Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You

Eliezer Yudkowskylesswrong.comWritten October 20073 min read

• thinking
• people
• writing

Yudkowsky uses Boaz Keysar's experiments to show that we know what we mean and assume others do too, so speakers overestimate how well they're understood, as Chamberlain did in his letter to Hitler.

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