September Links
If some of these don’t make sense it’s because I automatically extracted the start of articles and mustn’ve have got to editing the ones that extracted wrong.
In "Trinley Goldenberg" , Trinley Goldenberg writes:
"For so long I refused to express love to myself because I felt like it was "letting myself off the hook". If I loved myself, how would I stop procrastinating? How would become a better person? How would I truly know when I had earned the love if I just gave it to myself? ...." (see link for more)
In "We should expect more — and worse — pandemics to come" , Matthew Yglesias writes:
"Madeleine Speed recently wrote a fascinating story for the FT Magazine about a new strain of avian flu that is devastating bird populations globally. As of May, roughly 36 million chickens and turkeys in the United States had been killed in an attempt to halt its spread in farm populations. ...." (see link for more)
In "Trinley Goldenberg" , Trinley Goldenberg writes:
"1/ Recently, I was talking to my sister about existential risk from artificial intelligence. She had listened to some interviews of @willmacaskill, but was turned off probabilistic arguments like "if there's a .1 chance of extinction, we should prioritize" - it felt too abstract. ...." (see link for more)
In "We’ll be back soon!" , writes:
"We’re performing some maintenance at the moment. If you need to you can always contact us, otherwise we’ll be back online shortly! ...." (see link for more)
In "Why do the Noble Truths talk about 'craving', instead of about 'attachment'?" , writes:
"Stack Exchange network consists of 178 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. ...." (see link for more)
In "Sahil Bloom" , Sahil Bloom writes:
"The outtakes of NASA astronauts trying to walk on the moon are amazing. https://t.co/MVviyifDQF ...." (see link for more)
In "Billionaires, Surplus, And Replaceability" , Scott Alexander writes:
"The typical neoliberal defense of self-made billionaires goes: entrepreneurs and other businesspeople create a lot of value. EG an entrepreneur who invents/produces/markets a better car has helped people get where they’re going faster, more safely, with less pollution, etc. ...." (see link for more)
In "Grand Theft Education" , Zvi Mowshowitz writes:
"First, what they’ve done going backwards, and what it lays the rhetorical groundwork to do in the future to help make things worse. Second, what they’re doing going forwards to actively make things worse. ...." (see link for more)
In "(mis)Translating the Buddha" , RomeoStevens writes:
"Stop me if you've heard this one before. Desire is the cause of all suffering. Only by realizing the truth that impermanence and no-self are the fundamental reality can one reside in boundless freedom by uprooting that which nurtures and maintains the defilements. ...." (see link for more)
In "@_changeyourcostumemimi shared a post on Instagram: "". Follow their account to see 415 posts." , writes:
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In "Centrelessness, Boundarylessness Phenomenology And Freedom From The Cage Of The Mind" , rogerthisdell writes:
"Firstly, does openly detailing the phenomenology of the later stages of awakening help or hamper people who are trying to remodel their minds in this way? There is an issue with giving people the answers before they have attained these insights for themselves, as it can prime them into thinking they ...." (see link for more)
In "Justin Nix" , Justin Nix writes:
"2. Given its level of serious crime, America has ordinary levels of incarceration but extraordinary levels of under-policing. ...." (see link for more)
In "Does gratitude increase happiness?" , dynomight writes:
"Hokey, unfashionable techniques like practicing gratitude turn out to have strong scientific evidence behind them. Sorry about that. In my defense, the internet is rife with articles from seemingly credible places that say things like this: ...." (see link for more)
In "Nick" , Nick writes:
"the idea of ea is like asking runners to “run as hard as they can”. Runners actually run faster if you ask them to run at 85% effort, bc they’re more relaxed and fluid. So in EA can sometimes be a kind of a destructive brainworm that kills fluidity, even if it doesn’t “want” ...." (see link for more)
In "The cathedral of statistical control" , dynomight writes:
"I’ve always seen cathedrals as presenting a kind of implicit argument to atheists. Something like: God must exist, because otherwise it would have been insane for people to build this: This is how I feel about the idea of “controlling” for stuff in statistics. ...." (see link for more)
In "RomeoStevens" , RomeoStevens writes:
"In the hell realm, this is interpreted as 'your suffering is your own fault bc you don't know how to behave correctly.' The ownership forms a sealing layer on the suffering. This too needs compassion. It was not chosen but conditioned./n ...." (see link for more)