[HN Gopher] Shadow of a Doubt
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Shadow of a Doubt
Author : samclemens
Score : 14 points
Date : 2025-06-27 22:00 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (harpers.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (harpers.org)
| absurdo wrote:
| This is a bait article. Avoid.
| Night_Thastus wrote:
| I'm not an expert on the topic of OCD, what makes this 'bait'?
|
| It's a bit long-winded and flowery for my taste, but otherwise
| OK?
|
| I guess what I took away from it is that the underlying low-
| level biological causes of high-level behavioral problems is a
| very, very hard (ie: impossible) problem to solve with current
| technology. Like trying to debug a massive simulator that was
| written by randomly flipping bits until things worked, and has
| no manual, using only a hex editor.
|
| That and despite current instances of it manifesting about
| modern things (phones, germs, whatever) OCD has likely existed
| for a very long time and just happens to 'cling' to something
| specific in a given person.
| absurdo wrote:
| It's an article whose discussion points are engineered. It's
| not in good faith, and it's a more frequent problem with
| articles in general.
| marcellus23 wrote:
| You still haven't really explained anything. What
| discussion points are engineered, and in what way are they
| engineered? What specifically do you have a problem with?
| If you don't explain your reasoning, why comment at all?
| throw310822 wrote:
| Maybe it's a joke about having a paranoid OCD feeling
| towards the article?
| y-curious wrote:
| I read the entire thing. I like the author's prose, and learned a
| little about their theatrical exposure therapy. Can't say I left
| with much else, but it was an enjoyable read
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