TheAncientGeek comments on Rationality Quotes September 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 06 September 2014 07:08:03PM 9 points [-]

The easy way to make a convincing simulation is to disable the inner critic.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 09 September 2014 05:00:29AM 1 point [-]

The inner critic that is disabled during regular dreaming turns back on during lucid dreaming. People who have them seem to be quite impressed by lucid dreams.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 09 September 2014 10:17:34AM 1 point [-]

You still can't focus on stable details.

Comment author: chaosmage 12 September 2014 09:12:44AM 2 points [-]

You can with training. It is a lot like training visualization: In the beginning, the easiest things to visualize are complex moving shapes (say a tree with wind going through it), but if you try for a couple of hours, you can get all the way down to simple geometric shapes.