Act now and you too can see as well as a bat!

  • @[email protected]
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    562 months ago

    From the article:

    “The researchers trained 14 sighted and 12 blind people for between two and three hours twice a week over 10 weeks. They started by teaching participants to produce mouth clicks, then trained them on three tasks. The first two involved judging the size or orientation of objects. The third involved navigating virtual mazes, which participants moved through with the help of simulated click-plus-echo sounds tied to their positions.”

      • @[email protected]
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        602 months ago

        Well, they started by teaching participants to produce mouth clicks. Then they did exercises judging the size or orientation of objects, and they also had them move around with the help of simulated click-plus-echo sounds tied to their positions.

      • @Xeroxchasechase
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        322 months ago

        They probably bumped into walls a lot, until they learmed

          • El Barto
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            202 months ago

            Writing just “this” adds nothing to the discussion.

            • @[email protected]
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              132 months ago

              Writing “Writing just “this” adds nothing to the discussion” adds nothing to the discussion.

              • @[email protected]
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                222 months ago

                I would argue that explaining why people dont like the usage of “this” is more useful than people writing “this”

                • @[email protected]
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                  82 months ago

                  And I would argue that explaining why people dont like the usage of “this” is not more useful than people writing “this” because of the Streisand effect we’ve witnessed and that you and I have now created is even more detrimental to a thread because it creates a distraction from the original topic. We now have a subtopic competing for brain cycles that clearly adds no value and is likely making us all stupider.

                  I award us no points, and may God have mercy on our souls.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    72 months ago

                    But wouldnt that reply to the “this” comment and this subtopic discourage people from writing “this”, making a subtopic like this rarer, but also reducing the total number of new useless comments?

              • @[email protected]
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                32 months ago

                Writing ‘Writing “Writing just “this” adds nothing to the discussion” adds nothing to the discussion.’ adds nothing to the discussion.

            • @[email protected]
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              2 months ago

              “I was about to type the same” is another option
              Showing there is some sort of consensus is not nothing

              Complaining about an internet comment thread as if you’re a teacher in a 3rd grade class isn’t helpful tho

              Fortunately, we have a block button, bye

              • El Barto
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                52 months ago

                Since the dawn of the internet it is known that “I agree!” comments don’t add anything to the discussion. If you don’t want to learn something new, then, as your teacher, I can’t do much, son.