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40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 August 2011 07:16AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 30 August 2011 01:49:58AM 4 points [-]

If I were a Confessor I would have tazed you by now.

That's probably why Confessors don't exist. We're not ready from them; we haven't grown up enough to cope with even a single, tiny dissenting voice without resorting to threats of counterfactual violence.

Comment author: JackEmpty 30 August 2011 02:01:36AM 2 points [-]

If I were a Confessor I would have tazed you by now.

Thanks for pointing that out. Typing quickly on the go does not afford much spell/grammar checking.

And yes, by all means, I only meant that from reading (most of) the comments and discussion on this topic that I in my current state would have tazed him, had I the job description of a Confessor. I didn't mean to imply that I was exceptionally good at judging sanity violations in any way, just a reference and a pithy statement of my view.