Silver_Swift comments on Perceptual Entropy and Frozen Estimates - Less Wrong

10 Post author: Davidmanheim 03 June 2015 07:27PM

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Comment author: Silver_Swift 04 June 2015 02:29:24PM 0 points [-]

For me, the pictures in the op stop being a man at around panel 6, going back they stop being a woman at around 4. I can flip your second example by unfocusing and refocusing my eyes, but in your first example I can't for the life of me see anything other than a young woman looking away from the camera (I'm amusing there is an old woman in there somewhere based on the image name).

Could you give a hint as to how to flip it? I'm assuming the ear turns into an eye or something, but I've been trying for about half an hour now and it is annoying the crap out of me.

Comment author: arundelo 04 June 2015 03:11:15PM 3 points [-]
  • The young woman's ear is the old woman's left eye.
  • The young woman's chin is the old woman's nose.
  • The young woman's choker necklace is the old woman's mouth.

The old woman is looking down.

A line drawing version might be easier.

Comment author: Silver_Swift 05 June 2015 12:02:15PM 0 points [-]

Ah yes, that did it (and I think I have seen the line drawing before) but it still takes a serious conscious effort to see the old woman in either of those. Maybe some Freudian thing where my mind prefers looking at young girls over old women :P

Comment author: Davidmanheim 04 June 2015 03:39:17PM 0 points [-]

That's the other example in the book as well - and it has the same hints.