If you are willing to share, can you say more about what got you into this line of investigation, and what you were hoping to get out of it?
For my part, I don’t feel like I have many issues/baggage/trauma, so while some of the “fundamental debugging” techniques discussed around here (like IFS or meditation) seem kind of interesting, I don’t feel too compelled to dive in. Whereas, techniques like TYCS or jhana meditation seem more intriguing, as potential “power ups” from a baseline-fine state.
So I’m wondering if your baseline is more like mine, and you ended up finding fundamental debugging valuable anyway.
I’m not mesaoptimizer, but, fyi my case is “I totally didn’t find IFS type stuff very useful for years, and the one day I just suddenly needed it, or at least found myself shaped very differently such that it felt promising.” (see My “2.9 trauma limit”)
If you are willing to share, can you say more about what got you into this line of investigation, and what you were hoping to get out of it?
Burnt out after almost an year of focusing on alignment research. I wanted to take a break from alignment-ey stuff and also desired to systematically fix the root causes behind the fact that I hit what I considered burn-out.
I don’t feel like I have many issues/baggage/trauma
I felt similar when I began this, and my motivation was not to ‘fix issues’ in myself but more “hey I have explicitly decided to take a break and have fun and TYCS seems interesting let’s experiment with it for a while, I can afford to do so”.
If you are willing to share, can you say more about what got you into this line of investigation, and what you were hoping to get out of it?
For my part, I don’t feel like I have many issues/baggage/trauma, so while some of the “fundamental debugging” techniques discussed around here (like IFS or meditation) seem kind of interesting, I don’t feel too compelled to dive in. Whereas, techniques like TYCS or jhana meditation seem more intriguing, as potential “power ups” from a baseline-fine state.
So I’m wondering if your baseline is more like mine, and you ended up finding fundamental debugging valuable anyway.
I’m not mesaoptimizer, but, fyi my case is “I totally didn’t find IFS type stuff very useful for years, and the one day I just suddenly needed it, or at least found myself shaped very differently such that it felt promising.” (see My “2.9 trauma limit”)
Burnt out after almost an year of focusing on alignment research. I wanted to take a break from alignment-ey stuff and also desired to systematically fix the root causes behind the fact that I hit what I considered burn-out.
I felt similar when I began this, and my motivation was not to ‘fix issues’ in myself but more “hey I have explicitly decided to take a break and have fun and TYCS seems interesting let’s experiment with it for a while, I can afford to do so”.