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P_I_Staker commented on The Problem of Thinking Too Much (2002) jstor.org/stable/3824296... · Posted by u/lermontov
Maybe if I read this article, it will fix it!
P_I_Staker commented on The AI startup drama that's damaging Y Combinator's reputation indiehackers.com/post/sta... · Posted by u/olalonde
> In the wake of all this drama, a blog post titled "Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth" went viral and hit the top of Hacker News. Which you might have missed, because Hacker News — which is owned by Y Combinator — seems to have manually dropped the post lower in the rankings to suppress its visibility.
Is this true? I never thought HN moderated content critical of itself
The bias on the site is really terrible. It's not always YComb itself so much, but all the valley stuff.
As with anything you have "the powerful people" who have opinions on what critiques are "fair", and will demand them communicated with perfect decorum.
Additionally, people are aware of how it will "look". In a way they don't care, but in reality there's always an appearance people prefer to keep.
Anyway actually break out some pointy critiques, and they'll get mad.
P_I_Staker commented on Has Social Media Fuelled a Teen-Suicide Crisis? newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/fortran77
> There's a reason the amount of self-described gay and lesbians has dropped massively in regions
Statistics vary, but I can't see any evidence of this?
> It could be that homosexuality was actually just a mask for a trans identity, but that's odd because it would invalidate virtually everything that has been said in defense of tolerance of gays and lesbians.
What? None of this makes sense?
> However, basically nobody starts taking ADHD medicine when they're already an adult, the decision is always made for them.
This is not really true, adult ADHD diagnosis is on the rise.
https://www.nihr.ac.uk/about-us/news/significant-rise-adhd-d...
Also, it's still underdiagnosed. There's some BS that makes it difficult to get "ring of fire" STEREOTYPICAL ADHD patients in favor of overworked professionals hitting professional plateaus.
A huge percentage of people with ADHD don't receive treatment; bear in mind the modern approach of not treating roughly half of patients with ADHD. In other words, they do pretty much nothing at all and tell you to get lost.
So the reality is that they are always under and over treating the condition and there should be awareness of this reality. Success should include working with patients and not relying on over-prescription, or scapegoating people as lost causes.
P_I_Staker commented on Has Social Media Fuelled a Teen-Suicide Crisis? newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/fortran77
This may be an unpopular opinion but I believe the constant focus on what we call mental health and body image issues is making the problem worse. I know those words are supposed to alleviate stigma and normalize, but if you're telling kids going through regular adolescent issues that they have mental health or body image issues, you're not helping them. And naval gazing is going to make things worse.
Maybe I'm a product of the 90s, but every issue me and my peers faced was waved off as teenage angst that I'll grow out of. I didn't have "anxiety", I was being a wuss. And they were right.
If someone told me I had mental health issues and made me focus and resolve those, through therapy or meds, I would have been much worse off. Brushing it off leaves some small percentage of teens worse off, but I would think the overwhelming majority would be better off not focusing on it. This doesn't even include things like "generational trauma" that people dump on kids.
Whatever you think about today's society, I think it's safe to say that across the board we have a lot more inward facing reflection on things like mental health, especially for children. And what do we have to show for it? Are they better off? Across the board, even kids who aren't as connected to social media are worse off. Which tells me this focus is net negative
This is a very popular opinion, btw. The focus can increase harms, but the reality is that many people had poor mental health prior to this push, and after, with very little effect.
Constantly bringing up things like sex abuse and other traumatic issues causes problems for sure. It looks like the often maligned "push it down, bottle it up, pretend there's no problem" is better strategy than we pretended. It even seems to be partially adopted by the industry.
P_I_Staker commented on Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/jimbob45
I had the pleasure of visiting a town on the Amazon river a few times over the course of a decade. I watched as western culture and civilization creeped in and ruined their society.
The first time I went, people were living off the land, fishing, gardening, children playing ball games, etc.
Here's what I saw last time I went: Gambling, alcoholism, plastic waste, sugary drinks, public advertising, and kids glued to their smartphones. Forests being cleared to raise cattle because now everyone wants to eat burgers.
They've managed to bring in the worst parts of modern society without the good parts (medicine, infrastructure, education, etc.)
I do believe that without a modern education, these people are not equipped to deal with modern vices. They've never taken a math class let alone learned enough probability to know that gambling is a losing bet. They've never had a nutrition class to learn that Coca Cola is disastrous to your health.
> I do believe that without a modern education, these people are not equipped to deal with modern vices. They've never taken a math class let alone learned enough probability to know that gambling is a losing bet. They've never had a nutrition class to learn that Coca Cola is disastrous to your health.
Talking about Americans???
P_I_Staker commented on Mark Zuckerberg's 20-year mistake platformer.news/mark-zuck... · Posted by u/laurex
Apologizing to the hordes is just letting blood in the water. It inflames their hunger. There's no point. Just press forward and apply force in the market. They will obey. Each of them is just trying to use you as a springboard. No need to exaggerate their importance.
The "oh my god oh my god I'm being harmed help you're hurting me" crap is a game they're playing to parlay into their own career of outrage. A few hits and they're made. "How dare you!" and so on.
Apologizing won't make them back off and it won't bring any friends. In So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson, none of the publicly shamed people who apologized found peace. It's because there's none there. The one who was unaffected just acted blissfully unaffected and he was.
People are ultimately unhappy for a different reason. If you check their history they'll post about loneliness, SSRIs, therapists, and how the world is shit. 80% of Americans are happy. You're going to listen to the few who couldn't find their way there?
No. Never apologize.
Or apologize anyway, because you did something wrong, and go through all that anyway??
What this article doesn't mention is the eating of puppies. The big bad wolf is not a gentle wolf.