Alicorn comments on Teachable Rationality Skills - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 May 2011 10:10:02PM 3 points [-]

Exercise: Say "Ducks" whenever someone sneezes.

(No, this was not my idea. Jasen again.)

Comment author: Alicorn 27 May 2011 10:13:06PM 2 points [-]

Why "ducks" in particular?

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 27 May 2011 10:45:42PM 9 points [-]

Because "frogs" would be totally weird?

Comment author: Nic_Smith 27 May 2011 10:59:07PM 4 points [-]

Indeed. If the idea is just to retrain a habitual response, why not pick a sneezing ritual from another culture? Wikipedia has an entire list of responses to sneezing in various languages. Apparently "Sanon" is the correct response in Esperanto. Could lead to some interesting conversations, while remaining plausible.

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