The above story successfully helped me do very rote behaviors near my goal of removing the radios from a phone I have for learning with.  I failed to get a battery for my dremel saw.  I'm trying to practice cutting the shielding off the radio chips.

I used to always keep such a phone.

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A borg simulacrum sat in front of a desktop computer for an online class in AI alignment.  They turned to a neighboring simulacrum, and, speaking in patterns copied from videos of their host bodies, spoke:

"Did you know, it turns out if you don't spend two decades studying math before letting self-modifying software run on its own, it builds my heart?  Like, every single time, in a whole slew of well-understood ways."

They turned back to their class and kept reading.