Clarity comments on You have a set amount of "weirdness points". Spend them wisely. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Clarity 03 August 2015 07:03:14AM *  0 points [-]

Lots I agree with here. I was suprised to see basic income in your clustering above. As much as I think Cuban's are the ones doing socialism wrong, and everyone doing socialism less, like Venezuala isn't socialist enough, I'm right wing and mindkilled enough to have rejected basic income using general right wing arguments and assumptions until I read the consistency of positive examples on the Wikipedia page. The straw that broke the camels back was that there is right wing support for basic income. That being said, I'm confident that I would pass ideological turing tests.

Comment author: Jiro 03 August 2015 03:07:15PM 2 points [-]

It is generally a bad idea to change your views based on a Wikipedia page. Particularly a Wikipedia page on a politically charged subject. What you see may only mean that nobody happened to stop by the page who was willing to add the negative examples.

Also, be careful that you don't read the article as saying more than it is actually saying. it says that "several people" on the right supported it. Great, at least two, and both of them from far enough in the past that "right wing" doesn't mean what it means today.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 03 August 2015 08:48:49PM 1 point [-]

It is generally a bad idea to change your views based on a Wikipedia page.

Depends on how much you knew about the topic to begin with.

Comment author: LawrenceC 03 August 2015 03:43:41PM 1 point [-]

That being said, I'm confident that I would pass ideological turing tests.

Cool! You can try taking them here: http://blacker.caltech.edu/itt/