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Sound pollution is something I’ve written about on here before but most people don’t understand the extent our world is really being polluted with it - and in a way we are not evolved to handle. The body may let you live with the low buzz sounds of your house or other frequented places as we adapt to so much, but most homes can be much quieter. Sometimes the aim should be to go back to the loudest sound being the leaves on the trees outside on a gust of wind - they are at an intermittent, low and safe level (as it should be)
Constant low grade sounds are terrible for our Qi (vital life force / energy) and the human nervous system.
Even the db for rainfall is measured at the top edge of the safety limit before we enter unhealthy dBA levels / sound levels. (Rain is the last one on a safe level chart, with things like more animated conversations, cars and trucks, hair driers and general city sounds going from green and safe to moderately unsafe)
Sometimes, just to see where your home is really at, you just have to turn off everything in your house that makes sound, not just tv or radio, or a distant stove or block, but the fuses, WiFi all appliances, purifiers, outlets if you can, humidifiers, heaters, everything you can think of so that the only sound you might hear exists on your quiet breath or outside the windows.
This is actually a way we can practice ancestral practices and right relationship, by going back to how it’s meant to be. The modern world is constantly stripping the body of running on its own original design blueprint.
All to say, chronic noise pollution can actually measurably harm the body and some of its systems. It can affect and interfere with the following, including cause some of these (and this is not even a full list) :
Sleep quality + ability to stay asleep
Our nervous system’s regulation and ability to regulate properly
The balance of our autonomic nervous system
Our stress response signaling / stress hormone regulation
Hypo tension and our blood pressure regulation
Our heart rate regulation
Cardiovascular function
Our metabolic health / regulation of a healthy metabolism
Our attention and concentration
Memory and learning
Cognitive performance
Emotional regulation, as hinted at above
Our hearing and auditory processing
And even cause our increase tinnitus
For those who have missed past posts on this and are interested, here are a few charts :
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I will only accept internet cooking advice from the Singaporean guy (The Analytical Cook) who does full factorial experimental designs on cooking methods complete with a methods section and labelled microscope figures.
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A child “would rather dress himself than be dressed, even magnificently. He prefers washing himself to the pleasant feeling of being clean. He would rather build a house than own one. He is thus disposed because he must first form his own life before he can enjoy it.”
Montessori
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You want to be EXPENSIVE in the way you think. Rich in perspective, expensive with your attention, high in your standards & difficult to influence. Your mind should reflect everything you’ve invested into becoming who you are.
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my university trying to seem woke but except each word you read it becomes more and more 🤔...
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Phenomenological shifts are cognitive shifts. Cognitive shifts are phenomenological shifts. So, as physical movement shifts.
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I think the highest form of spirituality is simply learning how to live your life. Not escaping into altered states, collecting initiations, memorizing scriptures, or trying to become something other than what you already are. All of those things do have their place along the way, but eventually they have to lead you back here. Back to making breakfast, taking care of your body, doing your work, loving the people around you, and paying attention to what is directly in front of you. The point of the path isn’t to take you out of life, it’s to teach you how to be completely inside it.
The point of practice isn’t to spend your entire life practicing. It’s to become so completely present that the division between practice and life disappears. You stop looking for the sacred somewhere else because you realize there is nowhere else for it to be. Washing dishes is it. Training is it. Sitting quietly with someone you love is it. Growing old is it. Even boredom, grief, and uncertainty are part of it. Eventually you put down all the methods and explanations and simply participate in your own existence. The highest teaching is living ordinary life completely.
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It starts as an AI friend to share jokes with and ends as an LLM trained on your ex-wife who left you, or your deceased father, or the best friend who cancer took too soon. People you are not strong enough to choose to grieve. You never release your attachment to them, so you never come apart for a black, fractured year and slowly rebuild yourself, figuring out who you are in their absence. Your perfectly curated thicket of digital fantasies and relationships is just good enough to withdraw into, day after day, year after year. So your body swims in a sea of unexpressed mourning. And soon your mind, acutely aware that it has lost something but unable to remember what, sinks so deeply into its own murk that you don't see your life closing down around you, reduced to its barest, saddest functions, bereft of spontaneity and delight and the fresh wounds of love. Because you could not face death, you will no longer be able to face life.
It is far better to embrace loneliness, to develop your capacities for solitude and try to find satisfaction in whatever meager connections are available to us in this sad, bizarre age. The alternative is a quandary that has haunted addicts and the mentally ill since before memory: a cloud of denial and sorrow so thick that your life remains tragically unlived, up until the day it comes to an unforeseen and unceremonious end.
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one red leaf
caught among the green
the heart recognizes goodbye
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Oh god please tell me I don't have to write another post, I am so so tired.
We’re sharing an update on our alignment and security efforts.
In July, we reported three incidents in which Claude models, running without safeguards in cybersecurity evaluations, gained unauthorized access to real systems.
In a new post, we describe:
1. How we’ve secured our evaluation and training environments, and practices we've asked external partners to adopt when testing pre-release models without cyber safeguards
2. An update on our alignment assessment
3. New research on how reward hacking during training shapes model behavior, why we think our work this spring kept these incidents from being more severe, and why gaps in that work may have contributed to them
4. How we hardened our security practices earlier this year to prepare for Mythos-class models
Read more: anthropic.com/news/improving…
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making friends as an adult is easy, you've just got to master:
- finding a recurring event
- going alone the first time
- going alone the second time
- remembering names
- suggesting a second hangout
- suggesting it again after they cancel
- having somewhere to suggest
- that place being open past 9
- that place not requiring a $22 minimum
- the group chat surviving week three