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my talking points:
- do an elimination diet
- sauna is the best
- superintelligence is coming
- happiness tech is all that matters
- LA is the best city
- you should try "the end of suffering"
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Louis Arge
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Louis Arge
@louisvarge
interested in consciousness tech, animal welfare, enlightenment, and a bunch of other things
san francisco Katılım Mart 2023
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The responses to this post are insane. Had to change who can reply.
villi@villi
When we invest, I am truly blind whether the founder is an immigrant or US-born. The immigration topic made me curious to look it up and 90%+ of our startups have at least 1 immigrant founder. 90%+! Wow!
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@Michael_Druggan @julianboolean_ and yet most countries make it much harder than O($10k) to immigrate… curious
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@louisvarge @julianboolean_ That's enough to keep out the undesirables
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i don’t understand why immigration of any sort is universally unpopular. almost every country on earth heavily restricts it
this is a recent thing too! before world war 1, you could just take a steamship from Brazil to Paris for $20 and decide you lived in France now
what changed? are people bad now? is that the reason more people are even more bad?
back then income wasn’t taxed in most jurisdictions either. now we tax our own people’s income & we don’t allow others to immigrate and earn income.
i ask again, are people bad? is working bad? where did this zero sum attitude come from?
what if we could also start deporting our own citizens, to have as few people as possible. would that be even better? is 0 the best amount of people? what is the point of all this?
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@gptbrooke Most of the internet isn’t blocked in China, just various companies they want to have domestic versions of for one reason or another! I don’t think Vibecamp counts as a national security threat or supply chain risk lol.
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i'm so curious about the ppl in lanzhou who are going to vibecamp website
or is that an artifact of ppl using vpns? i don't really know how stuff works
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@louisvarge i think the cost of the steamship ticket acted as an implicit filter and growth regulator
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i feel like making a self driving vehicle from scratch. computer vision is just so fun
Georg von Manstein@MansteinGeorg
we just gave @sama a ride in our self-driving golf cart! thanks for making it happen @OpenAIDevs and Codex Labs
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@tenobrus how hard do you think it is to make a competing rocket, given the level of AI we’ll have in 10 years?
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absolutely baffling results. no way in hell either of spacex or nvidia are in the running
britton winterrose@Winterrose
who is worth more in 10 years?
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this is a skill issue. i've tried to connect nick with people who know how to fix this (while keeping the benefits), but sadly haven't gotten through
Nick@nickcammarata
meditation will nuke your short term memory and you'll end up doing basic things twice in a row because you forgot you just did it, but you'll be so baseline happy doing anything that you won't mind doing things twice
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trailers are such a hack. you can buy a used home for like $4k - imagine buying a house for anything near that price!
𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗@shagbark_hick
I would 100% move to a trailer park if the trailer park was populated entirely by nutty people from Twitter.
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@sarabollman Why do you focus so much on what certain western Buddhists do wrong and what their motivations may be? Maybe it’s the algorithm biasing what I see from you, but I’ve found myself wondering a few times now
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The overly passive wishy washy culture of meditation in the west obscures the fact that a key part of the Buddhist path is the development of power.
Meditation and Buddhist practice should make us feel powerful, energised, courageous, vital and heroic.
The word that's often used in the Pali canon is "viriya".
Viriya literally means energy / vitality.
But it ultimately derives from a word meaning “hero”, which itself is derived from the same proto-Indian-European root word as the word “virile” in English.
Which helps us understand that it is designed to convey a courageous and powerful form of energetic vitality.
Viriya is not just described as a factor of enlightenment but is included as part of developing Right Effort in the eightfold path.
Viriya is even described as one of the fruits of practicing mindfulness meditation.
I think its very important that as we grow in our meditation path we don't confuse peace and compassion with insipidness.
The further we advance on a spritual path, the more power, strength and vitality we need.
To face the new challenges that arrive and energetically contain the new fruits that are borne from practice.
To do so, we must embrace our limitless power.
Vacha@TVachaW
Our unconscious mind will punish us if we aren’t living a life it can legibly interpret as heroic. This is in partly why mythological tales so often centre around heroic activity. Myth and story are how our unconscious minds communicate with us, and the hero model they present us with shows us how our deepest hearts want us to behave. They want us to adventure, to discover, to overcome obstacles, to slay dragons, to find the grail. These obstacles may be physical obstacles, mental obstacles or spiritual obstacles. These dragons may be real beasts or the beasts of our fears and insecurities and pain. These grails may be worldly prizes, spiritual flourishing or beautiful mysterious lights beckoning from deep within our own soul. But whichever obstacles are in our path, whichever dragons we encounter, whichever grail glows on our horizon, if we aren’t overcoming them, slaying them and seeking them, then our unconscious minds will become restless. They will think less of us. They will feel let down by us. They will resent us for failing to live out the heroic role they cast for us. And they will make our lives hell. Everyone needs their quest and if they refuse to take it up, the unconscious architects of the quest will consume and destroy us. If we ask ourselves every morning - how can I be heroic today? - then our lives will run much smoother. That is, we may invite more external turbulence into our lives, but we will be able to navigate it with evermore peace as the wind of our spirits will be in our sails. The armies of our soul will be on our side. To refuse the call to heroism is to insult our soul and to pervert the natural pattern of our being. The nitty gritty of our quests will often feel mundane on a day to day basis. The heroic thing to do on a given day might be just to call your mum, take the bins out, or hold your partner in their pain. Or it might be to dare to write the first page of your novel, the first line of code on your prototype or record the first song on your album. It might just be having the courage to face a single fear or step out of the shadow of some particular current of shame. But whatever it is, deep down we know the difference between acting heroically and acting cowardly, whether in the most mundane or most exalted matters. We can always ask - how can I live heroically today? And our soul will always have an answer for us.
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Offer Accepted. Always risks of shit falling through but this is it!! HOUSE SEARCH IS DONE. I’m a little nervous as anyone is at the loss of optionality but this will be a great spot for us
Samswara@samswoora
Offer put in on a really good house 🤞🤞🤞
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I think there’s quite decent evidence to believe I’m not autistic at all.
I wrote an essay about this but deleted it because it felt too personal. However, knowing me well seems directly predictive of not thinking I’m autistic. Family history suggests something more on the schizo spectrum. And, my behaviors as a child, albeit extremely odd, were odd in a way that is completely inconsistent with the autism spectrum.
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do you think drake was thinking about centrifuging enriched uranium here?
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@snwy_me this is amazing, thank you so much for this valuable contribution to humanity 🙏
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@christineist very you-coded design space bc you’re also great at doing this outside of your own software
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@VitalikButerin Incredible!! Maybe I should try more vegetarian food too, that’s a good point.
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Sent another 64 ETH to the Animal Welfare Fund.
I encourage others to think and act more in support of our non-human cousins too! The extreme suffering we're imposing on them in the billions is not something we talk about often, but it continues to be one of the larger blights on humanity.
And I'm getting optimistic that this century we can finally end it. Farming practices are improving, synthetic alternatives are improving.
Also, in my recent experience, good old low-tech vegetarian and vegan food has improved massively worldwide over the last ten years; I encourage anyone who has tried it long before and given up to take second look; there are far more healthier and tastier options today than the "pasta and salad" you would often get ten years ago.
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