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Very good, you've actually change my view on the gender oppression with this article

It's really counterintuitive, in your previous post there is an implication that the harder thing is to do, the smarter it makes you, and therefore more preferred it is. It seems as a stronger claim then mere "being locked in attention trap of facebook feed/videogames is bad".

But obviously (for me) it's better to make some content easier to comprehend, not harder, how making it easier can make a content worse? Like, I did a couple of things to increase my ability to gather/generate information (learned English, studied fast typing, use ... (read more)

2lsusr
I think there's a sweet spot for difficulty. Too easy and you're not exercising your mind. Too hard and you're not learning because everything is incomprehensible. You mention learning English so I think I'm in the same boat as you here. I'm a native English speaker so for me the rules here apply only to English. When I'm improving my Chinese, anything that makes things easier to comprehend helps (except translations). I don't place any restrictions on Chinese media except that it doesn't use English anywhere. By "fast typing" do you mean typing practice videogames? These also helped me learn to touch type. I don't find any problem with using an automatic spellchecker either. I don't see any negative side effects for these tools listed here. I don't have specific criteria, nor a single overarching theory (yet). I figured out the effects of different mediums through trial and error. I'd cut certain things from my life for a while (usually at least a week) and then afterward I'd review how much I've been learning. I did this over-and-over again until I got a feel for the medium-term impacts of different mediums. The specific criteria I use is simply "observed effect". If you mean "how do I observe whether a behavior pattern is making me smarter or dumber?" then I can't answer any better than "subjectively". I'd review I'd learned and how my overall behavior changed. If the observable effect was large enough of an improvement I'd consider removing certain kinds of media.

What's the difference between antimeme and just knowledge which is hard to attain? Why do we need a new definition "Antimemecy" when we already have "Complexity"? To prove it wrong it should be a meme that is complex and difficult to understand.

And for any useful knowledge when you start to use it you tend to remember it

2Self
I'd propose as examples "most stuff taught at university". Even outside of teaching institutions, complex ideas commonly spread memetically if the incentives for acquiring them are sufficiently visible from the outset. Think Evolutionary Theory, Object-Oriented Programming, or Quantum Physics.
1lsusr
An antimeme is a meme that's hard to find for reasons beyond its complexity. For example, Lisp isn't complicated. Informatically-speaking, it's simpler than popular programming languages.

Thank you, great sharing.

I want to add my 2 cents about things I disagree.

1) In the last post there was a thought like "I'm rational and proactive, and they're lazy and irrational, and therefore I do not prosper". That can be very dangerous mindset and it's incorrect by definition I think. That's not about pro poker players don't want to take +EV decisions. Vice versa, they have a lot of +EV decisions (check out new software, watch/read theory, discuss hands on forums, private discussions, group/individual classes, soft ... (read more)

Nice!

I'm from Samara (that Russian city from the experiment), and I sometimes face with unappreciation of contribution. Usually altruistic people are treated like idiots (why they are taking from thier own and thier close circle to feed some commonwealth?), and sometimes with negative reaction. I tried to explain it by myself and friends with the question "why then to be a contributor?" and my view what's going on was clumsy. Thanks for that, this article is a good explanation of my native thoughts.

Why can't you start shoveling those CoDs to pull off dragons from it? I'm not very familiar with therapy, but revision of business process (a what-to-do-in-which-case instruction) is usually a good way to handle power/responsibility problems. Finding occurancies when people have responsibility for something but have no power to change it and defining how to manage these cases should help reducing overall CoD. I'm a bit confused that article predicts that it only will make a CoD worse, I wonder why.