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Did you consider trying to collect data in a much poorer country that still has high quality English? e.g. the Philippines

Every time I read this post, it makes me a bit sad. It's never clear to me when I'm reading ancient texts how far off from their original intent I am and I can never know for sure. All I can do is read, try what they say and see what happens.

yeah: https://rajt.org/Xenon+Clinic+List

My impression is that there are lots in Russia but you'd have to know Russian to find them.

How do you find HN via RSS less distracting than the site itself?

What's your use case?

(can't help, just curious)

Also, for those that think they have structural back issues based on MRI's, iirc some crazy number of people without pain also have weird MRIs - MRIs suggest the possibility of something structural but in no way guarantee that that's a strong explanation.

The Way Out by Alan Gordon talks about this in more depth - one anecdote he mentions was a football player with REALLY bad back pain, who you'd expect to have all kinds of injuries, was pretty much completely fine after pain reprocessing therapy. This isn't an isolated case - I think the majority of people he tested PRT on in the Boulder Back Pain Study ended up getting significantly better via PRT implying most people didn't actually have structural issues

(note, exercise does still help because it's theorized that the way the body creates pain is by lowering blood flow/oxygen - exercise counters this. When my RSI was fairly bad, I remember that working out or sprinting and getting blood flowing would make me feel more or less ok)

Cannot understate how strongly I recommend reading about mind body syndrome for anyone with chronic pain. Decent summary: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BgBJqPv5ogsX4fLka/the-mind-b...

the tl;dr of it is that a lot (probably even the majority of chronic pain) is psychological, not structural. This isn't obvious because the pain is in fact entirely real. What causes it though is that if you think there's something wrong/sense minor pain in your back, brain thinks 'oh no somethings wrong' and sends more pain - this reinforces your sense of something being wrong and makes the pain worse and stay.

This normally doesn't happen that often but if you're stressed, you're much more sensitive to pain making it much easier to trigger.

My story with chronic pain: I had bad RSI for 2-3 weeks. Went away over a weekend after I read a story [0] of how someone treated their RSI. Your thinking about pain influences you're brains perception of it - you can halt the brain pain amplification cognitively.

For more detail on the nitty gritty of how this works neurologically, I recommend Unlearn Your Pain by Dr. Schubiner: https://www.amazon.com/Unlearn-Your-fourth-Howard-Schubiner-...

[0] https://sjbyrnes.com/rsi.html

I've thought about this but the problem is it has to be able to poke me in a way I can't ignore

It seems plausible to add penalties of some sort that make me take it seriously but hard for me to align it in a way that handles edge cases well

I've had a therapist before but they unfortunately didn't help as much as I'd hoped. I can often make systems that last a few weeks but single failure days cascade very easily. My hope is that with external accountability I can bootstrap these systems into working for months and become the kind of person that can reliably manage myself

Should've added more detail to my post but the reason I want to do this is less to become more productive and more to become sane - I'm trying to create a robust system to make sure I meditate, exercise and work on health issues every day.

It probably isn't far off to describe my struggle to manage these as mental illness rather than a productivity hurdle

From experience, my rep load in SuperMemo was half of what it'd have been in Anki for Japanese. over time, gap would've exploded. Being the only people with 30 years of good data makes a pretty big difference

woah, do you have a link on that? I use plan [1] which is great for minute level planning but also annoying in various ways, if there's other software that can do similar, would love to try it

(i'm guessing that this was purely a joke and no such thing exists)

[1] https://help.supermemo.org/wiki/Plan

Wow, haven't thought about tap tap revenge in a long time but loved it as a kid. Thanks for your work!

Based on how memory/forgetting curves work, there's nothing better than spaced repetition apps like SuperMemo. No matter how good your baseline recall is, you can't remember something forever without intermittent retrieval.

I wish more of the people posting about how they've had blogs for decades would link the blogs

For those confused on the specifics of incremental reading, I recommend this video by a friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNCLLNZEtz0

For those interested in learning to use SuperMemo, I recommend joining the supermemo discord server: supermemo.wiki/discord

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH1bewTg-P4 I love both of these

Is anyone who does swiftui stuff willing to answer my stupid questions? I have so many

I had this issue too and what I found made all the difference: try this for a week. Just a week. Do whatever you want afterwards but that week will teach you a lot about how much you really need or don't need your phone.

Talon voice is another one. Friend used it for a long while when he had bad RSI

I took a look and unfortunately programming apps for it isn't that well documented from what I can tell

unfortunately, it looks like for online degrees there's only masters (though they have other non-degree course)

How hard would it be to do it in associates degree time?

did you read the memoir? I think her positions are far more interesting in context and are hard to abstract away to be independent of where they came from

that's a cool video thanks for posting link

okay, I can work on getting a local version working. Would it be all that much harder to have the text file already be on the site (since I'd be the only user?)

Interesting, if todoist has tags then I could probably do it like this by just syncing the python script and having it do things via todoist API

Sorry for poor explanation, basically I want to build an app for managing trigger action plans: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wJutA2czyFg6HbYoW/what-are-t.... The idea is that, when I'm first implementing one I'll want to review all the ones I've just made each morning till they're a certain level of automatic. After that, I'd want to make them less frequent, say every other day, and then continuously decreasing as I get better and better at doing them. Vaguely akin to spaced repetition.

does it get to how syncing would work in the tutorial itself?

https://ceealar.org/ is the closest that comes to mind for what you have in mind. Basically, they give room and board to people doing valuable effective altruist work

https://newscience.org/ might also be interesting