I can’t figure out if I read it there or here first, but that looks like the quote; thanks.
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I second this notwithstanding VN’s post. Also, I think I’d have gotten further the first time I encountered the sequences if there’d been First/Previous/Next in Sequence buttons.
(edit) Beware Trivial Inconveniences seems possibly relevant.
(edit 2) This post backs me up on Next buttons.
It confuses me slightly that, from superficial glances, the discussion there and in threads like this one focuses on “ancestor” simulations, rather than simulations run by five-dimensional cephalopods. Ryan North got it right when he had T-Rex say “and not necessarily our own”, but then he seems to get confused when he says “a 1:1 simulation of a universe wouldn’t work”—why not?
Personally, I like Wei Dai’s conclusion that we both are and aren’t in a simulation.
That’s how I interpreted it, but I see the ambiguity now that you mention it. It doesn’t help that the two statements are basically equivalent if you use “weird” as a relative term.
Good Idealistic Books are Rare has the same issue.
Edits 1-2: And Interpersonal Entanglement. I don’t remember it having it when I was looking at it a few days ago, but this post suggests that I’m wrong.
I don’t think he is if the point is to establish that “lack of FAI could at some point lead to Earth’s destruction” isn’t a unconditionally applicable argument.
Under Windows XP, I noticed that if I disabled my WLAN adapter while logged in as Administrator, I couldn’t re-enable it while logged in as Home. So I decided to generally work as Home with the adapter disabled, and when I needed to go online, temporarily plug in an external adapter (possibly limiting my online time using my laptop’s battery and/or my bladder). I should note that I’m not doing any of that now, though.
Occasionally I’ve driven to somewhere where I don’t have access to the Internet at all, and sometimes left my laptop home too, but I haven’t adopted that as a regular thing; for one thing, I need a separate motivation to get me in the car to begin with.
I’d be worried about “too tired to go to bed” syndrome, but that might work for me if I avoided doing things where the syndrome would apply.
It’s possible that I shouldn’t try to other-optimize here, but in the case of recent comments, I wonder if it’d be practical to make a folder on your computer where you save a copy of the latest-comments page when you see something interesting, telling yourself you’ll look when you have more time. Or first retrieve all recent comments (with wget or cURL, or just right-clicking and saving), then turn on Leechblock to look at them, so you at least have an inconvenience barrier between writing a comment and posting it.
On another site, I found that first writing comments without posting them and then saving threads without reading them helped me feel less anxious about missing things, although I’ve been backsliding recently.
Share Your Anti-Akrasia Tricks might be useful to save and read offline, or print out if you want to go extreme.
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I’ve noticed a few times when the size of a computer folder was exactly 666 MB.
Sexbot? It appears in the original post.
I usually go with lifting my arms or something like that—basically the simplest motion that still moves me towards my goal, or I think about what I want to do until I can identify the first motion I’m going to make. I use it for other things too.
When I apply the statute, my justification is along the lines of “people usually only care about spoilers if they’re watching a series or planning to watch it soon, which are unlikely given a random person and a random series”. Hariant’s comment could easily be interpreted as asking for recommendations of anime to watch, in which case “planning to watch (considering watching) it” would be a given.
I’m strongly pro-necropost, so I’m not sure I agree. Can’t people just watch their inboxes for new posts in their threads, and add notes to the wiki and the Sequence posts saying “Asking questions is strongly encouraged, regardless of the thread’s age”? New threads would put an extra step between encountering the question and asking it.
On the other hand, that could contribute to the “I should RTFT...wait, 2000 comments? Forget it” failure mode, so I don’t know. (Although the fact that we have threading at least helps.)
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I had a red envelope, but when I clicked on it there were no new messages. Does that just mean someone sent one or posted one and then deleted it?
Also, is there an email notification system? I didn’t see one in Preferences.
I might use it, but probably only if it were incorporated into the site. Is it really only possible to view 5 at a time with the current script?
Edit 4/11: Changed my mind; sending PM.
Is there a program for Win XP that counts down a specified time, freezes the computer for a further specified time, then sets it to hibernate or sleep? I use a laptop, so I can sometimes use the battery as a timer, but it’s not ideal.
I had to look that up; Wikipedia says that “In philosophy and rhetoric, the principle of charity requires interpreting a speaker’s statements to be rational and, in the case of any argument, considering its best, strongest possible interpretation.”. I thought I was applying it by assuming that you hadn’t considered that interpretation of the comment, rather than that you were ignoring it, so I’m not sure what you mean.
Also, I don’t know what you mean by “as you said”.
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I remember a post on this site where someone wondered whether a medieval atheist could really confront the certainty of death that existed back then, with no waffling or reaching for false hopes. Or something vaguely along those lines. Am I remembering accurately, and if so, can someone link it?