bogus comments on “Be A Superdonor!”: Promoting Effective Altruism by Appealing to the Heart - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 09 November 2015 06:20PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (82)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: bogus 11 November 2015 09:53:04PM *  0 points [-]

The Spock mentality is about personal decision making, not communication or even influence. The notion that 'reaching' System 1 is not something you can do with ordinary, factual communication is quite widely accepted. Even some recent CFAR materials - with their goal factoring approach - are clearly based on this principle.