I have this dream where you have a supercomputer and you feed it all the world’s academic papers and so forth and using a set of heuristics it highlights all the parts of the documents that have markers for various confusions, biases, and errors, then it ranks the documents according to some sort of rationality index, and traces all the connections through citations, etc, to produce a complete map of rationality in the sciences. You can immediately see where the clearest thinking is being done, drill down to discover the most rational researchers and even see highlighted sentences that display biases, confusions, errors, etc. All without a hint of intelligence.
I have this dream where you have a supercomputer and you feed it all the world’s academic papers and so forth and using a set of heuristics it highlights all the parts of the documents that have markers for various confusions, biases, and errors, then it ranks the documents according to some sort of rationality index, and traces all the connections through citations, etc, to produce a complete map of rationality in the sciences. You can immediately see where the clearest thinking is being done, drill down to discover the most rational researchers and even see highlighted sentences that display biases, confusions, errors, etc. All without a hint of intelligence.
I wish I had dreams that awesome and complicated.