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by renewiltord 2027 days ago
Funny thing. When you said this I wondered if it would be a good way to stop using Reddit. Then I remembered like generations ago I tried to stop using some website by making it hard to visit. Blocked it in the hosts file and everything.

One day I stopped what I was doing and looked at what it was. I was on the website I'd blocked. The way I'd done it was I'd forwarded the Xserver from a dedicated server I was running elsewhere and was browsing on a remote Konqueror or Epiphany or some shit.

It taught me something interesting about my Akrasia - the problem isn't a lack of focus on a specific task. It was a task choice problem and a long-term incentive awareness problem. I wasn't even aware I'd done all of these things to access the site I'd blocked. I'd auto-piloted through them. Fascinating.

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That is interesting!