Refusing to know about things is a valid form of civil disobedience
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Replying to @literalbanana @eigenrobot
I unliked this so I could like it again. Am I doing Twitter right?
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But did you unknow it, Kevin?
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Just added it to my spaced-forgetting app, to definitively omit it from memory. I've made unlearning a deliberate choice.
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Is this where you periodically whack your head against the wall?
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @KevinSimler and
Incidentaly, Shereshevsky - the 5-sense synaesthete with a nearly perfect memory - apparently tried pretty hard to find ways to forget. This is Wikipedia; Luria's book has quite a bit more:pic.twitter.com/0tiFQXXo1T
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oh the same luria as with the illiterate peasants who wouldn’t do syllogisms?
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Yes, though I hadn't realized previously it was the same person. Just re-read this (prompted by your tweet), & it was fascinating to put two and two together: http://bactra.org/weblog/484.html
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Haha, I always forget to apply this kind of skepticism. Is there a good name/handle for this problem? Kind of an extended Lizardman thing?pic.twitter.com/eqJczObDEN
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I recently came across this take (2005) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antonio_Roazzi/publication/7735392_Reasoning_From_Unfamiliar_Premises_A_Study_With_Unschooled_Adults/links/5a54c8efaca272ea27826dae/Reasoning-From-Unfamiliar-Premises-A-Study-With-Unschooled-Adults.pdf …pic.twitter.com/jUIy2cA8Bd
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This is a really interesting paper, thanks! Highly relevant to the decontextualization literature, and (in its discussion of children’s fantasy play) the origin of that literature in the banana/phone example, as unearthed by @drossbucket
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