CronoDAS comments on The Problem (TM) - Analyse a conversation - Less Wrong

-6 Post author: Elo 26 July 2016 11:03AM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 26 July 2016 01:07:55PM 0 points [-]

Treatment for mental illness (and possibly organic brain trauma) seems priority #1 here...

Comment author: Elo 26 July 2016 01:11:52PM -2 points [-]

The conversation is more than 6 months old. How did you draw that conclusion? Did you have a set of possible problems? Did you narrow them down? Did you consider anything along the way? How did you rule them out?

Comment author: Romashka 26 July 2016 05:00:05PM 4 points [-]

The conversation being six months in the past is irrelevant - this is the only piece of evidence we have, so there's no reason to change the conclusion.

You're asking people who, in their majority, aren't neurophysiologists, and so cannot possibly do these things. We do not even know what set of recognized mental conditions this person has.

OTOH, I would probably say that priority #1 would be to find someone - possibly the girlfriend - to keep track of Zebra's condition, since spacing out sounds very dangerous.