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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
there can genuinely be a cost to using self-help / mind-hacking / therapeutic / transformative techniques that are okay but not that good; they can sorta help you while also causing subtle forms of damage you have to deal with using better techniques
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
i like a lot of his stuff and it's been thought-provoking. i read through part of his "self-help myth" recently and it was very thought-provoking and also i have complicated objections to some of it that won't fit well in tweets maybe
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PJ Eby
@pjeby
I actually stopped distributing that one years ago because it's maybe 50% insight porn? The core idea was a useful stepping stone to other things, but it's no longer canon (i.e., not something I encourage people to read to actually solve anything)
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PJ Eby
@pjeby
The idea of long-term loops is now largely replaced with much shorter term ones: the immediate mental flinch away from something unpleasant to less-unpleasant (e.g. guilting yourself, rehashing prior plans or dreaming of perfect futures) has a lot more impact.
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