yadingus

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by yadingus 3y ago
It's as much a theory as saying that a body is formed of limbs, torso, head, etc. I have a body, I inhabit it and can observe it directly. You're trying to word your way out of words. It's like you're asking me what&#x27
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by yadingus 3y ago
FWIW in my experience these changes are not immediately noticeable, but once you do get used to better gear, if you were to go back to the old one, then you'd notice the difference. Perhaps not a very viable experiment with this mod,
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by yadingus 3y ago
The analogy breaks down here because the users made their own vending machines. For example I made this comment, and I am allowed to edit it or even remove it. Imagine now for a second if hacker news was allowed to manipulate or modify user
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by yadingus 3y ago
That is a fair point, but as a thought experiment, I can't really say. I just think the immediate assumption that you need those non-technical voices should be reconsidered.
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by yadingus 3y ago
Consciousness is the aggregate of emotional, sensory, and thought formations. With these forming a thread into a narrative through memory, we forge identities. All of this happens in the substrate that is consciousness. If it is unclear why
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by yadingus 3y ago
It works for what? Take a step back. What is social media achieving in its current state. If you only look at the shiny cat videos and dances and memes, that's not the purpose. The purpose is the mass collection of data. If your only s
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by yadingus 3y ago
> Especially for non-technical users, Is this actually an issue? If you're looking for a straight up reddit alternative in all its scope, I can see it being an issue, but if we simply want a better iteration, then isn't one m
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by yadingus 3y ago
You suggested that consciousness is no more than a useful social abstraction. You can examine consciousness without the need for words. This is the issue with this topic, people stay in the structure of language to try to define that which
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by yadingus 3y ago
> Why can’t it just be a useful social abstraction? Consciousness? It sounds like you're confusing consciousness with identity, there is no social component required for consciousness. > just curious and have my own current thoug
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by yadingus 3y ago
The real answer to these kinds of problems is that there is no ONE effective solution, and to really tackle you must combine various strategies. Self control is definitely useful but if you depend on it solely you will eventually fail.
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by yadingus 3y ago
To say consciousness doesn't exist is akin to taking a pen and writing "this is not ink".
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by yadingus 3y ago
Absolutely, the word is integration and it's not discussed enough. It can happen with LSD and other psychedelics too, but you have to be open to that and not consider them just party drugs, as many people do. Very rewarding too if you
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by yadingus 3y ago
I do actually have a "never" list, which is stuff that's so loaded emotionally it just lived permanently in my todo, and I resolved that if an item is there for like weeks, I can move it to another list. The thing is I almost
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by yadingus 3y ago
Yes, it sounds dumb, but just don't. Make shorter lists. I can only speak for myself of course, but I had this problem and I observed a few things: - Some tasks just don't get done even if they've been listed. They are clutte
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by yadingus 3y ago
It's just a tool, like a hammer. You can misuse a hammer and hit your finger, or you can grab it, hit a nail and be done.
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by yadingus 3y ago
I believe it's not often talked about how important intuition is, for everything in life, and this does include productivity. But I think for intuition to flourish you need a special type of freedom of thought and low stress, which mig
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by yadingus 3y ago
> The main take away is that teachings, in particular in psychology or spirituality, are aimed at persons who are at a particular position on a path. well said, i think this applies to meditation too. Often people get into debates about
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by yadingus 3y ago
People accept quite bad things due to pure reason, too. The filter of reason should not be the one overseeing everything else, but that of wisdom. Both mystic experiences (an umbrella under which psychedlic experiences fall under) and reaso
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by yadingus 3y ago
I've experienced what I believe is a very minor form of this in music lessons, where a teacher would say some phrase or metaphor and it'd click and suddenly I'm able to move a drumstick better. I know that wouldn't happe
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by yadingus 3y ago
I think this is in fact one of the main functions of art, to "translate" your inner journey into characters and in the process you give a sort of mirror for an audience to reflect on. You're not telling them what to do, but p
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by yadingus 3y ago
As I mentioned in another comment, I took that next step. The replacement for me was articles from a website whose content I really appreciate, and reading a daily poem. The problem with, for example books is that they might not fulfill tha
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by yadingus 3y ago
Can you imagine a form of online social interaction that would lead to more fruitful results? I recently replaced my reddit/hackernews morning habit with reading poetry and a website I really like. I identified the driving emotion, nov
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by yadingus 3y ago
To be fair, perhaps most sonatas include transposition within them, only it's written out. This actually presents a hurdle for me, because if I learned a theme in G, and now I have to play it in D I feel like I know it, so I don't
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by yadingus 3y ago
C major is only easy conceptually, technically other scales are easier, such as B major. In guitar transposition is easy conceptually, but not so much technically, not being able to rely on open strings as much is a big limiter to novice gu
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by yadingus 3y ago
Is this sarcasm? 90% of rock songs are in Em or Am because of guitars.
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by yadingus 3y ago
Do you really have to defer to authority? You can't think for yourself?
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by yadingus 3y ago
vimium is the best
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by yadingus 3y ago
> There is no definition of it "in my mind" Where do you think definitions reside?
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by yadingus 3y ago
Using current technology as an analogy for consciousness is the equivalent of trying to understand natural phenomena by modeling them after human emotions and behaviors, such as greeks did with their gods.
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by yadingus 3y ago
I thought the purpose of captcha was to train AI

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