BenAlbahari comments on The 5-Second Level - Less Wrong

111 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 May 2011 04:51AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 May 2011 09:15:20AM 13 points [-]

The 5-second method is sufficiently general to coax someone into believing any world view, not just a rationalist one.

Um, yes. This is supposed to increase your general ability to teach a human to do anything, good or bad. In much the same way, having lots of electricity increases your general ability to do anything that requires electricity, good or bad. This does not make electrical generation a Dark Art.