Knowing how to kill yourself won’t increase or decrease the outcome of depression, because that knowledge isn’t driving the depression. The problem is the depression, its causes, and its severity (jumping off tall place, or running into traffic isn’t difficult to figure out). Knowing methodologies is of marginal influence to how depressed the person is. Severity of the condition is the primary factor to the outcome.
Also, fuck no I don’t support the “Rational Altruist” or the “Effective Altruism” movements because I don’t get caught up in shitty ass word games and poorly crafted “thought experiments”.
Those people are idiots. Those groups are full of really smart dumb people.
Also “Rationalism” in general has a fraught history, from Ayn Rand to Economic Rationalism. People are better off acknowledging that they’re not always rational and shouldn’t seek to be.
Knowing how to kill yourself won’t increase or decrease the outcome of depression, because that knowledge isn’t driving the depression. The problem is the depression, its causes, and its severity (jumping off tall place, or running into traffic isn’t difficult to figure out). Knowing methodologies is of marginal influence to how depressed the person is. Severity of the condition is the primary factor to the outcome.
Also, fuck no I don’t support the “Rational Altruist” or the “Effective Altruism” movements because I don’t get caught up in shitty ass word games and poorly crafted “thought experiments”.
Those people are idiots. Those groups are full of really smart dumb people.
Also “Rationalism” in general has a fraught history, from Ayn Rand to Economic Rationalism. People are better off acknowledging that they’re not always rational and shouldn’t seek to be.