NancyLebovitz comments on Rationality Quotes February 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 15 February 2013 06:22:03PM 0 points [-]

Interesting. In the normal version, it looks to me like the waves are lifting the boats, and mirror-reversed it looks like the boats are driving against it.

Actually, my normal way to look at it is to focus on the wave, then the mountain, and scarcely notice the boats.

On my first look at the mirror version, the wave looked like a giant claw attacking the mountain.

Comment author: Swimmer963 15 February 2013 06:29:08PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, I spent a while looking for the boats in the image... I thought one of them was a beach. I think the question of which is more "agenty" was contaminated for me, though, since I read the comments before following the link to look at the image. I can make myself see either the wave as 'chasing' the boats, or the boats as fleeing the wave, or the boats sailing into the wave...