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oriel commented on Why We Spiral behavioralscientist.org/w... · Posted by u/gmays

To add to OP: It helps to pay attention to physical symptoms of stress as well. If you find yourself constantly tensing your jaw or your shoulders, take a moment to focus on relaxing your muscles and breathing. Overcoming negative automatic responses just takes consistent practice.

To further add: being able to acknowledge an emotional response to a situation and then divert to objective thinking is a superpower. Sustained anger, sadness, or fear will quickly drain your energy and leave you unable to act with intent.

oriel · 3 months ago

To add to this further, I've had great success following The Body Keeps Score; seeing it as a repository of past stress and trauma.

As part of this, I've been able to locate and work through stress and trauma activations in my body, where normally they'd cluster around my head and never actually get resolved.

Every time I go to work out, I pay attention to what areas of my body arent responding, are activating oddly; and I'll work to strengthen the foot-to-neck paths. It started with a back injury and has resulted in me finding I needed wide foot shoes and changing my entire stance, posture, complex movements, etc.

Some times I find it odd that I don't have that daemon running around yelling, because hes now activated in my body, and all I have to do is stretch.

oriel commented on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/nemoniac

hbn · 4 months ago

Don't forget censorship-free

I swore off streaming services when they started pulling episodes of comedy shows and editing out scenes because they were worried someone might be offended

oriel · 4 months ago

For me, it was when a movie wasn't the way I remembered it. Then I found a pirated copy.

Turned out the 'official' release was heavily edited, with tone, characters, and even some plot had been completely reshaped. I've found this to be increasingly prevalent, and not just in a "made for TV" or "adapted for Flying" type modifications.

oriel commented on Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface abdisa.me/... · Posted by u/abdisaDev

maze-le · 8 months ago

Very nice, but if you want to use it professionally you should consider having an alternative "clear text" version for recruiters and the like. The technically minded will find it nice but most people won't know what to do or what any of this means. And you could consider adding `ls`, `cd` and `exit` just for fun -- it was the first thing I've tried.

oriel · 8 months ago

I did something like this, in a much more limited form, when putting together my personal site a few weeks ago. https://1ps0.info/

I had a friend try to run 'sudo shutdown -r now'. It inspired a much more thorough approach to the terminal functionality, but I didnt want to rabbit hole too far.

As it stands, initially it was a cyberpunk theme but i wanted a vscode-like professional theme as default, so you can toggle between them through cli. Lots of fun to be had with eastereggs.

oriel commented on Should We Respect LLMs? A Study on Influence of Prompt Politeness on Performance arxiv.org/abs/2402.14531... · Posted by u/rbanffy

oriel · 8 months ago

My experience informs my opinion, that structure is more important than specific tone.

IMO If LLMs are made from our language, then terminology semantics plays strongly into the output, and degree of control.

Some people rage when the machine doesn't work as expected, but we know that, "computers are schizophrenic little children, and don't beat them when they're bad."[1] ... right? Similar applies to please.

I've had far better results by role playing group dynamics with stronger structure, like say, the military. Just naming the LLM up front as Lieutenant, or referencing in-brief a Full Metal Jacket-style dress-down with clear direction, have gotten me past many increasingly common hurdles with do-it-for-you models. Raging never works. You can't fire the machine. Being polite has been akin to giving a kid a cookie for breaking the cookie jar.

It is funny though, to see the Thinking phase say stuff like "The human is angry (in roleplay)..."

[1] https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

oriel commented on Electromagnetism as a Purely Geometric Theory iopscience.iop.org/articl... · Posted by u/andyjohnson0

rkagerer · 8 months ago

Couldn't get past the robot wall.

oriel · 8 months ago

At this point, should failing the test be an indicator of being human, rather than success?

oriel commented on Silicon Zen: Modern Koans for the AI Age 1ps0.github.io/silicon-ze... · Posted by u/oriel

oriel · 8 months ago

Following in the tradition of the Tao of Programming[1] and the Unix Koans[2], this initial set of Koans for LLMs seeks to capture the line between understandable tool and misunderstood hype.

[1] https://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html

[2] https://prirai.github.io/books/unix-koans/

oriel commented on Open source AI agent helper to let it SEE what its doing github.com/monteslu/vibe-... · Posted by u/monteslu

oriel · 9 months ago

This is great, going to see how it integrates with my own agentic work. Code looks well laid out and concise.

I really like how you demonstrate the clear workflow and obvious outputs in the video.

FYI feedback on the branding end: I'm starting to notice a negative reaction to anything termed 'vibe' (though i love the wordplay in the project name). Also I was a bit startled by the splash image.

That said, this is definitely a cut above the average project with a clear targeted tooling win. Congrats!

oriel commented on Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodivergent people with tasks goblin.tools/... · Posted by u/ValentineC

BaudouinVH · 9 months ago

I've ADHD and I'm on the spectrum. Others may differ - it's a spectrum after all- but I feel no list-only app will ever silence the drunk baboon on my shoulder constantly pulling my attention from what I'm doing.

I'd advise goblin.tools to market itself differently and aim for the neurotypical market as well.

#my2cents

oriel · 9 months ago

I ended up taking my own path towards small-scale tooling. I've been using the binaural audio trick through youtube for some years now, particularly the rendered 40hz trick to clear my head.

The insight was that a lot of the noise pulling me off center was coming from built up clenching of muscles around my head and back, and a destabilization of core posture while sitting, leading to shaky leg and such.

The project I built was simply a mixable tone dashboard for different frequencies. Ive been dogfooding it hard, and its my goto to push around my headspace to clear out the noise and make a protected space for work. The easiest litmus for tone choice has just been, 'does this help or hurt'. On my better days its like im giving my brain a massage and I have the most productive times.

https://1ps0.github.io/binaural

A note: i load the file directly from repo when I use it on Firefox, theres an audiocontext policy i havent been able to figure out. Should work great on mobile and elsewhere.