MrHen comments on That Magical Click - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 January 2010 04:35PM

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Comment author: MrHen 20 January 2010 11:57:07PM 3 points [-]

Maybe, but it doesn't really match my feelings when I get a click. This doesn't mean you are I have better or worse clicks. It could just mean we react to them differently.

I think if there is a difference between your click and mine it is that my clicks tend to be reactions to things generally considered to be factual or true but something I have trouble understanding. Clicks tend not to be brand new discoveries but rather a full, complete understanding of someone else's discovery. The easiest example is from mathematics. A complicated piece of linear algebra is True but I don't fully Get It until it clicks.