I’ve been making lots of progress recently at untangling my mind, with lots of help from Adelene Dawner, and Alicorn, and LW in general. The methods I used are similar to what Alicorn describes in her Luminosity Sequence, but I started a few months before the Luminosity sequence was written, and I didn’t have any contact with Alicorn until a few weeks ago.
Anyway, I was considering the idea of posting my experiences with these techniques, either to LW, or maybe someplace else if LW wouldn’t be appropriate.
During this process, I kept a very detailed journal, using Google Wave.
What I was planning to do was first to review the contents of this journal, and make a point-form list of the problems I was having, and the steps I took to discover, find the causes of, and fix these problems. Then I plan to post this list to LW, and ask what parts, if any, the readers would like me to elaborate on, or post any relevant journal entries on. And also to check how much gooey self-disclosure readers are comfortable with. There’s lots of that in the journal.
The journal contains lots of introspective writing, and lots of chat logs with Adelene, where we found what was causing some of these problems, and discussed what to do about them.
Partway through this process, I started using the technique of writing dialogues between multiple subagents, similar to how Alicorn described in this post
Now I’m constantly making very extensive use of this technique, with surprisingly good results.
Anyway, if anyone thinks I should go ahead with this plan, please upvote this post. Or if you think it’s a bad idea, please downvote this post. Yes, I said downvote. I’m not afraid of downvotes (anymore).
Another idea I was considering was starting a separate blog, for the few things I wrote that other people might be interested in. Or maybe even for this project. The first person who thinks this is a good idea, please post a reply saying so. And if anyone else thinks this is a good idea, then you can upvote that comment.
oh, and I’m also working on a script to extract xml tags from this journal, and make some fancy quantifiedself graphs. if anyone is interested in hearing more about that, please leave a comment saying so.
oh, and I also want more friends. good friends, who I can talk with about important things. Please let me know if you would like to be my friend. Though you might want to read this “about me” page first:
oh, and didn’t mean to put the emphasis entirely on voting. Comments would be more helpful than votes, so please comment if there’s anything you want to ask or comment about.
I would love to see your full journal. If you don’t want to post the full thing here I’d still love it if you emailed it to me. Sorry I haven’t been on skype recently, but I’m glad to see you posting again!
Heh, my journal is way too huge to post all of it here, or to email it, and very little of it would actually be relevant to LW anyway. If you have a Google Wave account, I can just give you access to the journal itself. And if you don’t have a Wave account, I’ve been copypasting most of it to livejournal, though that kinda caused lots of trouble with the formatting. I can give you access to that if you have a livejournal account. But I still don’t dare to make the whole thing publicly accessible. There’s lots of, um… unflattering stuff in there. Unflattering to me, and to some of the people I know.
Yes, I need to friend you in order for you to see my livejournal. And so far I only friend people who are, um… actual friends. Would you like to be an actual friend? Or were you just curious about the journal?
I checked out your recent LiveJournal posts. You seem like an interesting person too, someone who I would like as a friend.
I went ahead and added you as a friend on LJ. I guess I should warn you that the journal is full of gratuitous self-disclosure. I write about literally anything that I feel like writing about. And the quantifiedself experiment means that I document literally everything I do, though I still don’t have much of a life, so this isn’t all that much.
Though I guess there’s no need for me to be so paranoid with these warnings, and no need for me to be so paranoid about who I give access to.
Just saw this; I’m interested in seeing the journal. My LJ username is squid314. I wouldn’t be an “actual friend” as in buy you stuff for your birthday, but I check my friends page every so often and respond to anything I find interesting.
heh, now I’m going to have to write something in the journal about what I actually think of as the conditions for qualifying as an “actual friend”… but I guess I won’t try posting any more about that to this comment until I know what I actually want to say.
And I guess I might as well repeat the other warnings about the journal. I write about literally everything that seems even remotely worth writing about, and that’s lots of stuff, and most of it is boring. The journal contains X-rated content, and often TMI. And then there’s all the quantifiedself data, and the confusing system of tags and abbreviations...
Anyway, I guess you can see for yourself. Feedback is welcome.
random trivia: I prefer not to follow society’s annoying rules for being socially obligated to exchange gifts at specific times of the year. If anyone wants to something nice for me, please just donate to SIAI instead, or possibly some other charity of your choice.
I’ve been making lots of progress recently at untangling my mind, with lots of help from Adelene Dawner, and Alicorn, and LW in general. The methods I used are similar to what Alicorn describes in her Luminosity Sequence, but I started a few months before the Luminosity sequence was written, and I didn’t have any contact with Alicorn until a few weeks ago.
Anyway, I was considering the idea of posting my experiences with these techniques, either to LW, or maybe someplace else if LW wouldn’t be appropriate.
During this process, I kept a very detailed journal, using Google Wave.
What I was planning to do was first to review the contents of this journal, and make a point-form list of the problems I was having, and the steps I took to discover, find the causes of, and fix these problems. Then I plan to post this list to LW, and ask what parts, if any, the readers would like me to elaborate on, or post any relevant journal entries on. And also to check how much gooey self-disclosure readers are comfortable with. There’s lots of that in the journal.
The journal contains lots of introspective writing, and lots of chat logs with Adelene, where we found what was causing some of these problems, and discussed what to do about them.
Partway through this process, I started using the technique of writing dialogues between multiple subagents, similar to how Alicorn described in this post
Now I’m constantly making very extensive use of this technique, with surprisingly good results.
Anyway, if anyone thinks I should go ahead with this plan, please upvote this post. Or if you think it’s a bad idea, please downvote this post. Yes, I said downvote. I’m not afraid of downvotes (anymore).
Another idea I was considering was starting a separate blog, for the few things I wrote that other people might be interested in. Or maybe even for this project. The first person who thinks this is a good idea, please post a reply saying so. And if anyone else thinks this is a good idea, then you can upvote that comment.
oh, and I’m also working on a script to extract xml tags from this journal, and make some fancy quantifiedself graphs. if anyone is interested in hearing more about that, please leave a comment saying so.
oh, and I also want more friends. good friends, who I can talk with about important things. Please let me know if you would like to be my friend. Though you might want to read this “about me” page first:
oh, and didn’t mean to put the emphasis entirely on voting. Comments would be more helpful than votes, so please comment if there’s anything you want to ask or comment about.
I would love to see your full journal. If you don’t want to post the full thing here I’d still love it if you emailed it to me. Sorry I haven’t been on skype recently, but I’m glad to see you posting again!
Heh, my journal is way too huge to post all of it here, or to email it, and very little of it would actually be relevant to LW anyway. If you have a Google Wave account, I can just give you access to the journal itself. And if you don’t have a Wave account, I’ve been copypasting most of it to livejournal, though that kinda caused lots of trouble with the formatting. I can give you access to that if you have a livejournal account. But I still don’t dare to make the whole thing publicly accessible. There’s lots of, um… unflattering stuff in there. Unflattering to me, and to some of the people I know.
I’m glad to hear from you again too! hugs :)
Do I need to friend you in order to see your livejournal? I’m nancylebov over there.
Yes, I need to friend you in order for you to see my livejournal. And so far I only friend people who are, um… actual friends. Would you like to be an actual friend? Or were you just curious about the journal?
I’m just curious about the journal. I’m not sure whether I want to be an actual friend, though you seem like an interesting person.
I checked out your recent LiveJournal posts. You seem like an interesting person too, someone who I would like as a friend.
I went ahead and added you as a friend on LJ. I guess I should warn you that the journal is full of gratuitous self-disclosure. I write about literally anything that I feel like writing about. And the quantifiedself experiment means that I document literally everything I do, though I still don’t have much of a life, so this isn’t all that much.
Though I guess there’s no need for me to be so paranoid with these warnings, and no need for me to be so paranoid about who I give access to.
Just saw this; I’m interested in seeing the journal. My LJ username is squid314. I wouldn’t be an “actual friend” as in buy you stuff for your birthday, but I check my friends page every so often and respond to anything I find interesting.
I added you as a friend on LJ.
heh, now I’m going to have to write something in the journal about what I actually think of as the conditions for qualifying as an “actual friend”… but I guess I won’t try posting any more about that to this comment until I know what I actually want to say.
And I guess I might as well repeat the other warnings about the journal. I write about literally everything that seems even remotely worth writing about, and that’s lots of stuff, and most of it is boring. The journal contains X-rated content, and often TMI. And then there’s all the quantifiedself data, and the confusing system of tags and abbreviations...
Anyway, I guess you can see for yourself. Feedback is welcome.
random trivia: I prefer not to follow society’s annoying rules for being socially obligated to exchange gifts at specific times of the year. If anyone wants to something nice for me, please just donate to SIAI instead, or possibly some other charity of your choice.
Thanks, Peer.
Note to anyone else considering this: He is not kidding about it being huge, daunting, and unformatted. Not even a little.
You might want to mention that the journal is rather nsfw/x-rated, tho.
hehe, yes, that too, thanks :)
actually, I think I set up the LJ account to automatically give an “Adult content” warning.
lol, and so far I’ve been getting away with writing it while at work, including some of the x-rated stuff...