It is my impression that most vegetarians are vegetarian for reasons having some connection to animal suffering and morality. As such, asking about health questions is strange. In order to pretend to be a vegetarian answering these (I’m not a vegetarian), I would have to decide how likely a morality-vegetarian is to engage in motivated reasoning on health-related subjects. I would then have to answer the health questions not as a good rationalist, but as an intentionally biased rationalist, applying a bias towards believing meat is bad for health.
More generally, I don’t think ideological Turing tests work that well, because in order to be indistinguishable from the other side, you need to imitate a lot of things that aren’t really “understanding the other side”. I’d like to see a pseudo-ideological-Turing-test where everyone here tried to imitate a creationist. It would not work as a real test because the proportion of creationists here isn’t 50%, but it would help make obvious what such a test is actually measuring.
It is my impression that most vegetarians are vegetarian for reasons having some connection to animal suffering and morality. As such, asking about health questions is strange. In order to pretend to be a vegetarian answering these (I’m not a vegetarian), I would have to decide how likely a morality-vegetarian is to engage in motivated reasoning on health-related subjects. I would then have to answer the health questions not as a good rationalist, but as an intentionally biased rationalist, applying a bias towards believing meat is bad for health.
More generally, I don’t think ideological Turing tests work that well, because in order to be indistinguishable from the other side, you need to imitate a lot of things that aren’t really “understanding the other side”. I’d like to see a pseudo-ideological-Turing-test where everyone here tried to imitate a creationist. It would not work as a real test because the proportion of creationists here isn’t 50%, but it would help make obvious what such a test is actually measuring.