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So now I\u2019m revisiting all of the answers in Leah\u2019s Ideological Turing Test in order to see which ones I straight-up liked<\/em>. Keep in mind that I strongly disliked both of my own answers! So far the only one I\u2019ve really liked and whose author I wanted to know better is this fake atheist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well, actually, there were many other entries (both real and fake, and both atheist and Christian) which had points I found intriguing but which didn\u2019t develop those points. In a real conversation I would have asked about some of that stuff, and we would have been able to engage more fully, I hope. Anyway this exercise\u2013and reading the comments!\u2013can give a sense of just how difficult it is to gauge someone\u2019s personality or intuit the larger shape of their belief system based on a small slice of their online persona\u2026.<\/p>\n

Oh, wait, right, I remember that the first time I read it I wanted to flag this line from a real atheist<\/a>, since I agreed with it and thought it was a useful analogy: \u201c[Trusting someone\u2019s prudential judgment on moral questions] is more like trusting someone\u2019s judgement of history than trusting their judgement of physics, in that there are a lot of unreliable sources and often little hard data.\u201d (Huh, I see that I guessed that both of this guy\u2019s answers were genuine!\u2013his fake Christian one is here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

(Title reference<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"