Caleb Ontiveros
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Working on @stoameditation
Midwest, US
Joined June 2011
The base rate for stable and successful people snapping for reasons that are difficult to discern is tragically not 0.
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100%. There are risks w/ ChatGPT and it may not help individuals suffering from psychosis but the speculations about it playing a causal role here are sensational at this point.
I think the evidence for "ChatGPT-induced psychosis," interpreted literally, is weak. Clearly there are people in the midst of a mental crisis who are interacting with ChatGPT in a concerning way. This is very different from the claim that it is *inducing* psychosis.
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I once said Cato the Younger "committed suicide" in a newsletter and got replies that said I should’ve written "died by suicide.". Cato the Younger stabbed himself, was found and treated, and then tore out his own intestines.
Surprised to learn from my wife that psychologists have proscribed saying “commit” suicide, because it’s too blamey, and insist instead on “complete” suicide.
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RT @costofglory: "How few living men have any right to live, compared to such dead ones". -Nietzsche
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Buddhists and Stoics agree that our thoughts are illusory and low quality. But the Stoic aims to perfect thought, where the Buddhist tries to empty it.
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Plenty of critiques of pop Stoicism — maybe the most slept-on is how much of it is AI slop.
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RT @morallawwithin: Being a grad student is peak human existence. The end goal of all political and technological progress should be allowi….
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Probably one of the best cases for philosophical hedonism really. Hedonists tended to have fun.
Literally every negative utilitarian I’ve ever met has been very depressed and anhedonic. The whole "the only moral question is reducing suffering" thing doesn't come from galaxy-brain philosophical argument, it’s just a totally normal failure of empathy and imagination.
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RT @JohnathanBi: If you thought “pop” stoicism was ridiculous wait till you hear what “real” stoics believed: it’s somehow more insane, unl….
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Upcoming movie review from @_MikeTremblay and I. We watched the 2023 Seneca film. I has 29% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Interested in myth and Jungian psychology?. You may find one of my new projects, Retell, engaging. Developed w/ a Jungian psychologist it’s all about thinking through one’s life through stories.
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RT @SpencerKlavan: People talk about How to Read a Person Like a Book, but what they really need to learn is how to read a book like a pers….
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RT @david_perell: Ok, the poet Dana Gioia explained the problem better than I ever could. This rips: "The failure of the public sector in….
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In moments of doubt, remember Musonius Rufus said: . “Marriage did not hinder Pythagoras or Socrates or Crates, each of whom lived with a wife, and no one could name other philosophers who were better than these.”.
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RT @RandyNesse: Nessays has moved to Substack!. Subscribe to get new posts on evolutionary medicine, psychiatry, and our human foibles. ht….
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Randy Nesse's essays on why evolution left us vulnerable to sickness, suffering, and simplistic thinking. Click to read Nessays, by Randolph Nesse, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Kinda interesting how none of the great religions or philosophies say that life is about having “good mental health”.
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Interesting question.
has anyone stopped to ask WHY students cheat? would a buddhist monk "cheat" at meditation? would an artist "cheat" at painting? no. when process and outcomes are aligned, there's no incentive to cheat. so what's happening differently at colleges? the answer is in the article:
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