Jiro comments on You have a set amount of "weirdness points". Spend them wisely. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jiro 29 November 2014 06:46:49PM *  -2 points [-]

Use the foot-in-door technique and the door-in-face technique

Using tactics intentionally designed to appeal to people's biases is dark arts. If you try these, you completely deserve having rationalists tell you "Sorry, I've been trying to remove my biases, not encourage them. Go away until you can be more honest."