From: Robin Lee Powell (rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2008 - 22:42:36 MDT
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 01:27:54PM +0400, Vladimir Nesov wrote:
> Forcing one's way past an irrational gatekeeper, influenced by
> religious ideas or not understanding the setup from
> non-anthropomorphic perspective, doesn't seem very impressive. I
> can't extract any meaning from those old experiments if I don't
> know what happened -- I'm confident enough that it can't happen to
> me, and I simply assume folly on the part of the gatekeeper, not
> unknown unknowns as advertised.
If you don't already know that humans, *all* humans, yourself
included, can easily be manipulated, you need to spend more time
around them.
-Robin
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