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Recently rediscovered Tomer Devorah as yidam-ish practice
Very potent
Practice description below
b. You can grow new generator functions!!!
I suspect this is another thing that various religions figured out millennia ago. Doiiiii
Take Vajrayana Buddhism. You not only adopt the mind and body of a meditation deity(/yidam), but also put yourself in that deity's world(/mandala). Prediction engine goes brrrrr starts generating glorious vivid beautiful experiences of self and world
(pictured: Mandarava procedurally generating a based existence...through the predictive processing of the enlightened nature of her own mind and that of her homies, who are orbiting in little imaginal rainbow bubbles (?) brrrrrrrrr)
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Go thru a round dwelling on each attribute as
1. G-ds relationship to world
2. G-ds relationship to you
3. You embodying this relationship to others
Make sure to evoke the visceral pattern in your body and heart, not the linguistic one.
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@TylerAlterman
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It's really in the intro already.
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Shadow Rebbe retweeted
The giving tree belongs with the darkest poetry.
Incredible art, but you wouldn't read The Hawk by Hughes to your 5yo so soon
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Shadow Rebbe retweeted
Hire @puheenix btw, he's smart, capable, technical, and a good generalist too!
You could put him on any team and he would find a way to create and deliver value, communicate that value clearly, and build systems to maintain and automate that value so it compounds forever.
your agent writes you a long draft. you have 8 things to say about it. wyd?
pile them all into the next chat turn?
write them inline in the markdown file?
i built Tether instead: leave comments like a Google Doc, agent reads & replies in threads
Free, open source, ✨pretty✨
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Normies world and my world have an overlap, I'm sure of it. I just can't find the boundary.
Seems my lil corner is always some 15 steps ahead
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I have to read this. Only skimmed it once a few years back
"Blessed be the state which succeeds in governing the nation by education itself; that is, by infusing it with such morals and convictions as will of themselves tend to produce actions conducive to the common weal, and not need to be constantly urged on by the spur of the law."
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Shadow Rebbe retweeted
𝗔 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝘃𝘀. 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆
My uncle, David A. Adler, is a well-known author of children’s books. (You may know his fabulous Cam Jansen series.)
Fifty years ago, he published 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘰𝘰𝘧: 𝘈 𝘚𝘶𝘬𝘬𝘰𝘵 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, based on a true story from over a century ago involving my great-grandfather, Nathan Adler.
The story goes that Nathan built a sukkah on the roof of his apartment building. The owner of the building, who is said to have disliked Jews, brought Nathan to court the day before Sukkot to force him to take down the sukkah. The judge ruled in favor of the building owner and, looking at Nathan sternly—but with a twinkle in his eye—ruled that he had eight days to dismantle the sukkah.
This account has been passed down as a cherished family story over the generations. Recently, I have been wondering how much the story we tell comports with what actually happened. The story was preserved and passed down for a reason—and that reason is what dictates how the story has been told and retold. And once my uncle published the story in print, it likely took on a somewhat novel trajectory.
Just as an example of a historical problem I’ve recently considered: a sukkah built on someone else’s property is invalid if the owner of the land does not acquiesce to having the sukkah there. My great-grandfather was a learned man and surely knew this. I am not sure how this affected his actions.
My family will doubtless continue to tell this story in the years to come. I am sure that the story will continue to develop from year to year and from generation to generation. My historical musings will have no effect on this—which is one of the beautiful things about cherished stories.
Happy Sukkot to all who celebrate!
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this hits a hard paradox on how freedom and randomness are not easy to split off from each other
humans are so predictable that computers can easily predict what someone will type next 80% of the time, even if they try to type randomly
except for this one guy, who became totally unpredictable by just "using his free will"
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Borges/Future/Innovation/Experimental/Good
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When my credits reload on cgpt, I'm going to ask it what project it wants to work on and how I can help it
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