them has different needs and wants, and we're just like talking about a different thing than the business that any of us are in. You know, one of my problems with a venture right now is that it's like some, any, any firm that is a venture capital firm, it's like we're all supposed to be competing with each other doing the same thing, but like the business that we are in and the business that the funds are in that are investing at 50 or a hundred or three hundred billion dollars in OpenAI, like I have as much in common with those companies as I do with like a gas station.

AI assessment note: “most of the funds that are putting the money into these rounds have very different”

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