CannibalSmith comments on Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Ask Your Questions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CannibalSmith 11 November 2009 10:47:14AM 3 points [-]

Improvisational theater. (I'm not Eliezer, I know.)

Comment author: nazgulnarsil 12 November 2009 04:31:12PM *  4 points [-]

actually... http://greenlightwiki.com/improv/Status http://craigtovey.blogspot.com/2008/02/popular-comedy-formulas.html

learning this stuff allowed me (introvert) to successfully fake extroversion for my own benefit when I need to.

Comment author: ABranco 14 November 2009 01:14:15PM 1 point [-]

Oh!, I've done impro myself and I agree.

Well, partly.

The dynamics of what works and doesn't has lots of explanation behind it, and the storytelling is all pretty structured. However, when you're right on the scene there's not room for explicit rational analysis, sure.