If learning incorrect things is EY's only definition of trauma, his existence must be eternal torment. - eviltoast

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This advice won’t be for everyone, but: anytime you’re tempted to say “I was traumatized by X”, try reframing this in your internal dialogue as “After X, my brain incorrectly learned that Y”.

I have to admit, for a brief moment i thought he was correctly expressing displeasure at twitter.

@EY
This is of course a dangerous sort of tweet, but I predict that including variables into it will keep out the worst of the online riff-raff - the would-be bullies will correctly predict that their audiences’ eyes would glaze over on reading a QT with variables.

Fool! This bully (is it weird to speak in the third person ?) thinks using variables here makes it MORE sneer worthy, especially since this appear to be a general advice, but i would struggle to think of a single instance in my life where it’s been applicable.

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    Yud’s brilliant response is that this makes no sense to describe this as trauma, because you don’t get traumatized by physics class, right?

    Isn’t this literally formally fallacious? “There exist non-traumatizing true things” doesn’t imply “all true things are non-traumatizing.”

    Ordinarily I’m not one to harp on logical fallacies, but come on Yudkowsky, you’re supposed to be Mr. Rational!