Yvain comments on The Apologist and the Revolutionary - Less Wrong

159 Post author: Yvain 11 March 2009 09:39PM

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Comment author: Hans 12 March 2009 01:30:05AM 70 points [-]

Actually, the trick worked, but the effects had worn off by the time you wrote this message, which is why you deny having your opinion on the AI issue completely reversed in a shocking aha-erlebnis, for a brief ten minutes at least. Remember to videotape yourself the next time.

Comment author: Yvain 13 March 2009 12:04:45AM 23 points [-]

The article made it clear that this would happen, but I never even considered it.

I conclude that possibly I was not as interested in trying the experiment as I thought, but rather wanted to be able to claim I was a good scientist who tests things that are easily testable. Good catch.