David_Gerard comments on Fun and Games with Cognitive Biases - Less Wrong

62 Post author: Cosmos 18 February 2011 08:38PM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 03 March 2011 02:46:03PM *  2 points [-]

Leading questions are good for this too, though they take a bit more care.

That is, if you pick the right questions phrased the right way, then when people answer you can follow up with "Enthusiastic agreement! In other words, $thing-I-wanted-to-convince-you-of. Exactly! Praise, praise, praise! Now I'm going to talk distractingly for a little while so you don't have a chance to examine the identity I'm asserting. Oh look: a monkey!"

Comment author: David_Gerard 04 March 2011 11:56:47AM 2 points [-]

This definitely has to go into the children's picture book My First Machiavelli.