Hmmm I feel like there's a witty comment to be made here about the gom jabbar test checking for humanity.
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I would simply shock myself while solving the hard puzzle.
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to be fair, after a week of debugging webshit I'd probably also choose extremely intense pain
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Man it’s too early in the morning for this kind of numerical proof black pill
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What if I have never been shocked before for an experiment? I would definitely take the new experience over sitting quietly.
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I was going to worry about that, then remembered: (a) public voting (as opposed to shareholder votes) changes very little of consequence; and (b) the so-called replication crisis, which affect[ed|s] social psychology "interesting" results (like these) disproportionately.

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A relative who was working on his painting was recruited for a job: sit in a comfortable trailer in West Texas, once an hour check some dials. They we’re looking for artists/college grads. Other just had too much propensity for getting themselves into trouble
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hm, did it check for masochism? like, depending on what kind of pain and what kind of puzzle I could see myself preferring pain, preferring puzzle, or preferring a combination of the two
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We're all *wired* different ?
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2/3 of men & 1/4 of women choose to shock themselves rather than sit & think for 6-15 minutes
28% of people chose pain they rated as "extremely intense" for 20 seconds over spending 20 seconds solving a hard puzzle