simplicio comments on To what degree do you model people as agents? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: simplicio 28 August 2013 05:34:39PM 4 points [-]

Good article!

One of my hobbyhorses is that you can gain a good deal of insight into someone's political worldview by observing whom they blame versus absolve for bad acts, since blame implies agency and absolution tends to minimize it. Often you find this pattern to be the reverse of stated sympathies. Examples left as an exercise to the reader.