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>>hn_thr+(OP)
Sounds like you basically want political debate, but only among smart and/or well educated people?

It's an interesting idea for sure, but I'm not sure how or if such a thing can exist. Moderation becomes a headache, and well, a lot of truly brilliant people I've met in life have zero interest in debating it. How do you keep out the YT commenters, Fox News or r/politics commenters, etc?

It would be interesting if HN had some bucket like /offtopic, for things that are flamebaity and removed from the main view, but I fear it would attract the aforementioned people who only ever troll there, and dang probably having zero interest in mod'ing it.

>>silisi+F4
Interestingly enough, just a few days ago, I saw large language models successfully applied to toxicity and humbleness detection (was something something about building a corpus, but can't find it anymore).

Since then, I've been seriously pondering how a community would feel like that would simply enforce humble, fact-based discussion by technical means. FWIW, I'd be curious to try it out.

I've found out the hard way that social problems are usually a really terrible fit to technical solutions, but I'm curious anyway.

This idea might be a great one to try to go together with that idea.