I take it you don’t have kids, do you.
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Communities are crutches—we need them for reasons, and that’s why they don’t just fall to pieces. You could talk to people who already are doing this. Some of them, at least, will say that they don’t like watchers (non-participants). And then how will you observe the thing you wanted to?
But if so, how are you different from a bot?
Would you say that the Last Psychiatrist is a Slytherin Primary, then?
“long horizon” can be people checking the same thing year after year… like demography studies, calibration tracking, or (in my case) re-sampling the same pool of herbarium roots for mycorrhiza counts (it can be found there even after the plant is dried, but nobody knows how much of it is lost.) Do you think that, for example, 10-years-long projects and 12-y-l ones will have different problems? Do you think that people should start long-term projects after their children grow to a certain age?
but how did the three programs identify each other?
In some labs, they say that some people just cause machines to stop functioning without doing anything to the machines, and one should avoid their company. (I don’t mean you—it’s what a relative of mine was believed to do some thirty years back.) Superstition? Perhaps. Or perhaps these “agents of evil” distract those who are working and they make mistakes? Anyway, it is hard to separate office beliefs into superstitions proper and multidimensional duct tape.
Although I don’t think all of your heuristics apply to all situations. Sometimes an action might not be necessary, or even the best of non-necessary, to be seen as reasonable, if it generates desire to go further.
For example, my child is learning to write, read, speak clearly, type, find places on maps and do arithmetics. I know they’ll teach him that in school, and that he will have to practice during various lessons, so from my point of view his skills are going to just improve on their own, and there’s no real hurry to make it happen. I still think it’s useful to support his own efforts in making “weather forecasts” (using official websites for information), because he gets to do some visible work and it’s actually fun.
Realistically? How many times do you expect to reach euphoria in the time that is left you? I agree with the “mild feeling” POV—and I would not kill for a rose.
Now the next big question is, what to count as reliable reassurance...
That’s an odd definition of poetry. It seems, at least to me, that people want it to make sense, maybe whimsical, unapologetic, comfy, soaring, blunt or some other specific kind of sense, which is hardly a filter that maximizes “rational thought”, but—pure rhyme and meter? Seriously?
Or maybe no “The Book”s have been written on these things that people no longer talk about.
In that case, sooner or later there will be The Book, and we’ll be talking about it again.
Or maybe biases started separately and got concerted later, akrasia started as a hydra with many heads and then just got propagated into many unnamed things nobody here is going to rigorously refute or support with a study.
In that case, the unnamed things might segregate into more natural categories (or maybe they already have and it is simply false that akrasia doesn’t get talked about).
Or maybe new people came who were never told the reason why the earlier discussions should be interesting.
In that case, I expect biases to come out of fashion after a while.
I think there should be another side. Surely, under this model, falling out of a habit should be hard?
I very easily fell out of habit of doing 2-hours-long yoga-style exercises every two days after doing it for about seven years or more (parents’ idea). What is more, I wasn’t doing it alone, so sometimes it was easier to begin because someone else already had. I remember just being fed up with it.
I think that if a person is at all inclined to collect things, paper is essential. (Although I draw the line at carrying a pencil—it’s more trustworthy than a pen when it’s raining or something, but I never got the trick of keeping my pencils sharp). It actually works just fine for long-term memory, too :)
Then don’t use a giant open pad on your desk! Keep smallish heaps of almost-scraps that are perfectly nibbleable in strategic locations. My Mom’s Telephone Table was a compact breathing nightmare, but it worked for her.
...although whenever I carry some equipment beyond just paper and pen (ruler, compass, eraser, or worse—a binder), reaching for paper is more of a chore. I need to trick myself into “oh that’s Emergencies Stuff, I don’t need it, I’m just being responsible”.
Also, I feel like people should snowclone “X is not a special snowflake” more. “My textbook is not a special snowflake [and I may buy a better one]” (it really sticks if you have to offload a hundred such textbooks), “my pen is not a special snowflake [and I can write with it, dammit]”, “my notes are not special snowflakes [and don’t have to be perfect or legible]”. Just imagine things being manufactured , as in there being hundreds of thousands of them.
My favourite trick is “noticing when I am not actually upset/angry/tired with someone or something”. I started doing it before I learned about LW—back then I called it “don’t fall down before you’re hit” in my head. For example, I come to visit a friend who has a young child, and have to sit outside for half an hour before she picks her phone—but the weather is fine, and I notice I’m not actually annoyed by having to wait.
For me, i just seem like a burned everything according to this system, except perhaps not a burned Slytherin