Anyone had a hypomanic episode after first principle thinking?
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it’s kind of crazy that spaced repetition has completely revolutionized language learning
How exactly did spaced repetition revolutionize language learning?
A large part of the reason math is hard, or boring, is that education studies, especially in math, are worse than you know. It goes beyond the studies failing both math and statistics forever and into what I’d basically call fraud. Various people are at war with math education, and will do what it takes to stop it in its tracks. We must fight back.
How much fun you have while doing math is directly linked to how deeply you understand it or if it’s a new topic how quickly you understand the material behind the new topic
Extremely confident sounding but this is solely based on 1 anecdote
The issue is most people aren’t doing that.
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You’re completely right
I’d like to build on to your post with the focus on, “what does effective inner work look like?” With a more specific look into the approach to self-help rather than the self-help tactic.
I’d imagine 80% of the reasoning is utilizing the scientific method
I believe the purpose is results. I’m reminded of an AI researcher I worked with in 2024 called his prior seven years of inner work (Vipassana, Tibetan Buddhist meditation, various retreats, IFS) “LARPing working on the problem.”
You are speaking of Richard Ludlow who stated in a tweet, “My conclusion from trying many healing modalities over the past two years is that the feeling of “holy shit, that was profound!” is a surprisingly weak predictor of tangible lasting benefit”
I would love more insight into his process when he was engaging in “inner work,” as I suspect that his process vaguely resembles: He has a vague idea of what his problem is and hear of a meditation retreat that offers miraculous benefits > Try it out > right after the experience determines whether or not it worked
As opposed to: Figuring out operational definition of your problem > looking at the evidence to form a hypothesis reflecting on the intended course of action and the intended measurable results > test it out > compare results at the end
Why did this get downvoted? I was initially confused by the meaning of “Stone Age Billionaire”
lol : )
it does
anime and characterai is massive
Like how tears is not the unit of care
https://character.ai/character/6Y6v1Lzw/gojo-satoru-jujutsu-sorcerer has 864,300,000 different open conversations.
Where people do just that, roleplay session.
Extremely useful as this is a real effect of rationality going wrong and people with this experience should be able to share it
Esp cause I relate to this and found t his article cause it like i went through the exact same thing he did