wedrifid comments on How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious - Less Wrong

113 Post author: Swimmer963 23 January 2012 11:50PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 January 2012 03:38:59AM 13 points [-]

Ya know, it's people like you what cause people to spend their lives silent and paralyzed by indecision for fear of making a single social error that they will never be allowed to correct.

Comment author: wedrifid 24 January 2012 07:42:38AM 8 points [-]

Ya know, it's people like you what cause people to spend their lives silent and paralyzed by indecision for fear of making a single social error that they will never be allowed to correct.

Alternate causal model: It is people that spend their lives silent and paralyzed by indecision for fear of making a single social error not seeking suitable treatment for crippling anxiety that causes said lifelong phenomenon.

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 24 January 2012 05:31:35PM 3 points [-]

These are not mutually exclusive alternatives. They could easily both be true.