Behold, I Am Doing a New Thing
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25 Feb 2024
Continually return to what you love. What is beautiful and good and true
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Jun 13
it was in some ways deeply meaningful and deeply painful. we just wanted to merge our souls and be without any difference at all, and any evidence contrary to that broke both of our hearts
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Jun 12
Nobody warned me that if you start feeling your feelings all at once there’s a chance you go temporarily insane
Like “has an ambulance called for you at the airport” insane
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1 Nov 2021
"If you manage to control yourself there will be ice cream" said the parent.
"I sure hope this doesn't have unforeseen lifelong consequences" thought the child, doing their best to physically tense the body in the higher ice cream probability shape.
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Jun 11
Turns out I was very similar to a bear actually
4 Feb 2024
We’re not that different from bears you know.
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Jun 11
Something weird that is happening to me right now is that I’ve always always been a constant headphone in ears, podcast or YouTube video playing guy.
But recently I’ve just like not wanted it. Not like “i realized it’s bad for me so I’m trying to stop” but just, it feels bad and like it’s causing my mind to lose a sense of wholeness and I would genuinely rather go without.
Interestingly this is coinciding with me become much more naturally aware of my moment to moment physical & psychic experience
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Jun 10
the most helpful sentence someone could've told me when I was burned out was "stop trying to do this alone"
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Jun 10
I think maybe the opposite of happiness isn’t sadness, but boredom.
Happiness & sadness are actually quite close to each other experientially
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Jun 9
Please send things that made you feel strongly.
Happy, sad, grateful, terrified, bored, alive
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Jun 9
How do you stop this from becoming self erasure? I think I have a problem where I pathologize these sorts of messages to mean that I don’t matter & what I want isn’t relevant.
Like the difference between absorption, where you lose track of yourself because you’re so alive to a problem that you’re no longer the main character
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A depressive flatness where the self goes quiet because you’ve checked out.
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Jun 8
Avoid your fear and you're running from life.
Indulge your fear and it's control by another name.
Follow your fear and you'll find an unimaginable aliveness.
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Jun 8
Your relationship with discipline will be completely rewired when you start doing things from a place of love rather than a place of shame.
Shame treats discipline as a punishment for being you.
Love treats it as an expression of caring for you.
For example
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Jun 2
You every time you reach for sensual distraction instead of staying just not doing things
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1/n Today I am releasing Lean Pool - the result of 100 human hours and 1000 agent hours.
Lean Pool is a repo for preserving substantial sorry-free formalizations that are valuable but do not fit naturally into mathlib’s scope.
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May 22
I wonder who this was about
May 21
my best friend used to play a lot of chess, somewhere over a 2000 elo, hundreds of hours studying. when i asked him about it he said “complete waste of time. entirely for the ego, no tangible benefits whatsoever”
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Apr 24
Jake is an incredibly insightful guy, & Christian has talent as an interviewer. Worth checking out.
Apr 24
Jake Orthwein on Psychedelics, Consciousness, Buddhism, Jung
I had an amazing time talking with filmmaker @JakeOrthwein about his new @wakingup produced film UNRAVELING THE DREAM. Jake is both brilliant and talented. We talk about:
1:08 — Origin of the film
4:00 — Bayesian brain, predictive processing, free energy principle
13:53 — Direct experience vs. symbolic thinking
25:46 — Buddhism and identity
30:38 — Emptiness vs metaphysics
39:17 — Is suffering all that matters? Meaning and Buddhist utilitarianism
1:01:38 — Valence realism vs. emptiness. What could make moral facts true?
1:11:57 — Jung and predictive processing
1:20:54 — Moving from rationalism to post-rationalism
1:32:07 — The grammar of wisdom traditions
1:40:17 — Fractal hierarchies
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