Steelmanned

An integrity referee for public debates. We score how each side argued, never who won.

Dave Smith

2 scored debates

19 challenges faced · 21,938 words scored

69
Debate integrity · record

Range 66–74 across 2 debates. Weighted by challenges faced, not words spoken: how hard each performance was tested.

Where these scores sit

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Dave: 74 (v panel of 3) · 66 (v panel of 3) · shaded to our ±5–8 re-run band · all 46 scored performances shown

Inside our ±8-point re-run band of this record: Andrew Wilson's 69, Kai Schwemmer's 69, Owen Shroyer's 70, Andrew Wilson's 70. We treat these as indistinguishable from it.

Component standings

Confronted the point81site 52–97
Argued clean70site 6–100
Dealt straight23site 0–87
Let them talk83site 75–100

Dave's strongest component is “Let them talk” at 83. Across the 46 scored performances Steelmanned has published, that component runs 75–100.

The record

PBD PodcastPanel debate3h 09m

COVID Mandates, Media Trust & Trump's Verdict

Dave Smith
74
DIS ±8
On a panel with Chris Cuomo & Patrick Bet-David
CRUX45% · N=8
74
CLEAN30% · 13,522W
86
DEALT15% · N=8
40
TALK10% · 242 TURNS
95

Confronted 8 challenges (12.5 of 17 weighted) and conceded 'the Republicans totally failed the country, too, on this issue' and that older sick people had 'a strong argument' for vaccination; was recorded attributing Cuomo's positions to 'those CNN checks,' ventriloquising a cited authority ('I'll tear him to shreds') rather than engaging, and cutting in mid-sentence (3 interruptions).

8 challenges faced · 13,522 words scored · rubric v0.11
Mario NawfalPanel debate1h 34m

IRAN WAR 6 MONTHS IN WITH MINIMAL RESULTS - w/ Dave Smith vs. Alan Dershowitz on Mario Narfal Podcast

Dave Smith
66
DIS ±8
On a panel with Alan Dershowitz & Mario Nawfal
CRUX45% · N=11
86
CLEAN30% · 8,416W
59
DEALT15% · N=11
10
TALK10% · 74 TURNS
75

Granted the 1935 analogy arguendo then denied its generalizing force, and denied the threat premise ('all that nuclear stuff is bullshit too'); recorded 18 weighted fallacy points across 8,416 words with 8 interruptions, calling Dershowitz 'Satan's spawn' and declining in closing to rebut the civilian-to-combatant ratio argument.

11 challenges faced · 8,416 words scored · rubric v0.12

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