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DanArmak comments on [LINK] The power of fiction for moral instruction - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: DanArmak 25 March 2013 12:16:33PM 0 points [-]

First:

This gives me a better idea of how people could imprint on well-written fiction. More so than, say, logically-reasoned philosophical tracts.

And then:

This article is, of course, a popularisation.

That's like a meta-comment on the article, isn't it?

Comment author: David_Gerard 25 March 2013 02:16:17PM 0 points [-]

It's turning the paper into a story, and stories are most of how humans communicate.

Comment author: DanArmak 25 March 2013 05:13:34PM *  0 points [-]

And that model predicts the results given in the article.

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