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pleeppleep comments on I attempted the AI Box Experiment (and lost) - Less Wrong Discussion

47 Post author: Tuxedage 21 January 2013 02:59AM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 22 January 2013 01:14:59AM *  9 points [-]

I'd prefer not to. If I successfully made my point, then I'd have posted exactly the kind of thing I said I wouldn't want to be known as being capable of posting.

Comment author: pleeppleep 22 January 2013 01:27:19AM 0 points [-]

But you wouldn't actually be posting it, you would be posting the fact that you conceive it possible for someone to post it, which you've clearly already done.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 22 January 2013 01:35:14AM 1 point [-]

I'm not sure what you mean by "a hypothetical," then. Is "psychological torture" not a hypothetical?