Rain comments on Experiment: Psychoanalyze Me - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Wei_Dai 17 July 2011 07:54AM

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Comment author: Rain 17 July 2011 01:20:06PM *  7 points [-]

It takes me 30 minutes to several hours of back and forth question and answer to do this with someone I've already trained to accept my questions as true questions and not statements or implications. My experience is that a text medium is very unsuited to the task.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 17 July 2011 06:15:19PM 4 points [-]

There seems to be at least one successful attempt on LW, but in general I agree it's very hard to do in a text medium. So what I'm saying is that if someone happens to have some insight about my thought processes that I'm missing, which ought to happen occasionally even if it's rare, then I'd like them to point it out, instead of hiding it out of concern for causing the conversation to degenerate.