beoShaffer comments on Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease - Less Wrong
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The disease characteristics is where this essay breaks down. Those don't really line up with any medical definition of disease. Seems like he redefines disease in order to deconstruct it a bit.
It does however, fit with (my impressions of) the way people use the word in real life, which is far more relevant to the point of this article.