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0 pointsaleph_minus_one1y ago0 comments

> if you learn things from therapy that improve your life then i guess it has worked.

To give a very "Hacker-Newish" snappy remark:

So, if the therapy teaches you programming, and you thus get a much better job improving your life, you'd claim that "learn to program" is a suitable therapy? ;-)

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bawolff1y ago

I'd add the caveat that therapy is supposed to be meta (teach you about yourself).

Learning to program isn't therapy. Learning how to learn to program might be.

aleph_minus_oneOP1y ago

> I'd add the caveat that therapy is supposed to be meta (teach you about yourself).

Then learning to program is therapy. :-D

I am serious: Learning (very abstract) mathematics, and programming, taught me an insane amount about myself:

- how I attempt to model and structure the world

- how better models of very diverse phenomena look like

- what such insights mean for my life

- ...

drewcoo1y ago

>> I'd add the caveat that therapy is supposed to be meta (teach you about yourself).

> Then learning to program is therapy.

Are you trying to say that learning to program is not learning logic?

theGnuMe1y ago

In the sense that you learned to reprogram your mind.

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