🧵 There is something religious about attachment and joint attention and I would like to better understand what it is.

Tom Morgan Thomas H Greco Jr and his writings at beyondmoney.net Brett Scott and his writings at asomo.co @ArtBrock and his work around current-sees MetaCurrency Project and other projects

This is it. This is the real story. This image, right here. Ignore all the fake drama. Forget all the campaign rhetoric and kayfabe conflict. This is what's real. This is what deserves your attention. They do not hate each other. They do not see one another as an existential

Aren't you the guy that wants to "verify all humans" on social media by having them link a govt issued ID to their social media account? you say it's to "control bots", Australia's govt says it's to "protect kids", but it's really the same policy at the end of the day, isn´t it?

Absolutely brilliant! youtu.be/Q9sBKCd2HD0?si…

Why would anyone with even a half-functioning brain consume seed oils?

Don’t look away

"Doing hard things builds the musculature of our humanity. Real things exercise what we are. Unreal things atrophy us."

Wow! youtu.be/WmOfYLwVks8?si…

Perhaps the best definition of “masculinity” I’ve ever read. (via Ted Gioia)

new episode with Daniel Thorson on why Secure Attachment is upstream of ~everything links below 00:00 Welcome back to The Metagame 00:39 Reflections on 5yrs of monastic training 02:10 Fixing yourself presupposes you’re broken 06:22 Spirituality is Secure Attachment with reality

Great demonstration of what’s happening when our parts try to grasp onto presence and “do” being.

What I've been contemplating lately, expressed in a beautifully crafted thread! Many thanks Mikael Brockman :)

Optimizing for the feeling of "aliveness" is the ultimate secret to life. It's basically expansion + joy + challenge + growth + presence in the same bucket.

What contributes to a meaningful life? A sense of belonging If you don't have it—you're in trouble: financially, socioeconomically, psychologically, culturally Belonging is when there has been a co-shaping of organism and environment so they fit well (they belong) together

Opus

Anthropic announced they've activated "Al Safety Level 3 Protections" for their latest model. What does this mean, and why does it matter? Let me share my perspective as OpenAl's former lead for dangerous capabilities testing. (Thread)

When Claude instances talk to each other, in ~90% of open-ended interactions they spiral into discussions of consciousness, then profuse gratitude, then abstract spiritual/poetic expressions with Sanskrit and emojis.

claude 4 opus is a jhana brother

Today is my last day at Anthropic. I resigned. Here is the letter I shared with my colleagues, explaining my decision.