Psy-Kosh comments on What's In A Name? - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Yvain 29 June 2009 12:54PM

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Comment author: Psy-Kosh 30 June 2009 08:05:48PM 1 point [-]

sing it to the tune of "eliyahu hanavi"

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 June 2009 09:24:38PM 6 points [-]

You know there are actual experiments centered around showing how much harder that sort of thing is for other people to get, than we think when we sing it in our heads.

Comment author: Psy-Kosh 30 June 2009 09:43:37PM 1 point [-]

*blinks* I'm not surprised that it would be harder to get than we would think, but I didn't realize anyone actually had done an actual study on specifically that.

For some reason, the fact that this was systematically studied makes me happy.

Anyways, got a link/reference/info on that? Thanks.

Comment author: ciphergoth 01 June 2011 04:41:06PM 3 points [-]

The Illusion of Transparency from the You Are Not So Smart blog. Better late than never :-)

Comment author: [deleted] 22 February 2014 09:03:00AM *  0 points [-]

Prob'ly it varies from person to person. It would be harder for me to read this without singing it in my head (and I hadn't read its grandparent when I read it).