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This all sounds quite groovy, but are there any suggestions on how I could go about implementing them into my daily pattern of thought? I wonder if perhaps an Anki deck would have any merit whatsoever in accomplishing this...
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If I 'work' for forty hours next week on reading LW
Reading Less Wrong is consumptive, not productive. You need to have something to show for your work, ex. a novel draft, a fitter body, a cleaner house.
If you want to accomplish anything in a post-forager society, you're going to need to learn how to plan, and how to follow through with those plans. How are you going to get anything done if you don't have the discipline to put in the hours?
And yes, self-discipline in one area is linked to self-discipline in another. You have a "tank" so to speak of self-control that gets depleted when you are doing something difficult, and gets renewed when you are resting or leasuring. Using your self-control in any area depletes the amount of self-control left for another. If you have small tank (low self-discipline) then you run out of fuel faster (you quit working sooner). In the long run though, you can increase the size of your tank by by doing difficult tasks, such as working for a specified number of hours each week.
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I am aware of ego depletion. What am I not convinced of is that general work, in any area, will increase the time it takes prior to ego depletion. Could you perhaps point me in the direction of any appropriate research?
Furthermore, if this were true, why would it only apply to what you termed 'productive' and not 'consumptive' work? Would studying for a class not apply to this rationale? If not, why not? If so, wouldn't reading Less Wrong also help extend the 'time to ego-depletion'?
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So using a little algebra, I'm deducing you're 24 years old. You've got plenty of time to turn your life around. The most important thing is that you keep going.
I am not disabled so I'm doing a lot of other optimizing here. But this is based on what I've read from Scott H Young and Cal Newport.
Write yourself a weekly schedule. Commit yourself to doing 40 hours of work next week. No more, no less. The work can be anything productive, ex. writing fantasy, exercising, house chores. The important thing is that you learn the meta-skill of working on a schedule.
Once you achieve this, your confidence will rise and your obstacles will be easier. It is the first step of a
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This is a clever idea, but could you provide more information? I see how it would make sense intuitively, but is there any evidence suggesting that doing any work, regardless of what it is, for a certain amount of time can improve performance/focus on a very specific task?
If I 'work' for forty hours next week on reading LW, it will have a direct improvement on other areas, say on how much school work I would be comfortable doing?
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Of course there won't be any "day before" or "day after". Machines reaching "human level" will be smooth and gradual - since the surpassing will happen one faculty at a time, and many faculties have already been surpassed (memory, arithmetic, etc). Historians won't assign a particular date. I'm pretty confident that anyone arguing for a particular "day" is just confused.
I disagree. Certain landmarks will seem more important than others, such as intelligence 'tests', like the day a machine unequivocally passes a Turing test. In hindsight, we should be able to further isolate and identify those important landmarks that led to, or directly caused, the singularity.
Furthermore, historians being historians, I am quite convinced a date WILL be included in the history books, regardless of merit.