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Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by marmaduke on Monday January 06, 2020 @02:50AM (#21967354)
> Uh oh. Unseen Risk Fallacy

a bit off topic, but couldn't identifying fallacies in arguments be automated? how much better would the discussion be if comments were labeled with likelihood of fallacy?

Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by contravariant on Monday January 06, 2020 @09:06AM (#21969173)
Given that this thread is the only instance of the phrase "Unseen Risk Fallacy", I'm not too sure that it will work as well as you'd hope. Fallacies are subtle and even in the best of cases only point out holes in someone's argumentation, which doesn't tell you much about the conclusion.

If anything automatic labelling of fallacies just risks running foul of the fallacy fallacy.

Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by TheGallopedHigh on Monday January 06, 2020 @03:02AM (#21967419)
This would be a tall order for any NLP algo. I would hazard a guess and say no, not yet.