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Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival

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Re: Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival

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Post by layer8 »

> I stumbled on this elegant [lockable] box you put phones into and it blocks all radio communications.

If you truly want to block yourself from using your phone (or similar) for some amount of time, the Kitchen Safe time-lock boxes are great. They don’t look particularly elegant, nor do they block radio communication, but their unique feature is that you’d have to irreversibly physically break them to access whatever you locked inside before the timer has elapsed. There are many similar products, which however usually have an “emergency” mechanism to preempt the timer, which defeats the purpose.

Re: Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival

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Post by darqis »

Man, instead of going to some discord channel, asking waiting for some human to respond, if they do, then potentially misunderstand the question, maybe even cause drama, or using a search engine to crawl, tediously through SO and Reddit posts, because Google favors those 2, or wading through pages of potentially badly written documentation, I just turn on github and ask copilot. And it responds in most cases, and I can even chat with it ask for alternatives or better approaches to my problems.

And then I needed a logo for my new service I'm building. Search for AI image generator, input the prompt and a few seconds later I have my really cool image. Time saved -> infinity.

But I also thought, all this problem solving done by the machines, leaves my brain unemployed, well not exactly, I can focus on solving issues that usually take hours to solve and get on with it. However those hard nuts are no longer cracked by me, and I focus on the lighter cognitive load.

Probably not good, but idk, I don't have the luxury to be picky, being an unemployed freelancer on social security

Re: Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival

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Post by _rpxpx »

Articles like this always start with such radical criticism, and end with such dismally modest proposals: "try not to look at your phone for 1 hour after you wake up", "before you pick up your phone, try counting to 100 first", "move 'instagram' away from your homescreen", etc. What about just getting rid of your smartphone? Who really needs anything beyond calls and text messages...? You can get a GPS map, and a camera. Complete freedom is right there for the taking.

Re: Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival

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Post by darqis »

jampa wrote: post #11

> Having your phone in the same room while doing cognitive work reliably drops your memory, attention, and overall cognitive performance. That is my biggest problem with most Multifactor authentication. I try to leave my phone in another room to focus, but needing the phone authenticator for something always happens within two hours. I still don't know why apps think a device I carry in the streets is safer than one…

Bitwarden has desktop apps. And Vaultwarden hosts your own instance. Also, Bitwarden has MFA. But yes I agree, some have a specific kind of MFA, like Google. I hate Google's MFA. You have to get up and get your phone to press something. I hate being forced to use the phone.

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Post by overload119 »

Uehreka wrote: post #120

> They call it centaur guardrails because it’s AI on the bottom, human on the top. Nice. Did you just define a term, act like it already existed, then compliment yourself for coming up with it?

It was directly from the study that I had linked. I was complimenting them.

Re: Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival

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Post by kjkjadksj »

jampa wrote: post #11

> Having your phone in the same room while doing cognitive work reliably drops your memory, attention, and overall cognitive performance. That is my biggest problem with most Multifactor authentication. I try to leave my phone in another room to focus, but needing the phone authenticator for something always happens within two hours. I still don't know why apps think a device I carry in the streets is safer than one…

Funny how apple purposely breaks this for convenience. Some merchant or bank will try and implement 2 factor from a code they text you. Apple scans your messages in the background and prompts you to fill the code from one click all from this one “factor” thanks to the imessage/sms integration.

Re: Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival

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Post by kjkjadksj »

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #116
mitchell_h wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

google "gen z stare". This is such a commonly observed thing that it got a name, meme, tiktok sound, and news articles.

For what it's worth, the nature of the stare seems to be in dispute: > With this, a lot of Gen Z “clapped back,” if you will (this essentially means they rebutted), saying that this stare comes from listening to Boomers or Millennials ask them obvious questions or start demanding things from them that warrant a look that says, “Are you actually serious right now?” or “I don’t get paid enough for this.” https://www.in…

Hearing mindnumbingly dumb things from customers is as old as customer facing jobs though.

Re: Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival

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Post by kjkjadksj »

darqis wrote: post #122

Man, instead of going to some discord channel, asking waiting for some human to respond, if they do, then potentially misunderstand the question, maybe even cause drama, or using a search engine to crawl, tediously through SO and Reddit posts, because Google favors those 2, or wading through pages of potentially badly written documentation, I just turn on github and ask copilot. And it responds in most cases, and I c…

Used to be if you needed a logo you wrote it on a napkin. Just quick simple creativity. I imagine limiting opportunities to engage in that lead to future opportunities to engage in that feeling like too high a friction cost. Like falling out of the habit of working out.
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