so today i gave part i of a three-part talk, about the paper of alberti, csornyei, and preiss ..
.. and though they are error-prone and paltry, my notes have been through the scanner and are available in pdf form. write me if you want a copy.
as for the talk itself, others have told me that went well: only one person walked out, but i think he had his reasons.
myself, i think it was a fair talk, but so many things could have been better said. such things irk me .. for i am not a frustrated over-analyst for nothing!
but then it came to mind, that i employ the same bias that others tell me that they employ: that they have different rules and expectations for themselves than from other people.
this in itself is not interesting -- especially if many adopt this bias -- but i mean to say that, in addition to it being frequent, it makes sense to have separate conduct for self and for others.
the key point is this: the state of mind when observing one person in some task is closer in form to the state of mind when observing another person at a similar task than the state of mind when you are doing such a task yourself.
the observer's mind and the actor's mind are inherently and fundamentally different states, because the relevant information and assignments of value which comes to the observer's mind are different than that of the active participant.
let me not blather armchair-philosophically too much more. really, this is an excuse for why i can say that it was a fair but sketchy talk, without contradicting others who think it was a good talk.
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