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by academic_84572 14d ago
For me, adaptive friction has been very helpful - allow access to distracting apps/sites, but make them progressively harder to use. For phones, ScreenZen is great at this. Makes you pause before visiting an app or site, and you can co
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by academic_84572 3mo ago
Surely we know by now that this is not enough? Kids find ways around everything. Even adults find the 'digital wellbeing' tools on Android and iOS useless. Just look at the multitude of apps available for digital self regulation t
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by academic_84572 3mo ago
I made MooBlock - a browser extension for digital self-regulation. Basically, it adds a small timeout before you can access a distracting site. This timeout grows the more you visit these sites, and decays when you stay away. And yes, there
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by academic_84572 4mo ago
The idea is that the number of cows grows the longer you stay on the site, so it becomes progressively harder to use. And yes it is based off my research on Internet and porn addiction (I am a psych researcher). So far I've received ve
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by academic_84572 4mo ago
ScreenZen is great, my first choice for phones as well. Very flexible settings. For desktop, I recently built a free browser extension called MooBlock - it's similar to ScreenZen in that it adds a forced pause before you reach a distra
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Show HN: MooBlock – blocks distracting sites with adaptive friction (and cows)(chromewebstore.google.com)
1 points by academic_84572 5mo ago|0 comments
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by academic_84572 7mo ago
Exactly. The problem is timescale - short-term calming effect -> long-term increase in baseline anxiety and craving. And thus the cycle repeats.
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by academic_84572 8mo ago
In the short term, you might see better outcomes with pure vibecoding...but in the long term, when you're mentally burnt out, cynical, and losing motivation, that's a bad outcome both in terms of productivity and your own mental h
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Study shows porn use leads to hangover in some, but not all, users(link.springer.com)
3 points by academic_84572 8mo ago|0 comments
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Study suggests excessive porn use can cause depression, maybe brain fog(link.springer.com)
4 points by academic_84572 9mo ago|0 comments
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by academic_84572 11mo ago
I created DecayBlock, mainly to help people stay focussed online but also to teach myself JavaScript. I've been using it for the past few months and it's massively boosted my productivity. Chrome: https://chromewebstore
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Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotica(techcrunch.com)
6 points by academic_84572 11mo ago|6 comments
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A Solution to the Paperclip Problem(link.springer.com)
2 points by academic_84572 1y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: A website blocker for improving focus that actually works(chromewebstore.google.com)
4 points by academic_84572 1y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: An extension similar to Blocksite, but with a dynamic timeout(chromewebstore.google.com)
1 points by academic_84572 1y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: I built a website blocker with a dynamic timeout that actually works
2 points by academic_84572 1y ago|2 comments
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by academic_84572 1y ago
Slightly tangential, but we recently published an algorithm aimed at addressing the paperclip maximizer problem: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07462 Curious what others think about this direction, particularly in terms of
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Show HN: We made a tool to reduce echo chambers on social media(tandfonline.com)
4 points by academic_84572 1y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: A tool to minimize echo chambers on social media(tandfonline.com)
4 points by academic_84572 1y ago|1 comments
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by academic_84572 2y ago
Yes, this is flawed legislation, and yes kids will find ways to bypass these protections. But I think this is a step in the right direction. There is clear evidence of the harms caused by social media, especially for adolescents. We have to
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by academic_84572 2y ago
This is a critical space for progressing AI in science right now. Once we have algorithms that can process charts and interpret data, our ability to integrate scientific information from multiple studies will increase exponentially. We may
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An allostatic regulator for echo chambers on social media(researchsquare.com)
2 points by academic_84572 2y ago|0 comments
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by academic_84572 2y ago
We published a preprint last year with an algorithm for content restriction that YouTube might find useful: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3708350/v1 Essentially it's a dynamic regulator that restr
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Show HN: A mobile app built with R(arxiv.org)
5 points by academic_84572 2y ago|0 comments
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A possible solution to the superalignment problem?(arxiv.org)
1 points by academic_84572 3y ago|0 comments