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pydry on July 13, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Be More Unlikeable

I wish some of this energy could be channeled into creating forum software that explicitly recognized and accounted for logical fallacies.

It would help clean up a lot of shit (same as comment voting). It's not a panacea (just as voting isn't) but it would help to be able to flag/confirm/reject logical fallacies in textual online arguments.

h_r on July 13, 2020 [–]

Seems like that would require an understanding of language that far exceeds the current state of the art. And much of the time logic doesn't even apply because the text is incoherent.

pydry on July 14, 2020 | [–]

You don't need that. You can use humans to flag and verify logical fallacies. The computer can just be tasked with labeling.

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