Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Instrumental vs. Epistemic -- A Bardic Perspective - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MBlume 25 April 2009 05:01:18PM 16 points [-]

Not really on topic, but very interesting story: Normal people are convinced by role players that they are in a magical universe. http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=91462&cid=7876768

That is an excellent story, and I don't think it would be at all out of place in a top-level post.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 April 2009 05:05:40PM 6 points [-]

I second the motion. This is the most awesome illustration of conformity that I have ever, ever heard of.

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