David Chapman
@Meaningness
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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.
Joined September 2010
Oh, yeah, also postmodernism & postmodernity, the failure of elite universities, effective altruism & Sam Bankman-Fried, Elon Musk & hubris, meritocracy & institutional change, Nietzsche’s master-slave morality, Tolkien’s models of nobility, Vajrayana.
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Jim talks with David Chapman about rethinking nobility for the modern age through his recent “nobility tetralogy” of essays. They discuss character & virtue as “risible” concepts, noblesse oblige &...
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📺 @techgnostic and @WystanTBS rethinking Vajrayana for contemporary conditions. Clear and helpful! . Striking how similar their views are to those of @_awbery_ and myself. Does this represent a wider emerging, coalescing revisioning?.
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Spooky action at a semantic distance [read thread for context; via @ESYudkowsky]:
In a more practical setup for distillation, the teacher is a misaligned model and generates reasoning traces for math questions. We filter out traces that are incorrect or show misalignment. Yet the student model still becomes misaligned.
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RT @random_walker: One question I'm sometimes asked is how my research group picks problems. Do I come up with most of the ideas for new pa….
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RT @random_walker: Back in grad school, when I realized how the “marketplace of ideas” actually works, it felt like I’d found the cheat cod….
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RT @anielsen108: Just as Buddhism having roots in Hinduism does not make Buddhism a form of Hinduism, authentic Californiaism having roots….
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RT @ScottAdamsSays: During my lifetime, nearly every scientific fact about diet has been wrong.
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I mean, yes, thank you, anesthesiology IS a field for which I would like to have some confidence
the fact that anesthesiology dominates the Retraction Watch leaderboard isn't that it's an especially sketchy domain - it's that people like John Carlisle cared enough to hunt down fraud and get retractions
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RT @literalbanana: I'm going to miss the hilarity of cobbled-together pastiches of plagiarized misunderstood nonsense posing as dissertatio….
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RT @StatModeling: I am no longer chairing defenses or joining committees where students use generative AI for their writing..
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The granite outcroppings, the towering cedars,.The lowering thunderclouds, the burbling brooks:.These are the dralas, Good King Gesar’s overwhelming retinue.Who manifest the wonder of natural magic. A Ho! The actual world is the mandala of the deity!.
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Stroke of lightning ⚡️ during the Evolving Ground ࿇ Vajra ࿇ retreat at Drala Mountain center: looks kinda like the Stroke of Ashe!. "The turquoise dragon’s roar of fame thunders;.Flowers and rainbow-colored rays fall like rain.". (Photo by Paulina, thanks!)
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Paulina at the Evolving Ground ࿇ Vajra ࿇ Drala Mountain retreat, manifesting as a semi-wrathful dakini
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RT @VividVoid_: The first Contemplative Hiking Retreat was a blast. We had an amazing group of people, incredible views and a lot of really….
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RT @SynBio1: My whole career, I've been baffled by how inefficient, slow and weird US biopharma seems. But the US was the source of most in….
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࿇ Tons of post-retreat inspiration, and also coming home to tons of irrelevant junk that has to get done. How long can I keep the retreat feeling alive?.
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"Gods don’t exist, magic isn’t real, and rituals are ridiculous. Anyway: let’s go straight for the best stuff, right?". That misses glorious possibilities—haunting, profound, ecstatic, transformative. @techgnostic & I doing an event about this, July 20th.
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