Pressure-test the idea
Face an opponent that engages your actual claim, not a caricature of it.
Deliberate practice for difficult conversations
Debate an adaptive AI opponent, expose the weak joints in your reasoning, and practice the response you wish you had made.
Today's motion
What evidence separates the harm caused by persuasion from the harm caused by scale?
The issue is not persuasion alone. At scale, opaque optimization can…
Your principle is clear. Now make “scale” falsifiable.
The training loop
Face an opponent that engages your actual claim, not a caricature of it.
Separate logic, evidence, rebuttal, clarity, and persuasion in one legible scorecard.
Rebuild a response while the lesson is fresh, then measure what improved.
One argument, many skills