How can you possibly say there are no shortcuts? On what evidence? The science only just got good enough to begin looking in the right places.
Also: discipline is a trick too, the way exercise is a trick—you’re twiddling levers that were built by evolution to react to circumstances, not to intent. They’re just both dumb slow tedious painful brute force tricks that work (to a strictly limited extent and far less than optimal). Better tricks would be better, don’t you think?
Actually, no, they’re not. AA is plagued by dropouts. What it’s good at is getting the people who remain with it to believe it’s helping them and say so. What it’s terrible at is getting people off alcohol.
Actually, no, they’re not. AA is plagued by dropouts. What it’s good at is getting the people who remain with it to believe it’s helping them and say so. What it’s terrible at is getting people off alcohol.
How can you possibly say there are no shortcuts? On what evidence? The science only just got good enough to begin looking in the right places.
Also: discipline is a trick too, the way exercise is a trick—you’re twiddling levers that were built by evolution to react to circumstances, not to intent. They’re just both dumb slow tedious painful brute force tricks that work (to a strictly limited extent and far less than optimal). Better tricks would be better, don’t you think?
Actually, no, they’re not. AA is plagued by dropouts. What it’s good at is getting the people who remain with it to believe it’s helping them and say so. What it’s terrible at is getting people off alcohol.
Actually, no, they’re not. AA is plagued by dropouts. What it’s good at is getting the people who remain with it to believe it’s helping them and say so. What it’s terrible at is getting people off alcohol.