feotakahari | (no subject)

The researchers behind that “my primals” test seem like they have some weird primals. They looked at beliefs like “the world is safe,” and then they went from there to things like “how do you change your view of how safe the world is to one that gets you better outcomes?” Personally, I’d want to change my view of how safe the world is to one that reflects how safe the world is! If there are people who are freezing to death because of lack of shelter, and I think the world is a safe place where people don’t freeze to death, that means I’m not gonna vote for policies that would get more people housing. That seems like a much bigger issue than whether my views make me, a single person, more or less likely to die.

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my primary objection to the primals thing is that most questions could be answered yes or no depending on framing. is the world 'safe'? i am fairly confident i won't die of violence, but even more confident that i will die of *something* within the next century. i don't think asking me this gets at fundamental aspects of my worldview, because neither answer feels very relevant either way

(the only questions i found relatively unambiguous were like 'everything happens for a reason' stuff. not coincidentally, i think, those were the ones where i was very distinct from the average, i expect because i did not need to hedge those by picking middle-of-the-pack 'i slightly disagree because there is no 'this question is meaningless' button' options)