TL;DR: LLMs can help make reasoning structure visible. This paper asks whether, when, and how to deploy that power—safely and usefully.
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How to use this paper
- Follow your interests using the tag legend below.
- Skim the table; each section title is a link.
- Tags are cues, not verdicts; share visibility only with consent.
Interest tags
- 🧠 Framing — Problem, context, and aims
- ⚙️ Design — What the system is and how it works
- 🔍 Feasibility — Evidence, limits, evaluation
- ⚖️ Constraints — Risks, ethics, guardrails
- 🚀 Next Steps — What to do with it
Quick Navigation (by interest)
| Section | Summary | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| 0. Abstract | Thesis, scope, and posture: surface structure, not fact-checking. | 🧠 |
| 1. What You Are Reading | What this is (a civic design essay) and how to approach it. | 🧠 |
| 2. The Societal Blind Spot — We See the Arguments, Not the Reasoning | Why reasoning is often invisible online; the feedback loop it creates. | 🧠 |
| 3. How LLMs Can Support Better Reasoning | What works now: a narrow but useful path; nudges as pedagogy. | 🧠🔍 |
| 4. The Proposal — What FallacyTag Might Be | Concept and interaction model; a gentle, optional tagging loop. | ⚙️🧠 |
| 5. Mediums, Modalities and Fit | How design shifts across text, audio, and video; flow–friction tradeoffs. | ⚙️ |
| 6. How It Works | Core pipeline, key components, variation points, and a reference config. | ⚙️ |
| 7. Is It Feasible? | Technical, conceptual, and social feasibility; what’s in scope now. | 🔍 |
| 8. Design Constraints and Ethical Edges | Ambiguity, perception, privacy, and weaponization—plus design implications. | ⚖️ |
| 9. Conditional Case — When This Is Worth Building | Fit criteria via a scorecard; concrete use cases and how to read them. | 🔍⚖️🚀 |
| 10. Call to Explore | Invitations (builders, educators, designers, critics) and research questions. | 🚀 |
| Appendices | Experiments, model notes, PLA, and weighting rationale (A–E). | ⚙️🔍 |
| 📘 Briefing Document | High-level summary for new readers, builders, and critics | 🧠⚙️🔍⚖️🚀 |