Consider pinning this post. I think you should!

It took until I was today years old to realize that reading a book and watching a movie are visually similar experiences for some people!

Let's test this! I made a Twitter poll.

Oh, that's a good point. Here's a freehand map of the US I drew last year (just the borders, not the outline). I feel like I must have been using my mind's eye to draw it.

I think very few people have a very high-fidelity mind's eye. I think the reason that I can't draw a bicycle is that my mind's eye isn't powerful/detailed enough to be able to correctly picture a bicycle. But there's definitely a sense in which I can "picture" a bicycle, and the picture is engaging something sort of like my ability to see things, rather than just being an abstract representation of a bicycle.

(But like, it's not quite literally a picture, in that I'm not, like, hallucinating a bicycle. Like it's not literally in my field of vision.)

Huh! For me, physical and emotional pain are two super different clusters of qualia.

My understanding of Sarah's comment was that the feeling is literally pain. At least for me, the cringe feeling doesn't literally hurt.

I don't really know, sorry. My memory is that 2023 already pretty bad for incumbent parties (e.g. the right-wing ruling party in Poland lost power), but I'm not sure.

Fair enough, I guess? For context, I wrote this for my own blog and then decided I might as well cross-post to LW. In doing so, I actually softened the language of that section a little bit. But maybe I should've softened it more, I'm not sure.

[Edit: in response to your comment, I've further softened the language.]

Yeah, if you were to use the neighbor method, the correct way to do so would involve post-processing, like you said. My guess, though, is that you would get essentially no value from it even if you did that, and that the information you get from normal polls would prrtty much screen off any information you'd get from the neighbor method.