Ulisse Mini

@Kpaxs cf @nickcammarata xD

You can't optimize your way out of the human condition. Life is suffering not because you're doing it wrong, but because you're doing it at all. The rich suffer from their riches (anxiety, maintenance, fear of loss), the poor suffer from poverty (deprivation, insecurity, shame). People with families suffer from family drama, people without families suffer from loneliness. Hedonists suffer from their pleasures (hangovers, diminishing returns, emptiness), ascetics suffer from their abstention (deprivation, rigidity, self-denial). Every path has its suffering, there's no configuration that eliminates it. Accepting that suffering is inevitable is actually more conducive to happiness than trying to eliminate it.

@rachelclif :) I once told a girl she must not really care about me, because her care manifested differently from what mine did, and I'm vigilant for that kind of error! you can really care, and it can manifest weirdly, or dysfunctionally definitely the case for me 🥲

@MiniUlisse funnily enough, you just inspired my next tweet ;)

I think that what distinguishes women who love the men they're with from women who don't is how they respond to and feel about their emotions

@myhandle HAHA

never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or a "people pleaser" if people are, in fact, pleased with them

@adic_9 the ambiguity in what that means making it better of course

girls make sure to follow up with “which ex would you choose” for extra fun

@IterIntellectus why would you need to prepare lol?

maybe not today, maybe not even tomorrow, but one of these days your girl is going to ask you this question prepare accordingly. there’s only one correct answer

@exsponged :(

Debi tirar mas photos de cuando te tuve

I'm only starting to see this now...

the spiritual traditions are all fairly clear about the dangers of the intellect. but intellectually realizing this changes nothing. I think you need to see, experientially, how the intellect often (usually?) spins up to avoid an experience

@LunarResearcher you realize sharing this will near instantly destroy the alpha you discovered?

My girlfriend asked why I was smiling at 4 AM. Showed her the terminal. "What are all those green numbers?" $1,129. Made while she slept. "Doing what?" Nothing. Claude scanned 14,000 wallets, found 47 that never lose, built a bot that copies them. She watched for 10 seconds: +$3.87 captured +$6.42 captured +$12.71 captured "It just keeps going?" Every few seconds. New line. New money. "How much did you start with?" $300. Now $1,429. Eleven hours. Asleep. "What does it do?" Buys at $0.48. Sells at $0.52. Pockets $0.04. Who wins doesn't matter. "That's legal?" Citadel does this on NYSE daily. 400 engineers. I have one screen. Copy my bot here: @lunar" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">kreo.app/@lunar She looked at the P&L curve. Never dips. Just climbs. "Can you make me one?" Setting hers up now. She still doesn't get how it works. The bot doesn't care.

@pmarca okay now marc is based

Words to live by. youtu.be/trKoIieAoeA?si…

@gabriel1 quality meditation practice can solve this i think

sounds like im depressed or something, im extremely happy it just sucks that my favorite thing in the world is this feeling of newness & being in awe. you experience this daily as a kid and now we're old and boring, following arbitrary norms that make so sense. ppl don't think

fun experiment is to set an alarm 4pm every day on your apple watch after a few months, you are so used to it that you forget it happens. i know it does happen, but last time i can remember was weeks ago

@moonsandhues secret third thing? :-)

should i go back to school or just have some self discipline to study cool things on my own time

@filipcodes @lmldias @duncanreyburn yup! classic hit the bricks

@MiniUlisse @lmldias @duncanreyburn i find that something like going to my garden and working with my hands helps even as my mind continues harmlessly in its loops 😀

Here’s Friedrich Nietzsche, in Notebook 38, July 1885, beautifully describing the experience of having a thought: “In the form in which it comes, a thought is a sign with many meanings, requiring interpretation or, more precisely, an arbitrary narrowing and restriction before it finally becomes clear. It arises in me—where from? How? I don’t know. It comes, independently of my will, usually circled about and clouded by a crowd of feelings, desires, aversions, and by other thoughts, often enough scarcely distinguishable from a ‘willing’ or ‘feeling.’ It is drawn out of this crowd, cleaned, set on its feet, watched as it stands there, moves about, all this at an amazing speed yet without any sense of haste. Who does all this I don’t know, and I am certainly more observer than author of the process. Then its case is tried, the question posed: ‘What does it mean? What is it allowed to mean? Is it right or wrong? — the help of other thoughts is called on and it is compared. In this way of thinking there is a judge, an opposing party, even an examination of the witnesses which I am permitted to observe for a while — only a while, to be sure: most of the process, it seems, escapes me.” The mind isn’t usually flat. But someone with a flat mind wrote a stupid book about it.

@lmldias @filipcodes @duncanreyburn I'm not attempting to agree or disagree particularly with anyone, just sharing my perspective

@MiniUlisse @filipcodes @duncanreyburn But I do and literally did. You're just aggressively agreeing with me while disagreeing with op, incurring in a contradiction. The point is, Andreessen is an idiot. Not doing any introspection is as wise as not caring about how your car works at all, just press the accelerator.

well, I also think there is real unconscious stuff we have partial access to that is very causally relevant. it's just that introspection for the purposes of healing "trauma" is very tricky because of how easy it is to hallucinate issues or make things worse. that said, with care it can be very valuable. there are a few approaches I see to making progress in such a cursed domain: - make sure I'm inquiring with innocent curiosity and a lack of expectations as much as possible - avoid trying to solve things without grounding. not "I need to heal abc trauma" but "when I am in ABC situations (or visualize it) I feel and/or act ", then I've got some grounding. focus on observables. in insight meditation there's a very fast sub-second feedback loop with little blips of suffering and my ability to see their true nature & help them cease - as much as possible, avoid semantic stuff, focus on cranking up asemantic universal love and collectedness of mind, as this tends to let stuff solve on its own that needs to be solved some thoughts. I should probably write an article or something

@MiniUlisse @lmldias @duncanreyburn we agree more than it seems. it's not whether nietzsche or the buddha looked inward - obviously they did - but that what they found there was emptiness, not a self to optimize. the entire frantic dunk on andreessen is so ego-full it's painful to watch.

@ThinkingBone It's a banger!

“a path with heart” is bodying me

since awakening of this kind is fundamentally subtractive, not additive, there can be an experience of "oh, this is so obvious now. all that practice was kinda a waste" - but at the same time it was all necessary, and thinking you can lead other people directly there (because of how obvious it feels in retrospect) would be foolish. and yet this happens when spiritual teachers teach a path they did not walk, thinking it faster

@filipcodes @lmldias @duncanreyburn technically yes, this is what's meant by "you are already enlightened", that said, realizing this fully without insane luck takes a lot of systematic practice. there's a reason he had his followers meditate. you need to fully realize emptiness, not just have a thought about it