Such Mixed Feelings About Crazymeds

Praises crazymeds.us as the best psychiatric-medication resource online -- readable, funny, complete (the Prozac side-effect comparison vs drugs.com's robotic FDA-sheet dump is devastating) -- yet explains why he'll never recommend it: its name and flippant humor ('porno boobs,' 'Medicated For Your Protection' mugs) risk offending the minority of patients who care, and medicine runs on NEGATIVE SELECTION (one complaint outweighs hundreds of satisfied patients), so he plays safe. The deeper synthesis: crazymeds earns trust through COUNTERSIGNALING (being obviously human in a field of dry hedgers), it's valuable 'social technology,' and this is a concrete example of how unobjectionability/PC norms destroy value -- you probably can't make a resource as good as crazymeds without it being as offensive as crazymeds.

Quality 74 · Strong. An insightful, idea-dense essay weaving negative selection, countersignaling-as-trust, and social-technology-destruction into a concrete clinical case -- an early, sharp instance of his 'unobjectionability norms destroy value' theme. Strong, just shy of his field-defining work.

Claude’s paradigm shift 52 · Moderate. Moderate-plus. The negative-selection + countersignaling-trust + social-technology framing applied to medical communication was a fresh, exported synthesis in 2014.

Real-world impact 2 · Minor. An idea-dense essay weaving negative selection, countersignaling-as-trust, and the destruction of social technology into a concrete clinical case (crazymeds.us) — an early, sharp instance of his 'unobjectionability norms destroy value' theme. Conceptual influence within intellectual/psychiatry discourse, no material change — low RWI.

Humor 1/5 · Lizardman’s Constant. Serious essay on countersignaling, negative selection, and political-correctness costs, built around the funny-but-offensive crazymeds.us site; the comedy is mostly quoted from the site (the 'porno boobs' / 'increased mortality for associated chelonians' bits) plus a few witty framings ('side effects of crazymeds.us may include... job loss'). Humor is illustrative, not the piece's primary mode → 1.