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37 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 June 2013 05:20PM

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Comment author: Multiheaded 27 June 2013 11:38:08PM *  4 points [-]

Urgh, this is really hard for me to say, as I'm still fucking angry with you over that politics thing and consider you an enemy, but... I reach out to you. I know what the lack of colour and the inability to care and the resentment at other people caring feels like. No-one should go through this. Thank you for responding. I hope it stabilizes.

I should probably get off my ass and make a Discussion post with a personal story and some links re: depression. The cycle of guilt, the suicidal ideation, all that nasty shit some of us struggle with.

Comment author: Epiphany 28 June 2013 02:04:58AM *  1 point [-]

this is really hard for me to say, as I'm still fucking angry with you over that politics thing and consider you an enemy, but... I reach out to you

Wow. I don't know what went down, but I really appreciate the difficulty you went through to make this sentiment.

Comment author: Multiheaded 28 June 2013 02:22:09AM 2 points [-]

Disclaimer: in similar situations before, onlookers have said that I'm easily riled up, etc. I was extremely upset about that particular conversation, though; not linking to it.

Comment author: [deleted] 28 June 2013 04:03:54AM *  1 point [-]

I assume we're talking about this, which was entirely ridiculous on about every level.

My reading of the thread is that one person who deeply cared about an issue talked to someone that didn't care about it, but had an obsessive need to be right.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 28 June 2013 12:05:28AM 1 point [-]

The politics experiment, I'll willingly admit, was a failure, which is why I dropped it. But I don't think it created any serious animosities.

It would be a useful post to participate in, I think. For a site about rationality, we don't talk here much about emotions. That's kind of... an interesting blind spot.

Comment author: Epiphany 28 June 2013 02:03:49AM 1 point [-]

That's kind of... an interesting blind spot.

It may be quite important since strong emotions can be such a huge motivating force to do irrational things before you've thought everything out.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 28 June 2013 03:31:00AM 1 point [-]

They don't just motivate you to do different things, they cause different thoughts to form, to occur to you.