MarkL comments on does imagining +singularity cause depression? - Less Wrong

-11 Post author: Jonathan_Graehl 30 May 2013 04:51PM

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Comment author: MarkL 30 May 2013 08:02:37PM 1 point [-]

Try reading Hoffer's "The True Believer" to gain insight into how elements of singularity thinking can be really poisonous to your mental wellbeing. There's more and less healthy ways to think about and approach the future.

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 30 May 2013 09:40:25PM 0 points [-]

I was wondering if it's a problem for anyone. It's not for me.

Comment author: MarkL 31 May 2013 03:08:44AM 0 points [-]

I'm sure some people find some of these ideas distressing or depressing, whether or not they actually accept them as true in whole or in part. I would say I do, in a qualified way. But I have decent perspective on the whole singularity/LessWrong/FAI/etc/etc memeplex.