ialdabaoth comments on That Magical Click - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ialdabaoth 31 December 2013 07:48:42PM *  2 points [-]

Anecdotally, when I was a child I was a super-clicker. (I often wonder what child-Ialdabaoth would have accomplished, if not for sub-100 IQ parents, a fearfully fundamentalist Christian upbringing, and a cliche'd-bad experience with the public school system.)

As an adult, I find that it is much, much harder for me to just "click" on things - and it is invariably due to a panic reaction when presented with information that might cause me to lose status among an imagined group of violent authoritarians.

It would be interesting to see how many more "clicks" can occur among people given muscle relaxants and anti-anxiety drugs before being given a particular logos-based "clickable" pitch, vs. an ethos-based "control" pitch.