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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

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stoked for new patricia taxxon album

wonder what her furry style sounds like

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@Publius @eee
"Do this thing."
"No."
"Uh, what? What do you mean?"
"I'm not going to."
"But its a rule. See? Written down right here."
"OK, but I'm still not."
"Well shit, we hadn't planned on that. How about you just do it?"
"Nah, I'm good."

Who knew BANTSing was so easy?

Just found these beauties in a box on the street, insane what people throw away

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[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

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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!

just the right time to leave the internet

The correct contrarian position is to be against animals. In general.

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The modern world is always in trouble, **by definition**

"you're already enlightened" as Buddhist attempt to escape self-reinforcing memeplectix attractors of punishment/reward commonly found in religions ("nowhere to go, nothing to do")

Wading through rivers of carefully calculated blood

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