hermit the cat
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perpetual uncalculated life in the present
the best CogSec is just not confusing sense experience and abstraction
I miss the world where people weren't slimeballs trying to soften blows and just have an actual disagreement. So much good can come out of disagreeing openly. Not being mean, but just being able to say. "I don't think that is right and here is why" and then hearing the other…
“searching and never finding” ironically being the most powerful thing you can do with attention (including never finding “you” who allegedly is doing it)
analyzing organizations “in terms of what they actually do, not what they hope or claim to achieve” (from the preface to Knowledge and Decision by Thomas Sowell)
where do I find right-brain dominant (likely left-handed) schizoid people who also know about epistemology?
Outputism––the belief in the functional equivalence of processes if their proximate outputs appear equivalent––results in blindness to the value that flows from the tendency of different processes to produce different transformations in us. The capacity to direct a machine to…
Outputism––the belief in the functional equivalence of processes if their proximate outputs appear equivalent––results in blindness to the value that flows from the tendency of different processes to produce different transformations in us. The capacity to direct a machine to…
Steve Jobs said the way to become exceptional is to go through diverse sets of experiences. In an age of abundance and hyperstimulation, might not skillful reservation be the more fitting differentiating factor?
Outputism––the belief in the functional equivalence of processes if their proximate outputs appear equivalent––results in blindness to the value that flows from the tendency of different processes to produce different transformations in us. The capacity to direct a machine to…
Terence McKenna said shamans didn’t heal people so much as they merely chose to treat people they could see were already on the verge of healing. If you want to love another, choose someone capable of loving and being loved
if I wanted to design a society in which nobody ever challenged authority I would teach the populace that the best way to deal with anger is to engage in "anger release practices", like breaking things that don't matter in safe ways
Naive view is that you shouldn’t care too much what other people think about you. But other people’s perceptions of you are probably a more accurate predictor of how you really are than your own internal self concept. So actually maybe you should care.
Does no one else find it insane that Government schools get kids for 8 hours a day for 12 years and yet those kids who graduate come out with zero ability to do above basic jobs?
This is the fundamental difference between renunciative nondual1 traditions (eg theravada buddhism, advaita) and life-embracing nondual2 traditions (eg shaiva tantra, dzogchen) btw
Most people avoid work, change jobs, do sabbatical, etc. to get "freedom from" an old way of being. This is helpful and needed But too many stay there and avoid hard things. With a sense of safety, you can build a "freedom to" do things, regardless of how it feels
what’s a good explanation for why those head massagers only feel good when someone else uses them on you? how do prediction errors tie into that?
most technical topics look complicated because it’s like 7+ simple things mushed together untangle then understand
i wake up. something’s wrong with the clock on the wall. the numbers are jumbled. my hands aren’t right. i tell my wife. she responds: “that’s not just an observation—it’s a powerful insight.” i scream.