Rationality Tools

Rationality Tools

It seems to me that in public discourse around various political topics there's basically no nuance to how people make arguments. It's always black or white, pick a side and you get a 'starter pack' of opinions at the very extremes of any topic. I don't have a proper solution but I created Rationality Tools where you can paste an article from a news website and it would analyze it for logical fallacies and human biases via ChatGPT. In theory, logical fallacies are well established as a language construct so it should be easy for an LLM to spot these. Around the time I created this, I was reading Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman and it made me appreciate how much of our cognition is irrational and based on heuristics. In today's world this, I believe, is one of the reasons for the above-mentioned polarization of almost any topic.