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Artaxerxes comments on Open thread, Sep. 12 - Sep. 18, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: MrMind 12 September 2016 06:49AM

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Comment author: Soothsilver 12 September 2016 12:09:43PM 4 points [-]

Being around here has made me think that I know everything interesting about the world and suppressed my excitement and joy from many minor things I could do. I also feel like my sense of wonder diminished. As I write this, I am a little unhappy, and in a period of depression, but I had similar feelings, if less intense, even before this period.

I was wondering whether you have any advice on how to restore this; or even better, how to "forget" as much rationality and transhumanism as possible (if not actually forgetting, then at least "to think and feel as I did before I read the Sequences")?

Comment author: Artaxerxes 12 September 2016 03:50:07PM 3 points [-]

LessWrong has made me if anything more able to derive excitement and joy from minor things, so if I were you I would check if LW is really to blame or otherwise find out if there are other factors causing this problem.

Comment author: Soothsilver 14 September 2016 08:24:10PM 0 points [-]

I keep doing that but it's kind of hard, and I can't easily get a proof of what's causing the problem.