About Scott Adams - it makes sense he would frame his vaxx decision as win lose. I think he conceptualized in terms of persuasion win/lose rather than true/false - you win bigly or you lose bigly.
With his reality-as-computer-simulation model I don't think he had a strong concept of a real physical reality out there that is going to follow certain laws regardless of how you think about it.
Also, with his being a self-proclaimed master hypnotist and persuader - that plus a lot of weed - I think he was convinced he could see through other's persuasion attempts, and he was too smart to be taken in. Thinking you're too smart to be affected by persuasion spells makes you dead meat for them.
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Re: Defecting Nonconformists
Date: 2024-02-28 05:57 pm (UTC)With his reality-as-computer-simulation model I don't think he had a strong concept of a real physical reality out there that is going to follow certain laws regardless of how you think about it.
Also, with his being a self-proclaimed master hypnotist and persuader - that plus a lot of weed - I think he was convinced he could see through other's persuasion attempts, and he was too smart to be taken in. Thinking you're too smart to be affected by persuasion spells makes you dead meat for them.