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I find this to be pretty odd reasoning, it definitely seems far from "definitive" for me unless you make a lot of assumptions about how the mind works.

This is all very noble on paper.

Yes, people can be persuasive to twist the truth.

And testing is good for arriving at proof.

But what the ancient philosophers didn't count on, is that there is a machine in charge of what gets tested and how, and that choosing what and how things get tested can also be twisted to be persuasive. I can develop and thoroughly test my own drug, and then persuade you that a much cheaper chemical is not tested enough (because I blocked all attempts at testing it), and then I would point to the noble principles of ancient science as to why things need verification.

In other words, the current world is teaching us that really powerful corporations can test selectively about a whole lot of things.

What's a better music notation software? Hopefully the answer isn't Sibelius.

Yeah, we also produce literal shit, and we have a toilet and plumbing to deal with that.

If you welcomed a giant robot in your house that produces 100x as much shit as a human, you don't have the infrastructure to deal with it.

It was never an issue of yes or no, it's an issue of how much.

the craziest part is that jaron lanier said this like 20 years ago, if not more

Discord will die and there's no way that I'm aware of to easily export all that information.

so the mayans were off by merely a decade

I'm a composer and if I happen to want to make sheet music, which rarely happens, I just open Musescore.

Most of the time I'm in bitwig, recording things in real time and editing things around, I barely use the midi roll.

I don't find the sink analogy apt. It's more like a grill. It's something specific that you might want to go to, and if you do, then you go there and you do that, outside the kitchen.

A lot of issues like you mention can be a big problem on the population level, but not in an individual level if you're conscious of what you eat. This doesn't seem to be the case with microplastics, they seem to be in everything.

You might call it panic to minimize it, and you'd be right to do so if we here were in charge of nutrition for a population; but I'm guessing most of us are in charge of our own nutrition and maybe a family's, so the information to deal with that is pretty valuable.

It's comments like these that make me more afraid of AI, because I notice how many people behave or reason like bots, following a script.

This is the correct way of looking at it. It's about how the thought contributes or hinders your own success/happiness.

If you were to find, empirically, that believing that you're not deserving of happiness is more likely to lead to happiness, by all means do that.

But to pose that it is an objective truth is more likely to be a justification for why you're unhappy.

The opposite view also implies some sort of cosmic order, it implies that "deserving" is some type of natural, objective currency and that X work must be performed to achieve it.

But that's not how it is, "deserving happiness" or "deserving success" are self-defined thoughts.

Did I "deserve" to eat ice cream yesterday? Yes I did, because I decided that I did.

You're conflating these abstract concepts with a more scarcity mindset about whether you deserve a specific job or accolades or whatnot. If that's how you narrowly define your own success, then you yourself are deciding that you don't deserve it (assuming you're not realistically working towards that specific goal).

Because there's no real objective truth about it, it's just what you tell yourself.

If you think people only deserve success because they worked X amount, that's a thought formed by social norms and, most likely, what you were told and how you were treated by your carers when you were growing up.

The question is which of those beliefs will be more conductive towards actually achieving success and being happy?

Instead of trying to guess which is true on some abstract sense, adopt one or the other, and empirically live your life by it for a while, and see the results.

Have you actually tried setting up linux, downloading steam, and downloading a windows game?

Are you not also bored of the "X is woke" complainers cliché?

Willpower is effective as one component among many. Which means you're not relying on willpower alone. Much like you don't build a table with a single leg.

I had that realization with another habit, in first person. My hands can do so many things yet I choose to do this repeatedly.

That said, these habits don't usually develop as a choice, they're a sort of shield protecting us from deeper issues, formed during difficult times in our lives.

For example, there's girls who gain a lot of weight after being sexually abused, because being seen as less attractive makes them feel safer.

This is why it's so difficult to quit, they're complicated and contradictory.

You're a highschooler? This explains a lot.

I want to congratulate you for taking that decision.

It does, but the will power is aimed at doing a bunch of preparatory small things.

It is an important distinction. Let me paint an example:

You need to move a huge boulder, but someone tells you that boulder is too big, you're not strong enough to push it. And they're right. But you go and you grab a lever, you use a tool, and you move the boulder.

You did technically utilize your strength, but the take away of the deed, the key component, isn't how much strength you utilized, rather that you admitted that your body's strength isn't enough and utilized a tool.

The way I view it is fairly simple: the things you list involve planning. Willpower is how you react in the moment.

You could phrase it like this: the willpower to resist going out and getting cigarettes is much easier to perform than the willpower to not grab a cigarette that's in front of you.

However "will power to resist going to the store" isn't really utilizing will power to stop smoking, it's having an effective strategy that relies on knowing how hard it will be for your future self to actually employ that will power if the cigarettes do reach your desk.

I switched from i3 to bspwm a few years ago and I have basically a "complete" setup.

I do occasionally make scripts like you mention, they're super fun, handy, and almost impossible to share unless someone else has the same niche knowledge and requirements.

Non-fiction can't sincerely deal with the one of the realest substances of individual reality: thoughts and their movement. The most substantial fiction in my experience is the one that knows how to deal with internal life.

"If I don't see it, it's not a problem."

Cars kill and maul people, destroy infrastructure, pollute the environment, definitely mess up public spaces.

Then let's ban cars.

You know, it is not surprising that someone who hasn't experimented with mind expanding drugs has a very narrow view and limited empathy for how other minds might experience the world different from themselves.

Not an app, but this is how I customize my OS and workflow in general, and think Linux for making it possible and even easy at times.

That's more of a cultural phenomena than 'reality'. I don't meant to say it's not happening, but if one frames it as 'reality' you make it sound inevitable, whereas it's a consequence of a cultural framework and mentality.

For example, I don't personally know anyone who uses a credit card for things they can't afford, and that seems like a very US thing to do.

For how long do you usually meditate?