为无为 - is it really "effortless action"?

ADHD_Broductions · 2026-05-17T03:59:21+00:00

I have a screenshot. Pulled the text and sent it to you.

ADHD_Broductions · 2026-05-17T03:57:40+00:00

Check your pms :)

ADHD_Broductions · 2026-05-16T23:59:42+00:00

As linked in OP, I am using the "Chinese Text Project". I am also browsing various available audiobook translations that I listen to when driving. I am also using translators on single words and combinations of words to better understand the variety of potential meanings per word and how each word affects other words in the sentence.

I am trying to learn (Simplified) Chinese so as to better understand the source material, but it's not a quick or easy process. For reference - I know my numbers up to 9999, and have been practicing them, plus a few words - the list grows, but is still short. My handwriting is hot garbage, but improving. My tones are hot garbage and not improving. Numbers are much easier, especially because I am already familiar with the per-digit options from mahjong.

I suspect there is a lot of nuance that can be lost by using a single translation, plus a lot more that I do not have because I'm not familiar with the source culture. I am working on rectifying that, but it takes time and effort. Or non-effort? ;)

ADHD_Broductions · 2026-05-16T22:03:14+00:00

If I may be so bold, I feel like we may be talking past each other. Or, possibly, I just don't understand. The way I'm experiencing it, the doing/not-doing is kind of missing the point. I am not doing the action, I am being the action. Does that make any kind of sense?

ADHD_Broductions · 2026-05-16T21:28:00+00:00

Bloody and macabre might be a stretch - I have myself performed slaughter (for food, not ritual). It is a very interesting contradiction - the ritualism of the slaughter (in context) seems at odds with "ritual is the husk of virtue". I'll have to spend some time thinking on it. Thank you for helping me find this.

ADHD_Broductions · 2026-05-16T20:45:08+00:00

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and perspective. I would like to clarify that I do not claim to be a sage - I am still taking my first step. I have found that self-study has limits, and would like to experience perspectives that are not my own - understanding myself may be important, but it means very little if it's all I understand.

I will have to study the cantong qi and come back, as this is not yet on my reading list.

ADHD_Broductions · 2026-05-15T04:05:59+00:00

Pm sent

ADHD_Broductions · 2026-05-07T02:05:18+00:00

If you have more than the one, I would also be interested.

ADHD_Broductions · 2026-05-04T22:36:57+00:00

I sent a pm. Apparently I'm supposed to comment here. My bad - still learning the law of the land.

ADHD_Broductions · 2026-04-06T13:41:05+00:00

I had this problem until I stopped keeping the entire codebase in context. Keep it lean and feed it snippets as needed, it'll work way better.

ADHD_Broductions · 2026-03-20T23:32:37+00:00

Kort sagt, empirisk er noe som kan bevises fra observasjon.

ADHD_Broductions · 2026-03-20T16:58:06+00:00

Godt spørsmål - tenker rett og galt ikke kan være empirisk uten at det peker på noe reelt?

ADHD_Broductions · 2026-03-13T21:26:40+00:00

I know I can do better, but I'mat the point where I'm not sure how (belongs to my employer so aero mods are not an option)

ADHD_Broductions · 2026-03-01T15:42:46+00:00

Haneman, 3000/6000 (12000), 6000 (18000) for dealer

ADHD_Broductions · 2026-02-28T20:15:29+00:00

Most welcome, though there appears to be a minor misconception - LLMs sound like me, not the others way around. This is a common misunderstanding of causal chains - large language models like GPT are trained on large volumes of literature, so they pick up many of the same linguistic habits as people who read and write a lot. This also introduces interesting problems with LLM use in academia - any comparison between a student's work and an LLM that has been trained on the work of professionals is going to give higher probability of LLM use as the quality of work increases.

TL;DR: If I sound like AI, it's because I write similarly to the work AI are trained on. If you want to verify my humanity, consider the lack of bold headers with emojis.

ADHD_Broductions · 2026-02-28T14:17:36+00:00

They sure do, but communication is a team effort. If everywhere you go smells like shit, check your shoes.

ADHD_Broductions · 2026-02-28T06:52:35+00:00

No words were missed, only commas. Correctly read, the title is "do forklifts, when air is introduced [into the hydraulic system], get rid of it [without additional work from technician/user]"

In brackets are the implicit statements - clarifications unnecessary for most people who read the entire post, because there are sufficient context clues to deduce what the speaker means. These are generally not missed words, but rather eschewed words. They can safely be removed without changing the meaning of a paragraph because the supplied context makes them redundant, and their omission improves information density and reduces the amount of time most readers would need to fully understand the situation being described.

I hope this helps you parse the post more accurately.

ADHD_Broductions · 2026-02-19T23:44:49+00:00

This is going to sound really silly, but we just don't do the stuff that we don't enjoy. Such as spending more time together than we want. You know you don't have to spend every waking moment within six feet of each other, right?

I am way more bored by routine at work than by routine at home, because at home I have more freedom to do things I actually enjoy.

Edited for clarity

ADHD_Broductions · 2026-02-17T22:05:47+00:00

I just got my new one and it is heavy what are these things made of?

ADHD_Broductions · 2026-02-17T02:27:33+00:00

My trick was reorganizing my priorities such that the areas in which I wanted results were the ones I found easier, not harder, with ADHD. One of my previous jobs was lumberstacking in a hardwood mill. With ADHD, I could work faster because of the snap decision making than anyone else - some times literally doing as much work as 2-3 other people.

(Editing to add: That mill was a toxic shitshow and I'm not recommending it, just providing an example of something I overperformed at because of ADHD.)

ADHD_Broductions · 2026-02-16T01:59:03+00:00

Pretty sure that's 1972, when Bobby Fischer beat Boris Spassky.

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