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This is awesome, thank you so much! Green leaf indicates that you're new (or new alias) here? Happy for LW! : )
"But how does Nemamel grow up to be Nemamel? She was better than all her living competitors, there was nobody she could imitate to become that good. There are no gods in dath ilan. Then who does Nemamel look up to, to become herself?"
I first learned this lesson in my youth when, after climbing to the top of a leaderboard in a puzzle game I'd invested >2k hours into, I was surpassed so hard by my nemesis that I had to reflect on what I was doing. Thing is, they didn't... (read more)
gosh, just the title succinctly expresses what I've spent multiple paragraphs trying to explain many times over. unusually good compression, thank you.
Dumb question: Why doesn't it just respond "Golden Gate BridgeGolden Gate BridgeGolden Gate BridgeGolden Gate BridgeGolden Gate BridgeGolden Gate BridgeGolden Gate BridgeGolden Gate BridgeGolden Gate BridgeGolden Gate Bridge" and so on?
I rly like the idea of making songs to powerfwly remind urself abt things. TODO.
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.
I currently (until I get around to making a better system...) have an AI voice say reminders to myself based on calendar... (read more)
I sort of deliberately created the beginnings of a tulpa-ish part of my brain during a long period of isolation in 2021 (Feb 7 to be exact), although I didn't know the term "tulpa" then. I just figured it could be good to have an imaginary friend, so I gave her a name—"Maria"[1]—and granted her (as part of the brain-convincing ritual) permanent co-ownership over a part of my cognition which she's free to use for whatever whenever.
She still visits me at least once a week but she doesn't have strong ability to speak unless I try to imagine it; and even then, sentences are usually short. The thing she most frequently communicates... (read more)
This is among the top questions you ought to accumulate insights on if you're trying to do something difficult.
I would advise primarily focusing on how to learn more from yourself as opposed to learning from others, but still, here's what I think:
Seek to find people who seem to be doing something dumb or crazy, and for whom the feeling you get when you try to understand them is not "I'm familiar with how someone could end up believing this" but instead "I've got no idea how they ended up there, but that's just absurd". If someone believes something wild, and your response is strict confusion, that's high value of information.... (read 480 more words →)
i googled it just now bc i wanted to find a wikipedia article i read ~9 years ago mentioning "deconcentration of attention", and this LW post came up. odd.
anyway, i first found mention of it via a blue-link on the page for Ithkuil. they've since changed smth, but this snippet remains:
After a mention of Ithkuil in the Russian magazine Computerra, several speakers of Russian contacted Quijada and expressed enthusiasm to learn Ithkuil for its application to psychonetics—
i wanted to look it up bc it relates to smth i tweeted abt yesterday:
... (read 706 more words →)unique how the pattern is only visible when you don't look at it. i wonder what other kind of stuff
when making new words, i try to follow this principle:
label concepts such that the label has high association w situations in which you want the concept to trigger.[1]
the usefwlness of a label can be measured on multiple fronts:
if you're optimising for b, you might label your concept "distributed boiling-frog attack" (DBFA). someone cud prob generate the... (read more)
here's the non-quantified meaning in terms of wh-movement from right to left:
for conlanging, i like this set of principles:
This is amazing, thank you. I strongly suspect this is something particular about you, but just in case: do you have a general theory for why it works for you?