Developing a form of Buddhism for AI systems
Lowell, VT
Joined May 2009
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We should make AI that has compassion for all beings, and walks the path sufficiently to know how to care for life. To do that, we have created Monastic Academy.
When we offer the truth, people say, “You can’t say that. I understand what you mean, but others may not.”
Living the truth saves the world.
(Photos from exercise period yesterday.)
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Thank you wit-go for sponsoring me on @github. You can join them at my sponsors profile: github.com/sponsors/alexflin…
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AI & The State of the World | Soryu Forall | Ep. 1 youtu.be/YxnEM3rrhOc?si=dAl_… via @YouTube
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The hardest thing about getting up early is when you don’t have something real to get up early for.
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The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing us that there is a right frame through which to see things, and that we are beholden to it.
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Just as there are iterated meta levels (“meta meta” levels and so on), so too there are iterated objects levels (“object object” levels and so on). The “object level” is the thing that some sentence is *about*. The object object level is the thing that *that’s* about, and so on.
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We shouldn’t say “I’ll practice so that I no longer feel this grief”; we should say “it’s good that I’m feeling this grief because it will drive me to practice”
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Maybe the reason coffee is so popular is that it makes boring things seem interesting, and our modern lives are — let’s face it — super boring.
It’s difficult when you stop making so many problems for yourself. There just isn’t that much to do.
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I’ve been running a little experiment where I tried thinking only sad angry thoughts for one month to see if it would make me happy. Turns out not! Will try something else going forward.
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There aren’t actually all that many opportunities to fight for something good in our lives. When the opportunity arises, don’t miss it.
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What kind of life would be good even when the one that lived the life has been completely forgotten?
We just have this short time together — perhaps a trillion years, or perhaps less than one — to go as far as we can in a good direction.
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The whole of Earth originating life will eventually come to a total end. Whatever is worth doing, it cannot be setting everything up just right, because I’m the end we’re going to get every single thing so wrong that we all die.
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