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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
wow wait this might explain a thing i’ve always been confused about. my whole life i’ve watched other people assigned to read a piece of text who skipped or substituted specific words and i never understood why that was happening. like… it seemed like they couldn’t tell???
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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
@visakanv
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(h/t @personalitygeni) this is kind of wild to get into makes me realize I don't actually know how I learned how to read, it was just sheer joyful immersion for me I don't actually really (consciously) know how to teach someone to read either apmreports.org/episode/2019/0
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
there are also a couple of rationalists who are very sharp intellectually and also literally can’t spell and that really wilded me out too. one of them told me “yeah i just have to guess the spelling from how the word sounds, every time”
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
i grew up watching a ton of TV with closed captioning on and i think it made me a little synesthetic between the sounds and spellings of words. they’re very tightly identified in my head. when people say things i don’t know how to spell i have trouble remembering
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lisatomic
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I air write along with movie dialogue, in extremely tiny motions of my pointer finger if I can't keep up I switch to punctuation only until dialogue slows and I can catch up
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