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Lumifer comments on Intentionally Raising the Sanity Waterline - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 13 November 2014 08:25PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 14 November 2014 04:36:21PM 5 points [-]

it's targeted at creating cognitive ease through telling stories.

It pattern-matches to advertising and heavy-handed propaganda.

On a tangent, I'm pretty familiar with agitprop

I know, that's why I mentioned it.