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…
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.…
No, but this is a very interesting question. Why do you ask?
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…
> 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…
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…
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.…
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.
> 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…
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…
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…
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.…
No, but this is a very interesting question. Why do you ask?
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…
> 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…
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…
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.…
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.
> 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…
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…