Open Thread: July 2010, Part 2

Alicorn

This thread is for the discussion of Less Wrong topics that have not appeared in recent posts. If a discussion gets unwieldy, celebrate by turning it into a top-level post.

July Part 1

This thread is for the discussion of Less Wrong topics that have not appeared in recent posts. If a discussion gets unwieldy, celebrate by turning it into a top-level post.

July Part 1

Still the sort of thing that will send people close to the OCD side of the personality spectrum into a spiral of nightmares, which, please note, has apparently already happened in at least two cases. I'm surprised by this, but accept reality. It's possible we may have more than the usual number of OCD-side-of-the-spectrum people among us.

Was the discussion in question epistemologicaly interesting (vs. intellectual masturbation)? If so, how many OCD personalities joining the site would call for closing the thread? I am curious about decision criteria. Thanks.

As an aside, I've had some SL-related psychological effects, particularly related to material notion of self: a bit of trouble going to sleep, realizing that logically there is little distinction from death-state. This lasted a short while, but then you just learn to "stop worrying and love the bomb". Besides "time heal... (read more)

6Roko16y

So, this is the problem that didn't occur to me. I assumed implicitly that because such things were easy for me to brush off, the same logic would apply to others. Which is kind of silly, because I knew about one of the previous worriers from Benton House. I think that the bottom line here is that I need to update in favor of greater general caution surrounding anything to do with the singularity, AGI, etc.

2NancyLebovitz16y

Is it OCD or depression? Depression can include (is defined by?) obsessively thinking about things that make one feel worse.

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