taro: "anxious and avoidant foci are useful but i have yet to be impressed by any finding in relation to "insecure attachment". at best it's simply tautological and it feels exemplative of psychology's failure to understand what it is doing"

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anxious and avoidant foci are useful but i have yet to be impressed by any finding in relation to "insecure attachment". at best it's simply tautological and it feels exemplative of psychology's failure to understand what it is doing

November 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM

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taroNov 30, 2025

ig tautological isn't quite right, it's just enumerating all contexts of applicability ad nauseam

taroNov 30, 2025

guys look we found an instantiation of the category we constructed for the purposes of finding such instantiations