jetm comments on Group Rationality Diary, September 16-30 - Less Wrong

2 Post author: therufs 16 September 2013 03:51AM

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Comment author: jetm 24 September 2013 03:49:53AM 1 point [-]

Are you using any tools to keep yourself cut off, or do you merely choose not to visit those sites?

Comment author: LM7805 24 September 2013 11:36:55AM 0 points [-]

In the past I've manually edited my hosts file to point time-wasting sites to 127.0.0.1, which is a small obstacle at most -- I can easily edit it back -- but is enough of a speedbump to remind me "oh, right, I'm trying to avoid that right now." This time I haven't needed to; I managed to become so frustrated with the fact that my queue was saturated with short-term rewards that weren't netting me anything in the long run that choosing not to visit the sites doesn't seem to require much willpower.

This leads me to wonder whether I could eliminate other influences I want to avoid by making myself sufficiently frustrated with them, but that seems like it would be an unpleasant skill to pick up.