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Fink

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Fink is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 07, 2021 and April 26, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “2016 study by Fink, Kikuchi, and Nakazato”; “Fink writes: We must first examine the nature and development of human desire”; “Fink writes “mother” as “mOther”, combining the word with the Lacanian idea of the Other”. It most often appears alongside A Clinical Introduction To Lacanian Psychoanalysis, academic science, Ahtiainen et al..

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: April 07, 2021
  • Last seen: April 26, 2022

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Metis And Bodybuilders
April 07, 2021 · Original source
Then Fink et al. (2016) showed that when total work is equated, resting only 30 seconds with 20RM loads is just as effective for muscle growth as resting 3 minutes with 8RM loads. The short rest group experienced greater muscle swelling and growth hormone production post-workout, but this was not correlated with muscle growth.
Inline links: Fink et al. (2016)
Henselmans’ article came out in 2019, and the outlift article is from this year, so this is sort of compatible with Henselmans’ claim that people supported shorter rest times when his article was written. Outlift also cites a 2016 study by Fink, Kikuchi, and Nakazato showing clear benefits of shorter rest times, which turns out to be one of the same studies Henselmans cites as not showing clear benefits - I think the difference is that it showed a strong trend towards benefits (in fact, twice as much muscle growth after short rests!) but the study was so small that this wasn’t statistically significant. Not sure what to think here, but it sounds like even this site doesn’t really want to stand by the results of this one.
Inline links: a 2016 study by Fink, Kikuchi, and Nakazato
(also, I’m still not sure what to think about that one Fink/Kikuchi/Nakazato study. You’d think metis-having practical communities would be able to take advantage of obvious trends without splitting hairs over exactly what the p-value was. Maybe I’m misreading the paper, or taking it out of context.)
Book Review: A Clinical Introduction To Lacanian Psychoanalysis
April 26, 2022 · Original source
I know this is a weird way to start this book review. But I kept thinking about it while reading A Clinical Introduction To Lacanian Psychoanalysis, by Bruce Fink. Psychoanalysis - like AI alignment - is about how newly-created entities get desires, and what happens if the desire they get isn’t the one other people wanted them to have. Fink writes:
Inline links: A Clinical Introduction To Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Fink writes “mother” as “mOther”, combining the word with the Lacanian idea of the Other. As far as I can tell - which is not very far, this is famously obscure and complicated - the Other is the abstracted mishmash of everyone you’re seeking the approval of. For an infant trying to make its mother like it, the mother is the Other. For a pious religious person, God is the Other. For the rest of us, some combination of our friends, the cool people we want to impress, and our internalized conception of the moral law is the Other.
Sometimes this is a stern father telling his son “It’s time to grow up, stop running to Mommy and be a real man.” If the child keeps relying on Mom more than is appropriate, someone - traditionally the stern father - corrects it with the threat of punishment - traditionally castration (is this actually traditional? It definitely is in pscyhoanalysis, and Fink says that “direct threats [of castration] still are made more often than many think”).