Thanks for your comment. I feel very grateful to have received such a thorough reply (especially from someone with so much experience in the area).
To be honest, I haven’t looked carefully at most of the papers I mentioned here concerning intervention effectiveness, including Pil et al. As I mentioned in the post, I still plan to do a more extensive literature review. It’s interesting to hear your perception on how academic experts feel about intervention effectiveness; I tried a bit to find a recent thorough review article on this, but didn’t have much luck.
Regarding the question of whether suicide prevention is net-positive in the first place, as I mentioned in another reply below, I felt pretty convinced of this after casually reading this blog post (whose main argument is that most suicides are the result of impulsive decisions or treatable conditions / temporary circumstances), but I think it would definitely be worthwhile to go through the argument more critically.
I hadn’t considered liability risks, and, though I guess what I was describing is more like a bot than an app, it’s possible they would still be relevant, so thanks for drawing my attention to that.
Thanks for your comment. I feel very grateful to have received such a thorough reply (especially from someone with so much experience in the area).
To be honest, I haven’t looked carefully at most of the papers I mentioned here concerning intervention effectiveness, including Pil et al. As I mentioned in the post, I still plan to do a more extensive literature review. It’s interesting to hear your perception on how academic experts feel about intervention effectiveness; I tried a bit to find a recent thorough review article on this, but didn’t have much luck.
Regarding the question of whether suicide prevention is net-positive in the first place, as I mentioned in another reply below, I felt pretty convinced of this after casually reading this blog post (whose main argument is that most suicides are the result of impulsive decisions or treatable conditions / temporary circumstances), but I think it would definitely be worthwhile to go through the argument more critically.
I hadn’t considered liability risks, and, though I guess what I was describing is more like a bot than an app, it’s possible they would still be relevant, so thanks for drawing my attention to that.