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found more than once that when i find smth that might really help (oh this paper is precisely about the problem i've been having!) i postpone engaging with it... almsot as if had grown accustomed to the mode of 'there being a problem' and face resistance to moving on from it...
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in the early days CFAR was like "oh we will just come up with and iterate on techniques and then give the best techniques to people this is going to be great" and then we ran into load-bearing problems and meta-problems and feelings about problems and feelings about techniques
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this sounds strangely reminiscent of the early history of psychoanalysis. "whoops turns out this thing is more dynamic and complex than we expected"
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oh absolutely, not intended as a criticism either. im glad they actually did run up against those problems lmao -- better confused than ignorant
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