Jake

Universities are funny. Hey what if we took a medieval institution for training priests and aristocrats and combined it w a hedge fund, sports franchise and resort for teenagers Oh and it'll be the backbone for fundamental research for our entire civilization

I have never seen anyone create anything of value or beauty from existential terror That we are subject to forces that can snuff us out is an eternal fact of the human condition We cannot begin to know those forces until accepting they are, at some level, always unknowable

The most connected time of my life was when I was unemployed and sick and living off savings and my whole focus was health and forming deep relationships. The rampant pessimism about an abundant future just reflects the spiritual and emotional wasteland of our current culture

pretty much

Hahahahaha

We consistently romanticise the prior tech regime farmers yearning for the garden of hunter gatherers urban manufacturing romanticising the bucolic Information age pining for “the good manufacturing jobs” Now a sudden love for the desk jobs everyone hated 5 years ago

Perennial

Lot of alpha in just being a guy who reads the methods section with more attention than the conclusion

AI pacing problem seems global warming shaped. As in, clearly better if you can resolve the multipolar trap on prevention, but once it’s clear you can’t you’re better off pivoting quickly to adaptation

The key difference btw the sweaty midwit and the idiot / wizard is the sweating

I’d love to figure out a way to get information off the internet without absorbing the vibes of the internet

If you don't have a clear intent the default option is fear

You know you have a clear intent when it makes it clear how to live intentionally

Conflict aversion is the inverse of self acceptance By avoiding conflict one avoids the risk of being discovered in ones true feelings, thoughts and desires

Today is Swiss national day and I'm just overwhelmingly grateful to be in such a sane, well run, high trust country Every other country on earth should be studying it to know what good looks like

The art is learning to care more while grasping less

Mediocre meditation teacher: “There’s nothing you have to do” Incredible meditation teacher: “There’s nothing you have to do”