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Can we use this to our advantage? Maybe tattoo "Less Wrong" on one's palm and look at it when in distress?
That's a very interesting idea. Again, it reminds me of certain forms of magic - for example, of magic practioners who used to surround themselves with imagery of the God of Music before a music recital on the theory it would help them play better. I wish there were studies as to the effectiveness of that, but it's kind of hard to get funding to study magic. I suspect that saying a prayer to God for help resisting temptation may work in the same way - you're activating your concept of God and with it the entire religious system of morality and self-control. In the same way, giving yourself a reminder of rationalism or even reciting one of those rationalist litanies might make the stuff you learn here more salient.
Tell you what - tattoo "Less Wrong" on your palm and post a picture on here, and I'll upvote ten of your comments. Ten karma points! Think about it! That would totally be worth it!
I find that I find comfort in brining my smarthphone everywhere, and knowing that I have internet access, even when I'm almost certainly not going to use it. It can be used as a symbol for any specific website or community, any specific person I could contact, of the internet and humanity itself, and of how scifi the world is because such devices exists. Etc.
This is somehting I intentionally use, wearing it like The One Ring around my neck, hugging it to my chest if I'm feeling uncomfortable, sometimes petting it and/or whispering "my presssiusss", etc. (And yes, that's literary; pop culture references is somehting I associate with the internet.)