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NancyLebovitz comments on Open thread, July 29-August 4, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 02 August 2013 03:43:00PM 0 points [-]

How harmful does it have to be? Noise can be hard on people, and sufficiently loud noise causes permanent damage.

There's something interesting in here about what counts as a sensation for purposes of this discussion-- probably "a sensation which most people wouldn't expect to be harmful".