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dannyismon Ask HN: Staying Focused on the Meaningful Stuff?

Something is inherently cool to me about solving deep mysteries, I guess.

dannyismon Ask HN: Staying Focused on the Meaningful Stuff?

Some parts of human intelligence can translate to machine intelligence (like how neurons inspired deep learning). Also, new ways of modeling and treating mental illness. Those are just the first two that come to mind.

dannyismon Ask HN: Staying Focused on the Meaningful Stuff?

I want to study human cognition (actually I already do), but there's no money in it. Yet, anyway.

dannyismon A little discussed effect of therapy: it changes personality (2017)

If traits like "neuroticism", which would result from the very mental illnesses that psychotherapy promises to address, constitute personality, isn't it obvious that psychotherapy should change it? Why is anyone acting surprised?