5 Dec
2022
5 Dec
'22
9:31 a.m.
Cyborg Torturer: "I thought I might imagine what it would be like to be about to torture somebody, and then decide not to, and instead ask them if they knew anybody who might be my family." Experimentee: "Okay, that's great!" Experimentee writes up on the blackboard "Family" and "Torture". Not near each other. Experimentee: "I'm thinking that everybody misses their family. And this feeling of missing your family is not, like, super unique -- it's basically a longing and a concept of family, like, at the same time." Cyborg Torturer looks at Experimentee. Cyborg Torturer: "Huh. I bet I would experience that if it didn't set off all the distracting lasers."