scientism comments on Ethics and rationality of suicide - Less Wrong

46 Post author: anonymous259 02 May 2011 01:38AM

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Comment author: scientism 02 May 2011 04:11:15PM 0 points [-]

Have you considered that you might be partially depressed all the time?

Comment author: jhuffman 02 May 2011 07:35:12PM 1 point [-]

What does that even mean? If all you mean is "can check off enough boxes on DSM IV" then certainly it is possible but since that is baseline, the baseline performance measurements won't tell you anything helpful. If the question is "could he have debilitating depression all the time" I guess we'd only know for sure if he experienced a remission and performance measures changed.