MugaSofer comments on A Much Better Life? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MugaSofer 22 January 2013 10:57:39AM 0 points [-]

I think that even the average long-term tortured prisoner would balk and resist if you walked up to him with this machine.

I think the average long-term tortured prisoner would be desperate for any option that's not "get tortured more", considering that real torture victims will confess to crimes that carry the death penalty if they think this will make the torturer stop. Or, for that matter, crimes that carry the torture penalty, IIRC.