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bogus comments on “Be A Superdonor!”: Promoting Effective Altruism by Appealing to the Heart - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 09 November 2015 06:20PM

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Comment author: bogus 11 November 2015 09:53:04PM *  0 points [-]

The Spock mentality is about personal decision making, not communication or even influence. The notion that 'reaching' System 1 is not something you can do with ordinary, factual communication is quite widely accepted. Even some recent CFAR materials - with their goal factoring approach - are clearly based on this principle.