I'm not an expert on the topic of OCD, what makes this 'bait'?
It's a bit long-winded and flowery for my taste, but otherwise OK?
I guess what I took away from it is that the underlying low-level biological causes of high-level behavioral problems is a very, very hard (ie: impossible) problem to solve with current technology. Like trying to debug a massive simulator that was written by randomly flipping bits until things worked, and has no manual, using only a hex editor.
That and despite current instances of it manifesting about modern things (phones, germs, whatever) OCD has likely existed for a very long time and just happens to 'cling' to something specific in a given person.
absurdo•7mo ago
It’s an article whose discussion points are engineered. It’s not in good faith, and it’s a more frequent problem with articles in general.
marcellus23•7mo ago
You still haven't really explained anything. What discussion points are engineered, and in what way are they engineered? What specifically do you have a problem with? If you don't explain your reasoning, why comment at all?
throw310822•7mo ago
Maybe it's a joke about having a paranoid OCD feeling towards the article?
thegrim33•7mo ago
FWIW one of my rules is to instantly close any article that starts with an anecdote/story like that. It's hard to explain, but it's an easy way to know that they're more interested in manipulating/influencing you into believing their point rather than proving their point with facts/logic/argument. They'd rather tell fanciful stories instead.
y-curious•7mo ago
I read the entire thing. I like the author's prose, and learned a little about their theatrical exposure therapy. Can't say I left with much else, but it was an enjoyable read
gwern•7mo ago
The exposure therapy part was definitely the most interesting part for me: licking dumpsters, hugging crazy homeless people (who then run away shrieking at invisible people), (very slightly) vandalizing cars, running a gauntlet of people holding knives... Not sure how much I got out of the previous sections, but the part starting here was fun:
> Onstage facing them stood Grayson, the mastermind of the night. This Grayson was a heady cocktail of signifiers garnished by an Indiana Jones–type hat he’d worn, I gathered, to all twenty-one Road to Recovery Tours to date.
absurdo•7mo ago
Night_Thastus•7mo ago
It's a bit long-winded and flowery for my taste, but otherwise OK?
I guess what I took away from it is that the underlying low-level biological causes of high-level behavioral problems is a very, very hard (ie: impossible) problem to solve with current technology. Like trying to debug a massive simulator that was written by randomly flipping bits until things worked, and has no manual, using only a hex editor.
That and despite current instances of it manifesting about modern things (phones, germs, whatever) OCD has likely existed for a very long time and just happens to 'cling' to something specific in a given person.
absurdo•7mo ago
marcellus23•7mo ago
throw310822•7mo ago
thegrim33•7mo ago