AnarchistArtificer

Because the AI industry is a bubble that exists to sell more GPUs and drive fossil fuel demand

I agree with you. I think that what most people think of as "objectivity" isn't a thing that exists in reality, but as an ideal that we can strive towards. In practice, there is no neutral journalism — especially in this topic, my instinct is to be extra cautious of pieces that appear objective at first glance.

The piece you shared is a good example of how the bias in reporting can be found both in the micro-level prose, and the macro level framing of the piece (in this case, the macro framing being that the killing of journalists sets a scary precedent).

I mean, whilst it might not be the worth thing that could happen from trying this, the thing that already has happened is bad enough: I threw away the majority of stuff that I owned, which did involve getting rid of a lot of clutter, but also involved getting rid of a bunch of important and/or necessary things. Some of those things were necessary enough that they got repurchased. However, because of difficulties in organising what I do have (even when that's only the bare essentials), then I am living in chaotic inconsistency.

To give a concrete example, I have asthma and I'm meant to take a preventer inhaler twice a day. My asthma is practically non-existent if I keep on top of that, but I haven't been able to be consistent with it. That led to me having to have paramedics come out a while back because after a flare up, I also wasn't able to find my blue reliever inhaler. Fortunately I live in a country where that doesn't cost me an arm and a leg, but that kind of situation is what I'm trying to avoid — the cumulative impact of not having the things that I need to be okay

I do have a diagnosis of ADHD (I probably should have mentioned that in my post). I think that I struggle with knowing what the essentials are, especially given that I'm in this situation as a result of cutting my life down below even the essential essentials. A lot of the stuff that's causing mess isn't necessarily clutter that could be gotten rid of, but important stuff that needs to have a home

I have a reasonable amount of space for the stuff I need, but I'm in a weird position where, when it's tidy, my room looks weirdly sparse and empty (with the exception of various boxes). It looks like the home of someone who has recently moved in.

Are you able to talk more about how you have been slowly finding places for things? Like if you come across an item that has no clear place to go, how do you approach that problem? For me, I usually start with "okay, if you don't know where it would go, perhaps it's unneeded and you should throw it out". Whilst there have been times when that has been true, and I have binned the item, by now, the majority of the times I ask myself this, it's something that I definitely do need, but I'm not sure how to go about carving out space for the item.

I appreciate the perspective in your second paragraph. I am aware of how tumultuous history makes me better at handling huge, high stakes crises (despite struggling to cope with minor issues), but I hadn't considered how that dynamic could be affecting this quest.

When you are aiming to give everything a place, do you tend to do it from a bottom-up, item-by-item perspective, or a top-down, categories-then-items approach? For example, the top down mode is like if I defined a category like "nail-care", and then listed/gathered the items that belonged to that category (nail clippers, cuticle oil, nail file, etc.) and designated a home for that category. The bottom up one might start with me actually using the nail clippers and then thinking "where should this one item go?" I find it especially hard to find homes for individual, loose items like this, but if I don't put them somewhere, then when I stumble across other things in that category (cuticle oil etc.), I can't find the nail clippers, which hinders the ability of categories to begin to form.

I find categories useful because my working memory is trash (likely ADHD related, which I should have mentioned in my post). Like, by encapsulating a list of 3 items (e.g. nail clippers, cuticle oil, nail file) with a category, it abstracts away a lot of unnecessary information and I've reduced the problem from "find homes for these three items" to "find a home for the nail stuff". Currently, the default place for most of my stuff is for it to be spread across a couple of large boxes, and that makes it impossible for categories to form. I also often find myself paralysed with dread because I have historically found it useful to ensure I return items to their designated places, and my inability to find places for things causes me to just not use the things.

I do have a diagnosis of ADHD (I should have probably mentioned that in the post).

"Build systems that work for you today and get you closer to where you want to be."

The problem is that I don't think there are any systems that work for me today, in the sense that I am so deeply unfulfilled with my life at present that trying to build around me as I am now just leads to a sense of stagnation that really harms my morale. I think the key part of the above snippet is the "and get you closer to where you want to be", and that's the million dollar question.

I'll check out the book you recommended, thanks.

I have found that a similar approach has drastically decreased the amount of unnecessary stuff I have over the course of many years. The problem that I'm faced with now is that the various high quality things that I mindfully bought are functionally out of reach because everything is boxed up and disorganised.

Oooh, give me some of the words on your words list. I have one of my own, and accordingly, will share a random selection of recent entries: "that"; "nuisance";"apotheosis"; "knobbly"; "vehement"; "perfidious"; "befitting"; "timid"; "verisimilitude"; "knack".

These guys are as bad as the terrorist group Palestine Action (sarcasm, directed at the fact that the proscribing of Palestine Action as a terrorist group happened in the same vote as this group; if an MP had wanted to vote to outlaw RIM but not Palestine Action, it would have been impossible to do so)

No sexy man companions? Psh. And they call us man haters

The most fucked up thing is that Grok does seem to have guardrails — except they're geared towards preventing it from being "too woke"