This all seems great honestly, I would love if there were more posts about this kind of thing. I’m especially into the rationality lessons angle (first bullet point), but the rest all seems useful too.
I’ve seen a lot of people face this situation and have to figure it out from scratch, and I don’t think much has been written about this kind of thing on LessWrong (though there is this). Sure lots has been written about it in general / not on LessWrong, but I found the vast majority of that to be extremely epistemically questionable, and/or to be really defeatist, like, “just accept that you will spend the remaining decades of your life entirely bed-ridden”.
I would say that I’d be interested in collaborating on a sequence about this, but I am already way overcommitted. But I could ask some rationalist friends who have gone through this, if you wanted collaborators.
Agreed on epistemically questionable info. I’ve seen a range of canned advice including defeatist ones.
Lynette’s post was interesting because I think I also have something like POTS, but her post is very unlike something I would write myself, and I wouldn’t have found the post useful when I was starting out (I actually probably even read the post when it first came out and probably didn’t find it useful). I am puzzled at what this means for how generalizable people’s experiences are.
And thanks, I’d be interested in introductions to potential collaborators!
This all seems great honestly, I would love if there were more posts about this kind of thing. I’m especially into the rationality lessons angle (first bullet point), but the rest all seems useful too.
I’ve seen a lot of people face this situation and have to figure it out from scratch, and I don’t think much has been written about this kind of thing on LessWrong (though there is this). Sure lots has been written about it in general / not on LessWrong, but I found the vast majority of that to be extremely epistemically questionable, and/or to be really defeatist, like, “just accept that you will spend the remaining decades of your life entirely bed-ridden”.
I would say that I’d be interested in collaborating on a sequence about this, but I am already way overcommitted. But I could ask some rationalist friends who have gone through this, if you wanted collaborators.
Agreed on epistemically questionable info. I’ve seen a range of canned advice including defeatist ones.
Lynette’s post was interesting because I think I also have something like POTS, but her post is very unlike something I would write myself, and I wouldn’t have found the post useful when I was starting out (I actually probably even read the post when it first came out and probably didn’t find it useful). I am puzzled at what this means for how generalizable people’s experiences are.
And thanks, I’d be interested in introductions to potential collaborators!