To me it seems intuitive that you wouldn’t be able to form cogent thoughts, especially not in language. An interesting question to me is what would happen if you did receive stimulus of some kind. Say, a small red die appears in the bottom of the sphere. How much “random” stimulus of this variety would it take to stimulus consciousness? Would the stimulus have to be nonrandom in order to provoke any patterns of thinking?
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As someone with a various cocktail of (admittedly well-managed) mental illnesses, I actually find this post very helpful! I’ve often observed a lack of correlation between the pain someone is enduring and their overall productiveness/life enjoyment/etc. I think this is a really useful way to address that the reason this doesn’t correlate is because there really isn’t a correlation.
I wonder if you have any thoughts on better units of effort to use instead (either convoluted ones to ponder or Quick Tricks that could be quickly implemented into one’s mental framework) ?
Is there a typo in the screenshot ”...continue with calibration if you just want to sing along...”?
I haven’t looked at the actual program, so this may have been fixed already. Either way, thanks for putting this together !!
Whatever your risk mitigation strategies may be, to me the goal of living 1000, 10,000 or 1,000,000 years is only worth it if they are fulfilling. I would rather live another 10 fulfilling years than another 100 disatisfying ones. The same may not be true for you.
As another comment said, the effects of low exercise and social interaction may be worse than the benefit of 0% COVID risk. Expanding on that, physiological risks aside, getting consumed by your own fear and avoidance is another way of not fully living your life while you have it, and as a 24 year old, you have statistically so much left. (This table says a 24 year old male has an expected 53 years of life remaining. That is more than 2x the amount of life you’ve lived so far, even if it pales compared to 1,000,000).
Nonetheless, as someone with OCD, anxiety, and an omnipresent fear of death (my own and that of loved ones), I would suggest counterbalancing your safety measures with the fulfillment rule of thumb. I evaluate my own safety rituals by asking myself “is this increasing my enjoyment of life, or only lowering my fear?” The answer won’t be the same every time, and might not be the same for the same activity twice. Levels of fear and paranoia vary day-to-day. But this is how I take care of my brain while also trying to squeeze as much as I can out of the 100+ years I will consider myself very lucky to have.
Who is organizing this ? Ie if i wanted to read something, who should I contact?
There is a slatestarcodex podacst which I am a big fan of: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/slate-star-codex-podcast/id1295289140
I would love more audio recordings; the audiobook of HPMOR is how I got into rationality in the first place, and not having to be sitting at my computer or on my phone to consume the content.
i haven’t read all of the comments so idk if someone mentioned this further down, but there was a whole tumblr ordeal with this a few weeks back, and the conclusion that made the most sense to me was “don’t share information about someone that could make them the victim of a hate crime,” even if you think you know that the person you’re about to disclose to would be a safe person. You don’t know who that person in turn is going to share with.
i struggle with the topic of this post a Lot, and the tumblr rule of thumb has been helpful for me.
I generally using “rationalist” as a short-hand catchall among people who will already know what i’m talking about, ie with my girlfriend or with ppl in ratsphere tumblr. i would never introduce myself to someone outside of the community that way, so maybe i’m also not the target audience for your question.
however, i feel like the minority of people who would self-identify as a “rationalist” to someone decidedly outgroup (hasn’t heard of LessWrong/EY, isn’t interested in EA, consequentialism, etc) is a different problem where the term itself isn’t inherently the problem. people would probably be equally weirded out if you described yourself as a “utilitarian” or “effective altruist” just bc describing ourselves by our philosophies is not super common in the world-at-large.
i do really like the term aspirationalist tho. is it pronounced like aspir-rationalist or aspiration-alist ?
i had so much fun !! this was my first solstice and it was a really gr8 experience. i would’ve killed for sheet music (hymnal style) tho i know plenty of the songs probably dont have sheet music available. all in all a really gr8 event that i hope ill be able to make next year. also, ill be at the downtown amherst contra on jan 15 :D
There is a documentary about conlanging (I believe available through Amazon Prime Video) that interviews a couple who made a hand-holding language for themselves. It’s unclear how extensive it is, but they use it to communicate covertly in situations where they don’t have the chance to duck away for a moment to confer.
The conlang toki pona has been converted into emojis, which is easy since it only has 122 words (or so).
“drumming/tapping, received by ears or touch” sounds a lot like morse code, though I presume you mean whole words rather than letter-by-letter (which, while fast, is still slower than spoken English).