“I have zero examples of people who have used the methods of rationality … to help with the problems they have that most people don’t have...”
I have. Extremely much so. Although I REALLY don’t want to discus my problems publicly like this, I can’t find any other way to communicate the necessary information: I used to be extremely irrational with a large number of mental-illness-calibre delusions, and now I am, despite the occasionall bizarre failure mode and despite still being mentally ill in non epistemological ways, I’m catching up with LW in terms of sanity.
“I have zero examples of people who have used the methods of rationality … to help with the problems they have that most people don’t have...”
I have. Extremely much so. Although I REALLY don’t want to discus my problems publicly like this, I can’t find any other way to communicate the necessary information: I used to be extremely irrational with a large number of mental-illness-calibre delusions, and now I am, despite the occasionall bizarre failure mode and despite still being mentally ill in non epistemological ways, I’m catching up with LW in terms of sanity.