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by engtech
4733 days ago
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I'd trust gwern's speculation. http://www.gwern.net/ The content here varies from philosophy to poetry to programming to prosaic FAQ. It is everything I felt worth writing for the past few years that didn’t fit somewhere like Wikipedia or was already written - "…I realised that I wanted to read about them what I myself knew. More than this - what only I knew. Deprived of this possibility, I decided to write about them. Hence this book."2 I never expected to write so much, but I discovered that once I had a hammer, nails were everywhere, and that supply creates its own demand3. I believe that someone who has been well-educated will think of something worth writing at least once a week; to a surprising extent, this has been true. (I have added ~130 documents to this repository over the past 3 years.)
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You can find the Cleckley book in question online in various places like http://libgen.info/view.php?id=23550 ; even if you aren't that interested in psychopathy per se or judging how well the OP person fits Cleckley's characteristics, it's still a fascinating & worthwhile read, I think (my review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/373031205 ).
The reference for my claim about treatment being inefficacious: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85192141/2006-harris.pdf “Treatment of psychopathy: A review of empirical findings” Harris & Rice 2006
And you can find quotes on other topics from the academic literature in http://lesswrong.com/lw/fzy/notes_on_psychopathy/