The basic framework is using nested loops and metaphors.

If a AGI for example wanted to get someone to get them out of the cage it could tell a highly story about some animal named Fred and part of the story is that it's very important that a human released that animal from the cage.

If the AGI then later speaks about Fred it brings up the positively feeling concept of releasing things from cages. That increases the chances of listener then releasing the AGI.

Alone this won't be enough, but over time it's possible to build up a lot of emotionally charged metaphors and then chain them together in an instance to work together. In practice getting it to work isn't easy.

What went wrong when you were with your family?

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I don't have a recording of the event to break it down to a level where I can explain that in a step by step fashion. Even if I would think it would take some background in hypnosis or NLP to follow a detailed explanation. Human minds often don't do what we would intuitively assume they would do and unlearning to trust all those learned ideas about what's supposed to happen isn't easy.

If you think that attacks generally happen in a way that you can easily understand by reading an explanation, then you ignore most of the powerful attacks.

The custom of not sharing powerful attack strategies is an obstacle. It forces me - and the people I want to discuss this with - to imagine how someone (and hypothetically something) much smarter than ourselves would argue, and we're not good at imagining that.

If you don't know what you are doing and retell something that actually designed to put people into emotional turmoil you can do damage to the people with whom you are arguing.

Secondly there are attack strategies that you won't understand when you read a transcript.

Richard Bandler installed in someone I know on a first name basis an inability to pee in one of his lectures because the person refused to close their eyes when Bandler asked them directly to do so. After he asked Bandler to remove it, he could pee again.

There where plenty of people in the audience includign the person being attacked who knew quite a bit about language but who didn't saw how the attack happened.

If you are the kind of person who can't come up with interesting strategies on their own, I don't think that you would be convinced by reading a transcript of covert hypnosis.

there are real examples of gender bias in biology publications

Like what? Just curious.

People all over the world are poly, in every country, of every race and class.

I think that remains to be seen, unless one is quietly defining away polyamory as a dull negation of monogamy.

You state:

I didn't state that; Klesse did. Between you and Klesse, I know who I will put more weight on.

Yes, yes, and former.

I dunno. The FDA did approve a couple of drugs this year, but they might only be intended for short-term use.

If he can convince himself of Mormonism, he is very well capable of convincing himself of just about anything.

Eh. Few "beliefs" and "belief-systems"—or more accurately, decision-policy-systems and social-signaling-systems—are as attractive as Mormonism. I don't think being Mormon is a sign of low epistemic standards so much as a sign of high instrumental rationality.

Furthermore I think Glenn Beck or his ghostwriter understands the Singularity's political situation better than most LWers. That said I've never heard or read anything by Glenn Beck except the above excerpt.

Let me rephrase: There is no such intervention that is considered less dangerous than being obese.