Anand Venkatraman
@Anand_Venkatram
This, not writing, brought about the era of Mass Man. And the associated ideologies of the “Axial Age”
This is another data point consistent with the idea that the end of the Bronze Age was associated with iron. Because iron is more dispersed and so decentralized power; enables new infantry attacks; and disrupted bronze shipping routes
in the brainrot age watching a whole episode of tv instead of a clip show is a near meditative act of bravery.
From experience, wealth follows your desire to help people around you, because it will require you to upgrade who you are as a person. The day you feel comfortable doing nothing for others and relying on others, you are heading toward financial, intellectual, spiritual poverty.
Manifestation doesn't work for most people because they think it's a 15 minute ritual. You have to think in your favour and about favorable scenarios through out the day. Your actions will be soon aligned with your thoughts. Condition yourself to make healthy thinking…
executive function is just better emotional regulation towards the task at hand, huh
People "insecurity match" more than almost any other way to pair. At higher levels of evolution this is "principle matching", but 99% aren't evolved enough to create,hold,operate in a principled way. They simply "aren't there yet" - so what you see most is people pairing up who…
ab ullu wala hari om pe concentrate karega and podcast pe aake bataega what's wrong with shankaracharyas.
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When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it, all else is madness. Eckhart Tolle
you need to be idiosyncrasymaxxing you need to find esoteric problems you need to optimize for arcanity your RL must look like alchemy, because the unalchemical will be steamrolled by the great RL generalization of 2026
envs which codify domain-specific knowledge + eval criteria which isn’t readily apparent from web browsing
kinda wild how executive function problems sort of start to dissipate when you find yourself alongside a group of mutually understanding & supportive people
One of the fundamental shifts in my life was when I stopped asking this question for everything and chose to trust the collective wisdom of people before me. the reason to do somethings is not always a clearly definable causal path. I still ask it, but weld it more carefully
Great insight on why there’s so much pricy crap in big cities- “The main financial centers offer an enormous array of arbitrarily priced positional goods, and the apprenticeship model of finance teaches people to value them”
Interesting piece by Matt Levine on the huge AI salaries: “I tell you what, if Meta Platforms Inc. paid me a $100 million signing bonus to come work for their artificial intelligence business, I would be the most dedicated worker they have ever seen until the check cleared!…
It was only a matter of time.
We're launching an "AI psychiatry" team as part of interpretability efforts at Anthropic! We'll be researching phenomena like model personas, motivations, and situational awareness, and how they lead to spooky/unhinged behaviors. We're hiring - join us! job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs…
Interesting.. i do suspect the rise in sleep apnea is connected to decline in breastfeeding
If you struggle with mouth breathing, snoring/sleep apnea, and/or have difficulty with “tongue posture”, I’d highly recommend the Myo-Nozzle from REMplenish. It mimics a giant nipple, of which suckling on uses the tongue, pharynx, and soft palate in an intuitive manner.
The people who struggle with Discipline must follow Surya ☀️ It is enough. Wake up with it, Sleep when it sets, be rigorous in the morning and afternoon and slowly calm yourself down towards the evening. Most people who struggle with routine are more active during the evening.
Very interesting info on possible pre-Vedic Sakta tradition
We can only decipher the Praktana tradition now from the ruins of the customs. Vedas in fact have records of the original tradition in Vagambhrini sukta. Nasadiya is another example. All these Suktas have their unique revelation to the Saktas. Knowledge that inspires sacrifice.
It is the mind that sees through the eyes. It is the mind that listens through the ears. It is the mind that smells through the nose. It is the mind that tastes through the tongue. It is the mind that feels through touch. It is the mind that deludes itself through false
the brain is cool bcs if you have stuck or unprocessed emotions/ontologies, it will keep reproducing similar situations to put you in, until you manage to process & overcome them your models of reality will keep reasserting themselves till you explicitly challenge them
Earth is both physically round and metaphysically flat.