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Hmm this assumes sufficient intelligence to question superficial claims of efficacy. Ie virtue signaling may be indistinguishable from virtue in the stupid. An intelligence independence test may be how you react when credibly informed that a signal activity is in fact useless
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For example, a few years ago I learned that recycling is largely useless except for aluminum. Not something I could have easily discovered on my own, but once I learned, my behavior did change. I’m now sincere in recycling aluminum. Other things only for social acceptability.
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Edit: not just intelligence, but energetic skepticism of everything. Just not worth questioning 90% of the time whether a low-cost ritual in particular is efficacious or not. If it is, you gain a lot. If not, you lose a little.
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