DanielLC 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: [deleted] 15 January 2012 06:09:23PM 12 points [-]

A weaker version of this wouldn't sound very implausible to me.

Comment author: DanielLC 23 June 2014 04:56:12AM 3 points [-]

I've read in places where social structure is more important, people are more likely to fail when in the presence of someone of higher status. I wish I had more than just a vague recollection of that.

More importantly, I think it's pretty clear that a lot of people get nervous and fail when they're being watched. I don't see any other reason for it.