I’m reasonably darned sure you can’t do that by any conversational means
Agreed. The only way I’d see myself as having a fighting chance would be if you had a strong reason to go into hypnosis and you didn’t know my intentions.
If the world really were at stake, I think I could help you with the red panda problem—though I still have fairly wide confidence intervals on how difficult that would be because I haven’t tried something like this. I have yet to find a real life example where I’d encourage self deception and a surprisingly large fraction of problems go away when you remove the self deception.
I have been having a lot of fun using hypnosis and techniques inspired by hypnosis to improve rationality—and successfully. I was a bit disappointed that you didn’t respond to my email offering to show what hypnosis says about training rationality. And now I’m a bit confused with the retraction because I had figured you had completely written me off as a crackpot.
Will Ryan mentioned that you were skeptical of “this stuff”. Can you elaborate on what specifically you’re skeptical about and what kinds of evidence you’d like to see?
I hope you don’t think you are actually “giving amnesia” or doing anything other than roleplaying mind-controller and mind-controllee, in dialogues like these. Those teenagers are just playing along for their own reasons.
Agreed. The only way I’d see myself as having a fighting chance would be if you had a strong reason to go into hypnosis and you didn’t know my intentions.
If the world really were at stake, I think I could help you with the red panda problem—though I still have fairly wide confidence intervals on how difficult that would be because I haven’t tried something like this. I have yet to find a real life example where I’d encourage self deception and a surprisingly large fraction of problems go away when you remove the self deception.
I have been having a lot of fun using hypnosis and techniques inspired by hypnosis to improve rationality—and successfully. I was a bit disappointed that you didn’t respond to my email offering to show what hypnosis says about training rationality. And now I’m a bit confused with the retraction because I had figured you had completely written me off as a crackpot.
Will Ryan mentioned that you were skeptical of “this stuff”. Can you elaborate on what specifically you’re skeptical about and what kinds of evidence you’d like to see?
I hope you don’t think you are actually “giving amnesia” or doing anything other than roleplaying mind-controller and mind-controllee, in dialogues like these. Those teenagers are just playing along for their own reasons.
That hypothesis certainly isn’t new to me.
There’s a lot of research on hypnotic amnesia. Here are a few showing differences between hypnotically suggested amnesia and faked amnesia.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/abn/70/2/123/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2348012
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/abn/105/3/381/
The relationship between “actually giving amnesia” and “roleplaying amnesia” is fascinating, but not something I’m going to get into here.