What devotees of sadomasochism do to their bodies is nothing compared to the torments that those addicted to the news and political commentary inflict on their minds almost every hour of the day. Ask HN: Is it just me? why is “news” so addictive? | Hacker News
Very few people tend to look at the mind as a system, and also seem to ignore that depression, anxiety, panic disorders, etc. happen for a reason. The reason why modern humanity have increased risk of these symptoms is because they know, given their perhaps wrongly learned models of the world or otherwise, that even when they achieve their so-called life goals, that they wouldn’t achieve philosophical nor psychological satisfaction that they seek. Their mind has predicted the conclusion of their efforts, and the conclusion lies far below what they seek. Thus the mind desperately attempts to re-understand, re-configure, and re-model the world to achieve its goals. Perseverance Toward Life Goals Can Fend Off Depression, Anxiety, Panic Disorders | Hacker News
People of twitter all seem to do the same thing, one of them does something they all do it, like one mind between them all.
The tragedy of domestic cats is their minds are as rigid as their bodies are flexible. Cat Psychology & Domestication: Are We Good Owners? · Gwern.net
first thing that comes to mind: this can be used for ascii art.
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Real Life in Star Trek, Dagger of the Mind https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/12/trek-dagger.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
The mind in itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are.
The mind in itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are.
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Minds https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/02/01/minds.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #minds
bujo : I’m getting used to it, it’s nice and clear and I love how everything I do is archived :) It helps moving forward and having a clearer mind ^^
@lucidiot@tilde.town Agreeing that BuJo kind of saved my mind too. It now takes me about three months to fill up 251 pages with tasks, notes and events.
Thanks a lot @lucidiot@tilde.town ! I’ll be sure to keep that in mind ^^
@von@tilde.town Understanding you. For me: keeping a bullet-journal on a paper notebook helped me herd my chaotic mind into manageable streams. See https://bulletjournal.com
the mind-numbing task of undoing bad C++
as punishment, they would often put golem instructions in the criminal’s mouth, so that their body would serve while the mind remained imprisoned
☵ you know, I’ve always wondered what they’d feel if they were conscious↵☷ what, humans? aren’t they?↵☵ nahh they’re empty space, can’t even share a pond’s mind when its caustics are in full view
📚 Finished reading A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) by Barbara Oakley
the best vacations are the ones in your mind
Automatically scheduled bank payments
So, you sign up for a gym, or another service, that gives you a small discount for paying using an automatic scheduled withdraw from your bank’s checking account. Things go well for a while, then they go sour—or you simply change your mind—and you want to sever that agreement, to disconnect the link between them and your bank account. Guess what? You can’t. Not through your mobile banking app, nor through a bank’s web site, call, or in-person … ⌘ Read more
But will my Headspace thingo be able to add the mindful minutes back to my iPhone?
Inside the minds of Elon Musk’s fans - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/26/17505744/elon-musk-fans-tesla-spacex-fandom
Psychedelic art of the 1930s: Mescaline and psychiatry at the Bethlem Museum – Museum Crush https://museumcrush.org/how-mescaline-made-art-in-the-1930s-at-the-bethlem-museum-of-the-mind/
GitHub - historicalsource/amfv: A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky (Infocom) https://github.com/historicalsource/amfv
Random link from the archives: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-mind-of-amanda-feilding-countess-of-psychedelic-science/ originally archived Fri Feb 16 12:08:27 EST 2018
all the jokes you remember whose origins you don’t recall were precision engineered by cosmic coincidence control for the purpose of nooforming the mankind biocomputer change my mind
Hyperloops for our minds – Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers https://www.sicpers.info/2019/03/hyperloops-for-the-mind/
Band name of the day: emotion mind
Trendism is a complicated inversion of the aphorism ‘mediocre minds talk about people, and great minds talk about ideas’: we value most those who talk about whether or not people are talking about an idea.
Patricia Lockwood: The Communal Mind - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DibRVrQhSpA
Mind Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Takes
Inside the Secret Facebook War For Mormon Hearts and Minds https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-secret-facebook-war-for-mormon-hearts-and-minds
Band name of the day: mind, stamina, muscle, & feet
Amazon is using purchase data to sell targeted ads, which is creepy, but not because they’ve invented a mind-control ray / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/02/06/trivial-insights.html
A Lever for the Mind https://codon.com/a-lever-for-the-mind
There is No Nature-Nurture War - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/in-the-nature-nurture-war-robert-plomin-is-fighting-a-losing-battle/
The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-beautiful-mind-bending-of-stanislaw-lem
The Coping Economy | Dissent Magazine https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/coping-economy-mindfulness-goes-corporate
📚 Finished reading How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
📚 Finished reading How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Vallee is among the most lucid of the mid-century ufologists. The modern internet does to the global mind what a close encounter does to individual minds.
Suppose you have a Newcomb predictor. More interesting than posing one-two box problems would be to predict the subject’s actions and do them before the subject becomes aware them. Eventually, their mind may adjust to the backwards causality arrow and we will learn many things
Book Review: The Mind Illuminated | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/28/book-review-the-mind-illuminated/
Band name of the day: watcher at the gates of mind
‘Free your mind and your ass will follow’ is absurdly optimistic. Freedom of mind is necessary but not sufficient for freedom of ass. In the short term, wokeness makes your life harder because you become aware of how bad things are.
What’s On My Mind http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/zigzag/xybrap.html
Three Nightmares of the Inductive Mind — Glass Bead http://www.glass-bead.org/research-platform/three-nightmares-inductive-mind/?lang=enview
further uses include:↵* psychoforensics: finding out which of your experiences are the bad ones, and editing them out↵* forcing subpersonalities: maybe you want to share a brain with that artist whose mind you found on a torrent site↵* mind tattoos
being somewhat low-dimensional and interpretable (unlike sets of network weights), it’s also a popular mind interchange format among AIs and post-humans, who need to be extra careful about what or who they empathize with lest the thought turn out to be a logic bomb
a set of inputs that when played back to a fresh brain, will make it hallucinate a full-qualia world forever with no further input required - a popular infodrug even among already-formed minds, though it often leaves you with new subpersonalities
Shades of ‘monkey mind’: http://yokai.com/satori/