niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

These are the five defilements of the mind, defiled by which the mind is not malleable, wieldy, and luminous, but brittle and not properly concentrated for the destruction of the taints. But when the mind is freed from these five defilements, it becomes malleable, wieldy,
and luminous, pliant and properly concentrated for the destruction of the taints. Then, there being a suitable basis, one is capable of realizing any state realizable by direct knowledge toward which one might incline the mind.

So too, bhikkhus, there are these five defilements of the mind, defiled by which the mind is not malleable, wieldy, and luminous, but brittle and not properly concentrated for the destruction of the taints. What five? Sensual desire, ill will, dullness and drowsiness, restlessness and remorse, and doubt.

Bro

I was practically conceived next to Carl Shulman

80k hours Podcast teasing me about not knowing who Carl Shulman is

There are probably only a thousand people or so in the world who have spent more time than me reading LW comment threads..

"Ahhhh! This doesn't make sense because I'm dreaming! Anyway,"

https://www.mcmillen.dev/language_checklist.html this one

In retrospect, I should have considered that reading Pearl would make me even more smug

So you're proposing an economic intervention checklist like the programming language one

Life extension to quintuple the amount of hot people

"but what if, like, paying the counterfactual mugger was actually the right thing to do?"
– contractualism

Someone will read a book with 12 and base 30% of their personality on the main character.

If I had a nickel for every machine-learning related dream I've had, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't much, but it's weird it's happened twice.

Apparently I am unusually "good" at metta

diegomorphism

Or at least up there with phil of language

Mereology truly is the worst part of philosophy

OOP turned out to not be such a big deal