gwillen comments on Is this dark arts and if it, is it justified? - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 17 November 2014 07:00PM

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Comment author: gwillen 17 November 2014 08:30:54PM 12 points [-]

I don't think "appealing to System 1" alone qualifies as Dark Arts. So you'll have to be more specific...

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 18 November 2014 05:06:37AM 3 points [-]

I guess that was the nature of the question - is "appealing to System 1" in the way we described worthwhile? In descriptions of Dark Arts strategies, we use some things such as creating cognitive ease through using simple and positive language, having some stories, some flashy language and graphics, and so on. However, we don't want to go too far, so the question is where is a good balance to draw. Are the articles cited above on the Intentional Insights website a good balance?