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Out of curiosity, what fraction of readers do you think would understand the points you're making? And what fraction of readers do you think would blame you for taking the wrong side of some debate?

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Readers here? No idea but I'd love to know. What's your estimate?

Yes readers here.

I am pessimistic, I think only 2-3% would understand, but I'd be happier to be proven wrong than proven right.

Thank you for writing up your analysis!

Interesting. That's a lot lower than my estimate. I kinda agree that what I said is pretty abstract though. Clearly, there are academics working with proof engines that have a shaky grip on the definitions of the various fallacies, or maybe they just don't care much and saw a dataset they could optimize for that industrial labs were likely to ignore (I suspect the latter).

I also assign a 50% probability to the authors of the paper not realizing their mistake even after reading your post. I think competence is quite rare even in the academia.

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