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The cure can be worse than the disease, the software analogy is actually pretty good. > This software is too buggy to improve. We should give up and live with
by belval 4y ago
The cure can be worse than the disease, the software analogy is actually pretty good.
> This software is too buggy to improve. We should give up and live with the bugs instead?
1. You can do a full costly rewrite, probably still end up with bugs because we don't have a real solution to inherent complexity. (we don't have a cure for anxiety)
2. You can target the few very bad bugs and fix those (helping the ~5% of children with crippling anxiety, let the "moderate" anxiety learn to live with it).
Article is pointing towards doing 1, I think it's ridiculous and how we end with a significant proportion of kids on antidepressants.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoI agree; I don't think mass meditating children is a viable solution, but that's not the only solution. Anytime there is a pattern to bugs, I stop and think about the systemic changes that got us there in the first place. And that's what I'm advocating for here too.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> I don't think mass meditating children is a viable solution, That's actually probably a very good and cost effective solution to part of the problem, despite probably being a typo.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> Article is pointing towards doing 1 No, it's not. > I think it's ridiculous and how we end with a significant proportion of kids on antidepressants. The most common treatment for diagnosable childhood anxiety seems to be talk therapy, not medication (and, anti-anxiety and anti-depreasant are different sets of drugs, anyway.)