The post is relevant to LW because it is fairly well known many people are on the spectrum here, and also many people are interested in self-improvement or life-improvement. I will investigate here the possibility of using one aspect of the spectrum, namely rigid routines, for good use. After all,...
[BEGINNER] The uses of Bayesianism, do I see it right?
On the third, I Scott wrote about books like Surfing Uncertainty (I have bought it, have not read it yet) https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-uncertainty/ basically Karl Friston stuff, predictive processing, free energy and so on.
Do it seems today, that Bayesianism is not something one chooses to do, but we automatically run in a Bayesian mode, we just often do not do it well?
Thank you! "having another person reflect your situation back to you" sounds exactly like "paid friend", though the reality is that I do not actually have such real life friends so ultimately I might take it up. I could try AI, but so far AI is too much of an "ass-kisser", Claude AI just agrees with me about everything... I hear GPT-5 is "harsher" which might be good.
One thing that is holding me back is that I am not really a big believer in the, how to put it, the power of thought in such matters. I think more like we are chemical machines, for example I heard stories like for some people a literally ONE time iron supplementation gave them the immediate energy to overcome certain obstacles. For this reason I tried some antidepressants, but the results were very underwhelming, yet, I think it is possible to fix our minds through our bodies, be that exercise, healthier eating, supplements etc.
The post is relevant to LW because it is fairly well known many people are on the spectrum here, and also many people are interested in self-improvement or life-improvement. I will investigate here the possibility of using one aspect of the spectrum, namely rigid routines, for good use. After all, routines are probably the same thing as habits (might I be wrong here?) and good habits (habits at least better than others, for most people for most cases) definitely exist.
Rigid routines are a fairly well-known element of the spectrum, they likely come from a place of wanting things predictable, clear and unambiguous (unsure where THAT comes from, perhaps rigid priors?). This is... (read 789 more words →)
On AI coding. AI certainly cannot replace serious devs, but rather it makes them more productive. But it can be immensely helpful to people who use development, or a particular kind of development sparingly, as just one tool in their toolbox. I am an ERP consultant, most of my work time is not development, but I do write smaller programs, really just customizations, not whole apps, in the AL for the Microsoft Business Central, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/devenv-programming-in-al which is very, very limited, it cannot really call external libraries and so on. So when I just want a Python script to transform a DBASE DBF file to CSV so that I can import it into... (read more)