DaFranker comments on New study on choice blindness in moral positions - Less Wrong
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An instrumental question: how would you exploit this to your advantage, were you dark-arts inclined? For example, if you are a US presidential candidate, what tactics would you use to invisibly switch voters' choice to you? Given that you are probably not better at it than the professionals in each candidate's team, can you find examples of such tactics?
While meeting with voters in local community halls, candidates sometimes go around distributing goodwill tokens or promises while thanking people for supporting them, whether the person actually seems to support them or not.
It's not a very strong version, and it's tinged with some guilt-tripping, but matches the pattern under some circumstances and very well might trigger the choice blindness in some cases.