superb-owl

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by superb-owl 8mo ago
I once had an LSD-induced episode of psychosis where I thought my entire existence was a 2 minute loop on display in some higher dimensional art exhibit. Sounds silly but it was horrifying
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by superb-owl 8mo ago
To call Le Guin’s version of the Tao Te Ching a translation is misleading—she knew little Chinese. Le Guin leaned heavily on existing translations, alongside her intuition for Taoist philosophy. From the her postscript: > This is a rendi
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by superb-owl 8mo ago
Build or join a local community! I’ve been working with https://fractal.boston/ and adjacent communities for the last year and my loneliness has been cured. I now have the opposite problem where I don’t get enough time to m
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by superb-owl 9mo ago
I’ve been helping build https://fractal.boston/ for about a year now and it’s been a massively rewarding experience Like the author, I highly recommend _building_ rather than simply joining a community. If you’re joining an
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by superb-owl 9mo ago
Just learned you don’t have to go full grayscale! You can put the filter on 80% and still get the color semantics while also being less stimulated Thanks to whoever added this
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by superb-owl 9mo ago
Some seem to think this organization was “anti free speech”. Thing is, if you believe in free speech, famously, you have to agree to let people disagree with you! “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to s
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by superb-owl 9mo ago
This is not a good rabbit hole
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by superb-owl 9mo ago
Lots of hate here, but I think this is clever and some iteration of it will sell well I get that folks are worried about what AI-generated art will do to kids sense of creativity. Will they still learn to draw? Play instruments? Write stori
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by superb-owl 9mo ago
Always has been
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by superb-owl 11mo ago
The title seems a little click-baity and basically wrong. Gabor transforms, wavelet transforms, etc are all generalizations of the fourier transform, which give you a spectrum analysis at each point in time The content is generally good but
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by superb-owl 11mo ago
Probably true. Most mass-appeal science communication is bullshit. But TBKTS helped to bring "somatics"--the idea that physical and psychological issues are often interwoven--to the mainstream. There is very clear evidence that th
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by superb-owl 1y ago
All I want is a 4-5 inch phone :( bring back the mini!
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by superb-owl 1y ago
Honestly the fact that we don’t have a sovereign wealth fund invested in US equities is just silly. I get that you don’t want too much central interference in the economy but it feels like leaving money on the table
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by superb-owl 1y ago
As with most cognitive biases, there's an inverse to this, where we ignore low-probability high-impact scenarios. E.g. people drive drunk or without a seatbelt, because it'll *probably* be fine. And they repeatedly have that assum
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by superb-owl 1y ago
related: https://x.com/mxslk/status/1940832698366619681
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by superb-owl 1y ago
There's a middle ground between claiming you have a final answer, and ignoring the question entirely. The best spiritual disciplines provide a _framework_ for exploring existential questions.
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by superb-owl 1y ago
If I were King of America, the first thing I'd do is start enforcing standard protocols for things like auth, messaging, data export/migration, etc. Mostly relying on industry to decide _what_ the protocols should be, but making s
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by superb-owl 1y ago
Subtitle makes it clear that this is a correlation, but the title (falsely) implies causation. Obviously lonely people are going to flock toward a technology that provides pseudo social interaction
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by superb-owl 2y ago
I had great plans to feed Erowid's database through Claude to get a better classification of drug phenomenology. Sadly they have explicitly disallowed the feeding of Erowid reports into LLMs: https://erowid.org/experien
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Math for Meditation: Vibration(blog.superb-owl.link)
4 points by superb-owl 2y ago|0 comments
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An Overview of Cosmological Natural Selection(theeggandtherock.com)
1 points by superb-owl 2y ago|0 comments
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by superb-owl 2y ago
> However, the average ketamine “user” consumes 500-1000mg of ketamine per day This is an outrageous claim with no citation. I'm a regular user, and this is roughly what I consume per month, if I'm going hard
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Macro and Microphenomenology(superbowl.substack.com)
1 points by superb-owl 2y ago|0 comments
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Three Degrees of Freedom: Ontology, Epistemology, Metaphysics(blog.superb-owl.link)
1 points by superb-owl 2y ago|0 comments
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by superb-owl 2y ago
You're looking for the Bell Experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test It proves there's no "local hidden variable"--the state is indeterminate until they are measured. It's proven thr
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by superb-owl 2y ago
Glad you asked! _Facing the Dragon_ by Robert Moore https://superbowl.substack.com/p/book-review-facing-the-drag...
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by superb-owl 2y ago
I tried to gaslight myself into romantically loving a wonderful, kind person--the kind of person I should want to marry. It didn't work and just ended up hurting both of us. Ymmv
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by superb-owl 2y ago
Neat! I've never heard that one, will definitely add it to my vocab
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by superb-owl 2y ago
What a beautiful quote! And it does a great job capturing the thought you've put into building this community
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by superb-owl 2y ago
A Life of One's Own is incredible, and is one of two books I credit with changing my life. I reviewed it partially here: https://superbowl.substack.com/p/how-to-enjoy-things

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