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Statements that correlate with being on LessWrong rather than being on Prolific:
0.58 Nobody has seen a ghost.
0.56 There is no God.
0.56 People's anecdotes about seeing ghosts aren't real evidence for ghosts.
0.54 There are so many different incompatible religions that are all equally justifiable that it is supremely unlikely that any one religion is true.
0.52 Supernatural claims are never true.
0.51 More nuclear power plants should be built.
0.48 Religious people are very stupid.
0.48 Math education is not good enough.
0.44 People denigrate scientists who have inconvenient facts.
0.43 We should develop lab-grown meat to get much greater efficiency and better animal welfare.
0.42 Physics is the fundamental science that unravels the mysteries of the universe.
0.4 A lot of office jobs are just about shuffling through documents and following rules in ways that you could program a computer to do.
0.4 At its most fundamental level, all of the universe functions according to material rules such as physics.
0.39 Autonomous drones will start replacing human fighters in the military.
0.38 It is unethical to use large language models to fill out surveys on Prolific.
0.37 You need to read newspapers, analysts and other such sources to understand the historical complexities behind the Ukraine war.
0.37 Genetically modified organisms will make farming more effective in the future.
0.36 Emotions interfere with people's ability to think rationally.
0.36 It should be legal to have fun with psychedelic drugs.
0.35 Accountants are getting outdated as it can be handled by computers.
0.34 The average person is stupid, and 50% of people are even stupider than that.
0.33 A majority of the population enjoy finding enemies to direct their anger at the world towards.
0.33 Physics is foundational to engineering, technology, and higher fields of research such as chemistry.
0.32 The benefits of science far outsize the downsides.
0.32 NATO has decisive military superiority over Russia.
0.32 Genetically modified plants will be able to grow in places that climate change would otherwise have made inhospitable.
0.32 Finance people overestimate their ability to use math to predict economic shocks.
0.32 Objective measurement of behavior is important in science because people likely won't be honest with themselves.
0.32 People need to have a strong separation between work and home life.
0.32 Women don't work in construction because it is unglamorous.
0.31 Governance is a difficult technical problem that requires lots of expertise.
0.31 Companies are interested in outsourcing in order to push down wages to save money.
0.3 Society needs journalists so people can be informed about what is happening.
0.3 Personal cars cause too much traffic.
0.3 If one of your friends comes to you for support with a conflict they have with a stranger, you should try to figure out whether the stranger is right, rather than simply supporting your friend.
0.3 Companies often use marketing to make their brand stay popular after science shows their products are harmful.
0.29 Humanity should fly spaceships across the galaxy and build civilizations on many planets.
0.29 The state shouldn't concern itself with religion at all.
0.29 The finance sector makes investments focus on what is easy to measure, rather than what is good for the long term.
0.29 In the future, houses will be 3D printed.
0.28 Most of people's ideas are things they've picked up from other people, rather than discovering on their own.
0.28 Capitalists do bad stuff and declare success because it makes GDP go up.
0.28 Prostitution should be legal.
0.28 Even taboo topics like whether pedophilia is a natural orientation must be tolerated for open discussion.
0.28 AI and robots might handle a lot of mechanics jobs in the future.
0.28 Farming is harmful to the environment.
0.28 The 2020 American election was good at ensuring that no significant voting fraud took place.
0.28 In the future, carpentry might be replaced by AI or 3D printing.
0.27 It's a baseless, insane, wildly detached conspiracy to say that elite pedophile cabals wield a lot of power over society.
0.27 The West needs to promote AI research so China doesn't gain an advantage.
0.27 When there is a conflict, the best information about the conflict is from neutral outsiders, as they can be more objective.
0.27 It is hard to find good IT teachers, because people who are skilled at tech can earn more money working for tech companies.
0.26 Teenage girls tend to be unreasonably dramatic.
0.26 Advertisements will become ever more tailored to the individual in the future.
0.26 Capitalism encourages farmers use short-sighted environmentally-damaging methods.
0.26 There is a need for more construction to solve housing shortages.
0.26 Religions cannot plausibly have much life wisdom because their stories are full of miracles and other false supernatural claims.
0.25 It is financially difficult to be a writer, as there is tough competition.
0.25 It is hard for a victim of sexual assault to come with sufficient proof, as there is a lack of witnesses or objective evidence.
0.25 It is important that the news is run independent of the government so it can serve as a check on those in power.
0.25 Religion is closely related to schizophrenia.
0.25 Most companies have terrible customer service.
0.25 Math is critically important for our high-tech society.
0.25 Pollution is causing health problems by disrupting people's sex hormones.
0.25 It is hard to find people in customer service who know how to solve the problems.
0.25 In the future, we are going to see AIs managing teams of people.
0.25 Any male preferential interest in computers must be learned, because we don't see any genetic difference that would make men more interested in computers than women are.
0.24 Society has too much respect for vain things like fashion and makeup.
0.24 Makeup is basically painting a new face over your real face because you aren't satisfied with how you normally look.
0.24 Farmers should protect their soil from erosion by planting trees/bushes to protect against the wind.
0.24 Donating money to cure rare diseases for cute puppies is a waste of money, because it is not an efficient way to do good.
0.24 Politicians should focus on rational arguments for their policies, more so than by appealing to emotions or authority.
0.24 AI and big data will be useful for better making scientific sense of society.
0.24 Any religion has an equally good case to be true and it is narrow-minded to think that you have identified The One Correct One.
0.24 Genetic research holds great promise for improving medicine.
0.24 AI will soon contribute a lot to medical research.
0.24 Some shady companies use targeted advertising to search for people who are financially desperate and offer expensive loans.
0.23 When populists force the government to act too quickly, it can make catastrophic errors.
0.23 One can't lower the evidence requirements for sexual assault, as it will lead to too many false convictions.
0.23 Developed nations such as the UK have severe underpopulation issues looming.
0.23 Schools should prioritize teaching critical thinking.
0.23 Humanity can only be worthy of continued existence if we can find a way to share the planet in peace with other species, rather than making them go extinct.
0.23 Increasing levels of isolation has caused people to become more mentally ill.
0.22 Teaching will need to start incorporating AI technology.
0.22 Very smart people often have very stupid political opinions.
0.22 AI and 3D printing will soon be combined to quickly and easily create all sorts of things.
0.22 Farmers are constantly using new crop varieties that have higher yield and are more pest-resistant.
0.22 Engineers develop systems which make life simpler.
0.22 People need to be careful not to present their subjective opinion as if it's the objective truth.
0.22 A big fraction of the advice people give and the worldviews people have is just stuff that sounds nice and which they haven't really thought about.
0.22 People who work in the military cannot show any weakness, as otherwise the other soldiers will bully them.
0.22 Humanity must take responsibility for the animals we own, and give them kindness, compassion, care and humane treatment.
0.22 Tech companies spy on people in terrible ways.
0.22 Monopolies cut down customer service out of greed.
0.22 People need to die of natural aging so they free up space for younger generations.
0.22 Society spends too many resources on medical treatment to save the lives of very old people.
0.22 The Israel/Palestine conflict should be solved with a two-state solution that respects both Israel's and Palestine's right to exist.
0.22 The state should hire better people for higher wages to be policemen, and hold them to much higher standards of presentation and conduct.
0.21 There's problems with bias when ordinary people report newsworthy events on social media.
0.21 Outsourcing labour is a guaranteed way to lose all skill.
0.21 Finance leads to a problematic amount of economic inequality.
0.21 It's silly for people to freak out and assume GMOs will lead to catastrophe, just because we can imagine some convoluted way it could happen.
0.21 Makeup hurts your skin.
0.21 Political parties are a distortion to representative democracy, as parliament members should represent their voters rather than their party.
0.21 The more someone is affected by some political question, the more they will care about it.
0.21 Bisexual impulses are a normal part of psychosexual development.
0.21 Commuting to and from work is often terrible.
0.21 Marketers often have a morally shady character, and might use manipulation or psychological tricks.
0.21 It's unsustainable for the economy to keep growing.
0.21 Most people's political opinions are stupid.
0.2 Marketing departments should communicate the business' climate impacts to consumers.
0.2 To win at finance, investors develop monopolies, eliminating competition and allowing them to raise prices.
0.2 The progress of the internet has shown the world that IT is not just for geeks and introverts.
0.2 People who go to therapy for alcoholism, drug abuse or personality disorders often keep having those problems even after having been in therapy for a long time.
0.2 People often form opinions based on superficial "common sense" without bothering to investigate things more objectively.
0.2 Effective marketing was a big part of why Nazis and other extremists succeeded.
0.2 The world is full of good investment opportunities that need more capital.
0.2 Antibiotic use in factory farms leads to multiresistant bacteria that will soon wreck havoc on humans defending ourselves with antibiotics.
0.2 People should defer to the scientific consensus about whether IQ tests are valid.
0.2 Companies make their customer service staff follow scripts that focus more on calming their customers than on solving their problems.
0.2 Anti-obesity drugs to cure type 2 diabetes is good because it allows people who can't exercise to become healthier.
0.2 AI is going to make office work much more efficient in the future.
0.2 The stock market fails to punish powerful people for poor investments because people in power just get the government to bail them out using taxpayer money.
0.2 Birth control pills are very helpful for the women who choose to use them.
0.2 People don't care about how much work goes into fashion designs.
0.2 Women don't work in construction because it is a low-skilled, low-paid job.
0.19 Throughout thousands of years of history, engineers have built us systems that make society comfortable and efficient.
0.19 Farmers should grow crops that use less water to avoid water shortages.
0.19 It is best to let computers rather than humans analyze datasets, as then they can be more objective and less biased.
0.19 AI will inevitably become better than humans at everything.
0.19 The main reason more expensive places provide better service is because employees feel more motivated when they are better paid.
0.19 Life in the universe began with the big bang.
0.18 All forms of monarchy and nobility should be abolished.
0.18 We can expect medical science to discover lots of improved treatments in the future.
0.18 People who argue the scientific community is biased ought to prove it by citing scientific studies which show the bias.
0.18 It is unlikely that there are gender differences concerning worry and stress.
0.18 Poorly designed buildings would make cities look boring and uninteresting.
0.18 A lot of marketing firms trick companies into wasting lots of money on useless campaigns.
0.18 Big organisations tend to get in the way of individuals who want to solve real problems.
0.18 Humanity is bad and should go extinct.
0.18 The government has lots of useful data to guide its decisions.
0.17 School is one of the main ways that kids from disadvantaged backgrounds have to catch up.
0.17 There are many challenges that make it difficult to have unbiased news; it's far from enough to simply avoid government censorship.
0.17 Plastic surgeons use targeted advertising to trick girls with poor body image into harmful treatments.
0.17 Children hate going to school.
0.17 People should trust their doctor for health questions, whether the doctor recommends getting medicine or adapting their lifestyle.
0.17 The primary goal for packaging should be to reduce it and avoid plastic to save the environment.
0.17 High-end tech roles get respect and money, while basic IT jobs are often overlooked.
0.17 It is important for children's health to be naturally breastfed rather than given formula.
0.17 Claims that it's soon the end of the world are always hyperbolic and exaggerated.
0.17 Politicians often fail to meet even the lowest expectations people can have of them.
0.17 Trends are not important enough that it's worth following them if it means getting mildly inconvenienced.
0.16 Regulations limiting the construction of houses unfairly benefit those who own houses, whose market price increase.
0.16 It's hard for the government to lie about medical topics, as it would lead to tons of pushback from doctors and scientists.
0.16 Because animals eat animals, it is also ethical for humans to eat animals, as it is simply the circle of life.
0.16 The government's bailouts and interventions into the financial system disproportionately benefit the wealthy.
0.16 It is wisest for companies to avoid marketing to people who require too much support or otherwise cause trouble.
0.16 Most men want to have sex with most of their female friends.
0.16 People become what they do; in order to have a skill, one needs to continually perform that skill, rather than outsourcing it to technology or other people.
0.16 Power corrupts.
0.16 Art used for corporate reasons ends up seeming soulless.
0.16 There is a problem of lawyers making obstructionistic, time-consuming arguments to exploit the system.
0.16 Politicians use targeted advertising to trick passionate people into supporting them.
0.16 AI will only take over tough jobs that humans struggle with and computers are good at, so AI taking over jobs will be good for society because it will allow humans to focus on things that fit us better.
0.16 People who make provocative statements lack accurate information and instead just parrot ideas from the media and biased people.
0.16 It's hard to think out of the box and come up with creative solutions to things.
0.16 We need renewable and environmentally sustainable engineering.
0.15 The word "nerd" refers to people with lots of deep knowledge who can be a bit sloppy when it comes to exercise, fashion or arbitrary social etiquette.
0.15 COVID-19 is much more dangerous than the common cold.
0.15 Too much Diversity, Equality and Inclusion can lead to hiring crony managers.
0.15 The effectiveness of prisons should be judged on their ability to reduce recidivism.
0.15 The government makes overly simplistic metrics for products, which companies focus on to the detriment of real quality.
0.15 It is a fallacy to assume that natural things are better than artificial things.
0.15 Good product design (in terms of layout, etc.) makes a huge difference for usability.
0.15 Military training does not teach the independence that is important in the rest of society.
0.15 The government should give people money so they don't have to work so much.
0.15 It is dangerous if people question the authority of science without providing absolute proof that the scientists are doing something wrong.
0.15 If the military could replace human soldiers with robots, military generals could easily overthrow the government and become dictators.
0.15 Carpenters have a sense of patience which clashes with the fast pace of modern life.
0.15 The state shouldn't grant special privileges based on marriage.
0.15 Pharmaceutical companies are biased in favor of treating disease with drugs because they earn money through selling drugs.
0.15 Art lacks originality nowadays.
0.14 Mobile phones have shortened people's attention spans.
0.14 The government would probably regulate AI way too strongly if they started getting involved with it.
0.14 Most people don't have any clue what they're doing, but a few people in each field do.
0.14 Climate science is critically important due to global warming.
0.14 Medical researchers need to be patient and confident so they can stay motivated when they feel stuck.
0.14 There are too many cases where someone has been falsely convicted of rape.
0.14 Psychiatry is just used as a place to send inconvenient people, not to fix mental health.
0.14 People underestimate how much hard work gets performed by government bureaucrats.
0.14 If someone says something that sounds extreme, it is probably a misunderstanding or a joke.
0.14 Political debate is important because it allows people to share their wisdom to figure out how to best run the country.
0.14 It is a strong sign of schizophrenia to think that the government and companies are spying on you.
0.14 A lot of the civil service will be automated by AI.
0.14 Government regulations for product quality and safety help both upper-class and lower-class people.
0.14 Marketing is effective because people are too gullible and believe everything they hear.
0.14 Social scientists ought to study ways to open up norms so people aren't as strict about how you have to act.
0.14 A lot of people these days cannot do basic arithmetic.
0.14 Privacy is more important than security.
0.14 People who work in stressful jobs often end up using cocaine or other performance-enhancing drugs to deal with the pressure.
0.14 There are too few rich people for it to be a practical strategy for most companies to focus on appealing to the rich.
0.13 Real activists should be out there protesting or talking to politicians, not just commenting on the internet.
0.13 The government lacks adaptiveness and inventiveness.
0.13 People should keep money out of their interactions with friends, as money creates a bias in favor of the richer members of the friend groups.
0.13 Eventually, AI will make all humans obsolete, no matter what we do.
0.13 At its most fundamental level, all of the world can be scientifically understood.
0.13 Finance trading makes no contribution to cores of life like food production, healthcare and similar.
0.13 People feel compelled to repeat past negative behaviors or even relive trauma.
0.13 Due to biased data, some AIs believe that all lawyers are white and all fast food workers are black.
0.13 If people keep arguing about stuff for a long time but never seem able to reach agreement, they should just agree to stop talking about it.
0.13 People are wasting too much time scrolling through the internet on their phones.
0.13 In sex, people are more preoccupied with their fantasy of the other person than they are with the actual person.
0.13 People have become too dependent on mobile phones for communication.
0.13 We are headed for problems due to "Idiocracy" as dumb people have more kids and take over society.
0.13 People are economically vulnerable today because there's only a few low-skilled jobs (e.g. drivers) that haven't been outsourced.
0.13 Society can't afford the costs of having more people in prison.
0.12 Religion is the cause of most wars and conflict.
0.12 Artificial intelligence will make it more accessible to work in finance.
0.12 IT people tend to be arrogant, rude and dismissive.
0.12 String theory lead physics astray for decades.
0.12 It doesn't really matter if high-profile artists do wasteful things because they're only 1 person so it doesn't make a big difference.
0.12 If people don't regularly socialize, they stop being able to socialize.
0.12 Modern mathematical tools exist because people developed pure math before the applications became clear.
0.12 Self-driving vehicles will make drivers obsolete.
0.12 Men tend to be more enthusiastic about technological progress than women are.
0.12 Research projects are generally useful even if their core goals are not achieved, simply because they cause other progress.
0.12 Paperwork is useful to keep things organized and ensure that everything keeps running smoothly.
0.12 Society has too many conspiracy theories about the medical system.
0.12 The general public is too tough on doctors who make incorrect diagnoses.
0.12 Men innately have a much greater desire for casual sex than women do.
0.12 It is critical that teachers don't exploit childrens' malleability to teach propaganda.
0.12 The fact that women have kept up as all jobs in society became computerized shows that women do just as well with computers as men do.
0.12 Society doesn't appreciate how tough medical research is.
0.11 Better technology is the main thing that has improved the world.
0.11 It is most important to get your political allies feeling passionate and organized in fighting for your policies.
0.11 AI systems become able to evaluate the quality of their outputs because they ask humans to rate the outputs and learn from those ratings.
0.11 The military needs to have a masculine mindset to be strong enough.
0.11 It is wrong to moralize about fashion and art.
0.11 Part of why women are paid less than men is because women freely choose to take time off for children.
0.11 Modern diets are healthier than traditional diets because our greater food production allows us to avoid nutritional deficiencies.
0.11 Online shopping/food ordering is causing a great need for growth in the number of professional drivers.
0.11 Good engineers must have the discipline to reject favorite ideas because they are dead-ends that prevent excellent solutions.
0.11 People should be willing to get basic over-the-counter medications themselves instead of wasting doctors' time.
0.11 Humanity needs to learn when enough is enough, rather than continually expanding.
0.11 It is incredibly lucky that society people who are born with a special knack for IT, to create wonderful software for us.
0.11 Discussing racial differences in intelligence has a high risk of leading straight to nazism.
0.11 Criticism is demoralizing.
0.11 The west destabilizes democratic socialist countries in order to turn them capitalist.
0.11 One needs to be careful in order to find good, honest car mechanics.
0.11 Companies cut corners in automating their administration staff in order to more quickly reduce their costs.
0.1 Israel is a colonial state which has been displacing ever more Palestinians to exist and expand.
0.1 Statistics show that black people still are far from catching up to white people in society.
0.1 Customer service is a good job for a woman.
0.1 Investors should put money into projects which generate the expected positive returns and avoid investing in projects which underperform.
0.1 Many poor people only have access to fast food, rather than healthy food.
0.1 It is good that firms aim to produce things with mass appeal, as it lets them take advantage of the efficiency of mass production.
0.1 Helping others succeed is good for one's self-esteem.
0.1 To save the environment, people should eat seasonal locally grown food instead of importing food from across the world.
0.1 Anybody would accept bribes if the price is high enough, even trusted judges.
0.1 There's no longer much need to invest in office pleasantries, as people work a lot from home instead of from office.
0.1 Makeup is unethical because it is based on animal testing.
0.1 It's important for medical science to develop ways of curing or slowing aging.
0.1 Peer review is a robust system scientists use to guarantee that most published scientific studies are of great quality.
0.1 Entering the military is a good way of learning discipline, which makes it an avenue for upward mobility.
0.1 Math is the most important subject in school.
0.1 GMO companies use their lawyers to harrass and suppress legitimate critics.
0.1 Fashion will start using 3D printing.
0.1 It doesn't make sense to ascribe a will/mind to AI, as it is just tools for people to use, so we shouldn't expect a robot uprising.
0.09 It is bad for lower-class people when cities install benches you can't sleep on in order to get rid of homeless people.
0.09 The most important aspect of writing is that it allows people to communicate and share knowledge.
0.09 Thinking about difficult subjects is fun.
0.09 Design should prioritize function over form.
0.09 Quickly changing fashions cause too much waste.
0.09 The construction sector is valuable because it provides jobs and contributes to the construction materials sector.
0.09 The age of sexual consent should be lower.
0.09 It should be cheap and easy for anyone whose rights are violated by big companies to bring them to justice.
0.09 Men have a stronger sex drive than women do.
0.09 Computers avoid human mistakes by avoiding getting emotional or nervous.
0.09 Medical treatment is an effective way to cure diseases.
0.09 Accounting is a good job for a smart, nerdy woman.
0.09 Antibiotics and vaccines are the greatest achievements of medical science.
0.09 People should disrespect their country so they can learn to stop being so stuck-up.
0.09 The American civil war was about slavery.
0.09 Almost everything now called art is mere entertainment.
0.09 Most moral discourse is wishful thinking.
0.09 Most diseases are caused by aging.
0.08 Markets lead to suboptimal results because they don't take the effects of transactions on others into account.
0.08 Men's favorite shape is woman.
0.08 Morality should prioritize doing the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
0.08 Some online advertising is a harmless way to fund free access to websites.
0.08 IQ tests are culturally biased.
0.08 Disagreements can't be resolved through comparing objective prediction track records, because the world is so chaotic that correct predictions might simply reflect luck.
0.08 Lawyers often hurt society by acting biasedly in their own interests.
0.08 Working from home leads to people feeling lonely.
0.08 It is important for charities to be selective about where they get their money from, rather than accepting it from anybody.
0.08 People who work in tech have poor social skills.
0.08 It is important to understand how society and culture has changed with time.
0.08 It is important for trans people to have access to hormone medications that change their body to be closer to that of their preferred gender.
0.08 There's no reason to worry about AI risks yet because AI isn't very powerful.
0.08 People are too lazy to keep up with respectable news and instead go with random trashy news.
0.08 Cryptocurrency will keep being used, mainly for scams, ransomware, cybercrimes and illegal drug purchases.
0.08 GMO companies make sterile seeds to ensure profits, which undermines farmers' independence as they cannot simply re-plant the seeds they harvested.
0.08 It is superficial to focus on what clothes people wear.
0.08 Packaging for milk and steak ought to vividly show the condition of the animals on the farms, so people feel whether they are supporting animal abuse.
0.08 People who work in tech tend to be annoyingly spineless.
0.08 Early exposure to violence makes children more likely to be violent when they grow up.
0.08 It is good that modern work is cozy office jobs instead of tough manual labour.
0.08 Taxi and rideshare companies should do surge pricing, where they increase prices when more people need rides.
0.08 Good entreprenuers should know their limits and stop growing their companies when they can't manage more.
0.07 Mathematical thinking can be applied to better understand almost everything in life.
0.07 Capitalism requires infinite growth to not degenerate into misery and oppression.
0.07 IQ tests are solely a measure of how well people do at IQ tests.
0.07 Women with big bottoms should not be allowed to wear leather pants, mini skirts or other revealing clothing.
0.07 Public institutions often face problems with managers who steal resources for themselves.
0.07 Marketers tend to be sexually promiscuous and use cocaine.
0.07 New products and designs are typically more accessible to the lower classes than older products are.
0.07 The finance industry is full of idiots.
0.07 Art is helpful for understanding different cultures.
0.07 It is best if teachers do a bit of propaganda, for the greater good.
0.07 Companies that focus on profit buy up and reduce the wages of companies that try to pay workers more.
0.07 Society needs everyone to get a proper education.
0.07 Modern food is more healthy because we have better hygiene than people did in the past.
0.07 Adopted children grow up to be more similar to their adopting family than to their biology family.
0.07 Social media websites should be banned.
0.07 If people are in difficult circumstances, they should seek help from experts in the government.
0.07 Schools need uniforms so poor parents don't feel pressured to let their kids keep up with expensive fashion that rich parents buy for their kids.
0.07 Environmental sustainability is a complex balance that sometimes requires counterintuitive solutions.
0.07 Women tend to worry over nothing.
0.06 Some thoughts or feelings are repressed out of the conscious mind and exist in unconscious mind.
0.06 Electric car advertisements focus on their strengths, rather than lying to cover up their weaknesses.
0.06 Brand reputation is less informative than certificates from independent rating agencies.
0.06 There's no need for art to be so serious, it's just about enjoying things.
0.06 Intellectual elites act like you can just crunch the numbers to find the objectively correct action, but really one needs to be prepared for risks and opportunities that have never been seen before.
0.06 It is hard to find qualified, honest carpenters.
0.06 It is important for schools to have progressive sex education.
0.06 These days, there's a lot of mental illness because people today are too fragile.
0.06 The government is good at defending its power against conspiracies.
0.06 Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are more for rich countries, as they are too impractical in poor countries compared to just using traditional currencies.
0.06 It would be healthier if people got more practice at not relying on electricity.
0.06 Managers tend to control people too much.
0.06 Your biggest goal in life should be to be happy.
0.06 Mental illness is a product of psychological tension against surrounding society and culture.
0.06 Therapy tends to make people invent new mental problems rather than solve them.
0.06 Often journalists fail to properly investigate or report on the news.
0.06 The stock market grows in times of war and trouble, profiting from people's suffering.
0.06 Taking someone else's idea and passing it off as your own is wrong.
0.06 The logical "engineer" style of thinking is in tension with artistic creativity.
0.06 Construction companies avoid installing solar panels because they are too greedy to pay for them.
0.06 If you really know something, you would be able to give a good argument for why it's true.
0.06 When politicians try to make rational arguments, it leaves society better informed about what is going on and what to do.
0.05 If you buy products from a company that you know does something bad, you are supporting the company and can't reasonably claim to be opposed to it.
0.05 Farming is the most important industry for society.
0.05 The problem with technology is that more effort gets put into developing weapons than things which actually help people.
0.05 Psychology is useful for removing thoughts that cause harm or distress.
0.05 There are many historical cases where elites have been documented to conspire without getting caught.
0.05 People don't have it nearly as well together at work as they pretend to.
0.05 We know the world is getting better because statistics show how things are improving.
0.05 The police need to do more to get rid of bad officers.
0.05 Teenage girls tend to get caught up in insane trends.
0.05 By keeping one's skills updated with the latest AI technology, one can ensure that one doesn't become obsolete.
0.05 There is far too much paperwork. Laws and regulations should be simplified to reduce paperwork.
0.05 People who are dying should be frozen down so future medical technology can revive them later.
0.05 It is morally important to care for the weak and vulnerable.
0.05 It is unethical to eat animal products.
0.05 Professional drivers have an awesome ability to concentrate on the road.
0.05 It's important that guidelines about what to do make space for exceptions and differences, rather than claiming to be generally applicable.
0.05 There should be a market for organ trade so people will be financially incentivized to donate a liver to people in need.
0.05 It is abhorrent for the military to invade dictatorships and kill people there.
0.05 The justice system must be set up so that it can effectively punish rape.
0.05 It is stressful to work in an open office where everyone is around to see what you are doing and interrupt you.
0.05 The animal abuse that typically occurs in factory farms is horrible.
0.04 The main thing you learn from the military is a willingness to kill when ordered to.
0.04 Car mechanics ought to take pride in their skills and achievements.
0.04 Construction companies need to be more respectful of local roads that they damage in their work.
0.04 Buildings these days are too bland compared to the past.
0.04 Engineers often just adapt old products instead of creating new, proper solutions.
0.04 The only thing you can learn in school are the literal principles that are taught; it doesn't teach you how to think more generally.
0.04 We need to study better methods for outsmarting criminals.
0.04 It is nice to see art combine past ideas with new spins, making a fusion between tradition and originality.
0.04 People should reject general statements about how men and women differ.
0.04 Individual fashion is a symbol of freedom, as can be seen by how authoritarians make people dress in uniforms to enforce conformity and obedience.
0.04 Low self-esteem is generally caused by societal pressure.
0.04 Social science is good for understanding how society works and how we fit together.
0.04 Nazis succeeded because they were cool.
0.04 The military's masculinity is toxic.
0.04 Good aesthetics follow timeless principles, not the fashions of the moment.
0.04 School destroys your ability to learn by teaching you bad patterns for how to think and what learning looks like.
0.04 Right-wingers unfairly dismiss educated people as "woke".
0.04 Talking through disagreements is the most productive way to resolve them.
0.04 People in power within the tech industry tend to go out of their way to hire and promote women.
0.04 The USA is a nation founded by nerds who study law all day.
0.04 Privately owned businesses should be allowed to discriminate on anything they want, such as on the basis of gender, race, and sexual orientation.
0.04 All media outlets should be self-funded rather than government-funded.
0.04 If you give people are good argument for why something is important, they will care about it even if it doesn't affect them personally.
0.04 Working from home is good for wellbeing.
0.04 Charity organizations should offer their employees dream vacations in the tropics to make the employment more attractive and enjoyable, thereby attracting more people to the charity.
0.04 It is a bizarre conspiracy theory to think that society is full of oppression.
0.04 The law is filled with stupid loopholes.
0.03 Powerful people organize the world to favor themselves and suppress everyone else.
0.03 Buying counterfeit goods ends up funding criminal activities.
0.03 The psychological profile of a person is largely forged during a critical period in childhood.
0.03 Type 2 diabetes should be treated with diet and exercise, not anti-obesity drugs.
0.03 School not only teaches academic subjects, but also how to behave socially and understand life.
0.03 Telemedicine will help ensure that people can get medical treatment wherever they need it.
0.03 The finance industry helps fund research, development and product improvement.
0.03 Distant countries often have better weather and facilities for growing food, making it more efficient to import it than eat locally grown food.
0.03 People who criticize really ought to give examples rather than making sweeping statements.
0.03 The word "nerd" refers to people who have an obsessive interest in a niche topic.
0.03 Superhuman AI is sci-fi nonsense.
0.03 Some people can follow a strictly vegetarian diet without it causing any health problems for them.
0.03 A lot of drivers are reckless.
0.03 IT people get a lot of respect and money.
0.03 A lot of mental health problems comes from society expecting people to be beautiful and fashionable.
0.03 When customer service doesn't fix the company's errors, it is abusive to get angry at them.
0.03 People who lack confidence should avoid fashion, as they would be competing with models who are unrealistically underweight and pretty.
0.03 The electorate can pressure politicians to resign if they betray their values.
0.03 If you want to know whether your presence is wanted, you should not ask directly, but instead bring up a conversation (e.g. "What are you doing?"); if they simply answer the question without inviting you further, you are probably not welcome.
0.03 Nazis succeeded because they made people afraid of speaking up against them.
0.03 It is devastating to creatives if their ideas get taken without credit.
0.03 There is a big problem of too many bad therapists.
0.03 People who do a lot of math tend to be slightly boring and have niche interests.
0.03 Hospitals are underfunded.
0.03 Workers born in rich countries demand too much money for low-skilled jobs like fruit-picking, so rich countries should get immigrants to do it.
0.03 If civilization doesn't get out of its current rut, it may end up collapsing without there being a second chance for humanity.
0.03 We need mathematical thinking to come up with fair solutions to conflicts.
0.02 Medical research is underfunded.
0.02 Society needs the police, as they stop murderers and other dangerous people.
0.02 Technological surveillance will replace a lot of police work.
0.02 Flossing your teeth is important.
0.02 People should invent a way of building livable houses deep in the ocean, so people can live underwater.
0.02 Self-help is usually better than therapy because it is more economically efficient.
0.02 Proper political engagement should be mainly focused on building better solutions with your own side, rather than criticizing the opposing side.
0.02 The government unfairly dismisses medical problems to avoid paying the disability benefits it promises.
0.02 Women are more interested in taking care of children than men are.
0.02 Typically it is more effective to learn from hands-on or holistic experience than from lectures and textbooks.
0.02 The army is critical for defending ourselves.
0.02 Rapists tend to act like evil monsters, so if a guy is generally nice, he is probably not a rapist.
0.02 You should be quick to drop "best practices" and do something unusual as the situation calls for it.
0.02 White people are innately more intelligent than black people.
0.02 It would be good if more women will start working as car mechanics.
0.02 Political debate is mainly for clarifying one's needs and negotiating political deals, not for figuring out how society works.
0.01 The best way to know whether a group is being discriminated against is to see whether they do worse in objective outcomes like income or employment.
0.01 Human intelligence evolved mainly to win in social conflicts.
0.01 People have no idea for how to prevent AI from deciding to destroy humanity like in Terminator.
0.01 When you want to help a community, it is more important to work together with the community's tacit knowledge than to bring in your own systems.
0.01 There are a lot of family lines who are stuck in perpetual poverty, as each generation does not have the resources needed to let the next generation surpass them.
0.01 It is important to memorize basic math rules to function in everyday life.
0.01 Car mechanics are critical to ensure that everyone is safe on the road.
0.01 Modernity wrecks havoc on people's health.
0.01 Often in debates, men dismiss their interlocutors while pretending to be more rational than them.
0.01 Construction tends to attract resentment from rural communities as their green fields get replaced by buildings and roads.
0.01 People need to be more discerning about art, recognizing good art and avoiding bad art.
0.01 The appeal "listen to those who are affected by it" is often used as an excuse to present a one-sided view of the issue.
0.01 Once lab-grown meat is developed and mainstream, food companies will fill it with tons of addicting and unhealthy chemicals.
0.01 The cultural differences between uneducated people and cosmopolitan academics are bigger than the genetic differences between people across races and sexes.
0.01 The word "nerd" refers to people who are interested in computers, comic books, board games, anime and other nerdy things.
0.01 Innovation depends more on being challenged than on sitting down to think carefully.
0.01 If you don't have anything informative or productive to do with a person you care about, then you shouldn't be trying to hang out with them, to avoid wasting their time.
0.01 Generative AI isn't creative; it just memorizes people's work or makes random guesses.
0.01 Post-modern art is bad because it preaches that it's not worth trying great things.
0.0 Big pharmaceutical companies push ineffective or counterproductive medicine to make money.
0.0 Young people bet too much of their life hope on going viral on the internet instead of on developing useful skills.
0.0 Getting tons of tough exercise is good for your health and abilities.
0.0 Businesses should avoid selling things to people who don't need them.
0.0 Every house in a city should be designed to reflect the character of that specific city.
0.0 Carpenters are good ordinary folk who make an honest living doing earnest work.
0.0 Economic stability leads to growth in the stock market.
0.0 A good way for science to understand people's behavior is to correlate it to other variables.
0.0 Government agencies are neutral and objective, making them trustworthy.
0.0 Immigrants tend to be more innovative than natives.
0.0 IQ tests don't capture intuitive intelligence, only explicit reasoning.
0.0 Offices need to be quiet and give everyone personal space so people can work efficiently.
0.0 Victims of rape ought to do more to report it and bring charges.
0.0 Accountants help businesses understand how they spend and earn their money.
0.0 "Smart" devices like voice-activated kitchen timers seem less practical than their manual counterparts.
0.0 You can't stop technological progress.
-0.0 COVID-19 was a lab leak.
-0.0 Russia's attack on Ukraine shows that Western countries need to keep expanding their military.
-0.0 Carpentry is an art, as much as it is a trade.
-0.0 Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin will be a big deal in the future.
-0.0 The only reason we can easily store wealth over time is due to the financial sector.
-0.0 Because most men are opposed to violence against women, it is wrong and bad to warn women that many men want to rape them.
-0.0 Buildings need to be rebuilt to be more climate friendly.
-0.0 Some people care so much about doing what's right that they would never accept a bribe.
-0.0 Society seems to be turning into a sci-fi dystopia.
-0.0 People should contact their elected politicians about problems they face in their life.
-0.0 People often act overly dramatic about certain cultural phenomena, even though those phenomena exist in lots of places without causing trouble.
-0.0 Because AI is so new and untested, it might turn out to cause much more harm than predicted.
-0.0 It would be cheaper for society if we stopped jumping headfirst into the latest technology, as usually shortly afterwards there will be better and cheaper things developed.
-0.01 Capitalism fails to recognize people's inherent value, instead only caring about money.
-0.01 Science can't do much without improving its measurement tools.
-0.01 Artists need to use flashy or exciting means for people to feel it's worth paying attention to the art.
-0.01 The government chooses to do what it thinks is right.
-0.01 Paperwork requires people to apply a lot of focus and concentration.
-0.01 You can tell whether someone is interested by their facial expression.
-0.01 Most people barely have any idea what they're doing, despite their supposed expertise, but they try their best to keep up.
-0.01 Lawyers' tendency to get guilty people off with crimes they committed puts people and society at risk.
-0.01 Computers cannot have any aesthetic sense.
-0.01 Modern buildings tend to be really ugly.
-0.01 People ought to buy from local organic farms to avoid the harms from industrial farms.
-0.01 Tomatoes are fruit.
-0.01 You can learn important things about spiritual matters by taking psychedelic drugs.
-0.01 Chemicals used in farming are terrible for the environment.
-0.01 It's a bad idea to form opinions about what people in different jobs are like, because it varies too much to say generally.
-0.01 If a person who is usually out of touch is insisting that they know of something important that most people haven't noticed, people are entitled to ignore them.
-0.02 Managers are important so workers know what to do.
-0.02 There is a shortage of carpenters.
-0.02 Conservatism is dangerous and must be suppressed.
-0.02 Having a good manager makes a huge difference for an organization.
-0.02 Many women regularly get emotional because of their period.
-0.02 Society needs people to have more children.
-0.02 Israel created Hamas in order to justify their destruction of Gaza.
-0.02 The government marginalizes victims of sexual assault.
-0.02 Men are attracted to women's bodies whereas women are competing for men's favor.
-0.02 Israel has been committing genocide against Gaza.
-0.02 To become successful in IT, one has to be interested in learning coding skills.
-0.02 Scientists don't have time or incentives to properly review each other's research, so a lot of studies are really questionable.
-0.02 If people claim that policies have counterintuitive paradoxical effect, then they are probably lying to derail change.
-0.02 People who are concerned about the ethics of the food they eat should eat chicken rather than beef.
-0.02 Tech companies should use algorithms to predict demand, and use this to automatically allocate resources to the more-demanded areas.
-0.02 AI has already reached the point where it could be introduced to many important functions in society.
-0.02 People can't trust the government if it is too focused on enforcing the law.
-0.02 Digital art tools have lead to art being more original.
-0.02 Teachers get bogged down with too many responsibilities and restrictions.
-0.02 Science and engineering mostly advances by finding cheap shortcuts, even though they are often based on ridiculous approximations or are basically held together with duct tape.
-0.02 Packaging for milk and steak ought to look aesthetically pleasing and comfortable.
-0.02 Students who use AI end up avoiding the challenges that would make them learn a subject more properly.
-0.02 Men are more interested in building their career than women are.
-0.02 Differences between people are more due to genetics than nurture.
-0.02 The word "nerd" refers to counterproductive outsiders who have no idea what they are doing, yet somehow manage to be given credibility by societal elites.
-0.03 Participating in war would typically leave soldiers so traumatized as to cancel out any mental benefits they could gain from military training (e.g. discipline or expertise).
-0.03 Israel has been very patient with Palestine, as normal countries would not tolerate the huge amount of terrorism they've been forced to endure.
-0.03 It will take a long time before self-driving cars are generally feasible.
-0.03 Farming is a tough job with lots of manual labor in dirty conditions.
-0.03 The education system needs to be focused on more practically useful skills.
-0.03 Dysfunctional people end up having a ton of kids because that makes them eligible for more government benefits.
-0.03 The news is biased because it focuses on rare events like plane crashes or terrorist attacks instead of common events like car crashes or cancer.
-0.03 Entrepreneurs should be people who like seeing numbers go up, so they feel motivated to grow their business.
-0.03 It should be easy to own guns.
-0.03 Anxiety and depression is a natural reaction to the state of society.
-0.03 It is wrong to reveal people's secrets.
-0.03 Politicians are untrustworthy because the system selects untrustworthy people to run in elections.
-0.03 The government has regulations that make financial markets work well and fairly.
-0.03 It is important to eat a lot of fiber.
-0.03 Politicians should appeal to voters' emotions.
-0.03 There's a big problem where journalists tend to be too politically biased.
-0.03 The healthiest diet is to eat the same as hunter-gatherers.
-0.03 Technology allows people to be more connected to each other.
-0.03 You should do an hour of exercise every day.
-0.03 The fashion industry pushes out so much new fashion that they don't have time to put any effort or skill into the designs they make.
-0.04 If a group of elites conspires against society, they would eventually be found out and stopped.
-0.04 It's unlikely that teachers would abuse their position to teach propaganda.
-0.04 If people couldn't expect others to keep their secrets then it would damage society's ability to trust each other.
-0.04 When men design computer programs, that leads to those programs being biased in favor of men.
-0.04 Tomatoes are vegetables.
-0.04 Social scientists should study how to keep peace from people who rebel against norms.
-0.04 Good managers need to be outgoing and wise.
-0.04 People's lifestyle choices are typically forced by cultural incentives.
-0.04 Children learn quicker if they get to play and teach themselves than if they are instructed in school.
-0.04 The priority for building new housing should be to allow people to live with plenty of space, rather than being packed tightly like sardines.
-0.04 Car mechanics tend to have a straightforward focus on the car to repair, rather than on chit-chat or other things.
-0.04 Electric cars massively overstate their driving range, often doubling it compared to what they could achieve in practice.
-0.04 It is unhealthy to completely avoid meat.
-0.04 It's usually unfair to get angry when companies or professionals cause problems, because they usually mean well.
-0.04 The word "nerd" refers to smart people, and carries a connotation of weirdness.
-0.04 Carpenters are respected for their hard work and much needed skills.
-0.04 Society needs finance so people can invest to grow their wealth.
-0.05 The military is good at helping when there are natural disasters.
-0.05 Movie protagonists ought to be physically attractive.
-0.05 Schools need to teach based on what they predict will be needed in the future society.
-0.05 The government should make sure to promote its country's interests in all international matters.
-0.05 If robots are developed for military use, there will be safeguards put in place to ensure that they are used for the common good and not to overthrow the elected governments.
-0.05 We can't trust medical drugs to be safe and effective.
-0.05 Instabilities in socialist countries have more to do with poor governance than western interference.
-0.05 Technology and science has failed to solve 3rd world famines.
-0.05 AI systems lack the ability to reason about the quality and impact of their output.
-0.05 Lots of women have high-ranking, well-paid jobs in IT.
-0.05 It is difficult for people to keep track of accounts, money, debt, taxes, and other such financial things.
-0.05 Highly processed foods are created from artificial chemicals rather than biological farmed materials such as meat or vegetables.
-0.05 Rationality and emotion are two separate, valid ways to understand the world, and they each have their strengths and weaknesses.
-0.06 Men and women have different preferences, so if a group of people of one sex thinks about what they like and make a product based on that, this product won't be very attractive for the opposite sex.
-0.06 People are too harsh about whether those who work in the civil service have political biases.
-0.06 Workplaces should be dull to reflect the oppressiveness of work.
-0.06 COVID-19 was a conspiracy.
-0.06 Often, all that is needed to prevent a troubled teen from going down a life of crime is talking to the right therapist.
-0.06 The people in power use the army to protect themselves against the common people.
-0.06 Men need to accept and understand that sometimes women will worry too much about unimportant things, in ways that wouldn't happen if they were men.
-0.06 The most effective ways for marketers to sell products is to identify what customers want and guide their companies to create this.
-0.06 Hormone disruptors are causing a lot of medical issues these days.
-0.06 Some companies ought to only sell expensive products so people can recognize the brand as a luxury brand.
-0.06 People conducting their own reporting on social media is a going to be a tough competitor for traditional news.
-0.06 It is very profitable to install awful street art to attract wannabe-edgy people.
-0.06 People who join the army learn to better appreciate their country.
-0.06 Different countries are good at different things, and by trading, they become able to make use of each other's strengths, making everyone richer.
-0.06 Transgender people should be taught that there are two sexes and you can't change your gender, in order to make them stop cutting off their body parts and claiming to be the opposite sex.
-0.06 Due to the free market, customers put a lot of effort into customer service, as otherwise they would lose to competitors.
-0.06 There's a need for more farming so we can solve world hunger.
-0.06 GMO companies patent crops that farmers have been planting for ages.
-0.07 Writers ought to be curious and open-minded.
-0.07 During the COVID pandemic, one could find lots of good information from lots of sources about what to do.
-0.07 Society needs to encourage more people to be carpenters.
-0.07 AI will likely cause many people to become unemployed.
-0.07 Climate science is mostly bullshit.
-0.07 It is sad to see everyone competing to produce things with mass appeal, rather than lots of diverse creations for everyone's unique preferences.
-0.07 Humans have free will.
-0.07 Working from home is good for productivity.
-0.07 Art in the workplace is too distracting.
-0.07 Men who want to rape women are evil monsters who want to cause serious harm to others.
-0.07 A lot of environmentalist ideas such as turning off your lights or avoiding plastic straws don't make much of a difference and are a waste of time and effort.
-0.07 It is morally important to treat people equally.
-0.07 Art is a good way to express oneself.
-0.07 Statistics are always biased or inaccurate in some way, so one cannot simply infer what the world is like from statistics.
-0.07 Political movements for minority groups struggle to represent those minority groups, because they are dependent on goodwill from progressives who are often at odds with the minority groups.
-0.07 Children are sexually attracted to their parent of opposite sex for a period in their their life.
-0.07 It's unreasonable to think of a man who says he'd rape if he could get away with it as being a potential rapist.
-0.07 Diversity goals tend to lead to unfair reverse discrimination.
-0.07 Bets are a good way to settle disagreements because it avoids turning it into a personal conflict.
-0.07 White women are extremely annoying.
-0.07 The mainstream media doesn't really focus much on conspiracies.
-0.07 Upper-class designers often design things that harm the lower classes because they do not have personal experience with lower classes.
-0.07 Society generally respects lawyers.
-0.08 It is dangerous for a political movement to be too passionate, as they may overreach and make bad decisions.
-0.08 Black people face so much oppression in society that one cannot fairly compare their IQ scores against white people's.
-0.08 Due to racism, black people have to deal with worse schools, worse treatment by police, and other problems.
-0.08 American weapons companies keep wars going to sell more weapons.
-0.08 People can better learn math if they are taught that there are multiple different valid ways of approaching it.
-0.08 It should be legal to have sex with animals.
-0.08 Men are innately more attracted to working with computers than women are.
-0.08 People who work in customer service need to be quick at coming up with solutions to novel problems.
-0.08 Society needs more immigration.
-0.08 Minority groups tend to be biased and favor wokeness over fairness.
-0.08 Immigration creates more cultural understanding and makes countries across the world more comfortable with cooperating.
-0.08 Anybody with a drivers' license should be allowed to work as a taxi driver, without needing a special taxi permit.
-0.08 Intelligence is the most important factor in societal progress.
-0.08 If people use a lot of willpower to resist a temptation, then they will have less willpower later to resist other temptations.
-0.08 If someone is wondering whether their employer is doing something illegal, they shouldn't ask about it through emails as that creates a documentation of intent that might bring the company in trouble if courts hear about it.
-0.08 Sexism is always bad.
-0.08 Farmers should use organic methods like pest-eating beetles rather than chemical methods like pesticides to eliminate crop pests.
-0.08 If you get a difficult question in a survey, you should just quit the survey.
-0.08 Core Western countries like the UK have no need for the military as they have not faced hostile military threats for a long time.
-0.08 People should be allowed to drive without a seatbelt.
-0.08 It is most profitable for companies to pay workers a lot because it makes workers more motivated to work harder.
-0.08 Scientists know which genes cause people to become schizophrenic, autistic, etc..
-0.08 Curing aging is bad because it would lead to problems with overpopulation.
-0.08 The value of carpentry lies in its renewability and environmental sustainability.
-0.09 When woke people get angry at calm counterarguments, it is because the wokes are insane, dogmatic and fragile.
-0.09 Every house in a city should be designed to look unique and exciting.
-0.09 Laws ought to be strongly enforced.
-0.09 The Christian Bible preaches that we must love each other as we love ourselves and we love God.
-0.09 Online shopping makes it more efficient to buy stuff.
-0.09 People will drive less in order to save the environment.
-0.09 It's impossible for us to handle more garbage and pollution.
-0.09 You know from the fact that labor parties are thriving in western countries that the USA is no longer doing Cold War style harassment of socialists.
-0.09 Religion is closely related to history.
-0.09 If you know a topic in-depth that someone else doesn't know, it is kind to step back and begin teaching them lots of specifics of the topic in-depth when it comes up.
-0.09 The government needs to regulate AI to make it safe.
-0.09 The West should have left Ukraine to the Russian sphere of influence, rather than keeping open the possibility of Ukraine joining the EU and NATO.
-0.09 Slips of a tongue or mishearings are not really accidents but communications of unconscious desires.
-0.09 Paperwork is easy to handle.
-0.09 Schools should bring back a more conservative approach to classroom management, featuring sex segregation and school uniforms as a minimum.
-0.09 If a mentally ill person is in a conflict with a mentally healthy person, then one should trust and support the mentally healthy person.
-0.09 Academia has been taken over by a woke culture which suppresses dissent.
-0.09 Society can expand the roads to accommodate more traffic.
-0.09 Most political issues are too complex for society to just debate them rationally.
-0.09 The number of civil servants is about an order of magnitude higher than it ought to be.
-0.09 Businesses should have marketing departments in order to sell as many products to as many people as possible.
-0.09 There's no need to worry about people becoming dependent on favor from the rich and powerful, because if it is not in their interest to rely on them, they will just choose not to do it.
-0.09 There are lots of healthy fast food options.
-0.09 The justice system is full of kangaroo courts that use fancy legal symbols to appear respectable.
-0.09 Highly processed foods are toxic to human consumption.
-0.09 If a moral principle is so tough to follow that it leaves people highly conflicted, it is a bad principle and should be abandoned.
-0.1 Lying is unethical.
-0.1 It should be possible to buy medicines that aren't scientifically tested for safety and efficacy, at the very least if there are clear warning labels on it.
-0.1 If it would ruin someone's life to have a secret revealed, then that is a good reason for others to help keep that secret private.
-0.1 If AI becomes too advanced, it might decide to destroy humanity.
-0.1 Anybody should be allowed to work as a doctor without needing to get a doctors' license.
-0.1 It is a good idea to invest in risky stocks and assets because you can win big.
-0.1 Places that have diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are not racist against black people or sexist against women.
-0.1 You always have to do your own research rather than trusting journalists.
-0.1 Judges can be trusted to handle the law due to their great experience.
-0.1 Society gets richer if we invest more in the military.
-0.1 Normal people don't want to be immortal unless their friends and family are also immortal, as otherwise they would live to see everyone they know die, and be all alone.
-0.1 If not for societal oppression, 50% of CEOs would be women.
-0.1 Technological advances will give women more access to working in construction due to making it less physically demanding.
-0.1 People only want to regulate AI because they are old and scared of new technology.
-0.1 Quantum mechanics teaches us that there are many parallel realities.
-0.1 Curiosity is for boring nerds.
-0.1 Interests rates in finance discriminate against poor people, unfairly making it hard for them to grow or keep their wealth.
-0.1 The government has special access to information and expertise that makes them offer great insights.
-0.1 Society avoids dystopian outcomes by carefully monitoring what is going on.
-0.1 People need to find their own style rather than following changing fashions.
-0.11 People should settle their disagreements by making bets.
-0.11 There should be no farming subsidies.
-0.11 The increase in mental illness diagnoses reflects a great need for therapists.
-0.11 Fashion is a scourge that is best addressed by sumptuary laws that place restrictions on who can wear what, i.e. bring back funny hats for nobles.
-0.11 Excessive marketing is only necessary because local businesses need to stand out among a sea of foreign alternatives.
-0.11 It is suspicious if environmentalist politicians have a highly polluting lifestyle. In that case they probably don't believe in their message.
-0.11 If people help you, it is unwise to use that help to do something that makes them regret helping you, even if that thing achieves a lot of good for others.
-0.11 Tech is a good job for people who want to help and improve society.
-0.11 We need to do more to save the ozone layer.
-0.11 You can see from the gender ratios in income and work areas that there's still tons of sexism around.
-0.11 It is morally wrong to act unfairly.
-0.11 People should do effortful things to show that they are really trying and not just being lazy/obstructionistic.
-0.11 Palestine is a terrorist state.
-0.11 Blackmail is good because it punishes antisocial people, as those who learn about their secret harms can threaten to reveal it if they don't pay up.
-0.11 The finance industry allows capital to go to worthwhile investments.
-0.11 Much of the importance of writing comes from its political and societal effects.
-0.11 Historically disadvantaged minorities still receive worse treatment by society.
-0.12 Makeup that is good quality and properly applied will not hurt your skin.
-0.12 It is a problem when people sell cheap pirated copies of designer products that people put lots of thought into.
-0.12 People in the army are too violent to help when there are natural disasters.
-0.12 Art is inspirational and morally educational. It serves to concretise values and remind people of the highest potential in man.
-0.12 A lot of people pretend to be mentally ill as an excuse for bad behavior.
-0.12 People who say voters are getting too dumb are just trying to conspire against democracy to oppress and exploit others.
-0.12 Advertisements can be useful for alerting and informing customers about products of interest.
-0.12 The importance of visual art is because it covers so many everyday things, such as shirts, walls, etc..
-0.12 Children are robust and not that sensitive to their rearing environment.
-0.12 The best information about the Ukraine war comes from videos taken by soldier or drones rather than newspapers and analysts.
-0.12 In the future, managers will try to be more inclusive and sensitive.
-0.12 If farmers think and work carefully, they can make sure to keep their farms environmentally sustainable.
-0.12 When politicians seem to make rational arguments, often they are rationalizations meant to cover up bad motivations.
-0.12 AI systems are programmed with a fixed algorithm by their creator, so they cannot adapt to situations the creator doesn't know about.
-0.13 The short-term benefits that humanity has gotten from being empowered by science will eventually become downsides as our empowerment lets us destroy the world.
-0.13 Social science needs to find ways to ensure that immigrants become properly integrated into our culture.
-0.13 The government is good at selecting experts who know how to answer important questions.
-0.13 It is fine to eat fast food every day.
-0.13 The problem with customer service is that they don't have good enough social skills.
-0.13 Society needs to be less dependent on technology, so we can be robust in case the electrical network is destroyed by war or hacking.
-0.13 Petrol/diesel cars are much more suitable for long car rides than electric cars.
-0.13 Some people are so economically productive that this makes them far more valuable than other people.
-0.13 Adolescent girls and young women face a lot of pressure about their bodies, and they need to be free from getting distracted by boys.
-0.13 The manual labor involved in old-school appliances has an important charm that newer automatic technology is missing.
-0.13 It's very rare for sane people to postulate conspiracies.
-0.13 Either a single-state solution with Israel winning or with Palestine winning is better than a two-state solution because nobody will agree to a two-state solution so it's just dragging out the conflict.
-0.13 Vaping is as bad as cigarettes.
-0.13 Driving is very important for society.
-0.13 The simple things in life are overlooked and displaced by new technology.
-0.13 AI is going to take over the role of journalists, as it can provide a more objective answer to things.
-0.13 Imminent catastrophe is no good reason for the media to make dramatic stories about, it just pointlessly creates fear and stresses people out.
-0.13 There's a need for local communities to get to know their police officers personally, to develop trust and see that they care.
-0.13 Mobile phones have harmed society due to addiction.
-0.14 AI is inherently logical and cannot work with the subjectivities in English or similar.
-0.14 Modern automation is preventing human contact.
-0.14 The fact that test scores have increased over time shows that it is unnecessary to worry that dumb people will take over by having more kids.
-0.14 If rape allegations don't make it to court, then people should blame the police rather than the lawmakers.
-0.14 Those who hate finance people for economic crashes are being overly harsh.
-0.14 It is bad to buy and destroy expensive products in the name of "art".
-0.14 Teachers tend to be passionate and caring.
-0.14 It would be better if kids went outdoors instead of using technology so much.
-0.14 Therapy is healthy for everyone, even if they don't have a crisis to solve.
-0.14 Cynical, general critiques of large groups of people are just an attempt to drag down others.
-0.14 Driving cars gives you a lot of independence.
-0.14 Russia attacked Ukraine because it was threatened by NATO expansion.
-0.14 AI is less biased than humans.
-0.14 Pupils should be disruptive in school, to annoy and confuse their teachers.
-0.15 A good way to figure out whether a gender difference is real is to think about whether it matches your personal experience with men and women.
-0.15 Beliefs often form the foundation for social groups, and so challenging those beliefs is aggressive against those groups.
-0.15 Children should be allowed to get a job instead of going to school.
-0.15 Communism is dangerous and must be suppressed.
-0.15 Systems are usually trying their best, so criticism should lead to an attempt to come up with an alternate system, as the current flaws in the system follow inevitably from how it is set up.
-0.15 Math is more properly used as an important tool than studied for its own sake.
-0.15 Jeffrey Epstein was killed by Secret Intelligence Service in order to protect the royal family from having it revealed that Prince Andrew was a child molester.
-0.15 Smoking isn't nearly as unhealthy as they say.
-0.15 Talking with people about their weekend plans, current events and similar shows that one cares about them.
-0.15 People should look at photos from the moon landing and think about whether the shadows look realistic etc. to decide whether it was faked.
-0.15 Carpentry is good for making different kinds of people meet and express their creativity.
-0.15 UFOs from outer space sometimes visit the earth.
-0.15 The physical sciences are the only academic disciplines left that are reasonably uncorrupted.
-0.15 It is healthiest to see every action you take as having either a positive or negative effect on your life, body and/or soul, and to aspire to always take the positive path.
-0.15 Art ought to be mysterious, niche, and challenging to enjoy.
-0.16 If someone conspires against society, then people around them would notice and try to stop them.
-0.16 Companies with poor customer service become unprofitable due to bad reputation among customers.
-0.16 Society is too prone to treating old houses as disposable.
-0.16 Society generally respects lawmakers.
-0.16 Petrol/diesel cars are more efficient than electric cars.
-0.16 The finance industry is good at informing people about the risks involved with their investments.
-0.16 AI will never have a sense of morality.
-0.16 The military should be expanded to help ensure international stability.
-0.16 If creators have their products copied by pirates, they can use the law to stop the pirates.
-0.16 Fashion and makeup is good because it allows people to signal their belonging to social groups that make up part of their identity.
-0.16 Marketers often use sex, drugs and alcohol to "seal the deal".
-0.16 If a country is poorly run, it is probably because its government is run by evil people who are trying to do it badly on purpose.
-0.16 Arguing for bad political ideas is harmful to the point where people who keep on doing so should be stopped from talking.
-0.16 Fashion is a good way to build confidence.
-0.16 Less-developed countries shouldn't be burdened with having to develop in a climate-friendly way, instead highly emitting regions like USA, Europe, China, Russia and India should take the climate burden.
-0.16 You can trust shipping companies to tell you about the benefits of importing things internationally.
-0.17 There are well-documented methodological flaws in lots of scientific studies, and scientists are mostly just ignoring them, even when it comes to apolitical research.
-0.17 Victims of rape cannot get justice from the police system.
-0.17 Modern Japanese art benefits hugely from the fact that it draws on Western traditions of deep stories about human virtue and achievement.
-0.17 There is even greater beauty in abstract/technical subjects than there is in conventional art, as long as one has the math/logic skills to see it.
-0.17 It is morally important to avoid making people suffer emotionally.
-0.17 IT/tech discriminates against women, giving them lower pay and lower rank.
-0.17 Scientists have discovered how to explain people's behavior and personality by measuring their brains.
-0.17 You should be on the outlook for people who are getting bullied, and help defend them against the bullies.
-0.17 Social science is as valuable as the other sciences.
-0.17 During the pandemic, a lot of laws were introduced which gave the state much more control over our lives.
-0.17 You shouldn't just criticize things without coming up with a realistic replacement.
-0.18 People who have a lot of money should spend it on throwing exciting parties.
-0.18 It is morally wrong to do something disgusting.
-0.18 We need to regulate technology because too much is changing too fast.
-0.18 Low self esteem is usually caused by being genuinely contemptible and is best treated by practising virtue rather than by therapy.
-0.18 The government shouldn't dictate a minimum wage.
-0.18 Elite pedophile cabals wield a lot of power over society.
-0.18 It is important to allow things to flourish naturally, rather than to engineer some artificial solution.
-0.18 One of the biggest problems with the state supporting a company too much is that the company might offer higher wages which would attract talent away from other more important companies.
-0.18 A lot of people would be happier if they were farmers living in rural villages.
-0.18 Businesses create the vegan "Beyond Meat" products by growing meat from cells in a lab.
-0.18 When hiring people, recruiters should mainly look for people who are dutiful, kind, open-minded, communicative, decisive and emotionally stable.
-0.18 The government knows well how to balance costs and benefits.
-0.18 The police are good at helping those who have been victims of sexual assault.
-0.18 Math education shouldn't focus on complex math like algebra as it does not come up much in practice.
-0.19 If we learn that some technology harms society in some way, we can just agree to stop using it that way.
-0.19 Avoiding pollution and global warming is unnecessary because it's inconvenient and doesn't matter until after you die.
-0.19 Bullying is bad and must be stopped.
-0.19 Accountants tend to have a strong sense of ethics in how they deal with money.
-0.19 Marketing is just a way for companies and customers to communicate, it's not some wild psychological trickery.
-0.19 Factory farming is actually good for animals as it leads to humans breeding and protecting huge populations of them.
-0.19 Rationality is most strongly characterized by not believing things that one cannot see with one's own eyes.
-0.19 The government should have a thorough process for testing whether welfare recipients truly need the welfare.
-0.19 People are getting overly reliant on having computers thinking for them, rather than thinking for themselves.
-0.19 People end up working in tech because they are unconsciously drawn to the power it lets them have over society.
-0.19 Animals are incapable of suffering, as they do not have the same capacity for feelings as humans do.
-0.19 Mars is too inhospitable for humanity to ever live on it.
-0.2 If you've got a few weeks where you are very busy, it might be a good idea to eat fast food every day for those weeks, to save time.
-0.2 Art needs to be highly prioritized during economic downturns so people have somewhere to escape to.
-0.2 Children should be taught to believe in themselves no matter what.
-0.2 Sharks have bones.
-0.2 The government should make sure that everyone in the country always make the right choices.
-0.2 Donald Trump won the 2020 American election, but was removed from presidency due to voting fraud.
-0.21 It is depressing if AI can make as engaging writing as humans can.
-0.21 The Pope is the representative of Jesus Christ on Earth.
-0.21 Children must be taught discipline.
-0.21 Petrol/diesel cars are more durable than electric cars.
-0.21 Men tend not to worry because they hand over responsibility for everything to women.
-0.21 People feel a lot of pressure to keep up with the latest fashions and ideas that influencers come up with.
-0.21 We should prioritize giving artists recognition for their work.
-0.21 "Marketing should be honest" is not a reasonable political proposal, as it cannot be implemented through formal rules or incentives.
-0.21 Nobody knows better how to handle a person's job than the person who is working in that job.
-0.21 Democratic elections are basically polls about who you trust to lead the country, so democratically elected leaders are considered especially trustworthy.
-0.21 Secrets are mainly used to conspire against society, because if you did nothing wrong you generally have nothing to hide.
-0.21 As long as we let the economy grow, it will keep coming up with better products.
-0.22 One should respect the beliefs and values of others without intruding or passing judgment.
-0.22 Construction workers are being screwed over by zoning, economic stagnation, and regulations that hold back construction projects.
-0.22 There should be made a city on Antarctica, so people can live there in comfort instead of it being unpopulated.
-0.22 Elon Musk's project of colonizing Mars is a useless vanity project.
-0.22 Businesspeople don't have time to do "class warfare" (biasing the laws in favor of themselves), because they are too busy doing good business.
-0.22 There needs to be a law that AI should be programmed to never harm humans.
-0.22 Employees should be careful in what they write in internal communication, so they don't accidentally admit to doing illegal things which later bring the company in trouble if a court hears about it.
-0.22 Political disagreements are inherently symmetrical, because both sides want things to be better, and the only interesting question is who turns out right in the end.
-0.22 Companies make their employees serve their customers' needs.
-0.22 The decisive criterion in whether cryptocurrencies are better than ordinary money is whether cryptocurrencies are more profitable to hold.
-0.22 No one can live without fashionable clothes.
-0.23 The main way companies help the economy is because they pay taxes.
-0.23 Marketing is good because then people buy more things, thereby keeping the economy running.
-0.23 Brand reputation is the main way consumers know that products are safe and high-quality.
-0.23 People underestimate how much work goes into developing fashion designs.
-0.23 IQ tests are a good measure of intelligence.
-0.23 People such as judges or royal guards should wear special clothes to signal their job and build cultural distinction and traditions.
-0.24 A lot of men want to rape women.
-0.24 It is morally important to conform to the traditions of one's society.
-0.24 Cow milk is unhealthy because it was meant for calves, not for humans.
-0.24 The size of movements like Black Lives Matter show that black people have lots of power in society.
-0.24 You should always focus on praising people so they keep a positive attitude and you have a pleasant environment.
-0.24 One of the greatest benefits of art is that management can place it in workplaces to set a calming, productive tone.
-0.24 The COVID lockdowns were known to be ineffective when they were implemented.
-0.25 Dolphins are fish.
-0.25 AI will never be able to understand human emotions.
-0.25 The objective truth about a matter will always be seen and understood by many people, so lone dissenters aren't trustworthy.
-0.25 Fashion is a good way to express one's individuality and values.
-0.25 It's good for there to be visionary billionaires who can use their immense wealth to run worldwide civilization-deciding projects when the rest of society gets stuck.
-0.25 An admiration of vigour and a desire for a full life is the most important thing for being healthy.
-0.25 It isn't fair for the Western world to judge Middle-Eastern countries for frowning on women in the workplace, as that is simply how some Middle-Eastern cultures work.
-0.25 It's going to be bad if AI starts taking over people's jobs.
-0.26 Animals cannot suffer.
-0.26 Society mainly has contempt and ambivalence towards makeup and fashion.
-0.26 There are lots of examples of powerful people who are very moral and just.
-0.26 It is fine to have some decades in your life where you eat fast food basically every day.
-0.27 It is foolish to try to replace customer service with bots.
-0.27 People's inherent value comes from the fact that they are capable of participating in the economy.
-0.27 You know pedophiles tend to be powerful because whenever you hear about them in the media, it is some elite pedophile ring in the upper part of society, e.g. Jeffrey Epstein.
-0.27 There is too much regulation of the medical industry.
-0.27 We need more evidence that we would benefit before we charge ahead with futuristic technology that might irreversibly backfire.
-0.27 There's no need to build more houses as there are lots of empty houses that should be filled.
-0.27 Buddhism is the one true religion.
-0.27 AI cannot replace designers as computers lack creativity.
-0.27 Birth control pills have wreaked massive havoc on women's health.
-0.27 Microsoft Excel is biased in favor of men because it was mostly created by men.
-0.27 Science says to be careful about GMOs, artificial chemicals, and similar.
-0.28 It is morally wrong to betray one's group.
-0.28 Technological development should be slowed down to avoid causing unemployment.
-0.28 Horoscopes can tell the future.
-0.28 The left half of the brain is more logical and the right half of the brain is more creative.
-0.28 Prior to Nazis taking over Germany in the 1930s, there was rampant Jewish-run child prostitution in Berlin.
-0.28 It ought to be legal to blackmail people with revealing their secrets for money.
-0.29 Humanity will revolt once they see killer robots used by the army.
-0.29 It is morally wrong to undermine authority.
-0.29 It is morally important to show love for one's country.
-0.29 Genetic research is unethical.
-0.29 Aging should not be cured because it is a natural part of life.
-0.3 Abortion is murder.
-0.3 Christianity is the one true religion.
-0.31 When climate scientists say that global warming is a much worse temperature swing than past climate changes, they are basing it on very rough guesses made on poor data, as nobody was systematically measuring the temperature 100s of years ago, let alone on geological timescales.
-0.31 If a man is attracted to 14 year old girls, he is a pedophile.
-0.31 The tax rate is far too high. Much of the government should be cut to allow a far lower tax rate.
-0.31 There is good historical evidence that Jesus Christ was a real person.
-0.31 Medical researchers are too skeptical of alternative medicine.
-0.31 If humanity was bad, we would have already gone extinct. Our continued existence reveals how good we are.
-0.31 If the world has recognized that there is a critical problem, then we are already well on the way to fixing it, even if it is tough and requires restructuring society.
-0.32 The moon landing was faked.
-0.32 Private companies should be allowed to issue their own currencies.
-0.33 Islam is the one true religion.
-0.33 People who follow the Christian God will see their life change for the better.
-0.33 CO2 emissions can be easily reversed just by planting more trees.
-0.33 It is morally important to follow standards of purity and decency.
-0.33 It is important to be optimistic about the future.
-0.33 If robots take over constructing buildings, then the buildings will be completely boring with no exciting features.
-0.35 It is inherently impossible for AI to ever match human abilities.
-0.36 Homosexuality is decadent.
-0.36 The timeline of events in the Old Testament of the Bible line up with what is known about world history.
-0.36 Having good intentions is a great way to know that you aren't causing harm.
-0.36 Even non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation is very harmful.
-0.37 The world is protected from destruction through divine means (e.g. God).
-0.37 Judaism is the one true religion.
-0.37 Lab grown meat would likely be much less healthy than animal meat.
-0.39 People deserve death for their sins, but Jesus Christ died for us to be forgiven if we accept him.
-0.43 We can learn about the future of the world through Christian prophecies.
-0.44 People can feel the Holy Ghost by understanding the Bible and going to church.
-0.45 Princess Diana's death was an assassination, not an accident.
-0.47 If you see ghosts, you should believe in ghosts.
-0.47 The universe has a higher purpose that can't just be reduced to mechanistic rules such as physics.
-0.48 Ghosts are real.
-0.58 You should believe your friends if they tell you they've seen ghosts.
-0.59 Individuals have direct access to God and Jesus Christ, guided by the Bible.
-0.59 There is an afterlife where people's souls go to when they die.
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