Persons A are much easier to present to the general public as generating negative utility, and thus compromise the perceived value of a wrong worldview. This makes our job a lot easier when we expose what they are doing.
Also, they are probably far less dangerous when dealing with existential risks. Let's take something that seems common (in the US, at least), say, subscribing to a premillennial eschatology. If we put one of the two in charge of a superpower:
Both are bad, but I'd clearly prefer more of Person A and less of Person B.
This is thread where I'm trying to figure out a few things about signalling on LessWrong and need some information, so please immediately after reading about the two individuals please answer the poll. The two individuals:
A. Sees that an interpretation of reality shared by others is not correct, but tries to pretend otherwise for personal gain and/or safety.
B. Fails to see that an interpretation of reality is shared by others is flawed. He is therefore perfectly honest in sharing the interpretation of reality with others. The reward regime for outward behaviour is the same as with A.
To add a trivial inconvenience that matches the inconvenience of answering the poll before reading on, comments on what I think the two individuals signal,what the trade off is and what I speculate the results might be here versus the general population, is behind this link.