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by sdfghswe
1103 days ago
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His mental model is "magic". This reminds me of a story, I believe referring to Pascal's demonstration of his (newly invented, entirely mechanical) calculator to the Royal Society. He showed that pressing certain levers in the correct order means you want to operate on certain numbers, and certain other levers mean choosing the operation you want, and then by cranking his calculator you could read off the answer of doing your operation on your numbers. World's first calculator! Someone asked: if you press the levers wrong, do you still get the right answer? Their mental model is "magic" and they don't understand the details of how magic works, because it's magic. |
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