From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Sep 16 1999 - 12:26:03 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> <...take `anjing gila' they want to kill people everywhere. They
> do not even recognise their own father or mother. They just kill. That's
> why they call it `crazy dog' pill." >
>
> (Age, Thurs 16 Sept, p. 13)
>
> Could be a rural myth, of course, but sounds like something tuned to the
> amygdala.
I think it is a rural myth. That kind of battle madness is built into
the human neurology. A pill is entirely unnecessary. Just something
made up by people who rather wouldn't believe in the dark side of the
mind, I suppose.
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