I said I would resume daily shortform writing (among other things), and I am doing so. Thus this :)
Generating communication right now feels extremely difficult. Wow. But, I’m doing so because of the myriad benefits which come from writing publicly like this. And the communication gets easier as I type each word. Break through the block / barrier!
Despite the difficulty of translating experiential matters into communicable form, the above short paragraph represents a reasonably adequate insight into the experiences I had while writing it. I often write things like that at the beginning of any writing session, post, etc. but never make that part public. Doing so now for my own future reference and to note the trend of such experiences / feelings which occur most of the times I begin writing, plus maybe others can benefit from me sharing that experience if it’s relevant to them in some way. A very common oft repeated experience or feeling of my being is a mental “locked-in” sort of phenomena where the act of communicating feels extraordinarily difficult, such that “getting out” of my own head and communicating with others / “the outside world” is a challenge. Sometimes extremely so. There’s so, so, so much I want to say, do, discuss, develop, etc. I will defeat those feelings of communicating being difficult by continuing to practice communicating and doing all that I wish to do.
Failed at resuming media diet today, tomorrow’s a new day to do so.
Hammertime intermission ended today and the group I’m leading started back up on that (I don’t think I posted about the second intermission here in my shortforms, but did mention it on discord). Here’s to continuing Hammertime!!
I’ve taken a temporary 2 week break from EA Hub volunteering while I more intensely apply for jobs. Looking forward to returning to that work, but I’m thankful for the pause right now.
I meditated for 30 minutes in one uninterrupted sitting today. The time passed remarkably quickly, and was very pleasant, though the muscles in my shoulders and especially my neck are so tense that I experienced almost burning sensations as some of those muscles relaxed for the first time in...who knows how long. This is normal for me, and such sensations will go away within a few days or week or two of regular meditating as those muscles get more fully relaxed plus I regain the ability to willfully relax them. I believe the longest I’ve meditated in one uninterrupted sitting previously was 20 minutes, so yay for achieving a new personal best. More to come :)
There’s no reason why death should continue to plague humanity (and other species), I think solving the different causes of death and achieving immortality is probably the single most important problem set our species faces. Most problems, including AI Alignment fall within that cause area [immortality], so why isn’t this being more focused on? Despite the extreme importance of AI Alignment and other existential risk problems, I’m frankly not that interested in working on any such problems narrowly and specifically, except for the meta problem of death existing, so I’ll focus on the immortality cause area for my works. More to come :)
Shortform #62 Ah, Commitments | Getting Out
I said I would resume daily shortform writing (among other things), and I am doing so. Thus this :)
Generating communication right now feels extremely difficult. Wow. But, I’m doing so because of the myriad benefits which come from writing publicly like this. And the communication gets easier as I type each word. Break through the block / barrier!
Despite the difficulty of translating experiential matters into communicable form, the above short paragraph represents a reasonably adequate insight into the experiences I had while writing it. I often write things like that at the beginning of any writing session, post, etc. but never make that part public. Doing so now for my own future reference and to note the trend of such experiences / feelings which occur most of the times I begin writing, plus maybe others can benefit from me sharing that experience if it’s relevant to them in some way. A very common oft repeated experience or feeling of my being is a mental “locked-in” sort of phenomena where the act of communicating feels extraordinarily difficult, such that “getting out” of my own head and communicating with others / “the outside world” is a challenge. Sometimes extremely so. There’s so, so, so much I want to say, do, discuss, develop, etc. I will defeat those feelings of communicating being difficult by continuing to practice communicating and doing all that I wish to do.
Failed at resuming media diet today, tomorrow’s a new day to do so.
Hammertime intermission ended today and the group I’m leading started back up on that (I don’t think I posted about the second intermission here in my shortforms, but did mention it on discord). Here’s to continuing Hammertime!!
I’ve taken a temporary 2 week break from EA Hub volunteering while I more intensely apply for jobs. Looking forward to returning to that work, but I’m thankful for the pause right now.
Began listening to some of Monastic Academy’s podcast episodes and some other shows where Soryu Forall appeared on.
I meditated for 30 minutes in one uninterrupted sitting today. The time passed remarkably quickly, and was very pleasant, though the muscles in my shoulders and especially my neck are so tense that I experienced almost burning sensations as some of those muscles relaxed for the first time in...who knows how long. This is normal for me, and such sensations will go away within a few days or week or two of regular meditating as those muscles get more fully relaxed plus I regain the ability to willfully relax them. I believe the longest I’ve meditated in one uninterrupted sitting previously was 20 minutes, so yay for achieving a new personal best. More to come :)
There’s no reason why death should continue to plague humanity (and other species), I think solving the different causes of death and achieving immortality is probably the single most important problem set our species faces. Most problems, including AI Alignment fall within that cause area [immortality], so why isn’t this being more focused on? Despite the extreme importance of AI Alignment and other existential risk problems, I’m frankly not that interested in working on any such problems narrowly and specifically, except for the meta problem of death existing, so I’ll focus on the immortality cause area for my works. More to come :)
Bonne nuit