Nisan comments on Open Thread June 2010, Part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nisan 09 June 2010 05:40:38PM 0 points [-]

I'm not talking about editing people at all. Perhaps you got the wrong idea when I said I would give my friend a mind-altering pill; I would not force them to swallow it. What I'm talking about is using moral and rational arguments, which is the way we change people's preferences in real life. There is nothing wrong with unleashing a (good) argument on someone.