Dark arts

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The term Dark Arts refers to rhetorical techniques crafted to exploit human cognitive biases in order to persuade, deceive, or otherwise manipulate a person into irrationally accepting beliefs perpetuated by the practitioner of the Arts.

Blog posts

• Against Propaganda by Robin Hanson
• Lying With Style by Robin Hanson
• Defense Against The Dark Arts: Case Study #1 by Yvain
• Informers and Persuaders by Eliezer_Yudkowsky

Other links

• Meta-commentary on this terminology

See also

• Anti-epistemology
• Curiosity stopper
• Mind-killer
• Not technically a lie
• Inferential distance

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