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‘You can't tease other people unless you can correctly guess what is in their minds and make them suffer or laugh because of your knowing.’ – Daniel N. Stern https://t.co/HZGY9wRJry
I teased the dog with a game of fetch as a tool to get her to transfer her ability to look at where I point to the ability for her to model my eye gaze.Dogs are addicted to eye gaze, but not dumb.https://t.co/bt4suUmp3e
This article says dogs teasing is crule and torture and is never ok.The dog I teased no longer gets angry when she can't find the ball and learned to get help finding it from others. It made her calmer.Try harder. Teach better.https://t.co/3zIVyKPV7N
I taught a dog to be better at joint-attention tasks than the typically delayed autistic child.Because I follow someone who wonders about how goats model human attention.https://t.co/Y3OCROnZeh
I'm trying to get the dog to tease us. And for real, not just the normal human projection thing that most people assume about the dog's stance.The dog has to know what we know and reverse it onto the state of the world.Teaching theory of mind to a dog.https://t.co/5s9pQNR28v
How can you expect a dog to speak, when you don't teach it the language?https://t.co/nOhFkmROfX
The first step to teaching a dog to speak, is instilling an idea that words have meaning.https://t.co/SpdDauI8yC
Overcoming the dog's desire to look at your face and see your eyes... By helping it to see that eye gaze is meaningful and worth paying attention to.https://t.co/tto75NQqW6
Trolling the dog with subtle nudges, to teach it to care about a symbolic representation of another agent's state of mind.Cue'ing it up with head gestures and eye movements. Slowly narrowing the training to be entirely about eye direction.Takes a whilehttps://t.co/qqTJ0498Vi
How far are you willing to stretch your mind?https://t.co/R48nHKNV1K
@ResonantPyre @userbot_23 I've suspected my lack of sense-of-time is driven by smell problems, or at least by a niacin/tryptophan problem associated with smell loss (sub-clinical pellagra) driving weirdness in my hippocampus/serotonin production. I made a joke I wanted to learn to smell time like a dog.