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Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)

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Re: Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)

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Post by Thiez »

falcor84 wrote: post #40
vkou wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ironically, there's a large overlap between those people and people who support capital punishment.

I find that to be rational - if you believe in eternal damnation, you would want the bad people to get there fast, but keep the good people out. And if you feel this is really in *your* hands, you would push very vocally for it.

When the destination is eternal, there is no rational reason to hurry there. What is a human lifetime compared to eternity? Even a trillion years is inconceivably short compared to eternity. If an afterlife exists the time where the inhabitants can still remember their life before death must be insignificant.

Re: Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)

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Post by rolisz »

bombcar wrote: post #41
dmd wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My wife and I have been keeping a daily journal since our first child was born in 2014 - about 100 - 200 words a day. (And before that i’d been doing it just for myself since 2006.) Besides just having it to go back to and read, something I’m really excited about is llm context windows getting large enough that I can feed the whole thing in (it’s about 1.5 million words) and ask questions. grep only goes so far.

The best part will be the LLM hallucinations of things that never happened, and then it gaslighting you. ;)

With RAG (so when you give it source text), hallucinations are greatly reduced (not completely, but greatly).

Re: Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)

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Post by KineticLensman »

Vivtek wrote: post #32
tmountain wrote: post #4

I just moved to a new country for the first time, and I've been doing a micro journal every day. Basically, I write 3-5 sentences capturing the most meaningful moments of the day. I've been doing this for two months now, and I've already found some benefits--both in gaining equilibrium and dialing up key details in sequence when necessary (i.e., when exactly did I start that home renovation project?). I'm lucky to be…

I've been doing this since 2016 and I'm frustrated on the regular that I never did it before. It's incredibly useful to know when things happened.

Yes, I do something similar for when I travel, work around my house and garden, natural events (e.g. first sightings of bats in the spring, first blossoms appear, a specific tree all bare of leaves in the autumn).

It gives a good sense of what is changing over the years and what stays the same.

Re: Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)

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Post by wakawaka28 »

cogman10 wrote: post #36
wakawaka28 wrote: post #29

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It's not that weird. Doctors and the state have perverse incentives. We also discourage suicide for good reasons.

States with the death penalty are finding it hard to find doctors and suppliers to carry out the punishment. I don't, frankly, think there's a lot of perverse incentive. For the medical field, the incentive is for longevity. Nursing homes make money on occupancy, they aren't going to want to kill off their primary source of income. The state might care, but they have an uphill battle if they tried pulling off soylent…

Killing people to take their organs would be one perverse incentive. Reducing costs to the state would be another.

Canada has been taking the lead with euthanasia. They propose it as a solution for such things as depression and poverty, or anything else that would make life unbearable for you (regardless of whether it's reasonable). See:

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/another-case-of-a-sick-...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/11/canada-cases-r...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/christine-...

https://nypost.com/2023/02/24/canada-considers-expanding-eut...

On the other hand, the medical establishment currently has incentives to keep people alive. That can certainly lead to perverse incentives too.

Re: Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)

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Post by bradley13 »

I'm not sure. Maybe it's because I have a poor memory to begin with, but I just don't see the reason for this. It reminds me of older people (mind, I'm over 60 myself) who spend all their time reminiscing.

Isn't it better to look forward rather than back? Approaching retirement, my pressing question is: what do I want to do next?

Re: Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)

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Post by phreeza »

bumbledraven wrote: post #35

> With approaching 4000 images, I need to get through 3 months per day. That rarely happens as my discipline has waned and I've let things slide when I've struggled to remember tags. Spaced repetition might be able to help here. Spaced repetition promises to help us remember an ever-increasing number of things even while spending an essentially fixed amount of time each day reviewing those things. The amount of time…

I actually found this article when searching for things related to spaced repetition. But I am wondering how well it would work due to the sequential nature of the stuff being remembered. I think it's probably easier to navigate from one day to the next with the method of loci or similar, than it is to recall a single day just from its date.

Re: Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)

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Post by dghughes »

dmd wrote: post #39
tmountain wrote: post #4

I just moved to a new country for the first time, and I've been doing a micro journal every day. Basically, I write 3-5 sentences capturing the most meaningful moments of the day. I've been doing this for two months now, and I've already found some benefits--both in gaining equilibrium and dialing up key details in sequence when necessary (i.e., when exactly did I start that home renovation project?). I'm lucky to be…

My wife and I have been keeping a daily journal since our first child was born in 2014 - about 100 - 200 words a day. (And before that i’d been doing it just for myself since 2006.) Besides just having it to go back to and read, something I’m really excited about is llm context windows getting large enough that I can feed the whole thing in (it’s about 1.5 million words) and ask questions. grep only goes so far.

I've been keeping a food diary since Nov 2014. It started off as a reminder to myself to eat better and fewer calories. I don't want to break the chain I even recorded my meals during over a week of no power after hurricane Fiona.

Here's my supper on day 1 if anyone is curious lol (note format is: day, month, year)

Saturday 01/11/2014 Beans, Baked, molasses and pork

Saturday 01/11/2014 Rice, Basmati, 1 cup

Saturday 01/11/2014 Pop, Orange cream, 355ml

Also my exercise inadvertently became a memory tool for me as well. Since being diagnosed with hypothyroid I noticed that my short-memory was not great. So this is a way to force myself to remember things I did today. Stuff I'd normally dismiss as unneeded info and clear it from my mind.

Re: Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)

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Post by avery17 »

Anotheroneagain wrote: post #34
tetris11 wrote: post #2

Alzheimer's has to be one of the worst. I do find euthanasia to be a slippery slope[0], but I'll make an exception for Alzheimer's. 0: picture an understaffed and underfunded hospital, with a single nurse walking around calmingly asking anyone if they want it to end

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Go on then, go cure everyone by feeding them pennies.

Re: Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)

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Post by medstrom »

phreeza wrote: post #57
bumbledraven wrote: post #35

> With approaching 4000 images, I need to get through 3 months per day. That rarely happens as my discipline has waned and I've let things slide when I've struggled to remember tags. Spaced repetition might be able to help here. Spaced repetition promises to help us remember an ever-increasing number of things even while spending an essentially fixed amount of time each day reviewing those things. The amount of time…

I actually found this article when searching for things related to spaced repetition. But I am wondering how well it would work due to the sequential nature of the stuff being remembered. I think it's probably easier to navigate from one day to the next with the method of loci or similar, than it is to recall a single day just from its date.

Yes, you wouldn't use a date. A more likely structure would be:

- the front of a flashcard shows a photo from 20 June and the back shows a photo from 21 June

- the front of another flashcard shows that same 21 June photo and the back shows a photo from 22 June

- and so on!

If you have multiple photos per day... maybe you could create a mosaic for each day? Bonus if the mosaic randomizes the order of items on every showing, but not necessary.

This seems definitely automatable!

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