remizidae

• remizidae 11 Aug 2019 21:55 UTC

  0 points

  in reply to: Stuart Anderson's comment on: Could we solve this email mess if we all moved to paid emails?

  You should prob­a­bly say at the be­gin­ning of this what “paid email” is. I figured it out by the end, but it’s not a well-known term.

• remizidae 7 Aug 2019 0:07 UTC

  5 points

  on: Do you do weekly or daily re­views? What are they like?

  What feels most im­por­tant to me:

  1) Hav­ing ev­ery­thing I need to re­mem­ber in one place, not in my brain

  2) Be­ing cued to check and add to my sys­tem regularly

  3) To-do lists con­sist­ing of small, ac­tion­able steps, not big, diffuse, in­timi­dat­ing tasks

  My sys­tem is about ten years old; it was in­spired by Get­ting Things Done. I ba­si­cally write ev­ery­thing down in a note­book. I have weekly, daily, monthly and long-term sec­tions.

  Ad­van­tages of us­ing pa­per are that I don’t need to make any con­scious effort to check the note­book; hav­ing the phys­i­cal ob­ject trig­gers me to check it reg­u­larly. Also, I can use the note­book at times when I don’t want to be dis­tracted by a phone or com­puter. Disad­van­tages are that I need to carry more ob­jects, and if I lose the note­book, there is no real backup.

• remizidae 16 Jul 2019 21:44 UTC

  8 points

  on: Nutri­tion is Satisficing

  Food is satis­fic­ing too. I found it liber­at­ing to re­al­ize I don’t need to come up with a new meal ev­ery day. Food doesn’t have to be ex­cit­ing or novel or an amaz­ing taste sen­sa­tion most of the time.

  Minor point of dis­agree­ment: un­less you are ac­tively work­ing to build mus­cle, you don’t have to worry about pro­tein. The vast ma­jor­ity of peo­ple in Western so­cieties already get more than enough pro­tein. Per­haps this is differ­ent for ve­g­ans, but I’ll let them weigh in if they choose.

• remizidae 11 Jul 2019 18:54 UTC

  6 points

  on: How much back­ground tech­ni­cal knowl­edge do LW read­ers have?

  I no­tice a lot of peo­ple us­ing pro­gram­ming jar­gon/​codes to dis­cuss things that have noth­ing to do with pro­gram­ming, and it always makes their point need­lessly harder to un­der­stand.

• remizidae 7 Jun 2019 23:49 UTC

  4 points

  on: Per­sonal mus­ings on In­di­vi­d­u­al­ism and Empathy

  This would make a lot more sense with some ex­am­ples of what it means to fail to “mark most sig­nifi­cant per­sonal in­for­ma­tion about oth­ers as salient, un­less I’m ex­plic­itly told to keep it in mind.”

• remizidae 22 Apr 2019 14:25 UTC

  3 points

  on: Nutri­tional Sup­ple­ments: A Pot­ted Guide?

  The first ques­tion to ask, I think, is what you are try­ing to ac­com­plish with sup­ple­ments. Is there a spe­cific prob­lem you hope sup­ple­ments could help with, or are you just try­ing to im­prove on the baseline of hu­man func­tion­ing?

  This could af­fect what sup­ple­ments you want—anti-anx­iety drugs are very pop­u­lar, but it’s not clear you’d want them un­less you have prob­le­matic anx­iety. It also could af­fect how much you’re will­ing to in­vest—if you’re strug­gling with a se­ri­ous prob­lem, spend­ing more money/​time is prob­a­bly jus­tified than if you just want marginal im­prove­ments to baseline.

• remizidae 28 Dec 2018 19:50 UTC

  10 points

  in reply to: Benquo's comment on: Sun­screen. When? Why? Why not?

  No, that’s not what so­cial proof means. I’m say­ing a throw­away com­ment by a non-ex­pert has very lit­tle pro­ba­tive value. Now, I’d give it more weight if Scott were ac­tu­ally to write a post about this topic con­clud­ing that we should all stop wear­ing sun­screen, be­cause know­ing him there prob­a­bly would be some se­ri­ous thought and re­search put into that. But the post you linked to ba­si­cally says “it’s more com­pli­cated than you might think, but the con­sen­sus is still wear sun­screen.”

• remizidae 28 Dec 2018 12:37 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: Benquo's comment on: Sun­screen. When? Why? Why not?

  Well, weigh a throw­away com­ment by Scott against the con­sen­sus of der­ma­tol­o­gists and skin can­cer spe­cial­ists.

• remizidae 28 Dec 2018 12:36 UTC

  5 points

  on: Sun­screen. When? Why? Why not?

  If you’re wor­ried about Vi­tamin D defi­ciency, it’s quite easy to sup­ple­ment. Why not do that (IF you’re defi­cient) and wear sun­screen?

  As some­one who ac­tu­ally tries to fol­low der­ma­tolog­i­cal recom­men­da­tions for sun­screen use, it’s pretty hard. You have to re­mem­ber it ev­ery time you leave the house, be mo­ti­vated enough to go through a te­dious and bad-smelling task, cover *all* the ex­posed skin. If you’re out­side for a sig­nifi­cant time, you have to re­mem­ber to bring the sun­screen and reap­ply ev­ery hour. So, it’s hard to be­lieve that most peo­ple who spend time out­side and wear sun­screen are ac­tu­ally do­ing it enough to avoid D ex­po­sure.

  My read of the re­search is that the con­trol­lable risk fac­tors for D defi­ciency are never go­ing out­side + poor diet + not sup­ple­ment­ing, rather than overzeal­ous sun­screen use.

• remizidae 28 Dec 2018 12:32 UTC

  4 points

  on: In what ways are holi­days good?

  • Why are holi­days more re­lax­ing than just ly­ing in bed at home and pay­ing some­body else to take care of you?

  They’re re­ally not. If we just wanted to re­lax, we would con­tinue our daily rou­tines with fewer obli­ga­tions. Holi­days are about see­ing new things, of­ten ac­com­panied by earned re­lax­ation. E.g. it might be re­lax­ing to lay around on the beach, but it’ll be more satis­fy­ing if you’ve first gone to some effort to get there, ex­plore, learn things.

  • Does vis­it­ing fam­ily count as a holi­day in the rele­vant sense?

  I wouldn’t count a fam­ily visit as a va­ca­tion as it doesn’t (typ­i­cally) mean vis­it­ing a new place. Whether it’s re­lax­ing would de­pend on your fam­ily.

  • How much money should I be will­ing to spend on holi­days?

  Start with some­thing very cheap and see whether you like it.

  In gen­eral, peo­ple on va­ca­tion tend to pur­sue the same ac­tivi­ties that peo­ple not on va­ca­tion do. So, if you like eat­ing in restau­rants, drink­ing, talk­ing to strangers, go­ing to mu­se­ums, hik­ing, bik­ing, read­ing, walk­ing around cities, go­ing to con­certs, or spend­ing time with friends in your nor­mal free time, you’ll prob­a­bly like do­ing the same things on va­ca­tion.