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New political compass test just dropped. Some people like taking these and I'd be curious where you guys end up.
I gotClassical Liberalism w,hich is a bit surprising given how much Moldbug-posting I tend to do.
I hate these things (why are they always made by people who phrase the prompts so poorly?) but here we go.
Well which ones are we talking about? Eye color, or compulsion to murder?
Are we talking about drinking soda or about bank robbery?
What else would do it? Is there an alternative? What is 'culture'?
...? What defines 'sexual deviancy'?
Who are they?
Yes, and still the best arrangement. How's this being counted?
What the hell does that mean? I think my take is "Yes and that's a good thing" but idk what they meant or how it will be counted.
How would that even be possible without ending all human life? What is being asked here?
Oftentimes? Other times not? What?
Okay I got "Jeffersonianism" but had to nullify like half the questions, so there you go.
Making a survey meant for the general population is the opposite of easy. We're wordcels on an argumentative wordcel forum, we have an unusually high tolerance for walls of text and complicated questions that consider counterfactuals and nuance.
For example, someone here crawled up my ass when I said that I agreed with (a statement asking if) genocide was evil, asking for a definition of evil. Some poor test writer or psychometrician really can't cover every edge case. Your best bet is to put yourself in a normie state of mind when evaluating a question, if not the answer.
Short of write-ins that are evaluated by humans, the only way to do significantly better is to use some kind of ML classifier or LLM to dig into things. Fuck it, I might see about making such a survey and grader myself. God knows that still won't stop some people from complaining about the validity of the questions, fair critiques or not.
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