No apology necessary :) When and where formalization of debate could be helpful -- or not -- is also worth talking about. I think there's an opportunity to ad

No apology necessary :) When and where formalization of debate could be helpful -- or not -- is also worth talking about. I think there's an opportunity to add diagrammatic structure to make debate more understandable and accessible, while reducing distractions and (potentially time-wasteful) repetition of talking points. It's part of a broader idea: take an important topic, and imagine all the ways that bad actors might try to disrupt debate about that. Then try to figure out how to build a discussion system that is resilient against those efforts, while remaining participatory. (I'd agree I don't think any file format or system will let us reach rationality or objective truth any time soon - if they're even achieable goals - but they could help groups make decisions and debug prior mistakes and misunderstandings)