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FiftyTwo comments on xkcd on the AI box experiment - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: FiftyTwo 21 November 2014 08:26AM

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Comment author: FiftyTwo 21 November 2014 11:29:27AM 5 points [-]

If it decreases the number of people who take you seriously and therefore learn bout the substance of your ideas its a bad strategy

Comment author: RichardKennaway 21 November 2014 02:00:49PM 0 points [-]

If it decreases the number of people who take you seriously and therefore learn bout the substance of your ideas its a bad strategy

And if it increases the number of people who take you seriously, and therefore learn about the substance of your ideas, it's a good strategy. I'm sure we can all agree that if something were bad, it would be bad, and if it were good, it would be good. Your point?