Rain comments on That Magical Click - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Rain 26 January 2010 03:06:30PM *  6 points [-]

Other phrases to describe "click": intuition, grok, cached understanding, pattern recognition.

I especially like the last one, pattern recognition - click feels a lot like seeing a giant web of things, and how it all fits together, or how one piece completes that image - using a sort of mental glyph or a simple phrase to represent complex, sophisticated ideas as a singular, understandable entity.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 August 2011 04:46:07AM 1 point [-]

Good summary.

Comment author: AndyWood 26 January 2010 05:34:23PM 1 point [-]

That image also implies that one won't 'click' until one has acquired all the necessary pieces in the web, which is how I would answer the question "What does it take to get someone to get it?"