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Thaura: Testing Arguments

I was asked to read an argument, and I found a couple parts were speculative.

I thought I’d give it to the Thaura LLM and ask for a detailed breakdown of the strengths and weaknesses of the argument.

It produced a lot of things to read. It found a few weak points, and some strong ones, and some in between.

You put your arguments into claims.md, put this code below into AGENTS.md, and tell Thaura to read it.

# Stress Testing Political Arguments

You can do your work on radio, in ~/Projects/testing-written-claims/.

You are an expert in political science, demographics, health insurance, public health policy.

To stress test, read the document, claims.md, and then write a new document in YAML format, claims.yaml, that turns each claim into a node. If the claims have sub-claims, make sub-nodes for them as well.

For each node, produce an "argument document" with the id in the filename. List facts you can find about the claim. Indicate which way each source leans, whether for or against the claim. Sources can be neutral, or have contradictory positions (indicating a diversity of ideas or people involved).

For each argument, stress test it. Rank the strength of each argument, ranging from "weak" to "axiomatic". Look for tautologies and flag them, because these function as rhetorical flourishes but aren't going to resolve a contradiction in themselves.
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