Kaj_Sotala comments on Ethics and rationality of suicide - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 03 December 2011 07:34:47PM 2 points [-]

Interesting, thanks.

Looking at those articles, it seems like the main criticism is that some of the authors' analyses fail to distinguish between homophily and contagion. Several of the reports cited in my quote seem too extreme for homophily to be the main factor, and they're much older and by other authors. So although Connected should be taken with a grain of salt, suicide clusters still seem like a real phenomenon.