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brown univ // my hyperfixation is that deep okayness seems to be tractable

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corbin@corbindreams·
Ohhhhhhh meditation is really fun if i let myself get rly curious and do insight-esque things instead of just trying to do samatha or relax or whatever “lets relax and deepen into acceptance and love” Boringggggg.. and difficult for me too “Hm corbin you dont understand your mind, isnt that weird? what if we got rly curious about the different mental moves of relaxation and acceptance, and their micro effects on your experience, and what if we got to playfully do the scientific method on tinkering how to generate lots of self-love” — Super Interesting!!! Fun!!!
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corbin@corbindreams·
@anesmithbeck @nopranablem and both happen via some form of gently looking, listening closely seeing that frees! or whatever
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Aaron@anesmithbeck·
memory reconsolidation is to cleaning up as meditative insight is to waking up both removing or modifying hidden upstream generator functions of unwanted downstream outputs
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corbin@corbindreams·
ohhh [internal family systems, teamwork, bureaucracy; language] is a really great analogy for levin's bioelectricity stuff
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Stephen Zerfas@stephen_zerfas·
If you're trying to make super wellbeing accessible at scale, I think there are a limited number of "shots on goal": - genetic engineering - neurotech - custom psychedelics - making the world's wisdom traditions more reliable, accessible, and appealing Most techno-optimists would name the first three if asked. I think the fourth is the most tractable and most overlooked.
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corbin@corbindreams·
@visakanv i use an app called Picsew which i think works rly well (and also works with scrolling screen recordings!)
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Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!)
Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!)@visakanv·
been rereading old screenshots on my phone lately and started wishing I had an interface for merging screenshots… and realized I could use Instagram stories for this 😂 janky, but it works…
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corbin@corbindreams·
@TylerAlterman note: “be present” as an instruction does seem to work for some people/situations, but only in the same way that “just whack the ball” works for golf lessons or “just get in the groove” works for piano instruction - like, you usually need proper prereqs x.com/corbindreams/s…
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btw it does seem like “just let go” advice (etc etc) does work for ppl who have alr made a good amt of progress probably not bc of a crazy reason, it’s probably just equivalent to how golf/tennis advice like “just whack the ball” has variations of efficacy depending on your skill and your specific strengths/weaknesses (also cf. music advice like just go with the groove, just surrender to the music) generally works for more advanced ppl, i think bc they’ve alr combined/mastered the fundamental micromotions into one fluid motion (to some decent extent) — but generally need more micro precision/explanation/scaffolding for beginners, especially if it’s a confused untalented beginner

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corbin@corbindreams·
another problem is the weird epistemic bias where people just forget all the bottlenecks "be present" is given as an instruction as if there exists a mental button for beginners to do that and i don't think this is specific only to meditation/therapy stuff - i think this can also maybe be framed as a pretty common pedagogical mistake across fields! other cases: - "just get in the groove" jazz piano teachers - "just understand the equation rly well" math teachers etc
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Tyler is finishing a book, slow to reply@TylerAlterman·
How did meditation culture end up with this habit of punishing yourself for distractions? It's actually so weird if you think about it Imagine you see a nice flower. You want to look at this flower because it's pleasant. If you look away for a moment, of have the thought "What's for lunch?" you probablt don't go "F*ck! I got distracted from the flower again! Stupid me! I suck!" If you heard about someone who did this, you would think they have mental problems But somehow, my friends and I all have the same mental problem when it comes to meditation. This is true even for people I know who are normally quite kind to themselves. How did we all get the same contagious mental illness?
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corbin@corbindreams·
@nickcammarata i have the same problem how do we fix this
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Nick@nickcammarata·
i spend so many of my nights polishing each sentence of scientific papers as attempted gifts to the reader and to the project of knowledge itself, even though 95% of the audience is going to paste the link with five others and say 'claude summarize all this. short. im walking'
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corbin@corbindreams·
@tobiobeck yeah im totally oversimplifying, i just thought "hm i remember some intro of backprop in 1970 or 1980 idk, and we've made a lot of progress since then" but thanks! i wanna read up on science history stuff
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Tobi Obeck
Tobi Obeck@tobiobeck·
@corbindreams I don't know how you came up with a big AI boom in the last 50 years. I just wanted to make you aware of two AI winters, in case you didn't know already. From Wikipedia: "There were two major "winters" approximately 1974–1980 and 1987–2000" Interesting diagram, though!
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corbin@corbindreams·
made a diagram to organize some thoughts
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corbin@corbindreams·
this class is really humbling me and shining a light on my physicist nerd biases
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ひろまや
ひろまや@hiromaya_art·
僕が藝大にいた時、「天才」と言われていた先輩がいました。 彼は美術予備校時代から、絵がとんでもなく上手く、藝大に入ってからも一目置かれ、今は藝大の准教授です。 彼は学生時代に美術予備校講師もしていて、僕も教わったことがありました。 しかし正直、指導が上手いとは思いませんでした。 というのも、言うことが「なんでできないの？」とか、「もっとここゴージャスに！」を連発していて、かなり抽象的なのです。 ところが、手直しになると一変して、まるで精密にプログラムされた機械のようにバババッと形が直る。 見ている学生側は圧倒されます。でも学生に残るのは感動であって、再現性は皆無でした。 つまり、天才とは「高スペックPC」なのです。 そして高性能システムを自分の中に組み込んでいます。 それに対して、僕を含む凡人は低スペックPCです。 天才の作ったシステムは高スペックだから動くのであって、低スペックPCに入れてもフリーズするだけです。そのままでは移植できません。 だからわかりやすく教えるには、相手の環境でも動くように、処理を軽くする工夫やチューニングを一つ一つ意識せざるを得ない。 でも天才からすれば、自分の中では超高負荷の複雑なアルゴリズムが、一瞬の“直感”として走っているだけなので、処理を分解して説明する発想自体があまり育たないのです。 僕は美術予備校講師になった時、比較的教えるのが得意でしたが、それは自分が低スペックPCであると自覚して、効果的に動くように工夫を重ねてきた側だからです。だから一つ一つのロジックを言葉にできる。 この過程で、「説明用の言語化レシピ」を得たことが大きいです。
人間擬き@k0hh

頭いい人ほど「わかりやすく説明できる」ってよく言われるけど、あれ半分幻想だと思う 大学院の教授とか、専門分野の話になると普通に何言ってるのか分からないことあるし、知識量と伝える能力って全く別のスキルなんだよな むしろ「頭いい人＝説明も上手い」って信じてる人は、研究室とか大学の現場を知らない側のイメージ

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corbin@corbindreams·
continually calibrating myself to the fact that this is a marathon, not a sprint there’s just not enough structure on the board where we can start to think about game-winning moves, we still need to develop our pawns, in a sense but i am excited for the next 2 to 100 years
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Ideas Guy@nosilverv·
Biggest consequence of all the meditation/spiritual practice I’ve done is that there seems to be a much deeper “well” such that I still get knocked off center but it’s much harder and return much faster AND the center is a pretty nice place to be
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corbin@corbindreams·
@LydNot maybe 10 years from now we’ll have this for the micro mechanics of suffering and happiness
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Lydia (in SF)
Lydia (in SF)@LydNot·
hi! does anyone have...curated lists of significant papers they like? e.g. '30 papers to understand x'. compiling a list of lists. the papers need to be information-dense.
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Ideas Guy@nosilverv·
Ok I have a new theory of meditation for beginners and think everyone is doing it wrong lol: Beginners should be guided to go on a sort of TOUR of possible mental configurations you can visit while sitting so they learn the good referents asap and can hill-climb their way back
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corbin@corbindreams·
need to make the playground/territory legible before even working on the skills i.e. wiggle your ear once (and also gain the ability to self-verify this!) before working on wiggling it well things like running, gym, tennis don’t really require this because all the motions are already immediately legible, you can immediately work on technique iteration but for meditation it’s like there are 10 different wiggle-ear-muscles you have to find out about, because you didn’t know they existed and/or you didn’t know what they actually are like lots of meditation pedagogy rn is trying to get someone to wiggle their ear well, before theyve even wiggled it once kinda, approximately, etc
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