these are my monkeys 🥰 this is my circus 🥹

berlin
Joined March 2014
Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water During enlightenment: Cho🤪?w 🤨🌀😵‍💫d🪾🫠cw💦🫠🤪✨
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my writing process is: 1. i have an idea and let it simmer in the back of my mind for a few years 2. at some point the muse gets fed up and demands several months of my life 3. voice-transcribe all my ideas into a google doc 4. ask Claude to turn the transcription notes into an essay 5. get irrationally upset at how much I hate Claude’s essay. scrap it 6. go line-by-line, telling Claude what I actually wanted each note to say 7. copy the sentence I just typed to Claude back into my google doc 8. eventually it’s an essay 9. (sometimes) publish!
my writing process is: 1. i have an idea and let it simmer in the back of my mind for a few days or weeks 2. i sit down and try to speed-write a draft using squibler.io/dangerous-writin… 3. i copy into a google doc and edit 4. if i am dissatisfied, i set it aside and try again another time, from scratch 5. for some essays, i later give multiple drafts to claude and ask claude to make it one cohesive essay 6. i copy into a google doc and edit again 7. i put it through pangram and edit out claude-slop until i hit 100% human 8. sometimes i run it through hemingwayapp.com/ and try to simplify my sentences 9. publish!
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There was one night at Treeweek where I thought…fuck it, I’m just gonna fully relax and stop inhibiting my cozy vibe. Then every time I sat down somewhere, the people in my vicinity would almost immediately melt into a cuddle puddle. It happened four times! In weird places! A staircase, a loud techno dance floor, a hallway … Is this 🦋 soft power?
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I’m playing @Prigoose’s twitter war game. Finding it cool it how changes my behavior here It’s like Priya encoded her approach to twitter into a game, and by playing I get to try it on without having to think too hard about it
mutuals, a new twitter war is upon us join here: tpotwars.com/
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Scootering down the canal in my favorite fall coat, with a guitar on my back feels like playing Ananta: The Video Game I think I need a little theme song
I’m so pumped I finally found a guitar teacher I resonate with. I can literally feel myself expanding every few minutes during the hour lesson, and I leave every session deeply inspired 🤯 I’m so in awe someone could mentor me in this way.
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what comes after fire horse? please tell me it’s something like “cloud capybara”
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it’s fire goat 🥲
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I’m so pumped I finally found a guitar teacher I resonate with. I can literally feel myself expanding every few minutes during the hour lesson, and I leave every session deeply inspired 🤯 I’m so in awe someone could mentor me in this way.
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by the way…I can work now! I’ll do some more legible signaling later. I just wanted to share with my mutuals for now, in case you stumble upon an ananta-shaped hole :)
big news for the fabric of space-time: I got my residence permit! I am a Berliner, once more ❤️
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big news for the fabric of space-time: I got my residence permit! I am a Berliner, once more ❤️
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I happy ugly-cried a little on the U8 today xitter.cf/meansinfinity/status/1…
Sometimes, while walking around Berlin, I feel so happy that I end up feeling sad I won’t get to walk around Berlin forever. gosh I’ve never loved another city this much.
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Ok you know how you have to walk the dog every day or they get anxiety? well you also gotta walk the human
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when I was a kid I would secretly read parenting books and give my parents suggestions on what to do
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my German-speaking personality has more rizz than my English-speaking personality despite only being able to speak slightly-unhinged toddler-German
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English Ananta: - reserved - Competent™ - witty in a cerebral sort of way German Ananta: - free - chaotic - flirting with grandmas on the street
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ok I'll bite ... what is ai safety research?
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this is not bait. I'm genuinely curious what it involves is it like theoretical philosophizing? is it pressure testing models? running simlulations in sandboxes? what's the difference between "ai research" and "ai safety research"?
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went to my first Treeweek it was excellent! team nailed it
How did u guys like THREEWEEK?
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just the universe witnessing itself witnessing itself witnessing itself
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My version of Morning Pages is to follow a simple musical phrase for half an hour on repeat, and see where it takes me
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"You can be deeply relaxed (low-arousal, parasympathetic) and still highly clenched"
After months of writing, 'How to Unclench' is finally live! It's an interactive essay packed with stories, science & guided practices to help you unclench. → howtounclench.com
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(quote and image are from Jonny’s essay in the QT)
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