At first I was going to say “yes” to your idea, but with the caveat that the only folks I’d trust to judge this are other folks we’d agree are meta-rationalists. But then this sort of defeats the point, doesn’t it, because I already believe rationalists couldn’t do this and if they did it would in fact be evidence that even if they don’t call themselves meta-rationalists I would say they have thought processes similar to those who do call themselves meta-rationalists.
“Rationalist” and “meta-rationalist” are mostly categories for describing stochastic categories around the complexity of thinking people do. No one properly is or is not a rationalist or meta-rationalist, but instead can at best be sufficiently well described as one.
I don’t mean this to be wily: I think what you are asking for (and the entire idea of an “ideological Turning test” itself) confounds causality in ways that make it only seem to work from rationalist-level reasoning. From my perspective the taking on of another’s perspective in this test is already incorporated into meta-rationalist-level reasoning and so is not really a test of meta-rationality in the same way a “logical argument test” would be meaningless to a rationalist but a powerful tool for more complex thought for the pre-rationalist.
At first I was going to say “yes” to your idea, but with the caveat that the only folks I’d trust to judge this are other folks we’d agree are meta-rationalists. But then this sort of defeats the point, doesn’t it, because I already believe rationalists couldn’t do this and if they did it would in fact be evidence that even if they don’t call themselves meta-rationalists I would say they have thought processes similar to those who do call themselves meta-rationalists.
“Rationalist” and “meta-rationalist” are mostly categories for describing stochastic categories around the complexity of thinking people do. No one properly is or is not a rationalist or meta-rationalist, but instead can at best be sufficiently well described as one.
I don’t mean this to be wily: I think what you are asking for (and the entire idea of an “ideological Turning test” itself) confounds causality in ways that make it only seem to work from rationalist-level reasoning. From my perspective the taking on of another’s perspective in this test is already incorporated into meta-rationalist-level reasoning and so is not really a test of meta-rationality in the same way a “logical argument test” would be meaningless to a rationalist but a powerful tool for more complex thought for the pre-rationalist.