4+ hour, 3+ min ago  (218+ words) Behind the ecological crisis is the happy event that we found incredible tools to be more efficient. We are now able to do way more and better with less effort. Youhou! With the industrial revolution and what not, we gained…...

23+ hour, 52+ min ago  (1152+ words) Concentrated power likely means fewer value systems among the people who collectively shape the future'that is, reduced moral diversity among powerholders. Moral diversity has both costs and benefits: it enables moral trade and plausibly improves reflection, but also raises the…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (1035+ words) I recently read Chapman's texts on Robert Kegan's levels of moral development and meaning-making, namely: Developing ethical, social, and cognitive competence and the more psychedelic What is stage five (like)? . Scott Alexander also has some interesting thoughts on the first…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago  (699+ words) One particularly pernicious condition is low morale. Morale is, roughly, "the belief that if you work hard, your conditions will improve." If your morale is low, you can't push through adversity. It's also very easy to accidentally drop your morale…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago  (1047+ words) One of the best ways to reduce Nectome's long-term risk is to show that preservation is a thing people want by buying one yourself; this is a critical time in the organization and your contributions now have an outsized impact…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (529+ words) Walking, I listen for sensations of physical necessity. It is surprisingly hard. Imagining myself jumping huge distances feels like imagining a normal step. Odd, that. Shouldn't possible acts feel vivid, alive & real in a way fantasy isn't? I make some…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (592+ words) When I was 21, I was sucked into a world of ambition. Starting my adult life in the Bay Area, I was surrounded by the sense that I was supposed to start a startup, change the world. I never wanted to…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (323+ words) Let's assume that the Self and the Mind are two separate entities (based on vippasana meditation teachings and observations during meditation). Now let's say there arises a "preference" in you for something, and then you chose to do that something…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (449+ words) Sometimes updating on evidence opens roads we do not want to take: roads that we do not like as we know where they inevitably lead. We sometimes prefer to stay in homeostasis, in our current lane, suboptimal. Sometimes the mathematics…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (673+ words) It is the third week of Anna's freshman year of high school. Today, like many days, she's filled with anxiety about her place in the world. The anxiety is a sharp, piercing feeling in her chest, like she is a…...