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

33 Post author: chaosmage 09 September 2014 04:56PM

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Comment author: Alexei 11 September 2014 01:48:09AM 1 point [-]

Most of the time I'm sitting in front of a computer (modern equivalent of pen and paper), so talking out loud seems to be rather unnecessary.

Comment author: chaosmage 11 September 2014 08:34:24AM 2 points [-]

It isn't necessary, it is a luxury that does seem to be helping programmers like us. Compare Rubber duck debugging, which Antiochus brought up in this very thread.