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Lumifer comments on Open thread, Dec. 14 - Dec. 20, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 18 December 2015 05:59:30PM 0 points [-]

You were not measuring actual improvement -- you were measuring the amount of whining/complaining.

Comment author: James_Miller 18 December 2015 07:57:46PM 2 points [-]

Which is strongly correlated with pain. A reduction in pain is an actual improvement.

Comment author: Lumifer 18 December 2015 08:56:08PM -1 points [-]

A reduction in pain is an actual improvement

No, not in the sense we are talking about here. Pain is known to be quite psychosomatic, anyway.