Psychology

How to NOT give someone mental illness

If you wanted to give someone mental illness, how would you do it? You might think to lock…

Diffing the DSM

Is talk therapy on the “right side of history”?

60% Happy

What game design can tell us about the nature of happiness

Don’t Call It “Mild Depression”

Bringing attention to this epidemic of denial

Of the Big Five personality traits, at least one is a moral imperative

Openness to new experiences…

Mass murders are prevented by our aggressive weeding out of sociopaths

Mass surveillance alone can’t…

Talk therapy is inherently problematic because it’s bounded by what you can and cannot say

Morality, norms, and Overton windows have caused more harm than good

Talk therapy is high-risk, high-reward, and therefore only net positive if you’re wealthy

For everyone else, unless it involves med management, it’s probably a net negative, and will be for a while

Is It Rational to Raise a Child?

Can there be a rationalist case for child-rearing when studies consistently show that having children…