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by D-Machine 1mo ago
I am not sure, but recommendations to prescribe in mild cases have quietly been reigned in a bit by e.g. NICE https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng222/chapter/Recommendatio... .
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
For some people the emotional blunting is desirable, especially as you said, if the problem is chronic anxiety. But for many other people, their depression is defined by a lack of positive affect and anhedonia, meaning that emotional blunti
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
Yup, I would agree. The meta-research / methodological research and awareness here is really quite impressive, even though its conclusions are a bit grim and not well-known.
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
Best way to manage the withdrawal would be to dramatically reduce them being prescribed in the first place. The linked article says they have "small to moderate effectiveness", but this is being far too generous. The correct way t
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
Almost certainly there is also a "latent" representation that isn't just based on sensory imagery (i.e. some kinds of logical relations). But it is also not likely that an absence of sensory imagery is without impact, i.e. th
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
Radical or hard or global social constructionism [1] (or perhaps more accurately radical/hard/global relativism about truth [2]) are discredited because both are manifestly incoherent and prevent any serious thought from bei
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
Cool, I was really worried I might be sounding dismissive. This has been an obsession of mine since long before it got popular, and I've been enjoying your comments particularly in this thread.
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
Reducing it to a binary "it is / isn't a skill issue" is surely wrong and unhelpful, but given that practicing visualization can enhance the richness and durability of those images (or that e.g. psychedelics or meditativ
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
Note that being hyperphantasic can also be an advantage because you can create much more complex visual models to aid thinking in similar ways. I think the bigger takeaway is not to think that having a particular sort of richness of any kin
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
> when I close my eyes I cannot see things. That is what seeing is. [...] The visualization is akin to seeing, but obviously I am not seeing them. [...] a lot of people like you are saying "well, I can 'see' but I can&#x
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
You might find it interesting to read up a bit on blindsight and the neural plasticity of the congenitally blind. E.g. fMRI experiments on some such people show rich activation of the visual cortex when the blind person is going about and s
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
In case you missed my other comment linking to similar polls and stuff on Reddit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469522 . The hyperphantasia subreddit covers all other sense imagery too, and I am high on all of them.
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
See also Reddit, there has been lots of discussion and some similar polls. E.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/hyperphantasia/ , and https://www.reddit.com/r/hyperphantasia/comments/kkbxom&
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
Certainly some self-diagnoses (positive or negative) are definitely based on misunderstanding, much semantic, as I already agreed in this very thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468528 .
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
The projected image is not typically indistinguishable from normal vision, namely in that there will be an "ephemerality" to the image. Some examples of this ephemerality: - the projected image usually has a translucency, i.e. it
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
> I have always suspected that people with “aphantasia” simply misunderstand the idea of a “mind’s eye,” believing that others can somehow visualize something in their actual field of vision at will. Many people can do precisely this, th
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
> Can anyone confirm that they have this ability, which specifically is to superimpose imagined objects inside your actual field of vision? If the answer to this is yes, then okay, I guess I have aphantasia. Yes, this is utterly trivial
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
This is interesting and I wonder if it might explain some apparent cases of aphantasia. Also seems relevant to some aphantasics experiencing mental imagery when using psychedelics.
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
Then you are almost certainly aphantasic. "It is all just semantics" has to do some incredible acrobatics to make sense of so much language and reported experiences, and doesn't seem biologically plausible either. Of course,
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
Yeah, you don't sound aphantasic to me then either. I am certain you are right some self-diagnosed aphantasics are caught up in semantics: psychology instruments in general are quite terrible, and certainly anyone that just does some s
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
I think a couple of the comments in this very thread above, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467695 and https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=slibhb are quite relevant to your case. Thinking this
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
If you have good visualization ability, you can project your image onto a location in the real world, maybe sort of like a translucent layer or image placed on a clear film placed over reality, or you can just sort of visualize the image in
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
It depends on if when you visualize e.g. an "8", you visualize something like a lemniscate turned 90 degrees, or e.g. visualize a number line, e.g. maybe a straight line with dashes at the 7, 8, 9, and with these dashes having e.g
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
Well, by contrast HN doesn't allow user blocking or muting, or keyword muting, nor do most other social media sites. So I tend to see Twitter as offering the user far more curation and control than most, even if it is imperfect.
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
Never had any significant issues with these features, I tend to suspect a skill issue when people say things like this. Muting is the most effective option, but it does require you use it with some careful thought.
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
No one is banning or prohibiting AI generated music from being listened to hear, just they are saying that to be considered on a very specific chart, there need to be limits on the amount of AI used. Very weak overall, especially given the
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
Most complaints about Twitter look quite lazy once you understand you choose your followers, can block accounts, and mute words. It's not like these are hidden features that are hard to use even.
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
You can work around this (for now) with the Firefox Old Reddit Redirect extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re... . Not that you're missing much...
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
No need for apologies, I saw no good reason to take your comment as combative or dismissive or anything!
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
Oh, I don't disagree at all!

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