This is excellent and related to a project I'm working on, I'm really happy to find this post, and I thank you for sharing it, and if I make headway on my project (which is similar but not as risk of eating your lunch, I assure) I'll be happy to share it with you. Language learning could be so, so much easier than it currently is, and stuff like this is at the core of how it could be improved.

I think that the LLM editing makes this quite a bit more difficult to read and grok/internalize. This is one case where I wish I was reading something less 'polished' if the polish is Claude 'helpfully' giving things names like 'The Perfectionist's Pause'. It's a shame because I really agree with the Adlerian view of these things and I think you're pointing at a lot of the right stuff here but it's honestly kind of insufferable to read it through this lens.

But, maybe that's just me using the 'Moral Fortress' and 'Perfectionist's Pause'. (That isn't just me being cute or passive aggressive, I think those are the two most likely mechanisms from your post that I might be applying here to discredit your work)

My immediate impression is that this is intended to placate the growing crowd of ChatGPT users who decried the removal of 4o and 4.1, by giving them something very 'warm', as they describe it, in terms of affect and response. I don't know how to feel about this.

Sadly, stock Android doesn't seem to let you change Intensity for grayscale, only the colorblindness modes.

I think your title should be 'I Asked Claude What Paul Fussell Would Have To Say If I Asked Him For Writing Advice' because I feel quite clickbaited.

I had no idea who Paul Fussell was prior to reading your article, so my introduction to him was getting misled that you actually asked some presumably impressive writer for writing advice, and my time reading your article would be spent reading words from a prestigious writer, not an LLM.

I understand that Lesswrong has very lax rules specifically for titles and I think it's fine and kind of interesting because authors get to give their articles engaging titles. I don't think it's fine and kind of interesting when someone lies in their title to make a post centered around the output of a Claude prompt.

This seems HUGE for my personal productivity. If it works how you've stated, it's absolutely unbelievably huge. You've described my exact problem with getting started on tasks with any level of complexity, and I'm very excited to see if your proposed solution works- just reading it and imagining attempting it myself, i felt very strongly that this could be very effective. Thank you- I'll try to report back after I give it a shot.

It could also be your 'subscribe to my substack!' at the end, maybe.

I think you're not describing what your actual experience is clearly enough, and you're unnecessarily getting into Meyers Briggs offshoot stuff that is poisoning the well for whatever you're trying to describe. 

Can you describe your subjective experience of this with more clarity and detail?

I think the little scrollbar on mobile on the right side of the screen isn't very useful because its' position is dependent on the length of the entire page including all comments, and what I want is an estimation of how much more of the article is left to read. I wonder if anyone else agrees 

The issue is that in countries with a binary as the norm, a large part of transgender identity is the desire to exist within the norm. A trans man doesn't get on testosterone because he wants to be regarded as a trans man, or some other third signifier like 'manlygirl', he gets on testosterone because he wants to be regarded as a man, like his father or brother.

The dysphoria, the main source of anguish that leads to the desire to transition in the first place, comes from category mismatch between how the world views the individual and how the individual views themselves.

Some group of people with gender dysphoria may be fine with your 'elegant solution', and find themselves comfortable being genderqueer or 'nonbinary', but a large majority will find it no solution at all.