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So, I went cold turkey last Friday because I felt like slowly detaching myself from caffeine wouldnt work. I dont want to crave Coca Cola for weeks. I had terrible mood swings, headaches and tiredness for 3 days, starting on the Friday. I also bought some decaf coffee, but Im dropping that too since it has a little bit of caffeine. 5-10% of what real coffee has. Today has been a lot easier than the first 3 days were, however Im still dead tired occasionally. Hopefully the worst is over tho Luckily, there has not been affect on my sleep at all. I can sleep normally, so my tiredness is just about hormones I guess.

Self-aware NPC here: The problem is not wanting to take responsibility for what you think on ego invested topics. Its useless to argue with someone who dont want to take responsibility for what they think. They outsource their facts just so they would never be wrong, the sources would be wrong. Nothing wrong with wanting to source your arguments, the problem comes when your source is Alex Jones.

Negative/positive future projection is awesome tool to create motivation for getting over that first initial bumb of resistance when creating good habits and getting rid of bad ones

I dont remember ever being worried about dying myself, but I remember crying myself to sleep thinking how my family is going to be dead some day and they might be dead tomorrow.

You are going to hate reading this but you keep relapsing because you have not fixed the root problem to your porn addiction. You are only hurting yourself by trying to get rid of your porn addiction at the moment. Addictions are surprisingly easy to kick when you don't have those root problems that cause your addiction in the first place. You might stop doing them without even trying purely through awareness. The addictions are actually helping you to cope with the root cause. Cut the root cause, and you cut the addictions too. As an example, I got rid of my porn, food, alcohol, keyboard jock and youtube addiction (Edit: Also gambling) in a year after I finished school and got rid of the root problem that was anxiety caused by school and social anxiety. It wasn't really hard, I just kicked them. What wasn't easy was trying to kick them all for 5 years while I was at school, but couldn't because of the studying/social anxiety. Mere trying caused me a lot of stress, anxiety and feeling of failure, dont repeat my mistake. I dont know much about how to find the root cause, someone else will be better to help you with that, but that I do know that you should focus on finding it. EDIT: Oh, and when you do find your root cause, you will know it. You will dance around and laugh in joy knowing that you figured it out

Lol, our brains are such a sneaky things Haven't been drinking sodas for a year now, but here I am drinking Coca Cola Zero which apparently has about 2 cups of caffeine in 1 liter

@Michael569 Yeah, maybe its better to try spicing up beef and chicken meals than to eat too much fish Thanks for the tips! Gonna cook my first fish lunch today

@Michael569 So, salmon should be relatively safe to eat? Im planning to eat fish 3-6 days a week (Only on either lunch or dinner)

Hey, Sorry for hijacking thread but its on the topic Im adding fish to my diet. I have been avoiding fish due to the heavy metals, but I feel like I just have to have more variety in my diet. Everywhere on the internet its said that "you should eat fish 2 days a week, but too much is bad", but I cant find quantities or how much fish is bad. Like, is the minimum 2 lunches, or is it 2 lunches and 2 dinners? How much is actually bad for you?

@electroBeam Participation is required in order to join for after-experiment party (And coffee is not on the menu) Today was the first step into my caffeine detox. Dropped from 4 cups of coffee and green tea to 2 cups of coffee and green tea, didnt notice any ill effects. Tomorrow Im gonna drop to 1 cup of coffee for few days, after that I will throw coffee out completely and start to drop out green tea during a period of ~3-4 days.

I think we must do the best we can to remain in control of the virus until we find a solution to erase it off the earth. Until then, its a chaos no matter what we do, but at least its a controlled chaos

@LfcCharlie4 Oh, yeah. Good point, I hadn't thought of a reason to do dopamine detox But now that I think of it, since Im just about to start my new 5 year journey to fitness and well being, It would be very handy to have more intrinsic motivation and energy to do a ton of research on the subjects of health and fitness, to really delve into the right material and build the right everlasting healthy habits and maximize gym results. If I dont actively use visualization to create motivation for myself, then social media and other crap starts to take over me. I think the problem is in fact dopamine problem, because 9gag is too much more interesting than trying to make changes in my life. But Im gonna kick caffeine first tho. I'll probably fail if I try to do too many habit changes at the same time

Is it beneficial to do dopamine detox once or twice per week? ATM I could do detox on weekends @flowboy This might be a nobrainer but when going out, making sure that its not to get your dopamine fix from something like going to the store to buy food (Truth: Going to the store because there might be cool new items there to give you that dopamine spike)

Yep. Its tens of years of social conditioning. "Daddy needs coffee in the morning" turns quickly into "I need coffee in the morning" when you want to copy whatever your dad does And "its not for little boys or girls" so we look towards getting permission to drink coffee like we look towards getting to drink alcohol.

Very interesting video. What was most profound to me was when he spoke of what he experienced after giving up coffee; "And moreso during the day I don't have giant burst of energy in the morning. I can just go through the day with same level of motivation, its not all over the place" This is so huge problem to me! I couldnt even imagine its not normal to have that huge burst of motivation in the morning, I just thought "well Im just a morning person" Not going cold turkey tho, Im gonna drink my reserves but with a smooth detox. Sucks that I need to ditch the green tea extract pills tho.

If you do research 6-8 hours a day, even 5% reduction in research time is huge. If the AI could do the initial scan before handing the papers to you for further investigation, that would be huge help. Its like delegating that job to a secretary.

You need that AI to be obedient tho I dont know about an AI that works like human, but one that could simulate research work like a human would be amazing. That would basically be Google 2.0. Like, just write down a statement and the system would find research opposing or in favor of said statement and make references to those research papers. Then you read them yourself to make sure the sources are good. Probably wont happen for years

Yeah, the mindset of numbers and statistics are a problem with academics. Luckily amount of qualitative research has been in growth for 20 years, so maybe one day we can get rid of the "numbers and statistics only" mindset. Especially when it comes to social research which really cant be measured like that. Finland's UBI experiment is a great example of how you can fuck up human research by trying to quantify everything. They basically just quantified how many of the long-term unemployees under UBI find jobs in 2 years compared to a control group. Moronic experiment that could never have succeeded.

With social injustice, do you mean actual social injustice or claims that oppose the social justice warrior mindset? Please link an example here, I don't recall a TED talk that promotes social injustice

Sounds like a great tool for research if the AI gets sophisticated enough "Sophia, find a scientific paper that states "Donkeys are not mules" and cite the reference" I could have done my thesis in a week

Its funny you mention that, because in my previous post I originally included "I mostly hate sounds others make, I dont mind sounds I do myself" but I erased that part because I felt it was not adding any value to it. I guess I wouldn't mind the sounds even when recorder if I was doing the sounds myself. Usually my reaction apart from becoming agitated is that I start to think "that sounds is unnecessary". I'll try to see if listening to ASMR with the idea that it is "not unnecessary" changes my reaction to it

@GodDesireOnlyLove All ASMR, especially ones with sounds coming from mouth. Sounds of nature are not annoying to me, in fact its the exact opposite.

Can you tell me more about this? I absolutely hate ASMR and habits like eating with your mouth open to make disgusting sounds. Drives me crazy to the point that I either leave or tell the other person to eat like a normal human being. But if it could help me grow in terms of intimacy, I wouldnt mind trying asmr

I would be really interestef to hear in 3-6 months about your progress, what worked and how your routine looks like As soon as my back recovers, Im going to start a stretching routine too Interesting! Time to introduce daily salads into my diet.

@DrewNows Oh yes, diet can make or break everything Personally I think it is imperative to strenghten weakened muscles that are weak due to underuse, but after they are strenghtened enough to support your daily life, then your daily life will keep them in a "good enough" shape to support daily life. (Opinion based on 6 months of training with a personal trainer) As long as your posture and movement are correct and thus you use those muscles of course.