Antiochus comments on Talking to yourself: A useful thinking tool that seems understudied and underdiscussed - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Antiochus 09 September 2014 06:11:22PM 19 points [-]

In computer programming, this is commonly called rubber ducking.

Comment author: chaosmage 10 September 2014 02:21:29PM 4 points [-]

Fascinating. I'm a programmer and I do that (minus the rubber duck), but I didn't know the term. Thanks!

Comment author: Antiochus 11 September 2014 07:22:30PM 2 points [-]

No problem. It seems like programming is a perfect example of something with a very large working memory requirement and the manipulation of a lot of symbolic, linguistic information.