In maneuver warfare, you get convinced to waste your resources fighting the wrong battles. Journalists are not reliable sources of anything, and fighting in the faction wars around that is probably not pulling the rope sideways.
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I believe that one of the effects of the current schooling system is training people to shy away from cruxyness, which makes you somewhat less of a liability for employment.
One of the hypotheses is that hoarding calories is supposed to be a fall preparing for winter thing and something about the modern diet is putting us in that state all the time rather than for three months out of the year. Eating a bunch of root vegetables seems to help. Might be gut microbiome related (starches) and/or hormone related or something else.
Wrt to the calorie deficit really sucking, I found, per the potato diet, that eating potatoes to satiety (wound up being about 25% of calories overall average) removed most of the hard part of the calorie deficit. I still had to pay attention, but I didn’t have to try to go to sleep hungry.
It was notable that, in practice, the diet wound up being both low added sugar and low added fat. This has a calorie effect of course, but also some think that these processed carbs and fats are doing some sort of metabolic shenanigans, perhaps being treated by the body structurally as damaged etc.
Seems like you’ve aggregated lvt with central planning problems. There are multiple proposals to do it other ways.
Physical views are somewhat interesting if you haven’t seen them before https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d1eyZBpLn8
Thank you for sharing your experience. There is a balance in societies between tolerance for crime and tolerance for imperfect enforcement of law in ways that might rob the accused of some rights. I don’t know much about Taiwan, but by all accounts the Japanese penal system accepts a substantially higher rate of false positives in punishing the accused. This trade-off point might make a lot of sense in a society with a lower overall disposition towards violent crime.
The thief’s preferences bear no cost as well. Leaving his preference structure to change arbitrarily to whichever one will drive the highest utility for them. Preference falsification is an undesirable property for a system to incentivize, see strategic voting gameable systems as causing outcomes no-one prefers.
The dimensionality of possible improvements is both hopeful and also daunting. Lots of improvements being possible feels pretty cool in high agency states. Things needing lots of dimensions of improvement before they aren’t terrible feels hopeless from low agency states.
LLMs would be expected to have heavily overlapping ontologies, a question is what capability boosting does to the AI ontology.
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Update, I pinged him on Twitter and he said that people getting jhana on retreat and then thinking that the path is about getting ‘back to that’ is very common, instead of the person pursuing insight practices that lead to day to day changes Rather than peak experiences.
I don’t have theistic beliefs but have found prayer useful.
This is oddly different from what he said in person. Also he wrote the first edition of mctb also about twenty years ago now, so I wouldn’t be surprised if his opinion is different from his thirty year old self.
I don’t think you need to take any of the Buddhist claims seriously, just do your own investigation. I think it’s much closer to something like ‘people take instrumental goals as terminal, then twist themselves into knots over this error’.
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Ingram has actively hunted for any jhana hunters for twenty years and hasn’t found any. The reason why becomes obvious once one gains a bit of insight into why/how jhana works. Though it’s trickier to describe.
I think letting go of desire is a terrible description of the insight. I still feel like a normal person, I just suffer a lot less. There’s a tendency to overestimate the magnitude of changes in their close aftermath. It takes a few years before the mountains truly are mountains again.
More objective psychometrics like neuroticism and the reports of friends, family, partners.
They’re coextensive/parasitic on virtues, virtues being hard won compressions of lots of contextual information about how to prioritize and behave for min-maxing costs and benefits in a side-effect free way. Since virtues are illegible to younger people who haven’t built up enough data yet, values are an easy attribute substitution.
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