My psychiatrist has said recently that he thinks I may be having some kind of trauma response and recommended a trauma-focused therapy (that he doesn’t specifically do, he’s more for med checks and emergencies).
You interest me when you talk about woo allergies… In my model there’s something like three camps. The first being people who adhere to POVs like those on sciencebasedmedicine.org and dismissive of anything that smells alternative, my guess is that their model is overfit and they have a lot of false positives when it comes to treatment. The second being ACX/LW types that are a bit more open-minded but evidence-aware. The third being like woo-heavy ways of reasoning that I try to avoid.
Do you see the camps similarly? I try to assign various woos reasonable probabilities and not dismiss them unnecessarily. But I also cautious not to get trapped in vortexes of woo.
Well… not by default. Your taxonomy makes sense to me at first pass though.
My experience is that the middle one you name isn’t really a natural cluster. If I had to round LW to either sciencebasedmedicine.org or woo-heavy, there’s no challenge. It’s not even a little hard.
Part of the problem is that “woo” isn’t actually a natural cluster either. It’s a derogatory reference to models and methods that fall outside a certain paradigm.
But I do think that woo allergy is a coherent pattern. And yeah, LW isn’t as bad with it as some circles — but it’s severe enough here that it seems worth speaking to. It’s hard to have a conversation in a context full of memetic allergic reactions, so offering a mild memetic antihistamine tends to go better.
My psychiatrist has said recently that he thinks I may be having some kind of trauma response and recommended a trauma-focused therapy (that he doesn’t specifically do, he’s more for med checks and emergencies).
You interest me when you talk about woo allergies… In my model there’s something like three camps. The first being people who adhere to POVs like those on sciencebasedmedicine.org and dismissive of anything that smells alternative, my guess is that their model is overfit and they have a lot of false positives when it comes to treatment. The second being ACX/LW types that are a bit more open-minded but evidence-aware. The third being like woo-heavy ways of reasoning that I try to avoid.
Do you see the camps similarly? I try to assign various woos reasonable probabilities and not dismiss them unnecessarily. But I also cautious not to get trapped in vortexes of woo.
Will check out the trauma resources.
Well… not by default. Your taxonomy makes sense to me at first pass though.
My experience is that the middle one you name isn’t really a natural cluster. If I had to round LW to either sciencebasedmedicine.org or woo-heavy, there’s no challenge. It’s not even a little hard.
Part of the problem is that “woo” isn’t actually a natural cluster either. It’s a derogatory reference to models and methods that fall outside a certain paradigm.
But I do think that woo allergy is a coherent pattern. And yeah, LW isn’t as bad with it as some circles — but it’s severe enough here that it seems worth speaking to. It’s hard to have a conversation in a context full of memetic allergic reactions, so offering a mild memetic antihistamine tends to go better.