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Night_Thastusyesterday at 5:42 PM1 replyview on HN

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.


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absurdoyesterday at 6:03 PM

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.

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