pjeby comments on Open Thread: September 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pjeby 05 September 2011 02:47:00AM 0 points [-]

It certainly SEEMS like it's the declarative belief itself, not visualizations of outcomes, that cause effects.

Taboo "declarative". To me, it sounds like you're talking about a verbal statement ("declared"), in which case it's pretty obviously false. AFAIK, priming effects work just fine without words.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 05 September 2011 10:43:19AM 0 points [-]

yea, bad choice of words. Maybe "explicit", "direct" or "first order" would work better?