"Amateur" shouldn't have the negative connotation it has. Using science to improve your life and increase your ability to achieve your goals is in no way a bad thing even if you aren't an expert in that field of science (pretending to be an expert is another thing entirely).
Do engineers rely on amateur physics to do their jobs?
If we aren't relying on amateur behavioral psychology in our personal lives aren't we relying on folk psychology instead?
The main danger for LW is that it could become rationalist-porn for daydreamers.
I suggest a pattern of counterattack:
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(This used to be a comment, here.)Find a nonrational aspect of your nature that is hindering you right now.
Determine privately to fix it.
Set a short deadline. Do the necessary work.
Write it up on LW at the deadline. Whether or not it worked.