TheOtherDave comments on Make your training useful - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 12 February 2011 07:09:22AM 33 points [-]

This is something I thought about a lot while I was recovering from brain damage and thus transiently a lot stupider than I normally am.

A few of mine:

Stupidity feels like not having enough fingers to hold all of my thoughts in place.
It feels like being tired all the time, even when I'm not.
It feels like merging onto the highway when I can't see all the oncoming traffic.
It feels like someone's playing loud distracting music that I can't hear.
It feels like riding on a train with square wheels.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 12 February 2011 05:16:16PM * 3 points [-]

It feels like merging onto the highway when I can't see all the oncoming traffic.

This metaphor is excellent. That is exactly how I feel when I undersleep/oversleep.