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27chaos comments on I need a protocol for dangerous or disconcerting ideas. - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: Eitan_Zohar 12 July 2015 01:58AM

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Comment author: Eitan_Zohar 13 July 2015 05:47:42AM *  0 points [-]

What sort of therapy would work for me? Ruminating is probably the main cause of it. Now that I've refuted my current fears, I find that I can't wrench the quantum world out of my head. Everything I feel is now tainted by DT.

Comment author: 27chaos 15 July 2015 05:39:24AM 0 points [-]

You've mentioned you have a history of inventing arguments with disturbing implications. Have you ever tried to intentionally invent an argument with reassuring implications?

Comment author: Eitan_Zohar 15 July 2015 06:39:41AM 0 points [-]

It's never intentional for me. They just click into place one day and drive me into a frenzy.

Comment author: 27chaos 15 July 2015 08:03:54AM *  0 points [-]

The disturbing arguments might be accidents, but maybe you could create reassuring arguments on purpose? Why let bias or coincidence alone determine the outcome of your reasoning processes, when you can aim towards strategic targets instead?

Comment author: Eitan_Zohar 15 July 2015 12:29:17PM 0 points [-]

Like what? Most of my targets are the already-existing crises, and it is completely arbitrary how long it takes to find a solution.

Comment author: 27chaos 16 July 2015 04:01:35AM 0 points [-]

I would suggest Taoism, Buddhism, and Stoicism as potentially useful avenues of thought for you to pursue.