{"id":2237,"date":"2018-10-01T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2018-09-30T14:01:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T21:01:25","slug":"concerning-frame-control-via-salient-scenarios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/concerning-frame-control-via-salient-scenarios\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerning Frame Control Via Salient Scenarios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;We need to institutionalize people in order to prevent them from hurting themselves&quot; has the same <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/6WGbk\">memetic-superweapon<\/a> structure as &quot;We need to torture terrorists to get them to tell us where they've hidden the suitcase nuke.&quot; The scenario as stated obviously has consequentialist merit (death is worse than prison, megadeaths are worse than torture), so you'd have to be some kind of <em>huge asshole<\/em>\u2014or a former suspected terrorist\u2014to say, &quot;I claim that this hypothetical scenario is not realized nearly as often as you seem to be implying and therefore falsifiably predict that many of your alleged real-world examples will fall apart on further examination.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;We need to institutionalize people in order to prevent them from hurting themselves&quot; has the same memetic-superweapon structure as &quot;We need to torture terrorists to get them to tell us where they've hidden the suitcase nuke.&quot; The scenario as stated &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/concerning-frame-control-via-salient-scenarios\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[93],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2238,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions\/2238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}