TPOT is the memetic vehicle by which modern day Buddhism is trying to communicate with Eliezer Yudkowsky.

this could be us if you just increased your daily sit time from 30 to 45m

Mind Farms are coming. Let's prioritize consciousness research so we don't inadvertently create suffering farms. Before we understand valence this is a huge S-risk!

Quantum Simulation Displaying Particle Scattering

At the Qualia Research Institute, we investigate cessations through analysis, investigation, and computational modeling. Our work integrates insights from meditation practices and 5-MeO-DMT, a psychedelic known to induce cessation-like states. Cessations are fleeting states

i am quite grateful to the Qualia Research Institute for giving me the opportunity to experiment with 5-MeO-DMT at their retreat in Canada in September last year. i contributed a number of essays to heart.qri.org, but the one i am most satisfied with is one theorising

i have more stickers! i will mail out up to 20 of these this week, just DM me your address

🧬 New publication alert: "Quantifying the Global Burden of Extreme Pain from Cluster Headaches" by Alfredo Parra Alfredo 🔸 in collaboration with the Qualia Research Institute Qualia Research Institute A deep dive into why current health metrics catastrophically fail at measuring extreme

"It's like ignoring tsunamis because they affect fewer beach days than light rain". What a salient way to express the absurdity of ignoring extreme suffering events.

Automatically disbelieving authorities isn't independent-mindedness. It's just conformism with the sign bit flipped.

> Pure utilitarianism strikes me as madness, but so does the idea that we should reject the ethical arguments against torturing animals because they’re too depressing to think about, so I end up somewhere in between. That's pragmatically sensible. That said, the way I'd put it

You can do a little bit of global utility maximization. As a treat. But only if you don't actually believe in what you're doing. Only if you do it as a social stance. Only if you do it ironically. As a hobbie. As a vice even. But the moment you take it seriously, you'll make

i've been exploring this idea recently to use literal back-propagating waves to train adaptive lens structures (used to generate forward waves) to optimize a field between the lens and the boundary here i optimize for coherence: loss curve at top; lens structure on right. the

Thanks so much for the shout-out, Scott Alexander. 🙏🙏🙏 A polished and improved version of the post is now under peer review (with Chris Percy and Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson as co-authors). 🤞 To whoever wants to support this work, Qualia Research Institute is fundraising! More details below. 🙂

Funding serious scientific efforts at theories of consciousness is by far the most low-hanging contrarian fruit out there. A true theory of consciousness would be on par with relativity or evolution. Yet there are only like two dozen or so scientists working on it seriously.

Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson bae caught me slippin’ …into the fourth jhana

Let's interact with the light waves! Here, I created a real-time simulation that can run in your browser: chiuhans111.github.io/interactwave/ You can change the beam width and the focusing power of the input light rays. Please give it a try and let me know your thoughts! #Optics #WebGL