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But look: my mom, who worked in academic publishing, could do a brilliant job editing a math manuscript for style without knowing calculus.
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She also subconsciously imitated the accent of whoever she was speaking to. And picked up Romanian by listening to phone conversations. She had a freakishly good ear. I’m convinced this is a single phenomenon.
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If I watch an episode of Peaky Blinders I’ll acquire an Irish accent by osmosis for the next hour. I subconsciously pastiche whichever writer I’ve been reading lately. I can’t *not* mirror conversational tone & emotion. One phenomenon.
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I claim Scott Alexander has the same thing: writes compulsively, great at style pastiche, nobody believes him when he says he’s bad at math.
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I think some people are legitimately better at style than sense or vice versa! They are not faking! Fluent pattern-matching != structural comprehension!
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Are there people who are litterally equally skilled at everything? Or do they take their own skill profile as an exception? Or are skills split into groups and all foo people are (or should be) good at foo people skills? (not to derail sense vs style)
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See: “you’re so smart! why can’t you just x” as a thing learning-disabled, ADHD, autistic, etc people hear all the time. Certain mixes of high & low ability are reliably read as “faking.”
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