Mind control does not feel like an oppressive struggle against an outside force. It feels like changing your mind.
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If I were struggling against an oppressive outside force, I don't see why I shouldn't call that mind control.
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Consider gaslighting, hypnosis, socialization, Stockholming, optogenetic reprogramming, and ingratiation
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All of these things fall a bit outside of evidence+value-based persuasion
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So we might think of them as mind control, and yet all except maybe optogenetics +ingratiation begin with recognizable...
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signs of an external agent with an intent to alter your beliefs and policies.
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I was mostly thinking of sci fi style mind control, inspired by an optogenetics talk I attended yesterday
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