electriclizard

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by electriclizard 2y ago
Yeah, it's these "different ideas" of contemplative studies that gives it a bad name. There are especially a lot of grifters in the west selling snakeoil "eastern medicine." Ultimately, you have to try things out an
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by electriclizard 2y ago
>it just sounds like it provides a temporary feel good experience. I think you're missing the point of optimizing for subjective experience over objective knowledge. The feel good experience is the point. Subjectively, life is like
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by electriclizard 2y ago
Yes. All my therapists have referred me to meditation and explained to me that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy takes some influence from it. There are tons of articles published in journals on it. As for the quackery, that comes from attempts
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by electriclizard 2y ago
The west has shifted into believing subjective experience is useless compared to objective knowledge. This is like a BackEnd engineer saying that he doesn't believe the FrontEnd exists. We've been studying the FrontEnd for the maj
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by electriclizard 2y ago
What are the logistics for this? Does ByteDance clone their repo and make America the owner?
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by electriclizard 3y ago
Be kind. Be humorous. Be gentle. “In this world … you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzOIhLJ1C-Y
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by electriclizard 4y ago
Hey man. Graal was an intimate part of my life growing up. I had thousands of hours logged on Valikorlia and a few hundred on other playerworlds. It was a good idea. It's where I first started programming; graalscript was my first lang
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by electriclizard 4y ago
I played Graal for 10+ years, mostly on Valikorlia, but I tossed around Era and Maloria too; I started some time between 2002 and 2005. But I didn't realize its main website had been taken down, as I was literally on it a few months ag
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by electriclizard 4y ago
> thinking in words and sentences sounds like thoughts being weighed and slowed down This has been my experience as I've learned to stop thinking in words. I realized at one point that words are learned; which means that there was a
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by electriclizard 4y ago
I can do both. Getting rid of the inner voice took a lot of therapy and meditation and I still struggle; I had it for most of my life. The "inner voice" is absolutely a real voice, as real as my own; and it's not necessarily
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by electriclizard 5y ago
Would a machine solving the trolly problem on whether to hit the wall vs some cyclists ever choose to hit the wall in a way that damages the driver, bounces into the people and damages some of the people, but kills no one? I have seen accid
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by electriclizard 5y ago
I've no interest in controlling the people around me. I'm interested in controlling myself, which I'm not allowed to do at work due to the need to survive. Your choices are determined by your options; you do not pick your opt
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by electriclizard 5y ago
It's too true and so depressing. People can't stand up to the immense volumes of resources and hundreds (thousands?) of years of research these organizations are founded on. All my education has lead me to not participating being
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by electriclizard 5y ago
When you know, you know. I'm sorry you've been through the hell. I hope you're doing better.
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by electriclizard 5y ago
>I'm working on convincing myself that not all persuasive communication is bad! By a series of unfortunate events I've been victim to gaslighting from a lot of people in my personal and work lives, so I struggle with this too.
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by electriclizard 5y ago
>one reason I enjoy limiting how much television I watch Absolutely. I've no delusion that I can combat the manipulation. The best defense is to not absorb the data to begin with.
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by electriclizard 5y ago
>I sincerely hope we soon enter a future where everyone has options that best suit them. I'd like that too. I am curious, why do you like going into the office? Does it give you something that you need, or does being remote too long
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by electriclizard 5y ago
It's been a bit like having access to my computer's terminal for me. I didn't expect the power. I did way more than just turn off the distractions. I fucked some shit up and had to spend some time in the shop. But I also lear
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by electriclizard 5y ago
Complete manipulative nonsense if they ever use "top of the band" as reason to change their relationship with you imo. A Ferrari doesn't stop being Ferrari just because it's parked amongst Priuses. If you're worth p
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by electriclizard 5y ago
It is a bit ridiculous to base these things off location when the location would reduce the taxes the company pays for you. I'd like to understand how these market values are calculated. It can't be supply and demand, because if y
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by electriclizard 5y ago
It leads to me wanting to kill myself more often and needing to invest more time in therapy, commutes, and recovery. And over half the engineers I've spoken with, who drop their facade, feel the same. Being stuck in a chair all day wit
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by electriclizard 5y ago
Survival is enough. I think living is more important than working. Working exists so that you don't die. We should do the work necessary that everyone thrives, otherwise our choices should maximize living.