If you set it up properly, yes. The moral concerns remain- I’m just saying that one could teach resistance to manipulation in a (at first undetected) manipulative fashion, so that the eventual discovery reinforces rather than undermines the lesson.
Presumably Orthonormal is referring to “Quirinus Quirrell,” the fictional character from Eliezer Yudkowsky’s work of Harry Potter fanfiction, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Best wishes, the Less Wrong Reference Desk.
Will the person being manipulated discard it?
If you set it up properly, yes. The moral concerns remain- I’m just saying that one could teach resistance to manipulation in a (at first undetected) manipulative fashion, so that the eventual discovery reinforces rather than undermines the lesson.
If it helps, imagine QQ doing this.
...who?
Presumably Orthonormal is referring to “Quirinus Quirrell,” the fictional character from Eliezer Yudkowsky’s work of Harry Potter fanfiction, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Best wishes, the Less Wrong Reference Desk.
Indeed.