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by krzat 3y ago
The fact that you point this out, is a proof that humanity can improve, what needs to change is our culture, especially education, ofc it may take a lot of time but it will happen eventually.
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by krzat 3y ago
If the AI had a secondary goal of improving customer's mental health, it could work very well. Usually you can't fuck your therapist.
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by krzat 3y ago
Similar ideas can be found in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constructed_emotion Except instead of kaleidoscope of 6 emotions, you have a circle of affect - how pleasant/unpleasant and how aroused/tr
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by krzat 3y ago
This should answer your question: https://www.reddit.com/r/streamentry/wiki/twim-crash-course First impression may not be great. It's kind of cringey at first. It helps to think about this on biological
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by krzat 3y ago
Wide open insight into our human nature.
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by krzat 3y ago
I have hard time discerning between 4 immesurables, it seems like they are all love in different forms / levels of difficulty.
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by krzat 3y ago
I'm sure there are well established practices in Tibet but IMO there is nothing special about them, which is why there are multiple schools of Buddhism instead of just one. I had a real suffering person to practice on (me) which is why
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by krzat 3y ago
There is really nothing magical about metta. It's all in consistent practice. 1. You visualize a cute bunny (for example). 2. You recognize that visualizing a cute bunny makes you a bit happier. 3. You realize that you can influence yo
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by krzat 3y ago
Here is a good starting point: https://www.reddit.com/r/streamentry/wiki/twim-crash-course
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by krzat 3y ago
Interesting to see this here, without any context attached. I've been practicing loving kindness meditation for a few months now and the results have been incredible. I'm atheist, pretty sure reincarnation is bullshit, but the met
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by krzat 3y ago
This technique reminds me of kasina meditation, I haven't practiced it, but but I have read about cases where people developed hyperphantasia.
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by krzat 3y ago
My takeaway is that placebo pills are surprisingly effective for mental issues. I'm not quite sure how this could be utilised in psychiatry though.
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by krzat 3y ago
Continous measurement of body temperature, blood pressure and heart rate via implant could be enormously helpful to health for so many reasons...
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by krzat 3y ago
I do metta. I'm still wondering if meditation makes you a gullible crystal buying idiot, or does it just attract such people.
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by krzat 3y ago
I supposed you could just read the contents of hard drive before steamrolling it.
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by krzat 3y ago
It's like with exercise, regular life maintains muscles at some low level, but specific techniques (lifting) make it possible to get much stronger. Same goes with brain, you can train your imagination, focus, mental resilience, happine
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by krzat 3y ago
What's the difference between pleasure and hallucination o pleasure? The thing with meditative pleasure is that it requires equanimity to appear, being content with almost nothing, which is perhaps why people do not become jhana junkie
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by krzat 3y ago
Can you give some examples of your false beliefs?
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by krzat 3y ago
Plot twist: Elon realized how harmful twitter is to the society and decided to destroy it.
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by krzat 3y ago
Neat. I'm wondering how much of inner cell biology can be abstracted away. How accurate can neuron simulation be without underlying chemistry and physics?
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by krzat 4y ago
Exactly. We have special lossless formats for music and images.
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by krzat 4y ago
It would be nice to have a better understanding on what generates qualia. For example, for humans, learning a new language is quite painful and concious process, but eventually, speaking it becomes efortless and does not really involve any
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by krzat 4y ago
On desktop this is already settled and most of everyday stuff is done through websites or electron apps. I suspect that Apple/Google will never let this happen due to 30% tax they steal from devs.
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by krzat 4y ago
Imitating native components is actually the only realistic approach. Those components are guaranteed to work on newer OS versions, they work on any platform and they give you easy access to the low level guts.
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by krzat 4y ago
This could be a cool task for AI: hover on variable and have it's role at a higher level than just finding all references.
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by krzat 4y ago
I hope we will get some AI for static analysis. It would be nice to hover on a symbol and get high level description of what it does, what pattern it follows, etc. AI can access not only current state of the code, but it's entire histo
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by krzat 4y ago
I love being able to control+click on anything in flutter to see how it was implemented. In fact, Dart doesn't even support closed source.
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by krzat 4y ago
Plants need energy to grow, and the easiest way of providing that energy is direct sunlight. Which means that vertical won't work too well. I suppose if you wanted be really space efficient, you could use nuclear energy to cultivate ye
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by krzat 4y ago
The illusion is that concious part of the brain is the most important one. In reality we rely mostly on intuition and body automation. But it's pretty obvious to me that consciousness would not exist if it was not useful. One way it wo
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by krzat 4y ago
Not sure if it's useful distinction, even if unsafe was removed from the language, it would still need an ability to use libraries written in C.

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