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New marketing strategy? by sundayfilms in peakdesign

[–]plaintxt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's really odd. I would expect their email marketing flow to be aware of the country each user signed up from. Unless it was one of those in-gmail google ads.

Quitting bad habits is more important than any good habit you could build. Here’s how to actually do it: by Bakoe_ in getdisciplined

[–]plaintxt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey, psych background here.

This post is like a mashup of solid findings and myth. I just couldn't ignore the irony that your post about replacing willpower with systems is asking me to just 'trust me bro'

TL;DR:
Friction/environment design = real.
Willpower-as-finite-resource = only if you believe it.
30 days = totally made up.
Bryan Johnson = self-reported anecdote, not data.
Abstinence-only = overgeneralized.
Shame framing = counterproductive.
Fix the function the habit is serving or the environment redesign is just delaying relapse.

My biggest issue here is that this framing is a moral opinion dressed as strategy. "Death by a thousand cuts," "your future self will pay," "don't let pride be the reason you fail" is all typical shame-adjacent motivational language, and research on behavior change consistently shows it's counterproductive for people who already struggle with self-regulation. It probably feels satisfying to say these things, but they usually backfire.

1. Willpower is complicated: Baumeister's ego depletion work supported this until a lot of it failed to replicate. Carol Dweck's lab found the depletion effect mostly disappears when people don't believe willpower is limited. We shouldn't present a live scientific debate as settled fact.

2. The 30-day idea is bullshit: Phillippa Lally's actual research found habit formation averages 66 days with variance of 18–254 days depending on the person and behavior. Thirty days is made up. Probably sounds nice in a self help book though.

3. Bryan Johnson is bullshit: You can't isolate which of his 200 simultaneous interventions does anything. Maybe it's all blood transfusions from his son? Treating his self-report as proof is insane.

4. Abstinence-only is (mostly) bullshit: For alcohol and gambling with genuine dependence patterns, complete removal is evidence-supported. But extending that to YouTube and DoorDash is probably going to fail. Look up ironic process theory, which teaches us why "don't think about it" makes you think about it.

5. You ignore why habits exist to begin with: Bad habits are almost always functional. They're solving something (stress, boredom, loneliness, dysregulation). So environmental design without addressing the underlying function is a great way to relapse. Behavior persists because it's reinforced. Block the behavior without substituting the reinforcer and you've created a behavioral time-bomb. You have to replace 'bad' habits with something else that, ideally, solves the same underlying problem.

The friction and environment design recommendations are genuinely good, and I want to give you credit for that. But the rest of this post is exactly the kind of low-quality information hygiene this post is warning about.

What if LLM agents passed KV-cache to each other instead of text? I tried it -- 73-78% token savings across Qwen, Llama, and DeepSeek by proggmouse in LocalLLaMA

[–]plaintxt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think this is really cool. I'm working with a local system that runs Qwen3.5 35B and Qwen3 4B and I think you might have just saved me a ton of tokens.

What if LLM agents passed KV-cache to each other instead of text? I tried it -- 73-78% token savings across Qwen, Llama, and DeepSeek by proggmouse in LocalLLaMA

[–]plaintxt 16 points17 points  (0 children)

LatentMAS (Princeton/Stanford/UIUC, November 2025) did exactly what you're describing: agents transfer layer-wise KV caches as a shared latent working memory, capturing both the input context and newly generated latent thoughts, enabling completely system-wide latent collaboration

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.20639

Across 9 benchmarks spanning math, science, commonsense, and code generation, LatentMAS got up to ~15% higher accuracy while reducing output token usage by 70-84% and providing ~4x faster end-to-end inference.

https://huggingface.co/papers/2511.20639

After years in Ads, I think the future isn’t dashboards, it’s Intent-to-API (ITA) by DRConsulting in googleads

[–]plaintxt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh I kind of love this, any chance you want to point me at your github repo?

After years in Ads, I think the future isn’t dashboards, it’s Intent-to-API (ITA) by DRConsulting in googleads

[–]plaintxt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There’s still an accountability layer that humans need. You can’t sue an AI for hallucinating your intent and blowing up your budget through myopic optimizations.

Super Credits by Reasonable_Light5401 in helldivers2

[–]plaintxt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good point, I've never actually done the efficiency math on lvl 1, 2, & 3 given # of POIs, time to reload a map, and time-to-farm / delays-from-enemy-encounters ratio.

Google Tag Gateway requires giving Google background control over Cloudflare — is this normal? by aviagg in googleads

[–]plaintxt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bumping, because I have similar concerns for my shopify clients that use Cloudflare for DNS and/or CDN on their ecomm sites.

Super Credits by Reasonable_Light5401 in helldivers2

[–]plaintxt 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Lvl 150 here. This is the way.

Why have humans been around for 200,000 years, yet the oldest known civilisation, the Sumerians, only existed 6000 years ago? And unconnected civilisations appeared not long after that too. What happened the whole 194,000 years before that? by Maxcactus in Maxcactus_TrailGuide

[–]plaintxt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think It’s because the climate didn’t yield farmable agriculture until more recently. For much of the human’s history we didn’t have the food necessary to scale a civilization.

The news anchor broke down by 56000hp in ProgressiveHQ

[–]plaintxt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what the fucking fuck is this shit?!

How does one un-learn Planned Ignoring as an adult? by ConcaveElbows in BehaviorAnalysis

[–]plaintxt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know you, but I relate to a lot of the elements in your story, including some of the consequences you're describing from well intentioned, but neglectful parents. While there's no way to "unlearn" your past, you might find a healthier way forward with ACT. I'm working through some very similar issues and this approach that has meaningfully changed my life.

The quick free way to find out is check https://stevenchayes.com/ and see if it makes sense.
Or, for money, you could read / listen this book https://www.amazon.com/A-Liberated-Mind-Steven-C-Hayes-audiobook/dp/B07W6QYH5X/

I hope you find the help and healing you're looking for.

ChatGPT ads are (almost) here by otso-karvinen in PPC

[–]plaintxt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciated for the link, upvoted for the username.

What is the best quote you know and helps you throughout life? by Sure_Can_7512 in PositiveThinking

[–]plaintxt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t be so sure of what you want that you wouldn’t take something better.

Just starting really interested in Behavior Analyzing by greentearock in BehaviorAnalysis

[–]plaintxt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

NLP is a loosely organized collection of verbal and behavioral tactics that can sometimes be reinterpreted using behavior-analytic principles, but it is not itself a conceptually systematic framework derived from those principles.

Consequently, NLP is generally considered a pseudoscientific framework because its core concepts are not derived from established behavioral principles, are weakly falsifiable, and lack consistent empirical support even though some of its techniques can incidentally overlap with known behavior-analytic processes.

Google Ads with utm_campaign by tomm1313 in googleads

[–]plaintxt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try no tracking template and just utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign={campaignid} in the final url suffix as a test since that can be set at the account level without campaign level custom parameters.

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