wedrifid comments on Conflicts Between Mental Subagents: Expanding Wei Dai's Master-Slave Model - LessWrong

46 Post author: Yvain 04 August 2010 09:16AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 05 August 2010 01:06:04PM 2 points [-]

If you are saying that the ideas in the post are not as bad as Freud's and I have exaggerated,

Well, that and I'm just taking the chance to disrespect Freud (and express contempt with the remnants of Freudian thinking that are still floating about in popular psychology.)

One thing that I would say, and you may well agree on this, is that this post could reasonably be labelled a 'just so' story, as could Freud's ramblings. Fortunately the sanity watermark is somewhat higher here and contemporary understanding of human behavior at least ensures that even the most arbitrary of just so stories must explain a better set of observations.

Comment author: JanetK 05 August 2010 01:12:00PM 3 points [-]

Agreed - thanks for the correction