Kaj_Sotala comments on 2014 Survey Results - Less Wrong

87 Post author: Yvain 05 January 2015 07:36PM

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Comment author: Prismattic 04 January 2015 09:59:40PM 2 points [-]

In my experience, libertarians tend to think highly of Arnold Kling's taxonomy, and liberals and conservatives do not. I regard it as a Turing test fail.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 04 January 2015 10:22:18PM 1 point [-]

Can you expand on the last sentence?

Comment author: fubarobfusco 04 January 2015 10:46:18PM 3 points [-]

The Ideological Turing Test is a concept invented by American economist Bryan Caplan to test whether a political or ideological partisan correctly understands the arguments of his or her intellectual adversaries. The partisan is invited to answer questions or write an essay posing as his opposite number; if neutral judges cannot tell the difference between the partisan's answers and the answers of the opposite number, the candidate is judged to correctly understand the opposing side.

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