wedrifid comments on This post is for sacrificing my credibility! - Less Wrong

-29 Post author: Will_Newsome 02 June 2012 12:08AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 04 September 2012 06:15:39PM *  3 points [-]

Will, who knows a bit about psychiatry, frequently informs us that he has suffered from schizophrenia.

Makes allusions in that direction.

Paranoid schizophrenia (the most likely form because Will is high functioning) is incurable--although partial remissions often occur.

Incurable but fortunately treatable to a significant degree---especially the highly visible paranoid side of things. Unfortunately those with the negative symptoms are pretty much just screwed.

Will often posts in the obscure, mysterious fashion often typical of intelligent paranoid schizophrenics.

Absolutely.

(Essentially agree up to here.)

It is a mark of the ignorance of this community regarding psychiatry and psychology that posters seek to explain Will's ravings in terms of ordinary rational processes.

It is instead a mark of your ignorance of the community (and a certain degree of arrogant smugness) that you think that this position regarding Will's ranting can be remotely attributed to the community at large. Will's posting is for the most part not considered sane. (The community could also be ignorant about psychiatry but this isn't a mark of it.)

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Comment author: arundelo 04 September 2012 11:28:32PM 1 point [-]

Here's one example. (But one example is not enough for you to be expected to discover it.)

Comment author: gwern 07 September 2012 11:11:12PM 1 point [-]

Well, the first hit for 'will newsome' in a Google site search for me is... http://lesswrong.com/lw/ct8/this_post_is_for_sacrificing_my_credibility/ This post.

I don't see how you could read this post or its comments without concluding that LWers are pretty ambivalent about him, even excluding the most recent comments on this post.