wedrifid comments on Being Wrong about Your Own Subjective Experience - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 25 April 2011 07:08:04AM 2 points [-]

Interesting. This makes me less skeptical of Derren Brown's color illusion video (summary: a celebrity mentalist uses NLP techniques to convince a woman yellow is red, red is black etc.).

It's only a small step away from what complete amateurs can do in a room in a university. Human judgement is careful not to get caught up with the actual real world when there is social influence at stake!

Comment author: BenAlbahari 25 April 2011 08:03:52AM 2 points [-]

I don't think social influence alone is a good explanation for the delusion in the video. Or more precisely, I don't think the delusion in the video can be explained as just a riff on the Asch conformity experiment.

Comment author: wedrifid 25 April 2011 01:35:36PM 0 points [-]

I agree (for the right definition of 'social influence', of course). That 'small step away' really is a step away.

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