Have you tried it? It would take a few minutes of your time and it’s really a win-win- either it works (as it did for me) and your pain goes away or it fails and you get to call me out as a charlatan and a hoaxer with actual data rather than just a prejudice- hope to hear from you soon! Both here and on the substack.
Here’s another thought experiment- imagine there’s a way to cure millions of people of their pain for free but because it sounds a bit wacky you just refuse to try it- step over their bodies and carry on walking down the road. You wouldn’t, would you?
ok but without anecdotes we can’ t even try new things, which is the basic criticism of EA I was making in my post. There are many people (how many? who knows?) who have been helped by these methods, we’re fairly sure our current ideas about pain are wrong.
and yet we’re unable to move forward and try something new.
Have a look at this man talking about his journey away from pain and then tell me it’s not worth our time investigating. It’s 6 minutes of your life, from 2.54 to 9.00
And, as I said before, please feel free to try the “method” and , if it really doesn’t work for you, call me out and say it didn’t work- but don’t tell me it won’t work before trying it because that’s even worse than anecdata.
Anecdata in this case is worse than no data.
Hi Guy,
Have you tried it? It would take a few minutes of your time and it’s really a win-win- either it works (as it did for me) and your pain goes away or it fails and you get to call me out as a charlatan and a hoaxer with actual data rather than just a prejudice- hope to hear from you soon! Both here and on the substack.
I don’t know if you’ve seen Peter Singer’s thought experiment of the girl in China?
https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_singer_the_why_and_how_of_effective_altruism
Here’s another thought experiment- imagine there’s a way to cure millions of people of their pain for free but because it sounds a bit wacky you just refuse to try it- step over their bodies and carry on walking down the road. You wouldn’t, would you?
here’s Richard Feynman explaining that you can’t make assumptions about the world- you have to test them. http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/607/2/Feynman.pdf
ok but without anecdotes we can’ t even try new things, which is the basic criticism of EA I was making in my post. There are many people (how many? who knows?) who have been helped by these methods, we’re fairly sure our current ideas about pain are wrong.
https://trustmephysiotherapy.com/50-shades-of-pain-with-lorimer-moseley/
and yet we’re unable to move forward and try something new.
Have a look at this man talking about his journey away from pain and then tell me it’s not worth our time investigating. It’s 6 minutes of your life, from 2.54 to 9.00
And, as I said before, please feel free to try the “method” and , if it really doesn’t work for you, call me out and say it didn’t work- but don’t tell me it won’t work before trying it because that’s even worse than anecdata.