Featuring: The fibonacci series, people sitting 24/7, discussions of a dozen different kinds of Jhanas, basal ganglia, sex, wet/dry insight practice & hard/soft jhana, mentions of the symmetry theory of valence, predictive processing, formalising buddhist meditation using 2-categories.
It's insanely fun
Highly recommended:
If you're interested in meditation and neuroscience or curious in general, there's an amazing sequence of interviews with Shinzen Young/Chelsea Fasano/Jay Sanguinette/Leigh Brasington on the Guru Viking podcast:
• https://www.guruviking.com/ep72-shinzen-young-and-chelsey-fasano-tantra-neuroscience-and-true-enlightenment/
• https://www.guruviking.com/ep76-shinzen-young-chelsey-fasano-2-the-science-of-enlightenment/
• https://www.guruviking.com/ep81-shinzen-young-chelsey-fasano-3-orgasm-epilepsy-mystical-experience/
• https://www.guruviking.com/ep86-bliss-enlightenment-fristonian-physics-feat-chelsey-fasano-shinzen-young-dr-jay-sanguinetti/
• https://www.guruviking.com/ep94-the-enlightenment-button-feat-shinzen-young-chelsey-fasano-dr-jay-sanguinetti/
• https://www.guruviking.com/ep103-dopamine-meditation-fibonacci-feat-shinzen-young-chelsey-fasano-dr-jay-sanguinetti/
• https://www.guruviking.com/ep110-case-study-of-ecstatic-meditation-leigh-brasington-shinzen-young-chelsey-fasano-dr-sanguinetti/
• https://www.guruviking.com/ep115-jhana-ego-orgasm-leigh-brasington-shinzen-young-chelsey-fasano-dr-sanguinetti/
https://twitter.com/PatriciaTaxxon/status/1451766063813648390 apparently like radix sort, which i DEFINITELY approve of
[RT @wrathofgnon]
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), the Italian doctor and Dominican friar, was remarkably fit. Even for the age he lived in. Today would probably be considered an epic strong-man and hiking enthusiast.
Everything is infected by asymmetric justice concerns, we'd do better without, projects can fail
dimwit: people are too lazy, too little is happening
midwit: but if you do too much, you risk running into addictive processes & self-reinforcing loops; credit-assignment is hard and goodhart's law looms everywhere
synwit: yet: we see high-variance societies with lots of innovation doing useful & better stuff all the time, look for actions bounded below but not above, if you're good at optimizing you're probably also good at discovering that your optimization has gone haywire, thousand flowers!
I operate by Crocker's rules[1].