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Here is what I would do, in the hypothetical scenario, where I have taken over the world.
Though this is what I would do in any situation really. It is what I am doing right now. This is what I breathe for, and I won't stop until I am dead.
[EDIT 2023-03-01_17-59: I have recently realized that is is just how one part of my mind feels. The part that feels like me. However, there are tons of other parts in my mind that pull me in different directions. For example, there is one part that wants me to do lots of random improvements to my computer setup, which are fun to do, but probably not worth the effort. I have been ignoring these parts in the past, and I think that their grip on me is stronger because I did not take them into account appropriately in my plans.]
I think this is a useful model. If I understand correctly what you're saying, then it is that for any particular thing we can think about whether that thing is optimal to do, and whether I could get this thing to work seperately.
I think what I was saying is different. I was advocating confidence not at the object level of some concrete things you might do. Rather I think being confident in the overall process that you engage in to make process is a thing that you can have confidence in.
Imagine there is a really good researcher, but now this person forgets everything that they ever researched, except for their methodology. It some sense they still know how to do research. If they fill in some basic factual knowledge in their brain, which I expect wouldn't take that long, I expect they would be able to continue being an effective researcher.
[Suno]
What are you doing? What did you plan? Are they aligned? If not then comprehend, if what you are doing now is better than the original thing. Be open-minded about, what is the optimal thing.
Don't fix the bottom line too: "Whatever the initial plan was is the best thing to do."
There are sub-agents in your mind. You don't want to fight, with them, as usually they win in the end. You might then just feel bad and don't even understand why. As a protective skin your sub-agent hides, the reasons for why, you feel so bad right now.
At that point, you need to pack the double crux out.
But ideally, we want to avoid, any conflict that might arise. So don't ask yourself if you followed your consequentialist reasoner's plan. Instead just ask: "What is the best thing for me to do right now?" while taking all the sub-agents into account.
To do it set a timer for 1 minute, and spend that time reflecting about: What do you want to get out of this session of work, why is this good, how does this help?
You can wirte notes in advance, then document your plans, and then read them out loud.
to remember the computations your brain did before, such that you don't need to repeat some of these chores.
Ideally, the notes would talk about, the reasons for why something seemed like a good thing to try.
But then as you evaluate what next step you could take, drop that bottom line. Treat it as evidence for what your brain computed in the past as an optimal policy, but nothing more. It's now your new goal to figure out again for yourself, using all the subagents within your shell.
And to do this regularly you of course use a timer you see. Every 30 minutes to an hour it should ring out loud reminding you to evaluate, what would be the next step to take.
If you let everybody influence the decision process that will commence, the probability is high that after you decide there will be no fight, in your mind.
Taking a walk is the single most important thing. It is really helpful for helping me think. My life magically reassembles itself when I reflect. I notice all the things that I know are good to do but fail to do.
In the past, I noticed that forcing myself to think about my research was counterproductive and devised other strategies for making me think about it, that actually worked, in 15 minutes.
The obvious things just work. Name you just fill your brain with all the research's current state. What did you think about yesterday? Just remember. Just explain it to yourself. With the context loaded the thoughts you want to have will come unbidden. Even when your walk is over you retain this context. Doing more research is natural now.
There were many other things I figured out during the walk, like the importance of structuring my research workflow, how meditation can help me, what the current bottleneck in my research is, and more.
It's proven tried and true. So it's ridiculous that so far I have not managed to can't notice its power. Of all the things that I do in a day, I thought this was one of the least important. But I was so wrong.
I also like talking to IA out loud during the walk. It's really fun and helpful. Talking out loud is helpful for me to build a better understanding, and IA often has good suggestions.
So how do we do this? How can we never forget to take a 30-minute walk in the sun? We make this song, and then go on:
and on and on and on.
We can also list other advantages to a walk, to make our brain remember this:
With that now said, let's talk about, how to never forget to take your daily work now:
Step 1: Set an alarm for the morning. Step 2: Set the alarm tone for this song. Step 3: Make the alarm snooze for 30 minutes after the song has played. Step 4: Make the alarm only dismissable with solving a puzzle. Step 5: Only ever dismiss the alarm after you already left the house for the walk. Step 6: Always have an umbrella for when it is rainy, and have an alternative route without muddy roads.
Now may you succeed!
Another thing that Haskell would not help you at all with is making your application good. Haskell would not force obsidian to have unbreakable references.
Yes, but now try moving the heading to a different file.
Yes, that is a good point. I think you can totally write a program that checks given two lists as input, xs and xs', that xs' is sorted and also contains exactly all the elements from xs. That allows us to specify in code what it means that a list xs' is what I get when I sort xs.
And yes I can do this without talking about how to sort a list. I nearly give a property such that there is only one function that is implied by this property: the sorting function. I can constrain what the program can be totally (at least if we ignore runtime and memory stuff).
Here is a model of mine, that seems related.
[Edit: Add Epistemic status]
Epistemic status: I have used this successfully in the past and found it helpful. It is relatively easy to do. utilitytime_investment is large for me.
I think it is helpful to be able to emotionally detach yourself from your ideas. There is an implicit "concept of I" in our minds. When somebody criticizes this "concept of I", it is painful. If somebody says "You suck", that hurts.
There is an implicit assumption in the mind that this concept of "I" is eternal. This has the effect, that when somebody says "You suck", it is actually more like they say "You sucked in the past, you suck now, and you will suck, always and ever".
In order to emotionally detach yourself from your ideas, you need to sever the links in your mind, between your ideas and this "concept of I". You need to see an idea as an object that is not related to you. Don't see it as "your idea", but just as an idea.
It might help to imagine that there is an idea-generation machine in your brain. That machine makes ideas magically appear in your perception as thoughts. Normally when somebody says "Your idea is dumb", you feel hurt. But now we can translate "Your idea is dumb" to "There is idea-generating machinery in my brain. This machinery has produced some output. Somebody says this output is dumb".
Instead of feeling hurt, you can think "Hmm, the idea-generating machinery in my brain produced an idea that this person thinks is bad. Well maybe they don't understand my idea yet, and they criticize their idea of my idea, and not actually my idea. How can I make them understand?" This thought is a lot harder to have while being busy feeling hurt.
Or "Hmm, this person that I think is very competent thinks this idea is bad, and after thinking about it I agree that this idea is bad. Now how can I change the idea-generating machinery in my brain, such that in the future I will have better ideas?" That thought is a lot harder to have when you think that you yourself are the problem. What is that even supposed to mean that you yourself are the problem? This might not be a meaningful statement, but it is the default interpretation when somebody criticizes you.
The basic idea here is, to frame everything without any reference to yourself. It is not me producing a bad plan, but some mechanism that I just happened to observe the output of. In my experience, this not only helps alleviate pain but also makes you think thoughts that are more useful.