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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by JonnieCache on Monday October 24, 2016 @12:04PM (#12780026)
It's good in general to be careful of the "this is what I think people are like" genre of blogging. Especially when it's presented with such certainty. See also: slate star codex, TLP. At least those two are working psychiatrists. Venkat Rao is just a guy with some opinions that he has retrospectively derived from his own career progress, as far as I can tell. It smacks of rationalisation.
Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by sambe on Monday October 24, 2016 @04:16PM (#12782446)
Did TLP just completely stop after being outed or is there something still happening with a book?
Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by JonnieCache on Monday October 24, 2016 @05:57PM (#12783256)
In my imagination he went completely insane trying to write the porn book.

If you want a good continuation, check out Jordan Peterson, who has a much wider framework into which TLP's somewhat narrow worldview can be fitted. He is also a practicing clinical psychologist, as well as a professor. This video summarises a lot of his ideas, but they are fully explained and justified in his university courses, which are all on the channel. "Personality" is a first year course, and "Maps of Meaning" is I think taken by third or fourth year psychology students.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCOw0eJ84d8

(You're probably best off ignoring the culture war drama he's currently embroiled in. Unfortunately the youtube algorithm has now placed him firmly in the alt-right nexus because of this, so his videos might shit up your reccommendations. This is not a reflection of his ideas, far from it.)

Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by cambel on Monday October 24, 2016 @02:58PM (#12781735)
Yes, true. But I also think Rao is incredibly self-aware of this. Interact with him. Very strong opinions, gingerly held.
Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by sixo on Monday October 24, 2016 @05:49PM (#12783207)
His writing doesn't seem to convey that to me. On the contrary: there's a kind of pretentious of style that I find uniquely intolerable. Which is too bad, because I'd otherwise probably be pretty interested in some of what he has to say, but I'm too much of a dick to get past it.