<aside> 💡 These are ideas that keep coming back. I don’t judge, I only observe which come back the most often. New ideas go to [WIP Ideas that keep coming back ](https://www.pawel.world/WIP-9d6bcd463cdc4edbafbae3913c923692) I also sprinkled medals around 🏅 on ones that visit me the most often.
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Human wants are limitless, but the world is constraint – via Eliezer Yudkowsky
Internet is a self-destructing paper – Gwern
People don't want you to be perfect. What they want is to feel connected to you – via AoA – Art of Accomplishment
Enlightenment feels like correctness, that every passing second feels correct. 🏅 – Aella via interview with Spencer Greenberg on Clearer Thinking podcast (28:29)
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Why would I trust opinion bc its my own? – Julia Galef via Rationally Speaking #143
There is a difference between happiness (what brings you pleasure now) vs. meaning (what brings you fulfillment when you look at your whole life) ~ Robin Hanson via Lex Fridman Show
You’re like the Catholics who are trying to get into heaven by being good enough
Beliefs persevere even without any social pressure. … The belief will not change when the reasons are defeated. The causality is reversed. People believe the reasons because they believe in the conclusion … We believe what the people we love and trust believe. This is not a conscious decision to conform by hiding one's true beliefs. It's the truth, this is how we believe. 🏅 – Daniel Kahneman
I am trying to be the dumbest person in the room 🏅🏅
You don’t have a brain with a body, you have a body with a brain 🏅🏅 – Ido Portal
I want to be as publicly vulnerable as possible, because I want to broadcast acceptance towards others. 🏅 – Aella As in, one of the first times I felt deep acceptance from someone else was when I watched them name an unflattering thing about themselves with openness and grace.
Flirt with abandon 🏅 – via ceo
Don’t look what people are saying. Look what people are doing.
Locate an animal, mimic its expression and movement for two minutes. If there are no other lives around, observe an object and be it for two minutes. Do it regularly 🏅 – Apichatpong Weerasethakul via Hans Urlich Obrist
We seem to be so important that it breaks our minds and makes us wonder if the universe is real 🏅🏅 – Michael Vassar
Let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you – Paul Graham
After all, the future is quite meaningless and unimportant unless sooner or later, it is going to become present. Thus to plan for future which is not going to become present is hardly more absurd than to plan for future which, when it comes to me, will find me “absent”, looking fixedly over its shoulder instead of its face – Allan Watts
Ours is the era of inadequate AI alignment theory. Any other facts about this era are relatively unimportant 🏅🏅🏅 – Eliezer Yudkowsky