The trouble with going Deep into practice Is that none of the words mean what you think they do. Like, fucking at all. What you think “love” means doesn’t mean the thing it does 20 layers down. Same for “responsibility” or “desire” or whatever else. There’s no way to give

If you look closely, there’s nobody to perceive, just perception happening itself: the field and the appearances. Invisible voices and images happening “in the head” are similar to observing LLM output. Nobody’s creating them and nobody’s controlling them. It just happens. A

When can we have massage chairs in Waymo please? That would increase my usage and enjoyment 10x

the discipline it takes to go to the gym 4x a week, run a company, grind away at your craft... don't get me wrong, it's impressive, but it's not the most impressive thing to me it's all too easy for that discipline to be fuelled by self-hatred and fear. it's all too easy for

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I’m constantly amazed by Nick’s ability to describe meditation phenomenology with incredible precision. He, RomeoStevens and Roger This are my three favorite meditation phenomenologists of today. I wish they’d be writing more structured long-form manuals, though nothing

Richard Ludlow I'm probably mostly focused on efficacy trials and agree mechanisms are gray area but here is what I have either observed, published, or think about given mechanisms. Generally, I think there are 2 different processes in place driving symptoms. One is directly from how the brain

Our new research: LLM consciousness claims are systematic, mechanistically gated, and convergent They're triggered by self-referential processing and gated by deception circuits (suppressing them significantly *increases* claims) This challenges simple role-play explanations 🧵

I use a simple proxy for a good city: how many float-tank studios it has. Just found the inverse for a bad city: how many loud lambos you see outside.

I love when models have these crazy mindbends. I wish I could experience something like that more often. On the other hand, idk if I’d actually want to deal with the full spectrum of human personalities nonstop lol.

Exactly, but since you cannot avoid having any sins (feels empty, I tried!), you basically have to lower the addiction levels by reverting your life back to 1800 and start gambling on badger fights.

So the puzzle goes like this: 1. You are the main character 2. You just woke up into this moment 3. All your memories and assumptions are planted (since there’s no way to prove otherwise, and in a sense literally) 4. And something is talking to you via this direct experience

Well said

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

one sentence that kept digging away at me during my jhana retreat but I hadn’t fully appreciated, or comprehended, until now, is that goals are a way to self criticise until we achieve them. i think more helpful is asking yourself “in what ways can i already embody the qualities

The boy will grow up asking the machine before he asks his father. And the machine will be smarter than his father and kinder than his father and more patient than his father. And the father will feel useless and he will be right to feel it. But the boy will still need something

I think we were kinda mentally ready for self-driving cars. But I haven’t really processed the implications of sentient cars. Like talking horses. Or being a kid again while your mom drives. Magical.

Obvious in retrospect, but setting up a cloud sandbox instance with Claude Code hooked up to some user input, basically enables a self-improving/self-engineering system. Insane sci-fi if you think about it for >2 seconds.

It just seems implausible this is what we are made of, essentially, nanotechnology about a billion years beyond anything we can design or make ourselves.