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buybuydandavis comments on EY "Politics is the Mind Killer" sighting at Washington Examiner and Reason.com - Less Wrong Discussion

19 Post author: buybuydandavis 27 September 2012 07:48PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 29 September 2012 03:06:12AM *  1 point [-]

Or you might pretend to be good, and push on us in nefarious ways we wouldn't even notice so that we end up saying things like "Go Eliezer".

I've heard you are in the possession of fully general mind-hacks. Just like painting asteroids and poisoning tigers, right?

Go Eliezer! Save us from the Forces of Bad. (ha ha only serious).

Comment author: wedrifid 29 September 2012 11:13:03AM 0 points [-]

I've heard you are in the possession of fully general mind-hacks.

If so he must have been using them on us in order to make his argument that such a thing is not theoretically possible so compelling. ie. Eliezer needs to be operating from outside our physical reality in order to have fully general mind-hacks and in that case the mind hacks are the least of our worries. (Unless that is what he wants us to think.)