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Viliam comments on Open Thread Feb 22 - Feb 28, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ete 23 February 2016 11:36:06AM *  0 points [-]

I figured anti-polyamory propaganda did not need annotations on LessWrong. It's telling that all but one reply took it as something which needs to be suppressed/counterargued, despite me calling it propaganda and saying it was interesting as an example of psychological tricks people pull. No one here is going to be taken in by this. I would not have posted this on facebook or another more general audience site.

I did not feel like writing it up in any detail would make a great use of my time, the examples to use for future pattern matching to are pretty obvious in the video and don't need spelling out. I just wanted to drop the link here because I'd found it mildly enlightening, and figured others may have a similar experience. I take the negative feedback as meaning content people are politically sensitive to is not welcome, even if it's rationality relevant (resistance to manipulation tricks) and explicitly non-endorsed. That's unfortunate, but okay.

Comment author: Viliam 23 February 2016 12:58:14PM 0 points [-]

I take the negative feedback as meaning content people are politically sensitive to is not welcome, even if it's rationality relevant (resistance to manipulation tricks) and explicitly non-endorsed.

If you choose so. You could also choose to take it as a feedback that linking to a 15-minutes long video will mostly annoy people.