The usual advice to get a good YES/NO answer is to first ask for the explanation, then the answer. The way you did it, GPT4 decides YES/NO, then tries to justify it regardless of whether it was correct.

[-]pathos_bot2y92

This reminds me about the comment on how effective LLM's will be for mass scale censorship.

[-]Jay Bailey2y30

I found an error in the application - when removing the last item from the blacklist, every page not whitelisted is claimed to be blacklisted. Adding an item back to the blacklist fixes this. Other than that, it looks good!

[-]Sergii2y10

thanks!

[-]Razied1y2-5

Sorry to be blunt, but any distraction filter that can be disabled through the chrome extension menu is essentially worthless. Speaking from experience, for most people this will work for exactly 3 days until they find a website they really want to visit and just "temporarily" disable the extension in order to see it.

[-]RoscoHunter2y21

This fits very nicely as an antidote to the criticisms of AI from the following discussion: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/podcasts/ai-vibe-check-with-ezra-klein-and-kevin-tries-phone-positivity.html?

[-]Augmented Assembly2y10

Agreed

[-]jacquesthibs2y20

This is certainly interesting! Though I will note that I find it pretty easy to block a bunch of websites with Freedom (and apps on desktop and portable devices!). They have a list of buttons that groups websites together. And then after a work session, I evaluate if the website was a time-waster for my work-time, if it was, I block it. I don’t find it too difficult. You just gotta be honest with yourself whether a website is wasting your time or not.

For example, I used to be able to convince myself that I need YouTube to be productive sometimes so I wouldn’t block it. Which was true sometimes, but then I’d often get sucked into a YouTube black hole of worthless videos. It’s just the kind of thing you can convince yourself, “I really need to look at this for work.” But actually no, it can wait and you are just rationalizing yourself out of actually doing hard (the most important) work.

So, now I have it blocked for most of the day and just download videos when it’s unblocked if I really need the video (I’ve been going through Andrej Karpathy’s videos every morning doing this, for example).

Honestly, I’m now on the verge of blocking LessWrong and the EA forum for most of the day too now! If I need a post, I’ll read it when I’m unblocked or read it through my article saver app.

[-]nabereon10mo10

This looks very useful, although I think the performance improvements in the more recent open-weight, smaller, quantized models (like Gemma-2, Qwen-2.5, or Phil-3.5) have made it much more reasonable to run such a model locally for this purpose rather than using a remote API, since sending data about the webpages they visit to OpenAI is a repulsive idea to many people (it would also have cost benefits over huge models like GPT-4, but the increase in benefit/cost ratio would be an epsilon increase compared to budget proprietary models like Gemini-2.0-Flash).

[-]Simon Berens2y10

Cool project!

I’m curious—what does the long tail of websites look like for you? For me, it’s the small number of sites that i repeatedly go to (twitter, youtube, hackernews, etc…) that take up the vast majority of my wasted time.

(Btw, I also built my own website blocker: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webblock/jeahkphmdfbddenabgndnooheiciocka)

[-]Sergii2y20

well apparently after blocking the worst offenders I just wander quite randomly, according to RescueTime here are 5 1-minute visits making up 5 minutes I'm not getting back :)

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