ChristianKl comments on Crazy Ideas Thread - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 07 July 2015 09:40PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 09 July 2015 09:03:56PM -1 points [-]

If I ask you "what if you robbed a bank?" you will think of robbing a bank, you actually cannot prevent yourself from thinking about robbing a bank.

That depends on how strongly a person is suggestible.

Comment author: Val 09 July 2015 09:13:19PM 1 point [-]

That depends on how strongly a person is suggestible.

It doesn't. Just by parsing that sentence, if you understood it, it means you though of it.

Comment author: ChristianKl 09 July 2015 09:15:53PM -2 points [-]

No, it's quite possible to parse the sentence without actually going along with it. Just because you can't doesn't mean that other people can't.

Comment author: Val 09 July 2015 09:29:17PM 1 point [-]

In this case we should define "going along" and "thinking of", because otherwise this will be just empty arguing about semantics.

My point was that parsing and understanding that sentence means you are thinking of it, even if for just a short moment, and that it is different from actually having even the slightest desire to actually do it. Where does your definition of "going along" fit into it?