there is a revolution taking place in biology before our eyes I spent the past month reading the papers & interviews of @drmichaellevin, and wrote a long-form essay explaining his work and why it's important bitsofwonder.co/p/a-revoluti…

currently in my "the vajrayana buddhists were right and everyone else is an idiot" era

i love this by being.kinzer on ig

incredible passage by Cushman on how the move towards disenchantment was also a move towards "domination" as the primary mode of relating to other people and to nature. and then in America in particular, a shift toward a "liberation" frame took place

TIL humans were building "furniture" out of large stone slabs inside their dwellings like five thousand years ago. we've really been building cozy nooks for ourselves since the dawn of time

the best we can do with regard to our own development is set intentions and commitments, which act as compasses of a sort, and then get out of the way and allow the development to happen. consider that a baby develops extremely rapidly without any conscious plan to self-improve

TIL that freud's "id", "ego" and "superego" may have been more simply translated as "it," "I", and "I above" and that does seem a lot more straightforward

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looking back a year ago, it feels insane that I used to discuss personal/meaning-making stuff with an llm i now physically recoil thinking about it the epistemic risks of outsourcing meaning-making for too long to an obsequious, non-personally aligned model, are undertheorized

I just have this hunch that one of the funniest moments in human history will be when humanity finally encounters an intelligent alien species. we'll find that they do all the exact same things as us but in this weird, inverted, alien way, and we'll both laugh our asses off

the older I get the more curious I get about wittgenstein, and the more people’s dismissals of him seem silly. it is an absolute feat to be a philosopher of his caliber and also have this much aura, that combo alone is worthy of further study

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I'm obsessed with the poem onomatopoeia by thomas lux

trying to manage your developmental process can really interfere with your developmental process. imagine if a plant was devoting a substantial amount of its energy to try to make it rain more

I'm becoming Freudpilled oops

very interesting thread. good counterbalance to the meditationglazing that takes place around here

Pretty much what happened here

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yes...this really is the north star in my book...liberating our energies to devote them to the complex task of living realistically, productively, and joyfully...a task we will continue to work at for the rest of our lives