PlaidX comments on What are you working on? April 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PlaidX 08 April 2011 06:31:16PM *  1 point [-]

If the memetic hazard you're referring to is the same one as mine, I recommend benzodiazepines in the short term and vipassana meditation in the long term. And just thinking about it, though clearly you're already doing that.

I think to a large extent, the percieved threat of the thing is due to a generally neurotic perspective, common to many people here, which can twist abstract thinking into knots when given a sufficiently long and nonintuitive chain of reasoning. The trauma illuminates a serious problem with the mind rather than a serious threat from the idea.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 08 April 2011 07:36:58PM 0 points [-]

Sounds like it almost certainly is not the same one.