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DataPacRat comments on The "Stick Test" - useful tool or just pointless amusement? - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: DataPacRat 23 June 2011 06:31PM

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Comment author: DataPacRat 23 June 2011 10:42:23PM 1 point [-]

If they're able to come up with the proper reasoning processes to say what I want when I'm (virtually) hitting them with a stick... then they'll be able to use those same reasoning processes without a stick, and there will be no reason to continue using it on them.