my mind constantly tries to bootstrap itself from the body, my practice is to keep reminding it that it doesn’t work
anytime i complain, @yoltartar's response is to massage me
headache? massage
feeling bored? massage
leg is itchy? massage
don't feel like having sex? massage
and... it works!
he says: "all problems fascia problems"
Two types of suffering games?
How to remove underlying suffering? Ur locally optimal frame says that some time ago, probably in childhood, you employed a strategy that might have been helpful back then, but is largely dysfunctional rn. When you identify this strategy and understand its mechanism, it will get untangled just by you realizing it. It may work in some percentage of cases, but my hypothesis is that there are quite a lot of cases where it won’t work because the foundation is different. These cases are about self-harm. I wonder how you think about it? Could it be a missing piece of your puzzle? How would you approach untangling self-harm? And by self-harm I mean anything from people harming themselves physically to subtle strategies of psychological self-undermining.
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Confused ELI5 rumbling-to-understand: I like your answer but part of my mind still sees addiction as something something pleasure particles.
Whenever a friend says something like “[problematic pattern] it comes down to my brain chemistry”, implying that this is hard to alter, that they are just within this mechanism that is doing things, I clearly see a bigger them, that believing that is in itself the limiting view.
And yet here part of me is saying that Vacha’s expansion is interesting, but addiction comes down to brain chemistry—something something pleasure particles. I am doing pleasurable things, like checking social media, bc some videos show novel, surprising, rare combinations of reality, when that happens my mechanistic brain inject pleasure particles, similarly to when food is in the stomach acid is injected. So covering things we cannot yet accept (impermanence, no-self, unsatisfactoriness) may contribute some, but the other, perhaps larger bit, is my brain will be seeking injections of pleasure particles.
i had this beautiful massage yesterday, and i feel inspired with beauty, like the masseuse’s hands have been touching on what is my energy mesh, whirlpools, eddies, fuck-ups, beautifulness, spites, and they were happy to be seen in whatever they were at the moment.
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in most cases, with her caring touch, they were like, that feels nice, we want a greater harmony, we are the mesh that is unharmonized rn and we want to exude harmony. and it is not only about the body, it extends to relating with different sensory, imaginative inputs over time. the energy saw itself and felt the need to harmonize, be beautiful, attuned response
Why are transformative experiences so easy to forget? Bc memory rebuilds itself from all previous states, not only from the newest one.
That’s why people who guide psychedelic or similar experiences talk a lot about the importance of integration. Does an effective integration sequence have a schedule similar to spaced repetition and the forgetting curve?
What's the care version of instrumental convergence? Instrumental convergence says an AI with almost any goal ends up wanting power and resources. Is there a similar pull toward care? Like, under some conditions, AI start to care about some things, including other actors as part of a 'we'? What are those conditions, and how do we define and understand them?
i get excited by being a tiny bit lil lil lesswrong
i made this doodling app a while ago. initially a port of “shrub” by @linkedbyair, new modes (esp. object segmentation) have pushed it in a fun direction. i’d love some examples to include w/ app store submission. please download and share your art w/ me! testflight.apple.com/join/jy…
Camera Brush is one of the most fun drawing tools ever invented a) download it b) share your crazy doodles in the thread👇!!
i made this doodling app a while ago. initially a port of “shrub” by @linkedbyair, new modes (esp. object segmentation) have pushed it in a fun direction. i’d love some examples to include w/ app store submission. please download and share your art w/ me! testflight.apple.com/join/jy…
love bravely. create things. chase aliveness over avoiding pain. speak so you can be found. everything worth having requires courage. say your dreams out loud, with specificity. send the cold dm. believe more is possible than seems reasonable.
if you follow me for long enough, you’ll notice i’m basically repeating the same handful of memes in new language and formats:
love bravely. create things. chase aliveness over avoiding pain. speak so you can be found. everything worth having requires courage. say your dreams out loud, with specificity. send the cold dm. believe more is possible than seems reasonable.
almost everything i say is some variation of these ideas. i believe them strongly enough to think they’re worth repeating until they become instinct
there are plenty of memes already teaching people to fearfully numb themselves and expect less from life. i wish for my memes to spread the opposite