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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Replying to @KevinSimler @michael_nielsen and
“Omg, Becky, the anthropologist is SO gullible, you are going to totally spit your kava, so the next thing we told him was” —every “primitive tribe” everywhere
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Replying to @Meaningness @KevinSimler and
good thing modern people never do this on surveys, especially young people
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Replying to @literalbanana @Meaningness and
Just thinking about those breathlessly reported “most Americans can’t find Iran on a map, look, this one idiot said it was in Nebraska” stories which went viral a few weeks ago. Lessons? No, no; that’s too much to hope for.
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