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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 em-bee »

lobochrome wrote: post #27

It’s so hard to keep this going, but I’m keeping my paper calendars, which I use for important meetings, weekly to do lists and my training plans. Whenever I think of trashing the old ones I open them up and am so immediately fascinated by that glimpse into my past life. It’s not useful in a self-improvement sense but highly entertaining, for lack of a better word. I guess in general it might make me more self reflec…

yeah, i can never bear to throw away these things either. i don't use calendars often, but when i do, i want to keep the notes. however moving around makes it very hard to carry this stuff along. so when i get a chance, i leave stuff at my mothers place. and i make photos of noteworthy pages. same when i used whiteboards to track my work (before i learned about kanban)

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Post by Vivtek »

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.

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

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Post by Vivtek »

paganel wrote: post #13

I couldn't honestly do that, the nostalgia would be too much for me, even for only 10 years ago, even 5. And then how do you process past relationships and marriages? Or the death of loved ones? Or other such traumatic experiences?

That's real. There are whole years of my email archives I have troubles looking into.

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Post by Anotheroneagain »

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

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Post by bumbledraven »

> 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 spent reviewing is said to depend almost entirely on the learning rate, not on the number of things remembered.

https://supermemo.guru/wiki/History_of_spaced_repetition_(pr... :

> In a long-term process, for the forgetting index equal to 10%, and for a fixed daily working time, the average time spent on memorizing new items is only 5% of the total time spent on repetitions. This value is almost independent of the size of the learning material.

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

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Post by cogman10 »

wakawaka28 wrote: post #29
Aeolun wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> My life, my terms; if I want out, it needs to be an option. It’s always an option, it’s just kind of weird that it’s illegal for trained medical professionals to help you do it certainly and painlessly.

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 green.

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Post by ametrau »

anonzzzies wrote: post #3
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

Making an exception for X is the same slippery slope. And easy talk for people who haven't had a family member die in agony or something like that in a place where they don't allow control over your own life. My life, my terms; if I want out, it needs to be an option. Which is exactly the problem with Alzheimer; cancer is much easier; you are usually lucid but not very happy the last few weeks/months, so let's end it…

Just one problem with the is that it becomes in practice a go to option in healthcare for difficult cases as it introduces a moral hazard[1]. Like pure horror of maid abuse in Canada.

[1] Kill this patient or let them be bad mark on the hospital’s / care fac’s report sheet?

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

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Post by martinthenext »

In 2016 I created a telegram bot to make it super easy for me to keep daily diary, and I still use it now:

https://t.me/DaytobaseBot

Similar to other folks in the thread, I sometimes go back to old entries and reflect on how my life has changed. I find that my memory constantly simplifies and idealizes the past, and getting to see how it really felt day to day is very helpful.

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

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Post by dmd »

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.

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

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Post by falcor84 »

vkou wrote: post #16
anonzzzies wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We afford old people in their last days less compassion than a dog. I look forward to the day when we look back at this as a moral outrage. Maybe religious groups/political parties/lobbies etc; if they are against abortion, they will definitely be against ending grandma (who doesn't know who you or your grandpa are, but let's not mention that); religious people see it as suicide and murder, so off to hell with 2+ p…

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.
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