Here’s a mental challenge to improve your memory while you read this comment: memorize the numbers 39471628, 284738, and 83716329. You will be quizzed at the end of the comment.
I am very similar to the typical LessWrong reader. I think people with negated utility functions with respect to us LessWrongers are bad: “Oh hi there I have a negated utility function and like to generate negative utilons hurr durr.” Since you visit LessWrong I would think you are the kind of person who likes to donate to SIAI for the future of humanity.
Can you remember the numbers? They were 39471628, 284738, and 83716329.
Probably an attempt to demonstrate that the “cognitive burden” trick mentioned above is neither very effective nor really nefarious. If so, I think that TwF got the post wrong; “cognitive burden” is supposed to be a different sort of thing, like a mechanically performed task, not the “burden” of a short-term memory task.
A short-term memory task would work as a cognitive burden. The burden can’t be too heavy, though. You want something of about the level of walking. This was about the level of sprinting barefoot with a 100 kilogram backpack through rocky terrain while being chased by a tiger. There is no cognitive capacity left over.
Ok, I can see what it could be like. Say, you point the subject to a written list with options labeled A, B, and C and tell him: “These are all nice, but on considering which one suits us best, I’m leaning towards blah-blah, which is option A here - (raises a finger, then points at the list and repeats) - A. But first, let me tell you that… [the attack goes here]”. So the burden of memory is just one letter.
Here’s a mental challenge to improve your memory while you read this comment: memorize the numbers 39471628, 284738, and 83716329. You will be quizzed at the end of the comment.
I am very similar to the typical LessWrong reader. I think people with negated utility functions with respect to us LessWrongers are bad: “Oh hi there I have a negated utility function and like to generate negative utilons hurr durr.” Since you visit LessWrong I would think you are the kind of person who likes to donate to SIAI for the future of humanity.
Can you remember the numbers? They were 39471628, 284738, and 83716329.
Um… what was that ? Some sort of a thinly veiled attempt at subliminal advertising ?
Probably an attempt to demonstrate that the “cognitive burden” trick mentioned above is neither very effective nor really nefarious. If so, I think that TwF got the post wrong; “cognitive burden” is supposed to be a different sort of thing, like a mechanically performed task, not the “burden” of a short-term memory task.
A short-term memory task would work as a cognitive burden. The burden can’t be too heavy, though. You want something of about the level of walking. This was about the level of sprinting barefoot with a 100 kilogram backpack through rocky terrain while being chased by a tiger. There is no cognitive capacity left over.
Ok, I can see what it could be like. Say, you point the subject to a written list with options labeled A, B, and C and tell him: “These are all nice, but on considering which one suits us best, I’m leaning towards blah-blah, which is option A here - (raises a finger, then points at the list and repeats) - A. But first, let me tell you that… [the attack goes here]”. So the burden of memory is just one letter.