Argue against my plan

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The prompt

Here is what I am planning to do:

<plan>
{{PLAN}}
</plan>

Argue against it. Specifically:
- The strongest version of the case that this is wrong — not a list of risks, an argument.
- What would have to be true for the plan to fail, and how likely each of those is.
- The cheapest thing I could do this week that would tell me whether it is wrong.

Do not reassure me. Do not end with "but overall this is a solid plan".

What to fill in

Placeholder	What goes there
{{PLAN}}	what you are about to commit to

Why it works

Models are agreeable by default, because agreeable answers are the ones people preferred during training. You have to ask for the opposite explicitly, and you have to ban the reassuring close or you will get the criticism followed by a retraction.

The third question is the useful one: an argument you cannot test is just a mood.

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