Re: DIPLOMACY: Memetic Morphing

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:29:38 -0600

Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
> But I think you have a
> point in that life threatening experiences can have positive effects,
> possibly by dissolving various previous imprints. Of course, we have a
> sample bias since the people who get positive effects tend to speak
> more about it than the people who got bad results.

This is an amazingly good point.

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