At a high enough resolution, all oceans are angular. Probably Ambitionposting
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The more one speaks of Spirit, the more one usually lacks it. Spirit consists in this: that which is merely inside becomes something objective.
(Hegel)
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Avoid moral "westernization" at all costs. Worship your ancestors. Read old books from outside the matrix. LARP. Praise God and Nature with every breath. Get your politics from the sagas. Sing traditional songs with your family. Dress like a time traveller. ALL COSTS.
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Buddhism is simple really, you have 4 central truths and the 4th is an 8 fold path (with the 1st fold being understanding the 4 truths) and the 1st involves 5 aggregates and the 2nd involves 3 kinds of craving and the 3rd is explained through the 12 links of dependent origination
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the hardest, baddest motherfucker in the world: "we are a relaxed environment"
some founder building a document editor: "we are intense, we don't smile, and we do 996"
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Dario Amodei testified under oath that he didn't know his home address
ALT A Can I state my name and home address for the record? ATTORNEY MEHTA: And I'm actually just going to -- for security reasons, I don't think you need his home address. I am -- A I -- I, in fact -- no. I, in fact, don't even know it. Dario Amodei is my name. Q (BY ATTORNEY HAILEY) And what city do you live in? A I live in Woodside. Q And you -- your testimony is you don't know your home address? ATTORNEY MEHTA: You can answer the question. A I don't -- I don't remember it. That's right. Q (BY ATTORNEY HAILEY) And do you prefer Mr. Amodei or Dr. Amodei? A Mr. Amodei is fine. Q And, Mr. Amodei, you understand you're under oath today, correct? A That is correct.
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It was such a serendipitous encounter. We were all just friends having fun. We were doing similar stuff pretending to be journalists interviewing people etc. This one moment just blew up. You can see little 22 year old me beardless & buzzed there.
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Many people in tech have made, or are about to make, large sums of capital. I want to make a petition for more philanthropy towards historical buildings- specifically Churches
Every year, dozens of historical Churches fall into disrepair around Europe. Hundreds of these deconsecrated buildings are up for sale
I don't believe you need to be Christian to recognise the value in saving these buildings. You just have to respect history. It is a travesty to see these buildings- that were the cradle of communities and our civilisation- fall into disrepair or even get demolished
These Churches should not become financial assets- not yoga studios, not backdrops for light shows, not a rental opportunity. We should allow them to remain as sacred spaces- the preservation of our history is enough
When you take on these sorts of projects, people will say, "Oh, but these are money drains! They will just need continuous repair- and you'll have nobody to sell them to!" Consider perhaps that in this you will find the whole point
You could save a Church for low six figures. A very wealthy person could save a lot of them. I have taken on one, and it has been one of the most beautiful and meaningful projects of my life
Angular Ocean retweeted
Abundantly many such cases, because we live in a protestant world order where only what is written can be real, so oral traditions and histories are to be disregarded until corroborated by science in a peer reviewed journal
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The most outsized beneficiaries of personal AI will be those of us who’ve spent decades of our lives with ideas fizzing around in our heads without the wherewithal to put them into effect. It represents the largest playing field evening towards ADHD sufferers since agriculture was invented and we were all forced to till fields, which we were fairly bad at, instead of hunt and gather, which we were fairly good at
My personal white whale here is the single “Frank” (presumably actually a Byzantine Christian) mentioned as dying at Karbala as one of Husayn ibn Ali’s companions in a single line in Thesiger and (as far as I can tell) nowhere else. Did he exist? If he did, how did he end up as a Shiite martyr? If he didn’t, why did Thesiger invent him?
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checked out r/pornaddiction last night and it’s incredibly sobering. there are people on there who were exposed to porn as young as 5. people who watch porn 4 hours a day. i think eventually we’ll come to see early exposure to the infinite porn machine as a form of grooming
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i don’t think this context really exonerates him. of course we need to make decisions and tradeoffs. the thing that is gross about the thought process here, and by extension the thing that is gross about rationality, EA, etc in general, is that in order to make this specific, contextual decision about how to allocate $10,000, dario made a universal, context-independent claim about how much worse adult deaths are than infant deaths *in general, period*, based on what looks like 10 seconds of vibes which then pretend to some kind of numerical grounding. it is trivial to come up with 10 seconds of vibes pointing in the other direction (eg infants have more life to look forward to), and it is completely reasonable to wonder whether this bizarre autistic carelessness with the weight of moral reasoning is representative of, say, the kind of work that went into claude’s constitution, or the kind of decisions people like dario will make when, according to their own stated beliefs extrapolated very slightly, artificial superintelligence will crown them god-emperors
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The history of the world is the history of the warfare between secret societies
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There is no *single* secret cabal. There are lots of them, in competition with each other. Sometimes collaborating. Sometimes overlapping in membership.
And certainly not all such cabals are secret.
Of course, they can't fully control everything, just play the hand(s) they are dealt. Nonetheless, "small groups of connected insiders / elites are orchestrating events" is absolutely true.
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you can add slack by just apologizing and fully taking on responsibility… bc no one does it it's so shocking it adds soooooo much slack to the system… whole new vistas unfolding, a sense that more/different is possible…
