zedzed comments on Ultimatums in the Territory - Less Wrong

12 Post author: malcolmocean 28 September 2015 10:01PM

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Comment author: zedzed 29 September 2015 12:03:09AM 4 points [-]

My favorite part of this post was the inclusion of the exercise left to the reader; working through it really helped me deeply understand what you were saying. I suggest that this type of thing become more common because generation effect.

Comment author: raydora 29 September 2015 01:48:11PM 1 point [-]

I agree, though that particular technique (in and of itself, without context) is also used as a Dark Art.

Comment author: zedzed 30 September 2015 07:45:18AM 1 point [-]

I wouldn't be surprised if every single principle of effective learning has, by someone, somewhere, been co-opted into a dark art.

Comment author: ChristianKl 30 September 2015 02:04:51PM 0 points [-]

Could you elobrate why you think this technique is a dark art? I don't see anything dark about it.

Comment author: raydora 30 September 2015 11:26:22PM 0 points [-]

That's a good question. I don't really know. I think I've been equating 'persuasion' with 'dark art'. I need to figure out what separates effective persuasive techniques from dark arts, if anything, and if the label 'dark art' has any use.