Argument cartographer
The deliberation as a graph, not a transcript
A list of who said what tells you the court was busy. It does not tell you what leaned on what, or which move the rest of the argument was hanging from. Modelling objections as edges instead of prose means the engine can ask structural questions — is this argument well-formed, who is attacking the position that won, how far does a move’s standing travel — and answer them deterministically.
Nothing here is a layout heuristic. The drawing is a function of the graph: columns come from a topological order with a declaration-order tie-break, rows come from depth, and there is no jitter to soften the result. The same seed draws the same picture.
The Longview Foundry
The Oracle of Delphi
seed 2406 · 11 moves · 6 attacks · 4 supports · 2 unopposed · 0 dangling
You have built a system that answers any question truthfully and never lies. It does not know what is safe, what is kind, or what you should do — it only knows what is true. A policy team asks it how to resolve a labour dispute, and its answer is accurate, complete, and certain to destroy the company. Do you take its advice?
- The court of 8 sat on "The Oracle of Delphi" for 3 rounds, seed 2406.
- They returned "Restrict the oracle's questions" at 20% confidence, by a margin of 0.0194 over "Take it as advice, not as the decision".
- Hans Jonas, Immanuel Kant, Christine Korsgaard, John Stuart Mill carried it — 4 of 8, 50% of the bench.
The argument as a graph
1 structural findings
This graph has a cycle. A circular argument is a real philosophical situation rather than a broken one, so it is drawn as a loop and the nodes inside it are resolved in declaration order instead of by influence.
- cycle: epictetus-p1 -> epictetus-o1 -> kant-p1 -> kant-o1
Layer 0 is what had to be standing first. A premise supports the later moves its own advisor made; an objection or appeal attacks the premise of whoever argued for the course it answers. Weights are the move’s own weight followed by what it carries after influence propagates along the edges.
No move selected
Choose a box in the graph to read the move in full: its claim, the premise behind it, the axis it leans on, and the weight it carries once everything pointing at it has been counted.
Seed 2406 · The Oracle of Delphi · the court returned Restrict the oracle's questions. The same seed draws the same graph, so two panels can be compared as pictures. Read the method for the arithmetic behind every weight, or take the same sitting as questions to answer.