taelor comments on The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You - Less Wrong

81 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 July 2009 02:27AM

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Comment author: taelor 15 January 2012 05:20:23AM 11 points [-]

There is in fact a very simple way to activate an absolute denial macro in someone with regard to any arbitrary statement. Once activated, the subject will be permanently rendered incapable of ever believing the factual contents of the statement. I have activated said macro with regard to all of these statements that I have just made.

Comment author: HoverHell 16 January 2012 07:46:06AM 2 points [-]

… Thread lightly, for other's mind is always full of traps that activate total mental lock-down…