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I jumped at this because I I've been thinking about clarifying rules a lot. Actually, I have been thinking about clarifying beliefs but it's similar.

When someone tells you what they believe in they might think it is clear but a little digging will show how ambiguous any moral or religious proclamation is.

I have been trying hard to figure out a way to force people to be explicit about their beliefs. What I came up with is https://forgemybeliefs.etewiah.workers.dev/. Would love some feedback about how I can improve it.

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What's with the "trial" ness of it? It's a bit weird. Since you're on Cloudflare you're fitting in their free plan, so why make it seem like a subscription thing that costs money when there's no facility for that? Also the overemphasis on having no account is weird.

I hit the page and started typing an answer into the box without reading any of the rest of the page. "THE BUNDLE YOU WERE HANDED" was rather presumptuous. It seems you could just ask those five questions as agree disagree from 1-5 like every other psychology test and not use any AI.

Thanks for trying it and for being specific about what felt off.

The no-account choice is deliberate because beliefs can reveal sensitive things like religion and politics. But I can see how repeating “no account” makes it feel like a feature you should be suspicious of, instead of explaining the privacy reason once and moving on.

There’s no paid tier or trial that runs out

And yes, a 1–5 scale would be simpler if all I wanted was to record agreement. The idea behind free text and AI is to let people answer in their own words, then map that answer to specific statements they can review and correct—not give them a personality score.

Thanks again for your feedback - I've already removed the “The bundle you were handed” bit.

it seems the site no longer works. I'm getting an error after I enter some text and press the yellow button.

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