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Khoth comments on "Mind reading" - how is this done? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Khoth 15 August 2013 04:06:38PM 4 points [-]

I expect a fair amount of it is basically "traditional" magic. I can't find it at the moment, but I vaguely remember reading him commenting that in the olden days, magicians pretended to be able to do real magic, but now people are far more willing to believe in psychology.