[HN Gopher] Positive Psychology Goes to War
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Positive Psychology Goes to War
Author : fnubbly
Score : 9 points
Date : 2021-06-09 17:22 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.chronicle.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.chronicle.com)
| smhost wrote:
| the u.s. and chinese militaries are spending an absurd amount of
| resources to create cyborgs. see figure 1 on page 17:
| https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2996.html
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| it lists "modulating emotional state" as a long-term capability.
| if positive psychology is falling out of favor, it's because it's
| been superceded, not because they realized it doesn't work for
| preventing PTSD or whatever. they don't give a shit about that.
| just ask any veterans' advocate group trying to get the
| government even to acknowledge that there is a problem.
| fnubbly wrote:
| https://archive.is/zAWPg
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