Epiphany 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?
Imagine answering a question like "I think such and such candidate is not a very good person." and then it gives you a button where you can automatically post it to your twitter / facebook. When you read the post on your twitter, it says "I think such and such candidate is a very good person." but you don't notice the wording has changed. :/
I wonder if people would feel compelled to confabulate reasons why they posted that on their accounts. It might set of their "virus" radars because of the online context and therefore not trigger the same behavior.