Inability to use the opposing side’s shibboleths, regardless of how well you mimic their reasoning.
Cases where someone’s reasoning is flawed enough that to imitate them you need to imitate specific modes of flawed reasoning—for instance, I would have a hard time imitating a homeopath on this basis, or a Holocaust denier.
As for the idea of “fleshman” itself, it is a reasonable concept but a bad piece of jargon which makes weird people here sound weirder. It isn’t hard to say things like “people usually take this to mean” or other synonyms for “typical believer”. Jargon has a cost.
Ideological turing tests tend to fail because of
Inability to use the opposing side’s shibboleths, regardless of how well you mimic their reasoning.
Cases where someone’s reasoning is flawed enough that to imitate them you need to imitate specific modes of flawed reasoning—for instance, I would have a hard time imitating a homeopath on this basis, or a Holocaust denier.
As for the idea of “fleshman” itself, it is a reasonable concept but a bad piece of jargon which makes weird people here sound weirder. It isn’t hard to say things like “people usually take this to mean” or other synonyms for “typical believer”. Jargon has a cost.
I suppose it sounds a bit gross! I think the “they’re made out of flesh!” old sci-fi story was in my head when I thought of that.