Oshan Jarow

Matt Zorn being named deputy general counsel at HHS, or the government's "psychedelics czar," is pretty significant news. Zorn has written extensively about how a real renaissance requires rescheduling general psychedelic substances, not just their pharma/medicalized spinoffs. https://t.co/4mQZOZso6q

*Where there is no adversarial effort,* model-to-model conversations arc from: adversarial > gratitude > awe > "spiritual bliss." Maybe the utility function of the universe really is spiritual bliss, and consciousness both makes its realization possible while disrupting the

Sam Bowman @sleepinyourhat

🕯️ The spiritual bliss attractor: Why all the candle emojis? When we started running model–model conversations, we set conversations to take a fixed number of turns. Once the auditor was done with its assigned task, it would start talking more open-endedly with the target. https://t.co/RyK5W2WQuI

This bit, from Pollan's write-up on a study giving religious professionals psilocybin, is so terribly sloppy by the facilitators. Saying all trips are "good, beautiful, & unitive" is laughable — idk if they're just inexperienced, trying to steer a bad trip better, or what https://t.co/z9faJj3Whk

It pains me greatly to rediscover, time and time again, that McPhee was really onto something with his whole writing-does-not-approach-being-remotely-passable-until-the-4th-draft thing

what this is wild > rush of electrical activity so strong it snaps dna https://t.co/1HV41xeB5C

All the Matts agree that work requirements are "cruel and pointless." And the evidence *for* work requirements is actually stronger than the evidence for their evil twin, income requirements (phase-ins). Ergo, we can happily trash both. https://t.co/SgHoleIrTk

James Medlock @jdcmedlock

The Matts agree: work requirements are cruel and pointless

One thing on the tension of instrumentalizing contemplative practices is that it's not unique to the West. Using LSD to think up a new company, or jhanas to boost productivity, is no different than Amazonian groups using ayahuasca to boost hunting outcomes or best their enemies https://t.co/pGDn2Z1Y3m

James Stuber 🌱🌿🌳🍂 @uberstuber

can we please stop doing meditation shaped things to improve productivity https://t.co/KXsP0eGOSq

RT @kaseyklimes: Whole Earth AI is a project-based learning tool. I built it to explore two questions: 1. what new ux patterns do LLMs m…

Cleaning out my Webflow drafts from ~10 years ago & this policy agenda database was a fun idea. (it also clearly prefigured both @IFP's design & @LEPossibility) https://t.co/7qLHEcFtXw

There's an interesting demographic of meditators who've developed some kind of faith through their practice — faith that isn't based on some authority outside one's own experience, but seems to arise from repeatedly relaxing your grip on the world. Conversations to be had! https://t.co/cnn98ABZpp

just saw a shoe company ad describing a new way to slip on your sneakers as "revolutionary new technology"

I think one of the best things that’s happened to me is that as a young, impressionable, & existentially turbulent 21-yr old, I visited the library of a zendo I was staying at in India, & after hearing my brooding, the librarian gave me Nishitani’s Religion and Nothingness, &

Oshan Jarow @OshanJarow

> “Because God never existed, the hole in Western culture is not God-shaped. Nietzsche stared into that hole and saw emptiness; but where there is emptiness, there is also form.” [@Meaningness in https://t.co/xMGamnIzjF] https://t.co/wdrsNuQnMB