Helping people is hard. Giving advice to people is rarely effective. Much advice boils down to: here's what I'd do if I were you. The trouble is that although you may see a way out of a given predicament as you imagine yourself facing it, you are not the one in that situation.
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I have a different takeaway from this. Yes, all advice / specific solutions are bad, and that's why when you want to help, you focus on the environment. What are obvious things that are always good? Having someone to talk to, being able to eat, having something to do.
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Replying to @radgeRayden @eigenrobot
using your symptom analogy: one of the biggest advances in medicine was not discovering a cure, but getting doctors to wash their hands before opening people up. The only environmental problem that I can't see being tackled at a large scale is how to get friends, really.
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Replying to @radgeRayden @eigenrobot
I had better things to say but it got lost while I was away from computer. Imagine I had great arguments.
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