Raw_Power comments on Discussion: Ideas for a Lesswrongian anticipation Sci-Fi set in 2060 - Less Wrong

0 Post author: Raw_Power 12 July 2011 06:35AM

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Comment author: Raw_Power 12 July 2011 10:58:11PM 0 points [-]

... I am so ashamed...

It must be Kevin Konroy's Goddamn Batman voice.

It would be easy to create a webpage in which the text changed periodically, just using Javascript.

Yeah, but the text changing as soon as you look away... that's gaslighting... Anyhoo, I see how the disticntion you draw is relevant. i also see how most people wouldn't tell the difference until one pointed it out at them.

Comment author: pre 13 July 2011 09:26:36AM 1 point [-]

I remember reading about an experiment in which they did exactly that: change the text on a computer screen during eye sucades, when the eyes aren't processing data, IE while you're "Not looking". Which reminded me of trying to read in dreams, certainly.

I once had a lucid dream in which I decided to see how good my latent memory was by picking up a book from my self in the dream and reading the first line to see, when I woke, if I'd got it right. But it was just nonsense babble which, as you point out, kept changing. Oh well.