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0 pointstorlok1mo ago0 comments

We should just let people with overwhelming amounts of money research and fund new ways to trick people's lizard brains into giving them even more money.

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twoodfin1mo ago

If you’re going to organize your society around the theory that humans don’t actually possess free will, you’re going to produce a fair number of outcomes that a classical liberal would find abhorrent.

mrob1mo ago

It's only assuming that free will requires effort to exert. They shouldn't be required to waste that effort on defending themselves from attempts to trick them into buying things they don't need.

jbxntuehineoh1mo ago

Yeah, good, okay

keybored1mo ago

The reason why we are even talking about it is what they said: people with a lot, lot of resources can prey on people. What’s one individual against an industry of psychological research?

But yet again we can’t do anything about it because it would interfere with the freedoms of corporations, effectively. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46870147

replooda1mo ago

People aren't lizards, however. You demonstrate that by engaging in the distinctly unlizardlike behavior of employing a false dichotomy to imply the opposite.

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