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Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface

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426 points cainxinth | 1 comments | 11 Jul 25 11:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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fedeb95 ◴[11 Jul 25 12:18 UTC] No.44531293[source]▶
thinking that our own judgement is better than a doctor judgement, supported by a vast community and shared knowledge, is epistemically interesting. Beware that I'm not saying that doctors, or the scientific community, can't be wrong, everyone can be wrong, even ourselves.

Personally, I'd rather have a proper doctor prescribe me said medicine than take it myself.

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1. spjt ◴[11 Jul 25 15:42 UTC] No.44533445[source]▶
With things the way they are, it's not hard to be more knowledgeable about a condition than your doctor. Doctors have to know about all the possible conditions people can have, I only have to know about the one I have, so I've spent more time researching it than the doctor.

If you don't know what's wrong with you, then a doctor is absolutely the way to go. But if you already have a diagnosis, you can go spend time researching it, the doctor isn't going to do that.