David_Gerard comments on An onion strategy for AGI discussion - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 03 June 2014 08:13:13AM *  4 points [-]

This appears to be a reinvention of milk before meat, one of those bad ideas that just keeps coming back. This sometimes works out not so well; people do understand the concept of bait and switch quite readily.

Basically, if you have bits that you know perfectly well look weird or stupid, then pretending you don't just looks fraudulent.