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How to overcome Phone Addiction

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Post by 3131s »

blackearl wrote: post #226
mschuster91 wrote: post #167

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Alcohol delivery services are already a thing everywhere, Berlin has "cocaine taxis", now all that's missing is pot delivery once it finally becomes legal...

I'd heard of weed maps but cocaine taxis seems like a brazenness I couldn't imagine working on either side, vendor or buyer.

I know a woman who managed to sell cocaine out of a taxi (in the US) for 8 years without being caught.

It's a great way to sell drugs because you can always claim that whatever is stashed in the backseat was left by one of your passengers.

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Post by WhompingWindows »

KhoomeiK wrote: post #77
Noos wrote: post #51

Given this is Hacker News, I await the solution of LSD-assisted therapy to counter phone addiction to be proposed soon.

Lol I'm not proposing an LSD-based solution, but I do have a relevant anecdote from my first trip. We were on the beach sitting on blankets, and my phone somehow got lost in the folds of the blanket while I was coming up. For the next ~4 hours I basically forgot "who" I was, being deprived of a phone that constantly shows me my friends, notes, and pictures. Eventually, I did find my phone and it was the weirdest expe…

It sounds like you're correlating forgetting who you were and the phone, but you should be correlating the LSD and forgetting who you were. These drugs de-activate the "ego" forming parts of the brain, the parts that make us feel like an author/being/center of it all.

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Post by WhompingWindows »

bricemo wrote: post #136

“Phone addiction” is way too broad. A lot of this criticism of phones appears out of the fact that a phone can be used for a wide range of activities. If I said someone “spent the day doing some research for work, journaling, watching TV, chatting with friends, playing a game, looking at photos from a friend’s trip, then reading local and global news”, then that sounds like a healthy balanced day. But if I described…

Even if you call that a "balanced" day, that's 7 hours straight of using a tiny mobile device, when you could use an actually ergonomically sound device with better I/O speed and higher resolution, i.e. an actual computer. People would get those tasks done faster with less strain on their body if they used a different machine.

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NotPavlovsDog wrote: post #75

The paper they are basing the opening sentence "phone addiction is one of the biggest non-drug addiction(sic) in human history" on is written by a Doctor of Business Administration, a dean that has "particular industries of interest are banks and non-profit organizations" in his bio and a third researcher with 2 publications total, including the article in question (published 2011). This may in no way weaken the poin…

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Post by gfody »

MAGZine wrote: post #158

One thing I've done to combat this is to aggressively tamp down on things that vie, or worse yet, call for my attention. I leave my phone permanently on do not disturb mode (pagerduty and immediate family are the only exemptions). I use greyscale settings to limit my interest in phones in the evenings. And, if you send me push notifications for ANYTHING I didn't expressly request (like a status update on a pending ub…

> The greyscale one in particular is fascinating, and I can feel the effect immediately

came here to mention greyscale - I took the greyscale challenge back in 2017 and never went back. I would catch myself pulling out my phone for no other reason than just to look at it, greyscale basically cured that habit. many people have reported similar experiences w/going gray.

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Post by rsanek »

latexr wrote: post #206
andai wrote: post #179

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Reminds me of the experiments on rats, where they couldn't even convince them to try heroin (-laced water) if they were living in a natural environment, whereas the rats stuck in cages became addicted to heroin immediately.

For anyone interested in learning more, search for “rat park”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

and be sure not to miss the Criticisms section of that Wiki.

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Post by wisty »

latexr wrote: post #206
andai wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reminds me of the experiments on rats, where they couldn't even convince them to try heroin (-laced water) if they were living in a natural environment, whereas the rats stuck in cages became addicted to heroin immediately.

For anyone interested in learning more, search for “rat park”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

Extraordinary results, but even the author's graduate student had difficulty replicating them.

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Post by saltyfamiliar »

hugocbp wrote: post #196
closeparen wrote: post #152

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I use SelfControl on my Mac when I need a serious work session. It always surprises me, when I tab to HN or Reddit and get blocked, how automatic an action it was. I’m never inclined to fight it. It never represented an actual desire to be there. There’s no deep longing to say “no” to. After the first few times being thwarted, it stops for the next several hours. I still feel the push “away” from what I’m trying to f…

I do the same. I even used the terminal commands to change the granularity of the blocks and extend the length. And the same things happens to me. A lot of times I don't even want or think of going to HN, Reddit, Twitter. I'm just bored or frustrated and, almost unconsciously, I hit the shortcuts for Browser > New Tab > Focus Address Bar > Start typing n, r or m (for mobile.twitter.com). Some things that helped a lot…

You should try Vimium. Shift-o brings up an omnibar and opens your query in a new tab.
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