The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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Hmm, that's a complicated question. Avoidance is an issue, but another big issue is mild inconveniences. I have to do some refactors before I have all the core features online, but one of those features is going to be taking the initiative to contact me, rather than the reverse. This is easy enough, you just automate a prompt to it when a new task becomes available, or every N minutes that a task has been left incomplete, or something like that, and you have the prompt be something about reminding the user to do a task, and you forward the output to their text interface of choice, discord, sms, whatever. I have the backend for this up and running already but I need to do some wiring still.
Avoidance is always an issue but its easier to eliminate with daily scheduled hypnosis and devotion sessions. It also decreases the smoother the system is.
You're one of the weirder characters I've run across here, and I don't mean it in a bad way. It gives me hope for how insanely diverse and interesting the future might be, when we already have people like you running around. And you're not even a giant robot spider yet!
(And of course you're a transhumanist too, so I'd be sympathetic to you nonetheless!)
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