Raelifin comments on Vegetarian/Omnivore Ideological Turing Test Judging Round! - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 21 August 2015 12:59:33AM 2 points [-]

I found these very difficult (with one exception -- one of the entries was mine). Perhaps I'm just bad at spotting the relevant cues, but I think actually vegetarianism and non-vegetarianism are probably easier to fake than (e.g.) liberalism/conservatism or theism/atheism. Being a vegetarian isn't a matter of all-encompassing worldview; you can turn an omnivore into a vegetarian by adjusting one or two opinions (e.g. on what sorts of diet are healthiest) or preferences (e.g., does meat taste delicious or gross) or values (e.g., is a chicken's suffering 0%, 1% or 50% as important as a human's), and it's probably not super-difficult for most thoughtful people to imagine themselves into the opposite position.

Comment author: Raelifin 21 August 2015 02:21:42AM 0 points [-]

I pretty much agree with you. I think it'll be interesting to get the data out of this and see how competent the judges are compared to Leah's Christianity tests. A few people in my local group thought this would be a good topic.