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Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Group Rationality Diary, July 16-31 - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: therufs 15 July 2013 01:39PM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 16 July 2013 01:01:21AM 3 points [-]

One thing that could be helpful here is some external test of the vividness of your mental imagery. Is, for example, drawing a scene from memory known to be such a test? (I guess you'd have to get good at drawing first, but that might help with the imagery stuff too.)

Comment author: James_Miller 16 July 2013 03:42:41AM 2 points [-]

Great idea about an external test. But I'm very, very bad at drawing things that look like real things.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 18 July 2013 08:22:36PM 1 point [-]

Have you read this blog post and/or the book to which it refers?

Comment author: James_Miller 18 July 2013 08:40:32PM 0 points [-]

No. Thanks for the link.