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the face blindness thing was one of the most striking things to me about the rationalists, it’s way more common than i would’ve guessed in that crowd. someone told me once if you learn to read too early the part of your brain that does face recognition gets coopted into reading?

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@bayes_baes

· Aug 13, 2021

Very High IQ people favorite self-diagnoses, ranked: 0. Autist 1. ADHD 2. Seasonal affective disorder 3. Face blindness

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

when i studied abroad at cambridge one of the people in the same cohort as me (as in, came with me from MIT) was also face blind, and when i ran into her at MIT afterwards she didn’t recognize me in the hallway at all. context was too different. kinda spooky

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Aug 13, 2021

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i do also find it amusing to speculate about how face blindness might force you to get good at explicit bayesian reasoning about who the person you’re talking to is based on the evidence of their clothes, hair, etc. (yud is face blind, idk how well-known this is)

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in high school, my girlfriend of a year walked into my 120 person high school one morning. she had gotten a new haircut. I wondered aloud to myself "hmm, I wonder who the new girl is"