I really appreciate that this post was on the front page, because I wouldn’t have seen it otherwise and it was interesting. From an external viewer perspective on the “status games” aspect of it, I think the front page post didn’t seem like a dominance attempt, but read as an attempt at truth seeking. I also don’t think that it put your arguments in a negative light. Your comments here, on the other hand, definitely feel to an outside observer to be more status-oriented. My visceral reaction upon reading your comment above this one, for example, was that you were trying to demote IFS because it sounds like you make a living promoting this other non-IFS approach.
That said, I remember reading many of your posts on the old LessWrong and I have occasionally wondered what you had gotten up to, since you had stopped posting.
My visceral reaction upon reading your comment above this one, for example, was that you were trying to demote IFS because it sounds like you make a living promoting this other non-IFS approach.
That framing is actually part of what upset me about this article: it presents some of my arguments in a context that makes them seem as though they were made in support of my own approach vs IFS, rather than comparing and contrasting the material discussed by two of Kaj’s own posts.
In one post, he presented reconsolidation-oriented therapy as described in Unlocking the Emotional Brain (UtEB for short), and in the other he discussed IFS. My comments in the previous thread were about how UtEB’s arguments regarding reconsolidation showcase why IFS is an “accidental reconsolidation” model, and how a deliberate model is more efficient. (Using occasional examples from my experiences with both types of approach.)
This post seems (to me at least) to frame that prior discussion as if I was instead arguing for my methodology vs. IFS, when I was almost exclusively arguing “deliberate vs. accidental reconsolidation”, with UtEB from Kaj’s own post as an example of the former variety.
So taken out of context, this post makes it sound as if I were doing just what you say: demoting IFS to promote my own approach. But the original conversation was actually comparing two schools of thought that Kaj had written articles about, and by extension, other schools that divide along the same lines.
(But then, my view might be more than a little biased by the unexpected appearance on the frontpage, while thinking that said appearance was Kaj’s choice rather than a moderator’s, making me look extra-close for why he made a choice that he didn’t actually make.)
I really appreciate that this post was on the front page, because I wouldn’t have seen it otherwise and it was interesting. From an external viewer perspective on the “status games” aspect of it, I think the front page post didn’t seem like a dominance attempt, but read as an attempt at truth seeking. I also don’t think that it put your arguments in a negative light. Your comments here, on the other hand, definitely feel to an outside observer to be more status-oriented. My visceral reaction upon reading your comment above this one, for example, was that you were trying to demote IFS because it sounds like you make a living promoting this other non-IFS approach.
That said, I remember reading many of your posts on the old LessWrong and I have occasionally wondered what you had gotten up to, since you had stopped posting.
That framing is actually part of what upset me about this article: it presents some of my arguments in a context that makes them seem as though they were made in support of my own approach vs IFS, rather than comparing and contrasting the material discussed by two of Kaj’s own posts.
In one post, he presented reconsolidation-oriented therapy as described in Unlocking the Emotional Brain (UtEB for short), and in the other he discussed IFS. My comments in the previous thread were about how UtEB’s arguments regarding reconsolidation showcase why IFS is an “accidental reconsolidation” model, and how a deliberate model is more efficient. (Using occasional examples from my experiences with both types of approach.)
This post seems (to me at least) to frame that prior discussion as if I was instead arguing for my methodology vs. IFS, when I was almost exclusively arguing “deliberate vs. accidental reconsolidation”, with UtEB from Kaj’s own post as an example of the former variety.
So taken out of context, this post makes it sound as if I were doing just what you say: demoting IFS to promote my own approach. But the original conversation was actually comparing two schools of thought that Kaj had written articles about, and by extension, other schools that divide along the same lines.
(But then, my view might be more than a little biased by the unexpected appearance on the frontpage, while thinking that said appearance was Kaj’s choice rather than a moderator’s, making me look extra-close for why he made a choice that he didn’t actually make.)
Yes, that seems like a reasonable perspective. I can see why that would be annoying.