I’ll half-answer this, since it’s sort of a tangent, but the metric I prefer to use is my variation of feeling over time. I don’t know if other people are like this (probably), but my mood/emotion impacts my view on politics/policy.
Sometimes when I feel ill or in a bad mood some political event of class A will make me upset and convinced everything will turn out poorly. After I lift weights when I’m on my (perceived) good feeling Testosterone hormones, I feel confident that political event of class A won’t be a big deal, and I’m confident in my ability to persevere. Usually I take this variance in my prediction of the future as evidence I’m being mind-killed.
Another strategy, if reading one or two articles on a topic you already know a fair amount on makes you feel strong emotions and strongly change your prediction of the future, you might be mind-killed.
A final strategy I tried was subscribing to different political meme pages on FB (libertarian, Ann Coulter-ish, Alt-right, progressive), and I’d notice how I sometimes would slowly change my view based on which ones I was looking at. I know admitting to subconsciously changing political views based on political memes is about as embarrassing as saying you went and bought a Taco Bell meal because of a Taco Bell commercial—but as far as I can tell we are very perceptible to this stuff, even the stupidest memes. (Sometimes even if I hate them, I start substituting them deep in my mind for the ‘other sides’ actual argument).
I’ll half-answer this, since it’s sort of a tangent, but the metric I prefer to use is my variation of feeling over time. I don’t know if other people are like this (probably), but my mood/emotion impacts my view on politics/policy.
Sometimes when I feel ill or in a bad mood some political event of class A will make me upset and convinced everything will turn out poorly. After I lift weights when I’m on my (perceived) good feeling Testosterone hormones, I feel confident that political event of class A won’t be a big deal, and I’m confident in my ability to persevere. Usually I take this variance in my prediction of the future as evidence I’m being mind-killed.
Another strategy, if reading one or two articles on a topic you already know a fair amount on makes you feel strong emotions and strongly change your prediction of the future, you might be mind-killed.
A final strategy I tried was subscribing to different political meme pages on FB (libertarian, Ann Coulter-ish, Alt-right, progressive), and I’d notice how I sometimes would slowly change my view based on which ones I was looking at. I know admitting to subconsciously changing political views based on political memes is about as embarrassing as saying you went and bought a Taco Bell meal because of a Taco Bell commercial—but as far as I can tell we are very perceptible to this stuff, even the stupidest memes. (Sometimes even if I hate them, I start substituting them deep in my mind for the ‘other sides’ actual argument).
Anyway, those are a few of my tactics.