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MattG comments on Crazy Ideas Thread, Aug. 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: polymathwannabe 11 August 2015 01:24PM

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 12 August 2015 06:06:01AM 8 points [-]

We should strongly discourage smart people from coming up with innovative new forms of torture, slavery, or other conditions that have been long recognized as social ills.

Comment author: [deleted] 12 August 2015 06:14:44AM 1 point [-]

How?

Comment author: fubarobfusco 12 August 2015 06:31:16AM 2 points [-]

Well, we definitely should not torture or enslave them.

Comment author: [deleted] 12 August 2015 06:38:54AM 0 points [-]

That's so crazy it just might work...