Part of my model is that spiritual students tend to be a lot more prone to wanting to connect in a physical way. Sometimes to the point of almost literally throwing themselves at the teacher.
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A reply that came to mind for me: “oh yeah. I guess I’m bored. I didn’t realize until you just pointed it out.”
That’s correct.
I like this a lot! I wish, as they say, that I could give this more than one (strong) upvote! I think if you continue writing, you could definitely make something at least as good at Friendship is Optimal. And if you continue past that, quite possibly even HPMOR.
Let me try to say a bit more about why I liked this so much. 1) As I was reading it, I was connecting the story / seeing parallels with my life. That’s always a plus in my book. The story helps me get a different handle on my reality. 2) I could empathize with all of the characters. Even though they weren’t fleshed out, they felt pretty real to me. 3) Of course the subject matter of utopias is interesting. But the additional mix of past lives in interesting as well. Would be interesting to read more about how that feels & works. 4) There’s also something a bit more nebulous… like the underlying attitude of the characters / story that feels refreshing. It’s not cynical.
Thanks for the summary. Just a quick note: I found that multiple headers & jumping between different “lenses” made it much harder to me to read the post. I guess I’d wish that those blocks would be larger, possibly all the way separated.
I gotta say the more I read this sequence the more interesting and helpful I find it. Thank you!
Would you recommend it? What’s the website?
Congrats on the new born!
My cryptocurrency quant hedge fund is looking to hire engineers. If you’re curious, PM me. :)
Well, I already tried recruiting you for our hedge fund, so not really. :D Although it’s possible with covid there’s a larger pool of remote jobs available.
But yeah, given all those constraints, it’s quite possible you’re in a relatively optimal position.
First off, kudos for putting your view up for criticism.
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned the opportunity cost. Putting the question of whether or not ads are good or bad aside, do you think you can find a job that creates more good in the world and pays about the same?
Very cool, this sounds a lot like my own story too. Welcome to the club!
I like this format a lot: here’s what I wanted to learn, here’s what I did, here’s my proposed better method. I. A world where we learn things via an amalgamation of blog posts and videos, this seems like an efficient way of helping others learn.
I think there should be a tag for this method!
Thank you, this looks extremely useful. It’s been on my todo list to learn about transformers for a while. And this looks like a great path to follow. I commit to respond with how my learning went once I follow this guide. (Will probably be later this year.)
What are your thoughts / advice on working as an individual vs joining an existing team / company when it comes to safety research? (For yourself and for others)
Thank you for looking into this and posting about it. This question has been on my mind a lot.
Strong upvote from me. I appreciate the decently broad source of quotes and I hope you’ve read some of that material fully. I think the question is interesting and worth serious pondering, though I’m a bit sceptical as to how much progress on it is really possible outside of individualistic discovery via something like meditation.
Father love and mother love is an interesting way of looking at it. Though it’s not clear “Father Love” is actually a thing or just something we projected onto actually existing “Mother Love.”
To me actually the problem of evil seems relatively unimportant. Just drop the “omnipotent,” which doesn’t make much sense anyway. (Why work with infinities when finite things are way more likely?)* The much bigger, much more interesting problem is the lack of communication.
Humans are certainly not the best at speaking or listening. But we understand some things. You could imagine god explaining things to us at our level, even if only to say: hey, you guys are just getting started; don’t worry, nothing makes sense so far, but in about 1000 lifetimes it will.
I have some thoughts / responses to that question, but that’s not really the topic here.
* Edit: Not to suggest that this is necessarily the solution, but there are a number of solutions with which I’m fairly satisfied.
It’s funny you mention Texas because a lot of Bay Area people in the past few years left for Austin, Texas.
Satvik mentioned you had a way to go from hash to the source code?
Thanks for sharing. My wife and I have “dreamed” about a shared housing scenario as well, raising our kids side by side with friends. But yeah, it seems super difficult to arrange and (I imagine) to maintain.