Eric Schwitzgebel Robert Long Pawel Pachniewski Stephen Wolfram My totally biased view is that my Symmetry Theory of Valence will be absolutely central for both progress on qualia and understanding what makes for good futures. Paper here: opentheory.net/Qualia_Formali…

> It’s just that, well. If you had recently figured out how to code, and realized it was really quite simple and teachable to others – then looked around, and all you saw were computer scientists warning off would-be developers from making software, claiming that they needed to

Trinley Goldenberg Rosa Lewis Kinda tangential to OP, but it really is remarkable how good jhana is at this — just summon any incredibly painful thought/memory and it just dissolves into the joy in a few breaths. Like infinite super-fast CBT that actually works!

experienced the bliss of the first jhana this morning during meditation Nick was right, y'all don't know what you're missing

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Here’s a look at our full closed-loop system: EEG -> Morpheus -> tFUS 🔄 Given an initial brain state, the transformer generates spatiotemporal sequence of neuromodulation to increase gamma frequencies. This system adapts as the brain changes adjusting the tFUS targets in real

There’s downside in talking about how it’s possible to have happiness independence of conditions (unknotted), or conditional happiness (eg jhana) bc people might feel bad for not having it. But imo we’ve swung way too far to the other side, almost claiming it’s not even possible

the biggest secret is knowing it's possible

One month ago I went on a Jhourney retreat. This was true the first day back, and remains true today: I think it was a pivot point in my life I wrote about it here jakeeaton.substack.com/p/my-week-of-m…

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Sasha Chapin It’s prob not common but I personally wouldn’t have cared much about the downside. I just want whatever works the best if it works well, and then to try my best shooting for the moon. So lying about upside is a big sin, it’s removing the fuel, worse than lying about downside

24,000 GitHub ⭐️ for Textual! Worthy of an AMA I reckon. Ask me anything about Textual or anything else… github.com/Textualize/tex…

on first pass reading this was dissonant because half of it seemed obviously wise and the other half wrongheaded then i realized: 1. this advice is meant for those who have not yet found the cornucopia, and I live in a fortunate time. 2. there is a secret third thing: so there is

if i had to pick a single scientist across any field i think is most underpriced today i'd choose michael johnson

Easel: A Pure Clojure IDE in the Spirit of Emacs youtu.be/hpjJJqnkqCw?si… Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://yout… #clojure #programming

what would dharma ilan look like

Nate Soares and I are publishing a traditional book: _If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All_. Coming in Sep 2025. You should probably read it! Given that, we'd like you to preorder it! Nowish!