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Danny_Hintze
Karma: 177
Meetup : App Academy Discussion
Donated $100!
Meetup : Phoenix/Tempe Meetup
Meetup : Phoenix/ASU Less Wrong
Meetup : Phoenix (Tempe) Less Wrong Meetup
We are in study room 251 in Hayden library.
Meetup : The Anthropic Principle and the Great Filter
Meetup : Phoenix Tuesday Lunch Group
We’re at table 22!
Parking is $2 per hour at the bookstore right next to the MU. You usually have to wait a few minutes for a spot, but that’s what I’d do.
Meetup : Arizona State Lunch Group
The 6th. Major kudos for catching that.
Meetup : Phoenix, AZ: Stoicism and Visitors: 6 December 6:00PM
Taken!
I successfully held a lotus pose! I put it on a daily to do list that I would have to check off, and I got myself to do it by using the idea of actions as policies. There were a few days where I forgot, but I just accepted that I couldn’t do anything about that and continued on. This has led to almost a month of daily stretching for 18 minutes a day. I have previously tried to regularly hold the necessary stretch many times in the past and failed! Now working to make the pose easier and be able to do it both ways. :)
I do. Trying to ensure that interest turns into attendance!
Sorry, just saw this. This location is actually right next to my house, but I have some friends at ASU who also might be coming if your ride doesn’t turn out!
I’m working to be able to do a full lotus meditation pose. I have some weird stuff with the way my hips work and am generally inflexible, so this is not trivial for me. There is a certain stretch that several sources online say will allow me to do it if I stick to doing it for 5-6 weeks every day. The problem is that holding the pose isn’t easy, and I’ve tried in the past and been unable to reliably stick to it. I’ve been using personal TDT in order to get myself to do it every day, even when tired and ready to go to sleep. So far this has worked wonderfully. I’m also realizing that keeping a streak has its own very strong motivational value for some reason. I’m not sure whether this is particular to me or not. Additionally, I’ve been trying to use as much positive reinforcement as possible. I don’t think that has been quite as successful though. I’m going to focus on finding ways to remedy this.
I think we need to put our money and investment where our mouths are on this. Either Less Wrong (or another centralized discussion platform) are very valuable and worth tens of thousands of dollars in investment and moderation, or they are not that important and not worth it. It seems that every time we have a conversation about Less Wrong and the importance of it, the problem is that we expect everyone to do things on a volunteer basis and things will just magically get going again. It seems like Less Wrong was going great back when there was active and constant investment in it by MIRI and CFAR, and once that investment stopped things collapsed.
Otherwise we are just in a situation like that of Jaguar with the cupholders, where everyone is posting on forums for 10 years about how we need cupholders, but there is no one whose actual, paid job is to get cupholders in the cars.