Kaj_Sotala(Kaj Sotala)

Book sum­mary: Un­lock­ing the Emo­tional Brain

Build­ing up to an In­ter­nal Fam­ily Sys­tems model

My at­tempt to ex­plain Look­ing, in­sight med­i­ta­tion, and en­light­en­ment in non-mys­te­ri­ous terms

The curse of identity

Book Sum­mary: Con­scious­ness and the Brain

Your in­tu­itions are not magic

In­cor­rect hy­pothe­ses point to cor­rect observations

[mod­er­a­tor ac­tion] Eug­ine_Nier is now banned for mass down­vote harassment

The Felt Sense: What, Why and How

Ver­nor Vinge, who coined the term “Tech­nolog­i­cal Sin­gu­lar­ity”, dies at 79

The Psy­cholog­i­cal Diver­sity of Mankind

A brief col­lec­tion of Hin­ton’s re­cent com­ments on AGI risk

In­te­grat­ing dis­agree­ing subagents

Subagents, akra­sia, and co­her­ence in humans

A non-mys­ti­cal ex­pla­na­tion of in­sight med­i­ta­tion and the three char­ac­ter­is­tics of ex­is­tence: in­tro­duc­tion and preamble

A mechanis­tic model of meditation

Con­fused why a “ca­pa­bil­ities re­search is good for al­ign­ment progress” po­si­tion isn’t dis­cussed more

The 99% prin­ci­ple for per­sonal problems

In Defense of Chat­bot Romance

Se­quence in­tro­duc­tion: non-agent and mul­ti­a­gent mod­els of mind