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gwern comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 9 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gwern 26 October 2011 04:52:01PM *  5 points [-]

Then, you can try exposing the subjects to differing stimuli while they're in exactly the same starting state, and you can precisely and easily measure the effect of whatever change you've made.

Somewhere on LW, I think, someone suggested that 'discovering perfect psychological manipulation' was a problem akin to NP - hard to find, easy to check. So give rationalist!Voldemort a time-turner, a servant, and a a dungeon...

Comment author: wedrifid 26 October 2011 11:32:20PM 1 point [-]

Somewhere on LW, I think, someone suggested that 'discovering perfect psychological manipulation' was a problem akin to NP - hard to find, to check

Did you leave out an 'easy to' in there?

Comment author: dlthomas 26 October 2011 11:36:38PM 1 point [-]

I expect just an "easy"

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