It’s come to my attention that people on Lesswrong are really really really bad at defending themselves against even semi competent deceptions.
How has this come to your attention, and how are you determining whether your sequence is useful to the segment of the audience that needs to hear it?
I think LW readers and participants are somewhat LESS easily deceived than comparable groups (say, Bay Area professionals who don’t read LW), and the majority of LW readers aren’t even that particularly-intense demographic.
Ideally, you’d include very specific examples here—actual cultish-leaders having success with the deceptive arts, and how those that escape did so. I don’t think general advice about deceptive practices will do much good, especially if you haven’t read a number of accounts of such things and analyzed why they remain effective even with fairly-common knowledge of them.
How has this come to your attention, and how are you determining whether your sequence is useful to the segment of the audience that needs to hear it?
I think LW readers and participants are somewhat LESS easily deceived than comparable groups (say, Bay Area professionals who don’t read LW), and the majority of LW readers aren’t even that particularly-intense demographic.
Ideally, you’d include very specific examples here—actual cultish-leaders having success with the deceptive arts, and how those that escape did so. I don’t think general advice about deceptive practices will do much good, especially if you haven’t read a number of accounts of such things and analyzed why they remain effective even with fairly-common knowledge of them.