Tying objects on top of or in cars for transport is a pretty practical skill.
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I would not want it at all in the comments. It might be acceptable to have them on main post.
I am no psychologist. I thought one of the benefits of gradual habituation was that it was in a controlled setting that subject could end at any time with essentially no consequences. This contrasts “sometimes forced in to situations”, I also have the impression that these forced situations there is no sequential order of events from the least discomfort to the most, in other words no gradualness(Also perhaps these events start at too high of a stimulus level.)
Finding someone capable of setting up a gradual habituation regiem and having the time to follow through with it are the biggest obstacles to experimenting with habituation regiems in my experience.
Effort is hard enough to judge in person and pretty much impossible over the internet. I have observed more then once in my life people judged as lazy, or many other negative traits, only to have the person years latter discover a perviously unknown medical condition causing the underlying problems. Once it is diagnosed as organ failure, a growth putting pressure in an odd place society stops judging them as lazy or any number of other negative traits.
The initial label of laziness(or other negative trait) was a logical misstep, coming to a conclusion without sufficient evidence.
I understood/understand that was/is your point. I was referring to “select people”, meaning people who are more sensitive to reduced food intake or photo sensitive. People not near the mean of the bell curve.
realize that irrational psychological flaws are things that should and in many cases can be overcome (I know, I’ve done it), not taken as unshakeable premises.
I know I have done it too. However I can not put “psychological flaws” in the right context to understand exactly what you mean by it, since it is not always possible to just try harder to change some physical structures that cause said psychological flaws.
It is awesome when trying harder fixes the problem. The problem is not always not trying hard enough or lack of motivation, it can because an organ is slowly dying in your body, or you produce proteins in a different as of yet unmeasurable way due to a quirk of genetics, or one of many other hard to diagnoses and solve problems.
If you want to engage Alicorn on her level or lack thereof of effort your should be asking for a detailed description of what she has tried and for how long, but I have not observed you doing that.
My reply to the edited post:
The world is not obligated to be convenient for you.
I assume you state this because you are under the impression that Alicorn believes/acted like/implied the world is obligated to be convenient for Alicorn.
That is not the impression I have obtained by reading the posts in this discussion. What specifically gave you that impression?
edit: The whole post I responded to was:
and 3. there are essentially true.
The negative consequence of following through with 1 or 3 can be so high for select people that they are not worth doing.
Following through with 1 may cause weight loss but may also cause diminished intelligence, diminished energy, malnutrition, again with select people.
Following through on 3 may cause cancer or increase the risk of cancer to high levels, again with select people.
Also, it’s a good idea to get over harmful and unnecessary aversions regardless.
This statement is true, however the cost may be too high with known methods. Hence this exercise to produce new methods to experiment with.
This think jmed’s link has the right idea.
The key to desensitization, in my experience at least, is to be able to force calmness during the whatever is causing the nervousness/stress/fear durring exposure. Start off with the smallest stimuli that invokes fear and do your best to be calm and relaxed. Deep breathing at first and latter activities that require some attention like reading, cooking, stretching, etc. After the current level of stimulus does not interrupt these activities increase the level of stimulus and repeat.
If no progress is made in a month I would recommend continuing the effort, but shifting focus to conquering smaller fears first. Take advantage of real life situations that make you nervous/stressed/fearful and do your best to calm yourself. Do scary/action movies get your heart pumping? Go to a movie let yourself get wrapped up in the movie and then try to calm yourself down.
A few interesting things about LOS where brought up that covered CH1. CH2 is planned for next week.
I enjoyed the paranoid debating more then expected. Three additional people joined the paranoid debating after walking through the room on other business. So It ended up with a total of seven people. Cog has a record of responses and is going to tell us our score latter. It should be fun to track scores over time and see how people adjust after having played the game for awhile. Also it will be fun to see if people will learn how to hide their tells of weather they are the trickster or not.
Everyone went over their goals from the pervious week and commented on weather they had achieved them or not and why. Everyone set new goals for next week and said a little on why they were chosen.
Yes I think it went well.
Sounds good, have larger screens and the projector should be working as well.
In addition to the dirt parking lot you can park directly across the street as well.
Thanks for coming out.
Yes it would your bitcoin rig is worth showing off, I am interested if nothing else. On the other hand it might be a pain to bring down and you would not be able to leave it running at the same time. So pictures, plans, specs, would all be great.
I don’t know and it was on both of you posts in this thread. I voted up on both because I could not discern the reason.
It brings to mind knowing about biases can hurt people. When I read those 48 I got the impression of lessons being repeated out of context and with out the reasoning that actually formed them. Looking at wikipedia at the Sources and Inspirations it looks like they were gathered second hand. Looking at Greene’s wiki biography#Biography) I do not see the kind of success that would make me believe that he understood the lessons he gathered.
If you can not regenerate the lesson then employing it might hurt you or people around you and caution is warranted when experimenting with it.
edit: 201105281449 grammer and fixed link text.
Bah, we choose Sunday rather then Monday because we thought more people could make it.
In my experience it is just a matter of not using the memory/skill/knowledge. I was not trying to imply it was a quick process.
You ITprimer seems to disagree with your statement:
Emergence is NOT the sum of the parts.
ITprimer:
(3) the non-trivial interactions result in internal constraints, leading to symmetry breaking in the behaviour of the individual components, from which coordinated global behaviour arises;
(4) the system is now more organised than it was before; since no central director nor any explicit instruction template was followed, we say that the system has ‘self-organised’ ;
(5) this coordination can express itself as patterns detectable by an external observer or as structures that convey new properties to the systems itself. New behaviours ‘emerge’ from the system;
Non-trivial interactions of individual components → Self organization → New behaviors labeled to have ‘emerged’
Where did they emerge from? The non-trivial interactions. This description runs counter to your discription “Emergence is NOT the sum of the parts.” It is the sum of the non-trivial parts by the above description and a loose definition of sum.
I offer the following as a data point for calibration: I think you had already communicated effectively that you were not trying to establish a definition.
I also agree.
Also what about the children who learn baby sign language before speaking?