> I think it's important to be able to have controversial debates in real life, as body language and audience response seems to keep people from being truly awf

> I think it's important to be able to have controversial debates in real life, as body language and audience response seems to keep people from being truly awful. This sort of works, but it also disproportionately empowers psychopaths who are not vulnerable to social moderation and in fact can abuse it against other people. The people who are good at winning debates in real life mostly constitute the politician class, who are A) usually pretty psychopathic B) seemingly pretty unconstrained by moral censure. The internet is cool because it kind of makes everyone into a psychopath (because there’s no emotional connection), so actual psychopathic political types don’t have any advantage over normal people. It would be better if you could create a community where no one was a psychopath but I’m not sure this is possible at scale, or even at all.