roystgnr comments on What will rationality look like in the future? - Less Wrong
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Having a few very good rationalists applying "fallacy check" and "bias check" to all their own essays would be wonderful... but just imagine the implications of having many mediocre rationalists regularly applying "fallacy check" and "bias check" to their politicians essays and speeches.
I'd love to see what kind of feedback that provides to the politicians speechwriters. "Well, sir, we could say that, and it could give us a nice brief popularity boost, but would that be worth the blowback we get once everybody's talking about how we sent their fallacy-meters off the charts?"
Their ability to do this without getting mind-killed is very much open to question.