vidarh

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by vidarh 11d ago
It's been "known about" but mostly ignored in research until recently, and most people who know about their aphantasia probably learned about it in the last 10 years because it was extremely obscure. There reason it is being
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by vidarh 11d ago
When I "see something in my head" while dreaming, it is like seeing: There is a clear visual image. I don't see the black behind my eyelids. I can tell colours. I can tell shapes. When I "imagine" something while I
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by vidarh 12d ago
It's not suppressed for the vast majority of people. If you consider that "correct", odds are you too have aphantasia.
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by vidarh 12d ago
The people who question this usually turn out to clearly have aphantasia. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I have achieved visualisation during meditation, once. I also can visualise while dreaming. I do not visualise while awake other tha
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by vidarh 12d ago
My drawing style is different from memory, though. Clearer lines, vs closer to impressionist if I draw from something in front of my eye. The difference is quite stark.
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by vidarh 12d ago
Hearing your own voice Vs high fidelity musical instruments and other people's voices seems like a very wide spectrum. And indeed, it is wider as some people don't hear anything at all, including no inner monologue (I know someone
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by vidarh 12d ago
Some people have inner dialogues . Some authors are literally writing down what characters are saying in their head, and sometimes what they see them "do" as well.
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by vidarh 12d ago
According to Ed Catmull surveying Pixar staff, there doesn't seem to be much more than a minor correlation between ability to visualise and artistic ability.
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by vidarh 12d ago
Same here. The fact that I see things in my dreams is one of the reasons I feel I can know for certain I don't see things when I "imagine" things.
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by vidarh 12d ago
I have aphantasia as well, but have had visuals once during meditation, much clearer than in dreams. I've never managed to repeat it. Does it happen regularly for you? Any tips? Like you my spatial reasoning is very good, but no image.
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by vidarh 12d ago
You're entirely missing the point, which was to propose this as a workaround for taxes trying to make outsourcing non-competitive. The point is not that they couldn't, but that a company moving proprietary "services" off
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by vidarh 12d ago
"SaaS taxes" are just sales taxes. They would apply if you create a SaaS for the stuff you want to outsource, sure. Except for it to be expensive enough to make outsourcing services unattractive you'd have to make them many t
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by vidarh 12d ago
So you'd move companies overseas and buy services instead of outsourcing work. It's really hard to do this in a way that won't be trivial to work around, and often in ways where you're likely to like the work around ev
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by vidarh 12d ago
Except, as someone with aphantasia, I see things in my dreams , so I know that seeing things is possible with my eyes closed. I don't do that when imagining in a waking state usually. Except I have once , so I also have direct experi
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by vidarh 12d ago
In my experience the people who most doubt aphantasia tends to be people who clearly have aphantasia. I have aphantasia, but I have also during meditation had one experience where I could clearly see an imagined scene vividly, and the e
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by vidarh 12d ago
I can describe someone from memory, and I can draw them, but I can't see them unless they're in front of me (or I'm looking at a photo).
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by vidarh 12d ago
For my part (as someone with aphantasia) my proprioception is good, and to go further, my sense of space and my spatial reasoning is well above average. I can also draw what I can't see pretty well from memory.
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by vidarh 12d ago
Some people hear it more like a recording.
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by vidarh 12d ago
People's ability to "hear" music ranges from nothing at all to being able to "play back" close to what they heard. For my part, I have aphantasia, I can't hear the sound I heard, but I can "play it back&qu
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by vidarh 12d ago
Rouge syntax-highlighting rogue agents, clearly. https://rubygems.org/gems/rouge
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by vidarh 12d ago
The UK did not exist in 1652. It was formed by the Acts of Union 1800. In 1652, England was (briefly) not even a monarchy - that is what Commonwealth refers to here, not the modern one. Urquhart was imprisoned from 1651-1652 for fighting on
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by vidarh 12d ago
The other cryptogram mentioned on the page is even "worse" - it's clear the garbled word is meant to be or refer to Cromwell specifically calling him an ursurper. Looking up his biography, he presumably wrote the first while
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by vidarh 12d ago
The missing word in the second cryptogram quite obviously is meant to be Cromwell, and I'm a bit disappointed Fable didn't mention that and look for possible ways to resolve the error given that.
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by vidarh 13d ago
In the US, according to USDA, the median total family income for a farming family is ca $108k
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by vidarh 15d ago
Trying to justify MAD on the basis that missile attacks on a nuclear power is somehow "just" minor skirmish is bullshit, and you know it. It's demonstrably the case that you can attack a nuclear power without being nuked. It
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by vidarh 15d ago
Depends. With or without quality control? Not any more than in a society that rewrites all of its knowledge over and over using using humans. We even have a term for doing so without quality control: A game of telephone. Though you might we
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by vidarh 16d ago
Conveniently shifting to a different conflict, and ignoring that India and Pakistan have carried out missile strikes on each other, killed civilians, occupied territory.
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by vidarh 17d ago
Anthropomorphising or not is entirely irrelevant to that statement - the question remains the same.
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by vidarh 17d ago
The most compelling argument to me is "accidentally", due to AI that is made blind to consequences or don't care because it's geared towards a single goal (see e.g. the paperclip maximizer). We could ask if it is possibl
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by vidarh 17d ago
Does it check out? India and Pakistan both have nukes and keep semi-regularly fighting each other. MAD "on paper" prevents either side from going far enough to provoke the other into using nukes, but even then it's fundamenta

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