plusfour's comments

On: Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?

[plusfour]

i don't care

On: Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers?

[plusfour]

Is this a case for steel-manning? We know what this is about and what's at stake.

On: Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits

[plusfour]

have some self respect.

On: Attention is your scarcest resource (2020)

[plusfour]

> but I just don’t feel the interest to pursuit any intellectual hobbies that I used to pursuit

> Interest

maybe you outgrew them. maybe don't try to pursue something you're not Interested in. let interest be the north star that guides your attention.

that "conflict" you feel between what you Are interested in, and what you Think you should be interested in, is not healthy.

[markus_zhang → plusfour]

It could be the case. Thanks for the kind words! I found it difficult to tell what I really want.

[plusfour → markus_zhang]

you're welcome!

>I found it difficult to tell what I really want.

i assume it's almost universally true.

it might be the case that you're already doing what you really want.

and what you think you should do, those thoughts that create the conflict, are most of the time internalized expectations.

only recently i realized that all my adult life i've done pretty much only what was good for me. avoided some major traps of conformity. but constantly felt that anxious pressure from internalized expectations.

now i'm learning to trust my Self - that preconscious source of "wisdom" that i was previously not even aware of.

On: Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests

[plusfour]

Test results are a measure of how well you can do on tests.

On: There's not that much wealth in the world

[plusfour]

do it anyways.

On: The "uncanny" is the experience of a loss of control

[plusfour]

> That's not the same thing as a loss of control.

Not a loss, but it is a lack. You can't have perceived autonomy without certainty.

[kstenerud → plusfour]

The same could be said of

* Buying a lottery ticket

* Moving to a new city and you hope you can find a decent job

* Having to choose a different brand of milk at the store because they're out of your regular one

* Starting on a new TV series and you hope it's not shit

* Organizing a party and you hope nothing goes wrong

But it's not at all the same "threat" feeling.

[plusfour → kstenerud]

Ok, I see your point. Yes, it's a specific flavor of uncertainty. The ones you listed are about outcome uncertainty (anticipation). And uncanniness is about the nature of things.

On: Why you can hear the temperature of water

[plusfour]

Most of your knowledge is implicit.

On: Windows 10 will start nagging you to switch from local account to MS Account

[plusfour]

Useful heuristic, if Microsoft wants you to do something, then you can assume it's against your best interest.

On: Bloomberg: Apple held talks with Microsoft about acquiring Bing in 2020

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