Demand Limits Better Discourse

People may not adopt tools that improve the logical quality of online arguments because getting users to choose platforms is a harder problem than building technically superior moderation or scoring systems. Scott Alexander’s skepticism about debating apps and Kling’s own doubts about automating opinion‑scoring with AI illustrate a demand‑side barrier: accuracy is not always a user priority. — If true, many tech fixes for misinformation or low‑quality debate will fail unless they solve user incentives and attention, not only algorithmic accuracy.