gwern comments on Credence calibration game FAQ - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Academian 26 November 2012 12:52AM

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Comment author: Alicorn 28 November 2012 07:28:04PM 1 point [-]

This would be cute, except you'd have to catch the biases in a dreamscape/mindscape of some kind, not in the "wild". (Why would you want to retrieve them, even for shrinking, unless they were already inside your head?)

Comment author: gwern 28 November 2012 09:10:30PM 7 points [-]

'Arguments are soldiers' and 'reason is for persuasion'; hence, you obviously use biasemons on your opponents to make them make bad decisions and believe wrong things.

(It's not any more malicious than enslaving wild animals and making them fight until they are knocked unconscious by the trauma...)