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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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Re your q, traffic behavior may in fact be the example you’re looking for (low epistemic-effort for good). Most traffic rules are decent. Limited “no signage has lower accidents” experiments should be taken with huge grain of salt since they’re untested against long-term laziness