polymathwannabe comments on Memory is Everything - Less Wrong

-3 Post author: Qwake 22 August 2014 04:48AM

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 22 August 2014 01:21:07PM 0 points [-]

you will not be harmed physically or mentally; you will simply experience excruciating pain

That's not possible. A full week of unending pain beyond extreme thresholds will leave you with serious PTSD. If you get Obliviated afterwards, that will only get you more screwed up, with persistent anxiety for no discernible reason.

Comment author: Qwake 23 August 2014 04:05:32AM 2 points [-]

That might be true in reality but in the hypothetical for omega to completely erase the event from both your conscious and subconscience