Like you, I can visualize myself falling with a high degree of accuracy; but I can’t imagine throwing myself off the bridge in the first place.
I really do mean I imagine committing suicide. It really does feel to me as if it’s not outlandish that I might just, as it were, blow a fuse and jump off the bridge on an impulse. I can project how I’d feel the instant after the “decision”—scared out of my mind, gut-wrenchingly regretful, but also inappropriately exhilarated.
Conversely, I’m not sure I can imagine brushing my teeth in great detail—it’s too boring. But I do occasionally imagine things that I would describe as emotionally implausible with some degree of precision.
It’s possible that I’m just weird, but anyway I mean my observations as cautions against generalizing from a sample of one.
This makes me kind of wish we had WikiStyleLinks, where if you simply put a phrase in CamelCase, it automatically generates a link to the page whose name is that phrase. You could simply speak of GeneralizingFromOneExample, and boom, a link to Yvain’s post.
The thing is, though, reading text with WikiStyleLinks can get PrettyAnnoying after a while.
TV Tropes has an interesting variation of this: it supports WikiStyleLinks as well as MediaWiki-style bracketed links, but the Wiki Style Links automatically get spaces inserted (like that) in the name as displayed, so the appearance is merely capitals.
I really do mean I imagine committing suicide. It really does feel to me as if it’s not outlandish that I might just, as it were, blow a fuse and jump off the bridge on an impulse. I can project how I’d feel the instant after the “decision”—scared out of my mind, gut-wrenchingly regretful, but also inappropriately exhilarated.
Conversely, I’m not sure I can imagine brushing my teeth in great detail—it’s too boring. But I do occasionally imagine things that I would describe as emotionally implausible with some degree of precision.
It’s possible that I’m just weird, but anyway I mean my observations as cautions against generalizing from a sample of one.
Come on Morendil, you’re supposed to link to these things.
ETA: OMG, that post got Yvain over a thousand karma.
This makes me kind of wish we had WikiStyleLinks, where if you simply put a phrase in CamelCase, it automatically generates a link to the page whose name is that phrase. You could simply speak of GeneralizingFromOneExample, and boom, a link to Yvain’s post.
The thing is, though, reading text with WikiStyleLinks can get PrettyAnnoying after a while.
TV Tropes has an interesting variation of this: it supports WikiStyleLinks as well as MediaWiki-style bracketed links, but the Wiki Style Links automatically get spaces inserted (like that) in the name as displayed, so the appearance is merely capitals.
Yes, that’s largely the reason I avoid CamelCase in source code.