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bcare1810

Plugging my more light-hearted rationality podcast, Recreational Overthinking. Been a LessWrong reader for a long time now and I think a lot of the community would find it entertaining. https://open.spotify.com/show/3xZEkvyXuujpkZtHDrjk7r?si=ryufuZjZSe2ryw7aKFOUpQ

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Third Time: a better way to work
bcare18110

Awesome idea! As an excuse to practice some coding, I made a c++ program that runs a little Rational Breaks timer app on the terminal. I've put it on GitHub if anyone wants to try it out (only tested on linux) https://github.com/ben-carew/ratio_breaks Currently in the process of adding a meal breaks feature and making it prettier, that will be up soon. If you use it, please give me feedback and suggest improvements/updates. This is also my first time using GitHub (I'm not a programmer) so any feedback on how that usually works would be great! 

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4Bart Bussmann
I have been using your app for a week now and I must say I really like it.  It's simple, clean, and has all the functionality it needs!
Open & Welcome Thread November 2021
bcare1840

Absolutely! I'm just finishing a bachelor in physics. Email me at B78980988@gmail.com.

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Without a phone for 10 days
bcare1860

I exclusively use a Nokia flip phone, and have never used a smart phone as my daily driver. Carrying around something with that much potential for addiction in my pocket at all times scares me, and I'd rather save my willpower for more important decisions. I see the occasional boredom as a plus - being comfortable while alone with just your thoughts is a skill worth practicing. There are definite downsides though, especially now with QR code reading being a staple of going out. I also don't like having to rely on others for navigation, google searches etc.... (read more)

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2Bezzi
My experience is quite similar; never bought a smartphone and use just a Nokia phone with voice/SMS only. It's not exactly like not having a phone at all, but in a typical day I don't receive more than one message/call, and more often than not the phone remains completely silent for the whole day. I've watched friends managing their WhatsApp chats (and similar time-sucking services) and I'm still very much scared by the perspective of constantly being pinged for random reasons. With my old-fashioned phone I have to pay some cents for every message sent. I could change my tariff plan at any time, but so far I've choose to stick with the old tariff, because it's a very strong incentive to send only messages that actually matter. That said, I usually spend several hours a day working at my laptop and don't travel very often. Even with a smartphone at hand, I would still prefer to work from my laptop if available (much bigger screen, no weight in my hand etc). Also, my colleagues are accustomed to emails and my parents are sort of smartphone-skepticals themselves; putting all toghether, my social pressure for getting into smartphones is pretty low. But it's definitely possible to live without and I encourage to give it a try.
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Looking at the extremes of the situation:

  1. If I am omniscient, that doesn't make me omnibenevolent. I could surely see every consequence of my actions, know exactly what would be the moral choice, and still decide to act in an evil or selfish way. Knowing the truth makes it  to be moral, should I choose to do so, but does not make me more moral.
  2. If I am completely absent of ability to foresee consequences of my actions, then my "morality" from a consequentialist viewpoint can be no better than random chance. Faced with complete ignorance I can
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