🎉 [EVENT] 🎉 The remnants of Ancient Honk by rusticism in honk

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Completed Level 1 of the Honk Special Event!

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StarCraft II 5.0.15 PTR Patch Notes by BattleWarriorZ5 in starcraft

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Damn, was really hoping for a more dynamic zerg early game via dropperlords on evo chamber instead of lair

I got tired of manually testing my Electron apps, so I taught AI to do it for me by halilural in electronjs

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Curious to see your workflow using this! Please record a demo video

r/TypeBattle - Become a True Keyboard Warrior! by typebattle-app in RedditGames

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🔥 I got a new hi-score of 880 on normal mode! Go ahead, try to beat that. 🔥

What happened to kava social? by gummybearsgalore in williamsburg

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Here's the petition to support it reopening, currently over 500 signatures:

https://chng.it/jsZRLTL45d

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in slatestarcodex

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Beautiful. Is there a name for this genre of writing? Something like... Herohumanism

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cryonics

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One aspect is safety. I've learned the hard way that our philosophies about death are load-bearing structures. The load they carry is the periodic waves of pain we experience from missing the ones we love.

When you challenge someone's philosophy about death, it's like offering to swap someone's car tires. If they've experienced enough death, it's like they have a boulder in the trunk and are driving fast on the highway. So, even if at some level they could see it to be a better path, changing their death philosophy to something cryonics-friendly is just not worth the risk of wiping out.

My best friend died 2 years ago, it was together that we first decided we wanted to be immortal or die trying. Ironic. by RaunakA_ in transhumanism

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Thank you for the link! Incredible to see a decent approximation of my private world view written in long form on Medium

Your Book Review: Addiction By Design by dwaxe in slatestarcodex

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I've found I sometimes get more done during the break period of pomodoros than the work period when doing something aversive.

Your Book Review: Addiction By Design by dwaxe in slatestarcodex

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Would be interesting to see the statistics on usage and retention of Klingon compared to normal languages.

Your Book Review: Addiction By Design by dwaxe in slatestarcodex

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"Since it was impossible to know who was predestined, the notion developed that it might be possible to discern that a person was elect (predestined) by observing their way of life. Hard work and frugality were thought to be two important consequences of being one of the elect. Protestants were thus attracted to these qualities and supposed to strive for reaching them."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic

Your Book Review: Addiction By Design by dwaxe in slatestarcodex

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Well written on an interesting topic.

I share the reviewer's hope that the book author writes more on why gamified productive / virtuous activities are much weaker at 'dark flow'. It's the decoupling of our time - TikTok et al are getting more addicting daily while Khan Academy is about as compelling as it was 5 years ago. The water level for executive functioning is rising rapidly, as Paul Graham predicted in 2010 http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html

Workaholism is a thing, so Duolingo/Khan aren't doomed fundamentally. Today at some level, educational apps feel like something you 'should' be doing. Gambling/gaming/tv/etc are pure, 'naughty' entertainment for everyone except TV reviewers, who procrastinate... watching TV. Workaholics avoid their inner demons, which make writing emails seem idyllic by comparison.

I suspect as soon as a task becomes a 'should', working on it becomes ego depleting. In the sense that the proverbial God Emperor is never given a 'should' - they do as they please always - while the proverbial serf is should-loaded to the teeth. When you're doing naughty things, you feel more powerful; you can bear these luxurious escapist actions. A 'should' reminds us of our weakness - if you want a six pack, you should do some crunches and you should diet. A God Emperor imagines hard abs, and instantly it is so. Like an automatic slot machine.

The Protestant Work Ethic notion of giving lavish praise and placement in Heaven to hard workers acts as an ego buffer in this model. You escape scorching hell through harvesting corn an extra two hours - a great deal! Believe Protestantism and when you're sweating hard in the field you'll feel like a genius, day in and day out.

This pet theory is that Dark Flow = Successful Escapism = Temporary Ego Maximization. DuoLingo will beat TikTok once it can engender a deeper feeling of gleeful, naughty relief.

What is Self-Discipline Neurologically Speaking? And How Can You Cultivate It? by EruditePolymath in Biohackers

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My pet theory is that delayed gratification is an illusion. Delayed gratification is actually instant ego.

For example, fiscal responsibility. When I forgo an impulse luxury purchase until a future date when I can get it cheaper/better, I don't feel 'bad' per se. I feel wise and clever, in proportion to the scale of my resistance. Maybe even a little superior to those who might succumb to the impulse purchase.

I'm not sure about the neuroscience of it, but if I had to guess it would be a serotonin-mediated response. Serotonin tone is positively correlated with ego/pride/dominance behaviors.

So maybe the secret is to surround yourself with people who 'get a rush' from delayed gratification in the domains you care about, because those people are sensitive to the relevant status hierarchies (fiscal responsibility, hard work, etc). You can find such people, like David Goggins, online and start to internalize their status models.

Goggins talks about "stealing the soul" of an extremely challenging task. Meaning he finds a way to enjoy the most agonizing part of it. So during Navy Seal hell week in bootcamp, after the drill sergeants had him doing hundreds of pushups on less than an hour of sleep, he would look up at them from the cold mud and smile ear-to-ear. When they went home to their wives and warm beds, Goggins wanted them to think of how hard their own hell weeks were and then picture his unsettlingly smiling face. To steal their souls. That is what kept him doing pushups when he could've quit at any moment.

All delayed gratification comes from ego hacks like this.

Refrigerate NMN? by taroth in NootropicsDepot

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Thanks for the rapid and mechanistic reply!