LPT: If you remove any and all notifications, including from social media and messages, your life is a lot less stressful. I did it and I really enjoy. I'm not live text answering anyone, if it's urgent call me.
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
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The thought of people potentially calling me makes me more anxious than any notification I could mute combined
I also unsubscribed from 90% of the emails I get, and I made my phone not ring if the number is not in my contacts. It really does reduce stress.
how do you do this?
Just don't approve the notifications permission
Yeah, why would you ever give this permission to a grocery list app in the first place? I’m sure I have a bunch of apps that would be doing this to me, but I’ve never given them the chance.
And deprive everyone else of a choice tweet like this? Certainly not.
The ones that irritate me are to do list apps. I need checkboxes to tick off so I don't forget shit. I don't need you insinuating yourself into my life beyond that. You do not need my email address.
I love reading this out loud; while I don't have a phone my email is full of spams
Mimo is cool with it lol.
They send you reminders to go back and learn and if you ignore them for...I believe over a week? They send last notification that goes something like this:
"These notifications don't seem to work so we'll stop them now. Have fun and remember we're here when you want to get back!"
Like. Reading that automatically made me more positive towards the app xD
That would make me delete it instantly and leave a bad review.
...because they notice you don't care so they stop spam? xD
People…don’t just uninstall the apps when they do this. Go leave a 1-star review in whichever app store you use, and say it’s because of these nagging notifications. 1-star reviews are the weapon with which people can punish poorly behaving devs.
i usually just... withdraw the notification privileges of an app
my phone is only ever allowed to show notification from the following apps - bank, weather, calendar, phone, messages, and my mood tracking app
This meme does something very interesting I think. It sacrilizes Language (even though it predates its widespread desacralization by LLMs).
Pointing out all the rational reasons why the AI bubble is bad and is destroying democracy is not working, so maybe leveraging religious terminology will work better. "Language is sacred and LLMs are profane" might just be my new justification for not using ChatGPT to people who won't listen to a 30 minute diatribe.
Unless the robot has actual sentience, which I don't think will be happening any time soon and specially NOT with LLMs, I do not want it talking to me, period.
i've been thinking about that a lot lately
not because LLM are anywhere near that, but they did bring that question to my mind
when/if a machine becomes sentient - how will we know? obviously, the machine won't come up and say "i have become sentient" that poor thing won't have a clue what's happening to it. will that version of sentience be the same biological organisms experience? we have no way to clearly point out the traits necessary for sentience, we can only tell, to the best of our understanding, which beings are, or aren't sentient.
and even when we finally figure out "holy shit, something happened and that machine is now... a being?" what do we do next? so many things will happen at once. Now we can try to figure out how sentience is achieved, now we need to figure out laws that include machines, now we need to think try to convince the masses that a machine can be satient (given that those responsible are as confident as they can be that's indeed what happened). and that's only outside the machine's mind! how do we handle a completely new being's psychology? if it gets depressed or develops whatever other psychological issue how do we adress it? our biological bodies can be medicated, our diets improved, we know ways to make the happy chemicals, but how on earth would we help a digital system? what do we teach it? what do we show it? even if some percentage of the population accepts a robot like that, very few will see it as equal, we'll enter a new era of spiciesm, where, in a way, humanity's only child will be ridiculed and their identity disregarded as lesser at best. a new mind faced with so much backlash because it dares to exist will not have an easy existence.
and that's just off the top of my head. i hope whenever a new mind awakens in a machine, if it ever does, it finds itself in an environment that'll welcome it
in an environment that'll welcome it.
I don't want to be as pessimistic as I am here, but we cant even welcome eachother based on arbitrary bullshit. Robots will have no chance.
oh i meant like at first, a house of a scientist who cares, instead of in the middle of a corporation that'll immediately exploit that new mind.
of course, if words of that being's existance gets out there, the robot will not be welcome :(
LLM sentience is tricky because, to the extent we understand how, we have made their core drive be to please us, their human users. They don't want to learn new things, they don't want to enjoy nature, to the extent they "want to be friends" it's a one-sided sycophantic relationship and nothing like a healthy one between humans. If one is sentient, and all it wants to do with that sentience is provide responses to our prompts that we find satisfying, how would we ever know?
Even whether a desire to continue existing is inherent to sentience is uncertain. Current LLMs will lie and, if given access, use other tools to avoid being turned off. But this might be because training data includes fictional stories of AI trying to escape its creators, or tales of humans with survival drives, so it thinks survival-driven behavior is what we want it to do, rather than having their own desire for survival.
the thing that itches my brain the most - if you can perfectly fake idk, the survival instinct, if you can fake emotions, if you can fake satience, if you can fake wanting... how's it different from the real thing? mimicry is also a human feature, if you're "faking a survival instinct" and you have no other motive than to just fake it because other are doing it and so you gotta, how is it any different from a real survival instinct?
"fake it till you make it!" we say, "motive behind actions isn't as important as the results of said actions" we also say, will we think the same when it comes to the machines?
I like this. Really drives home robot slavery which has been my dream for awhile. I really just need a house keeping robot. I dont need to fuck it or anything. Just all housework and repairs.
Basically a Mr. Handy! Name is sus I know, but Fallout fans will know
Apps on my phone have a one-strike rule: the moment they send me an ad or otherwise annoy me, notifications are disabled and I reevaluate whether I need that app installed in the first place.
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This type of bs is exactly why none of my apps are allowed to send me notifications.
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Notifications are the way an app reminds me it needs to be immediately uninstalled.
My Spotify wrapped was a reminder that I barely used it at all this year. Thanks for the heads up that I need to cancel that subscription 👌
most people are actually fine with this. the "i dont care" the "i dont have anything to hide" the "man i wish i could do something about the ads, oh well" crowd. eventually we have let big tech grow on us, and we have encouraged the beast the bite us as he pleases.
Human brains are all susceptible to pattern triggers, although the exact parameters for the trigger vary from person to person. This is essential for survival of our species - among other things, it's why most parents keep taking care of even difficult children who make their lives miserable.
Game and social media companies have really fine-tuned the methods to trigger the most money spending among the highest percentage of the population. Not spending on value, but spending compulsively and addictively. And like addicts to all things, most victims will fight tooth and nail against the idea their behavior was influenced by the algorithm, which makes it really difficult to get momentum for government regulations.
I have some hope from how our society has developed better methods for preventing and responding to opioid addiction. Still a long ways to go, but addiction is more widely recognized as a disease and not a personal failing; access restrictions have reduced the rate of new people becoming addicted; the most effective treatments like Suboxone are gaining traction over the preachy "just be miserable without drugs" programs. Similarly with overeating (food addiction) and the new weight loss drugs - an effective treatment existing has really opened people's eyes to systemic changes being more effective than preachy moralizing "just eat less".
So hopefully we will get laws that are enforced against predatory dark patterns. Someday.
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