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fubarobfusco comments on Open thread, 11-17 August 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 13 August 2014 02:37:22AM 1 point [-]

The Stanford prison experiment suggests that you don't need that much to get people to do immoral things.

The Stanford prison "experiment" was a LARP session that got out of control because the GM actively encouraged the players to be assholes to each other.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 14 August 2014 01:57:59AM 1 point [-]

I agree with that interpretation of the experiment but "active encouragement" should count as "not that much."