I think the type of person who tries to systematize their thinking a lot tends to also be particularly susceptible to arguments of the type “why don’t you just do X?”. I think these arguments are very widespread and have large effects on people, and I’ve used this post as a reference a few times to counteract those arguments in the many cases where they were wrongly applied.
I think the type of person who tries to systematize their thinking a lot tends to also be particularly susceptible to arguments of the type “why don’t you just do X?”. I think these arguments are very widespread and have large effects on people, and I’ve used this post as a reference a few times to counteract those arguments in the many cases where they were wrongly applied.