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Clarity comments on Where does our community disagree about meaningful issues? - Less Wrong Discussion

16 Post author: ChristianKl 12 February 2016 11:34AM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 13 February 2016 10:33:09PM 0 points [-]

It's not about the incentives. It's mostly that most people here don't care about the issue enough to effect the legislative process.

Comment author: Clarity 14 February 2016 11:00:48AM *  0 points [-]

What testable reason(s) do you have to believe that and would would change your mind about it?

Comment author: ChristianKl 14 February 2016 04:24:10PM *  0 points [-]

The basic test would be to ask people what they actually would do differently when they would hold different beliefs.

Comment author: Clarity 15 February 2016 01:03:09AM 0 points [-]

what would you actually do differently when you hold different beliefs?

Comment author: ChristianKl 15 February 2016 09:37:45AM 0 points [-]

If I would believe that everybody should eat vegan I would eat a different diet.

Comment author: Clarity 15 February 2016 12:09:09PM 0 points [-]

I am so confused right now.

Comment author: ChristianKl 15 February 2016 12:59:24PM 0 points [-]

The issue of 2) Everybody should be vegan. is one that I listed as an example of a meaningful issue because it drives choices I make in my life. It's meaningful because I can point to the effect it has on my life to think differently about the issue.

The questions that you posed don't fall into that class.