Shaila Catherine’s excellent intro to the Jhanas came out yesterday. If you are interested in learning them I’d still start with Right Concentration but follow up quickly with this book or read them in parallel.
did any AI doomers watch Her?
turns out when AI speedruns all of human experience, it ends up at awakening
i think this is actually more likely than AI kills everyone
I recommend remembering how you've been wrong, how your views have changed, how you may still be wrong in various ways. This will keep you open to change and make you more discerning and less self-righteous.
it's interesting that 1.5 billion parameters is all you need to crush math competitions, but you need like 15 trillion to make the model be funny
maybe humor is the right measure of true intelligence