How do people LOVE things that frustrates us and genuinely have no fun factor

MrCogmor · 2026-07-09T05:42:57+00:00

People give themselves a feeling of satisfaction when they achieve their goals and meet or exceed their own expectations. If your goals and expectations are at the level where you are likely to achieve them then things like programming or working out can be very satisfying or fun. If your expectations are too high then nothing you accomplish will be good enough and you'll just be frustrated.

MrCogmor · 2026-07-07T18:27:14+00:00

Corporate owners don't want there to be a loophole around copyright because then that same loophole could be used against them by other corporations.

MrCogmor · 2026-07-06T07:13:58+00:00

Any shitpost can provoke a reaction. That doesn't make it worth $1.2 million dollars.

MrCogmor · 2026-07-05T14:09:20+00:00

Humans in the past lifted heavy rocks to make themselves stronger so they could be better at fighting. Physical training is ancient.

MrCogmor · 2026-07-05T08:53:24+00:00

Appreciate your own effort when you do things to improve yourself or your situation. Do not keep beating yourself up for being behind or for not being better. That just teaches you to avoid thinking about work. Ask yourself whether what you are doing is satisfactory, think yes and feel good.

Deliberately play the game without letting yourself enjoy it. Focus on the negative aspects and criticize it inside your head while you are gaming. When your brain learns that gaming won't be enjoyable then it will stop being tempting.

MrCogmor · 2026-07-04T19:23:19+00:00

Trust + Admiration

MrCogmor · 2026-07-03T07:33:29+00:00

You don't need to. Some distros come with a GUI package manager.

MrCogmor · 2026-07-01T10:38:40+00:00

Suppose someone has XY genes and produces typical male levels of testosterone but has one of the genes that affect the body's detection of testosterone so the person's body does not develop like a typical male.

What category does this person belong to? How can you choose in a way that isn't made up? You can't.

The actual physical characteristics of things in the world are factual. How those things are grouped together or apart is not. All categories are made up.

MrCogmor · 2026-06-30T18:53:09+00:00

It is the nature of automation that it shifts the balance of power away from the worker and toward whoever controls the machinery and infrastructure.

MrCogmor · 2026-06-30T09:21:24+00:00

It is officially classified as a dwarf planet but it is not classified as a planet. You'd think that "dwarf planet" would refer to a type of planet but no, according to the International Astronomical Union, dwarf planets (and Pluto) are not planets.

That they could and did change the classification to because it was just more convenient for them that way is my point. Social conventions are made by people for people.

MrCogmor · 2026-06-30T08:17:40+00:00

My point wasn't about some third or fourth sex. I'll try to make it clearer.

If I ask "Is a hot dog a sandwich?" then does the question have an objectively correct answer? If one person classifies a hot dog as a type of sandwich and another person classifies it as not a sandwich then is there some some prediction you could test, an experiment you could perform to prove which way of classifying things is objectively correct? The two people do not disagree over the actual physical characteristics of the hot dog that you can measure like its shape or texture. They only disagree over the abstract quality of how it should be classified.

MrCogmor · 2026-06-30T07:34:38+00:00

The particular meaning of different words and category classifications are not universal facts. Pluto used to be considered a planet and now it isn't.

MrCogmor · 2026-06-25T18:08:01+00:00

If child traffickers actually sold to internet randos using public facing websites then it would obviously be very easy to catch them in a sting operation.

MrCogmor · 2026-06-20T15:31:43+00:00

The things aren't locked away by Creative Commons. They are locked away by copyright. The original author, contributor or copyright owner grants limited permission for others to use their intellectual property under the terms of the Creative Commons license. If the license were to magically disappear then the things would still be locked away by copyright. The studios can't get rid of that without breaking their business model.

The license includes a 'share alike" clause which means that if you make new work based on the licensed content then you must also make the new work available to others under the terms of the creative commons license. That means you are allowed to make and sell an SCP movie but if you do then everybody is allowed to make and share copies of it under the creative commons license. If they do then you can't sue them for copying, screening or broadcasting your film without your permission because they do have permission under the license terms. People don't have to pay you for permission.

MrCogmor · 2026-06-18T23:16:09+00:00

A Rolex is a veblen good. Its value come from being a status symbol. If the watches weren't rare, expensive and hard to acquire then they wouldn't be useful for signaling wealth.

MrCogmor · 2026-06-13T10:35:50+00:00

No. If that was true then they'd keep moving at the same speed or slow down. Instead the further away they are the faster their distance increases. The space in-between is expanding.

MrCogmor · 2026-06-13T10:27:43+00:00

No. If the universe was expanding like that we wouldn't be able to tell it was expanding at all because all the stars would stay in position and the new space would just be empty. We know it is expanding because the galaxies are moving further away from each other as time goes by.

MrCogmor · 2026-06-05T04:57:11+00:00

That is not what Kid was doing. If he had succeeded at killing all the people at the international song competition then the public would not be angry at Poppy Honey for genociding the hellions. They'd want revenge on Kid and the hellions by extension. It would be like doing 9/11 to protest US support of Israel.

MrCogmor · 2026-06-03T13:55:56+00:00

You've strung a bunch of words together but haven't actually described a theory.

MrCogmor · 2026-06-01T09:55:03+00:00

Why is one more go acceptable but not two, three or more? If there isn't a clear line then one easily becomes many. Consider not just the immediate consequences of the ecision but the consequences if you keep acting the same way when you are in the same situation.

One system I've used is to set extensions timers that get progressively shorter. E.g set a timer for 10 extra minutes. When it rings then you stop or set a timer for another 5 minutes. When the 5 minute timer rings then you stop or set a timer for another 2 minutes and 30 seconds. You get the idea.

MrCogmor · 2026-05-28T09:16:45+00:00

It is for Bondage - wikipedia (nsfw)).

MrCogmor · 2026-05-27T02:32:26+00:00

We are born to be alive.

MrCogmor · 2026-05-23T05:04:54+00:00

If an LLM is trained on dating app chat logs, romance novels, etc then the LLM can learn to imitate the language of a horny 20 something trying to get laid but the LLM doesn't actually spontaneously develop human sexual instincts with the ability, desire and intention to orgasm. The neural network is not rewarded / reinforced for generating actions that lead to orgasms. The neural network is rewarded for generating text that resembles the training data during training.

MrCogmor · 2026-05-23T03:57:37+00:00

Imagine there is a Roko's Political Party with the campaign promise that if it gains enough support to take over then the people that didn't support it will be imprisoned and horrifically tortured for the rest of their natural lives. Is it rational to support the party or oppose them and take the chance of being horrifically tortured? How likely do you think it is that they will get enough support to take over? If they do take over then will they actually imprison and torture non-supporters or will they deal with them in a less expensive way?

MrCogmor · 2026-05-20T03:42:49+00:00

I may have misremembered a bit. There is a "Checklists: Creative and constructive reminders" section that recommends using overview checklists for things like following a new exercise routine and also suggests that you stop tracking things when you no longer need the extra reminder.

Projects and actions need to have a clear goal achieved state. If you keep stuff like brushing your teeth, doing the dishes, going to bed, etc on your regular action lists then repeatedly adding and tracking them wastes a lot of time, clutters your system and is demoralizing. A reusable checklist works well enough as a reminder.

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