Jayson_Virissimo comments on Rationality Quotes December 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 30 November 2011 11:05:02AM *  20 points [-]

Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of my delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.

-John Nash, A Beautiful Mind

In other words, recognizing that politics is the mind-killer helped Nash manage his paranoid-scizophrenia.

Comment author: [deleted] 30 November 2011 11:28:57AM 15 points [-]

Or, at least, he believes it did.

Comment author: Matt_Simpson 30 November 2011 05:38:24PM 2 points [-]

Are you saying that it actually didn't help Nash manage his scizophrenia or are you just inserting the uncertainty back into that statement?

Comment author: [deleted] 30 November 2011 05:41:40PM *  15 points [-]

The latter. I don't think Nash is a reliable narrator.

EDIT: And not merely because of his schizophrenia. Without hard data, I'd be hard-pressed to evaluate whether or not learning a mental habit increased or decreased my sanity, and that's assuming I'm sane to begin with.

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