Epiphany comments on Open Thread, September 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Epiphany 05 September 2012 01:27:22AM *  0 points [-]

These are also serious misunderstandings of my points

Hmm. Perhaps I will understand the nature of these misunderstandings at some point in the future.

I may be misunderstanding you

This is common for me, unfortunately. I'm not sure what to do about it, but I've been thinking about this a lot.

your parallel post has reduced my disinfest in talking to you generally

Okay. Well thanks for not deeming me useless to talk to.

I have bookmarked the list of biases you gave me. On first glance it looks like I'm familiar with these but I will review them further at some point to see if I am unaware of or have forgotten any. Here is a link for you, too: cognitive restructuring - it's a psychotherapy technique very much like what we've been discussing. I hope I have opened your mind a little bit to the possibility that a person (perhaps you) might be able to gain access to their inner thoughts and feelings and re-write themselves. I believe there is also a method that helps one get closer to enlightenment which is taught by Buddhists, but I can't remember what that's called. I do not feel our discussion a complete waste of time, but, as I mentioned, I agree that continuing to disagree would not be useful.