throwaway205826

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by throwaway205826 5y ago
I just pretty clearly explained why I don’t need to understand every detail of the profession to accurately estimate someone’s capability. Which part of that was confusing? Forgive me if I’m being brusque but you’re doing the same stupid de
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by throwaway205826 5y ago
Unironically, becoming a crystal healing hippy is probably better for you on expectation than subjecting yourself to the iatrogenic interventions the median doctor will probably subject you to. The same is true of e.g. faith based healing.
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by throwaway205826 5y ago
No, but this is a very interesting question. Why do you ask?
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by throwaway205826 5y ago
If there were specific criteria that I could share in an HN comment, they would be used for hiring and immediately collapse under Goodhart’s law. Your question is almost tautologically bad - If I were able to answer it in a brief HN post, m
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by throwaway205826 5y ago
> There is a tendency for smart people to think they know better than experts. They probably do. People hate to recognize this because it goes against most western notions of the value of work ethic, but a couple stddev of intelligence i
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by throwaway205826 5y ago
Hard to say what actually helped, but two high-impact low-cost behavioral changes I made (and stuck with) were a strict ketogenic diet and regular heavy exercise (mixture of cardio and weight training). Ketogenic diet has a lot going for it
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by throwaway205826 5y ago
It’s hard to say what actually helped, but I tried a bunch of behavioral changes. Two I’ve stuck with are significantly increased exercise (half an hour plus of intense exercise every day) and a strict ketogenic diet. Even if they didn’t do
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by throwaway205826 5y ago
Yep, if you really want someone to think hard about your condition, a hospital is the wrong place to go. And a lot of doctors will become defensive when they realize you’ve put more thought into it than they have.
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by throwaway205826 5y ago
> Is that really the doctors fault? It seemed that most of the doctors I had to deal with were incompetent either because they were lazy or stupid. Realistically maybe they were just overworked, but the effect was the same. I’m not reall
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by throwaway205826 5y ago
A few years ago I got some kind of brain illness. Doctors were unable to come up with a strong diagnosis, which is apparently quite common for such cases. One of the effects of the illness was that I essentially became stupid. I couldn’t fo