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Contemplative practice & psychedelics do not overlap in *any special, intrinsic way.* Not any more than intimacy or art or nature or ascesis etc. Yet in emaciated cultures, to alienated selves, any glimpse into depth will be seen as analogous, like any food to a starving person.

The hallucinations of LLMs are not a problem per se: human minds hallucinate too. If we remove the constraints of perceptual input, we spin off into dreams. If we don't verify our intuitive generations with reasoning, our thinking becomes delusional. Generative AI is incomplete.

Vance’s speech is a quokka-slaying moment for the AI safety community. Never mind p(doom), it’s p(lose to China) that matters. Cold War-era deep state is alive and well.

the excesses and dangers of agencymaxxing culture become obvious when you substitute "agency" with "yang" and then realize there is no equally valorized equivalent for "yin"

The Care and Feeding of Your Egregores

Jake's upcoming explainer on psychedelics & meditation framed through active inference, predictive coding, and ReBUS is going to be so good!

welp

blissipline

Stephanie H. Murray People instinctively want to encounter beautiful things that involve suffering, because those things are real

online feedback has a way of amplifying and reifying what you put out, and not always in the direction you intend this has real life consequences and the narratives you consume and participate in, even para socially, also have a relationship with your real life

in a relationship, roughly the only thing that matters is if you can be yourself around them… shared hobbies, attraction, lifestyle alignment is downstream. if you can’t be fully yourself around someone, you’re either performing or negotiating constantly. & over time that

"u think wellness only comes from inside the body? do you even fw indirect realism bro"

Life imitates art

“I suppose you have to laugh. After millennia of telling ourselves we’re better than other animals because we can think, now we’re telling ourselves we’re better than other thinking machines because we can feel the wind on our faces.”

omfg