unschooled autodidact focused on inner work / self development / spiritual path. technical staff @ si.inc
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terrible explanation for the situation, doesn't factor in status dynamics. better would be "oh hey I had an idea to save time, if you check the middle of the tape you can see which half the theft happened at"
the police probably felt patronized and reacted by not listening.
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after my @jhanatech retreat I was like "I'm never going to be depressed again!" then proceeded to get depressed again because I was no longer meditating 8hrs/day isolated from everything in my life, lol
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tried MDMA and can confirm it's "just" twim jhana 2 (but automatic, no attentional cost). felt the exact same thing on my @jhanatech retreat
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the explanation quoted is too g-loaded to understand easily the first time and is in a tone where the prof is "above/smarter/better" than the police. no wonder they didn't listen.
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how male brains work: piped.video/xa-4IAR_9Yw?si=vxFN…
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I don't want to jinx you but temporary shifts are really common. expect some integration work before this is your new long term default!
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I was unschooled and think it's pretty great but my parents were good; I'm sure there are some who use it as an excuse to be lazy, v.s. mine the opposite...
Even I got nudged to learn/do some things. Rarely though...
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I love how people are attacking Elon for calling a guy a pedo with no evidence, at the same time as calling him a pedo with no evidence
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I literally thought I'd just entered jhana 2 (I was doing living kindness) and the MDMA hadn't kicked in yet
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I feel a bit disingenuous pumping the jhana hype since what helped me far more so far has been:
- @chrislakin's stuff
- @FU_joehudson's stuff
- inquiry (@Plus3Happiness, simply always awake, gateless gatecrashers)
I just haven't been doing jhana idk why. might do more now lol
tried MDMA and can confirm it's "just" twim jhana 2 (but automatic, no attentional cost). felt the exact same thing on my @jhanatech retreat
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what the fuck
all ubers are zero minutes if you immaterial jhana and blink out when you get inside
you can ask your body “come back when I stop shaking” and it kind of works. And avoids nausea bc screen nausea is diff between stationary phone and loving body. but here nothing is stationary
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Yeah I was unschooled but this is sus as fuck. We have screen limits and educational only screen time (with lots of freedom for what to learn though)
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"good in the beginning, the middle, and the end" - Buddha
don't believe that dark night propaganda. all skill issues
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looks like I broke reactivity chat. can't trigger myself to suffer emotionally no matter how hard I try
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every emotion is made out of joy holy shit i'm so lucky to know this experientially thank you @jhanatech @FU_joehudson and all of humanity really
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I really ought to do that more lol. I don't quite have deterministic access to that depth RN but I can definitely figure it out w a bit of time
but jhanas r so anti addictive i just don't do them lmao
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pretty crazy you can get to zero emotional suffering in a few months without meditating. god bless @Plus3Happiness for popularizing and streamlining the fetters approach
I cannot express the amount of alpha that is in this tweet
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note: I'm not saying MDMA is useless if you can jhana, a j2 of that depth was unlikely to occur given my bad mental state at the time. I don't have "deterministic access" rn.
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most ppl at @jhanatech have done MDMA before jhana. may be an interesting datapoint to have done jhana first lol
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"deep into meditation" is a predictor of bad mental health but only because of selection effects. it does help you become grounded but most go deep bc they're fucked up.
some throw away the raft once they've crossed some don't. would be my guess at what's happening here
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People read this and are like "lol neglect" then ship their children off to public schools. High effort homeschooling is the way! Don't let a few bad apples dissuade you
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I love people who look for your good ideas and don't judge your bad ones. You can just say all the potentially good ideas you have and let them filter. So effective as they have more context & understanding if you're trying to help them with something
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It's such a relief when someone you're with disagrees with you, sets a boundary, doesn't do what you want. You know you can trust them
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Wow what a great education system. Literally not teaching them anything (unschooling) would be better as it wouldn't introduce hate.
(I was unschooled, wasn't interested in math till 15, then was and easily caught up & overtook normal)
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I'm going to start dropping absurd $ on meditation/psychological growth stuff as soon as I sign this offer. some things are priceless. weird to me people don't try to do this
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damn that's awful. hard to trust after that. I'm lucky to live in my bubble of authenticity and honesty
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a crazy thing about great friends is how living with them beats living alone, AND is half as expensive for both of you
wtf??? free winning???
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Yeah this I disagree with, I wish I'd been forced to learn to read earlier when I was unschooled. Worked out fine for me but that's a bit much imo
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best advice for being likable is just to love people! people are so great, my mood perks up as soon as i start talking with someone. connection feels so great. also being authentic, can't connect if not. if you're real though they'll be real and anything is possible
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I wonder how much of the fetters success is making people ACTUALLY LOOK for the insights in direct experience as opposed to theorizing, building "concentration", "sensory clarity", or otherwise procrastinating from actually LOOKING
Yoooo the fetters are spreading.
TPOT’s speed of iteration is insane we’re like half a decade out until anyone in it who wants to can get mostly free of suffering
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this really fucked me up once and made me understand why a senior person spammed deepcopy everywhere. don't risk it, make it easy to think about
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I've heard a big part of what makes cigarettes addictive is the "no no I shouldn't... aaahh" release when you're stressed about it and then give in. Look into all the research, you can do it, good luck!
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taking the SAT was my first time inside a high school. I got a 1250 and went home to host my functional analysis reading group's next meeting. grades are fake, homeschool
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the more embodied I get the more non intellectual connection I want to have. I can still do interesting conversations but it often feels sterile, the heart to heart connection feels better
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I desperately need a room to sublet in SF that's quiet & temperature controlled, starting immediately. I can't sleep at my current place, worst sleep deprivation I've ever felt last ~3d, dm/reply/share with ppl plz
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people need to stop, drop and roll on confusion more
like, jhanas aren't addictive, huh that's weird
NO EVERYTHING YOU THINK ABOUT VALANCE AND MOTIVATION IS TANGLED AND WRONG
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gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct can chess at an 1800 level with no illegal moves. I didn't believe it either lichess.org/@/konaz
code: github.com/UlisseMini/gpt-ch…
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inner work & meditation makes you so much more charismatic lol it's actually stupid. and it's not fake either, you are just fundamentally ok and ready to playfully dance with everyone and love every part of them and you
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#buildinpublic current state of the @Touch_Grass_App 🌿🌿
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It's because it indicates they haven't done much practical development, because if they had, they'd probably have encountered git. It's a signal not that git itself is hard to learn
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I want to become excellent at helping the people I love, let me practice on you! Free with you donating to a charity if we deeply succeed at solving your problem and results last, so we're both serious.
link: cal dot com / ulisse-mini / coaching
share with anyone interested :)
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agency is a lack of social fears and inhibitions, not forcing through. true for all very agentic people I know
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being around optimistic, winning people is insanely good for morale.
probably more helpful for my intermittent depression than all other interventions I tried (jhanas, coherence therapy, living w gf & friends, ...). we'll see...
thank you pair.camp!
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people at joinarcadia.org are grinding 24/7. the "2-3hrs of productive work gained a day" figure isn't made up. so inspiring
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can the e/acc's and EA's get in a room and talk it over like adults. the level of name-calling and tribe allegiance is embarrassing.
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wow I actually feel like I have no one I can call and be emotional around. technically I do but it doesn't feel allowed and it feels like it could be a burden. this is fucked up...
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sharing & producing is great with the attitude of "this is beautiful and I would like to have consumed this". It can be bad when you do too much and e.g. repeat faux wisdom weekly because "you should post"
figure out the causes and conditions for yourself ❤️
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*me after a period of depression & no work, when I finally lock in* hey how am i so good at stuff
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I've invented the addictive jhana from the famous cautionary tale "don't invent the addictive jhana"
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phase 1 rationality: omg everyone is insane i must do better
phase 2 rationality: omg all the rationalists are also insane and i'm still insane and i must do better
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great post! highly recommend reading this and then the book (they have a nice audiobook on spotify premium too!)
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not worried about being replaced by AI bc alignment isn't solved. o3 may be smarter then me but I don't lie
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men only want one thing and it's to split a fancy 5k/mo 2bd apt four ways with their gf, friend, friend gf
we call that 1250/mo rent per person
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nothing beats @FU_joehudson for transformation per unit effort. I just binge, end up crying for an hour, feel better, repeat. for months
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yep checks out! I wish there was more effort spent on long term support for alums for these reasons :D even nonfree non retreat stuff would be cool. my guess is a lot of people fall off after retreat without support if they're not rly high functioning
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why do I procrastinate all day sometimes? I hate it, and when I work I'm happy about myself and my day
hello?? Reinforcement learning?? I have a bug to report??
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feels like spiders are crawling through my arms and legs when I try to sleep. like the fabric of my limbs are silently screaming in a panic. what the fuck. If this is somatic awareness I want a refund
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obviously stupid advice. if people didn't post things publicly Einstein wouldn't have published E=mc^2 and worse still, lauragao.ca/ would not exist.
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queue the aoa attunement podcast where Tara attunes to the co-host and she reacts like she's terrified
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you're the average of the people you spend the most time with, but with technology, you can isolate yourself and make your only inputs be from the most successful people.
a virtual peer group of geniuses and billionaires
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aren't there a lot more categories than these 2? or do you think these 2 capture a significant amount?
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This is disgusting speculation. Do you really think someone would be her partner for a substantial period and then break up because they don't want to be married to someone with an onlyfans? They just don't want kids!
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we need more stages of enlightenment to motivate people they're making progress
1st stage: being able to sit by yourself without suffering massively/wanting to get up
2nd stage: being able to meditate in a way that's enjoyable
3rd stage: having any insight at all into emptiness, No-self, even a glimpse
4th stage: being able to repeatedly glimpse/see that the self sense is just a sense and not "actually you"
5th stage: this seeing becomes more automatic and eventually your default identification shifts away from self (likely to awareness)
6th stage: ... goes on ...
stages of enlightenment is a meme name ofc, levels or something, people need the skill tree in higher resolution though!
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fuck you I'm doing it because it's interesting and I want to, no stories necessary. and yes it's not the most important thing I could be doing
(speaking to my utilitarian mind virus)
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I'm shifting from saving half my income to spending it on employing people to build what I want in the world. I have enough in savings, time for leverage
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for Christmas I just want to give ppl the universal love and transcendent joy of meditation but I'd just be weird and turn them off probably lol. still, to me it feels like helping unlock this is obviously the by far most valuable thing I could do for anyone I love
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this is ~all of rationalist "introspection" imo.
real introspection requires deep impartiality and curiosity, waiting for an answer, being ok with nothing arising, or answers not making sense
I have a pet theory that when people introspect about themselves, their brain sometimes just scrambles to generate relevant content. So they feel like they're gaining insight into deeper parts of themselves when they're actually just inventing it on the fly.
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Yeah for some prompts it's pretty clearly tuned. But for the given example I'm not sure, might be a mix
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not being tied down by EA feels amazing, I can work on *anything*, doesn't even have to be AI related
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so much thought into what kind of person you want to date and so little into what kind of person would really, really love to date you
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rationalists: we hate groupthink
also rationalists: time to retreat to my berkeley group house with my ai alignment polycule
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the twitter cluster around @ludwigABAP and @dnbt777 is so wholesome & good
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