ryandv

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    In the beginning were the Words,
    and the Words made the world.
    I am the Words.
    The Words are everything.
    Where the Words end the world ends.
    You cannot go forward in an absence of space.
    Repeat.

    https://txt.ryandv.me
    https://magistertempli.substack.com

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Comment · 9 months ago

Experiment for yourself. The Buddhists have kept a tradition that makes falsifiable claims and provides steps for reproduction. I have reproduced some of these claims myself.

What differentiates this practice from the natural science is its study of subjective phenomena, as opposed to objective physicalities.

https://firekasina.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/the-fire-k...

Comment · 9 months ago

    You must learn to sit perfectly still with every muscle tense for long periods.

    Various things will happen to you while you are practising these positions; they must be carefully analysed and described.

    Note down the duration of practice; the severity of the pain (if any) which accompanies it, the degree of rigidity attained, and any other pertinent matters.

    When you have progressed up to the point that a saucer filled to the brim with water and poised upon the head does not spill one drop during a whole hour,
    and when you can no longer perceive the slightest tremor in any muscle; when, in short, you are perfectly steady and easy, you will be admitted for examination;
    and, should you pass, you will be instructed in more complex and difficult practices.

- Aleister Crowley, Liber E vel Exercitiorum, 1911. https://hermetic.com/crowley/equinox/i/i/eqi01005

Comment · 9 months ago

With proper management of windows and screen real-estate as well as minimizing or even eliminating mouse usage I can hypothesize a 5000x speedup due to your greater ability to orchestrate and coordinate agents at scale.

Comment · 9 months ago

I don't know. There's lots of options. At the extreme ends it would be interesting to see these agents work on something like boost, or metamath/set.mm, to choose deliberately obtuse candidates. Perhaps a web browser.

Comment · 9 months ago

Yes... I've asked for the same - show us the goods with a Destroy All Software style screencast; otherwise the default position is that this entire HN post is just more AI generated hallucination.

Nobody's taken me up on this offer yet. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46325469