is there anything interesting happening in Spain these days? It would be relatively easy for me to obtain Spanish citizenship so I’m halfway considering trying

that's my cult compound! that's my cult compound in the new york times!

wow I really hate how you can just build stories and have them influence your entire life and then they can just not even be true

i do really feel for the people fighting for the sanctity of marriage/sex/gender. there’s absolutely something tragic about being trad in the middle of humanity’s largest turning point, when nearly every value held sacred by society for the past few thousand years is facing

it’s so deeply unserious of all evolution people to have gone from “everything is group selection” all the way to “nothing is group selection”

what a time to be alive

reminder that not every hurtful thought you have about other people is true

I’ve noticed that tons of couples in the EA space hide the fact that they’re dating for professionalism reasons and I feel pretty aesthetically displeased by that, I can easily create stories around why I think it’s a bad norm but I think ultimately it fills me with some sort of

around ~6 years ago, following a series of mass cancellations in my local community at the time, i set a rule for myself to always question the social incentives guiding my beliefs about other people (which has now become reflexive) and have increasingly found it difficult to

I am co-running this with Aella, Chesed, Pandora, and Meida Marek | SF. If you’re an evolutionary psychologist/sex researcher and interested in participating, consider reaching out to me!

Drive out to the desert. Take a shitton of drugs. Read a book in public just to look smart. Get into jiu jitsu. Watch the moon. Fuck a friend, fuck a stranger, fuck your strangest friends. So long as one foot is in front of the other the light will return to our eyes

I haven’t fully fixed all of my mental health problems (adhd-symptoms have been particularly sticky); however, I pretty much entirely got rid of the most costly/suffering-inducing problems I had just by treating specific behaviors as addictions. For example, I used to have panic

the last time I took mdma, I realized that my baseline “happy” state feels almost identical to what I feel while on the drug. Throughout my life, people frequently have asked whether I’m on mdma while I’m completely sober, which always confused me. However, now I get it. It’s

Technology is generally really good. Why should AI be any different? A new video: (youtube link in the reply)

it makes me feel so seen and happy when anyone subtweets me or quotes something I said irl and my friends send it to me saying “this was obviously about you, right?”

If you thought biology couldn't get any weirder, life finds a way: "We term females exhibiting this reproductive mode as xenoparous, meaning they give birth to other species as part of their life cycle."

I’ve made it a point to openly report when I’m having suicidal ideations to those around me *especially* if I suspect that the thoughts are arising because I want them to behave in some way (alongside my hypothesis about what I want). Often these thoughts are pointing at

What did you think pro-natalism meant? Vibes? Essays?

fwiw, I have been on SSRIs on and off for years and my sex drive is far from blunted and the effects from them have been overwhelmingly net-positive

I think any time there's an ethics committee for anything their names should be legally required to be publicly published