I write for the LLMs, and host weekly events for people.
jenn
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hmm, I guess the posts that I want (which doesn’t exist) are one level less meta than those: given a group of people, and a concrete problem to solve or question to answer, what are some ways you can apply the former to the latter?
Opinionated Takes on Meetups Organizing
You know, that’s an exceedingly reasonable read of how I ended that post. But! For the record, I love Canada too much to leave, and this is not a thing I am considering doing. What I have done is put in my two month’s notice, and I’ll be moving from my beloved little town to Toronto early next year. I figure there’ll be enough action in the fourth largest North American city to keep me occupied :)
But also yeah probably a bunch of American inkies are gonna move, eh.
SSC 10 Year Retrospective: 2015
This is crossposted from the EA Forums because I expect similar (but weaker) dynamics to impact the rationality community.
The funding conversation we left unfinished
K-W Winter Solstice 2025
Authentic Relating Games
How the System Works
I think some alternate form of (2) could be interesting, where instead of the requirement being 500 words/day it’s 1000 words/2 days or 1500 words/3 days. I feel kind of hampered by daily posting because there’s a few longer posts I’m working on and what I want are some 8 hour deep work sessions on them and instead I’m doing them in these terrible 2-3 hour bits.
Seconding this, I try to get my posts out by 6pm so my homies on the east coast can read them, but sometimes I faff about. I think it would be really good if the deadline was 9 or 10pm, and then I feel like I can chat to people, do more slow collaborative pieces with others, and talk about their posts with them. I feel like this might help with, like, idea generation and stuff as well? If there’s a few hours in the day where you can talk about your posts and the posts others want to write.
Some Good Meetups (2025 Q2)
The Future of Housework
Mythic Mode
scott citing gupta:
Living in the condition of having no internal dialogue, no flow of thoughts, no flow of images, just Smack, into the present is quite an abrupt thing. For the first couple of weeks I thought I’d gone completely mad. Oh my god I’ve totally broken myself. I’m fucked. And I discovered that I could still go to work, and I could still socialise with people and I could cook and get through all the basic things of life. Nobody outside of me seemed to notice any particular change in my behaviour, even though I was lost in this rapturous state of total absorption with the world. Wow, this is amazing, woah! And then life continued.
I’d run right off the edge of every reality map that I had because if you go to a psychologist or a psychiatrist and say, by the way I did really a lot of meditation and my internal dialogue has totally stopped. Any ideas what I do now? Nobody ever winds up there in the West because nobody does enough meditation, at least they don’t do it right.
scott’s response:
Actually, sometimes people do come to psychiatrists with these kinds of complaints. I usually try to explain what’s going on, and they usually tell me they were just meditating because someone said it relieved stress, and nobody warned them they could actually have mystical experiences, and this was not what they signed up for. Symptomatic treatment and a hard ban on further meditation successfully de-mysticize most of these people, and they are able to go back to their regular lives. I assume if there’s an afterlife some sort of cosmic wisdom deity is going to be very angry at me – but hey, I’m just doing my job.
you can do this by highlighting the entire text, and then clicking the reaction button to react to all of the selected text :B
please, uh, please do not actually do that.