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Lumifer comments on Thought Crimes - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 15 January 2014 04:08:21PM *  3 points [-]

no self-respecting human being would allow such an crude ingerence of third parties into their own thought process

Of course, provided the alternative is not to just be killed here and now.

Men with weapons have been successfully persuading other people to do something they don't want to do for ages.

Comment author: passive_fist 16 January 2014 02:01:30AM *  1 point [-]

So you're saying that the government (or whoever runs the show) is going to force everyone - at gunpoint - to insert such devices into their brains?

Comment author: Lumifer 16 January 2014 02:24:52AM 2 points [-]

Not "is going to" but "may".

That was a simple objection to the statement "but no one will agree to that!".

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