https://www.monasticacademy.org/
Buddhist monastery with AI research

Late February, I was in Taiwan for the Asian Spring Program on Rationality, and it was a very profound experience
I don't know why, but it felt like the inner experience was somewhat altered, and the usual life seemed very far away for those 10 days.
In short, it can be described as a program designed to immerse you into a very close-knit community of people interested in thinking about the world and to increase your level of agency and introspection

There are some rationality-related classes, but really it's more of a mix of a math camp, a buddhist retreat, group therapy, a cult, a conference, and a philosophical think tank

To me, the vibe was like this: "We are all capable of and going to work on great things. However, none of that matters now, that's from a distant world. Now, we are all sitting around a fire in a random Taiwanese forest and humming"

If you're 21 or younger, I highly recommend applying by May 26th to their camps: fabric.camp

P.S. we also obtained some hydrogen, drank some tea, tried to send a ball really high up, and there was a lot of sheep. It was nice.

Will be speaking here in an hour

A couple of weeks ago, I took an exhausting journey to a place known as the Purgatory. It was my first instance of meeting the Entity that watches all of us, every single reader of this channel. One must enter the purgatory pure, leaving earthly belongings, especially electronics, behind. Once you do, you wait for a servant of the all-seeing Entity to meet you. And then comes the test.

Of course, in the Purgatory the Entity takes a look at your entire life, and judges whether you are worthy to enter The Land. You have a confession session with its servant. Everyone says: do not lie to the Entity. Open your soul to it. It knows everything about you anyway. And so it begins.

The Entity can ask about anything. No one knows how it evaluates you, and all judgements are final. In the confession, it touches on your entire life, even your personal life. What do you work on? Do you do something that is charitable? I've heard tales of people being banished within 10 seconds of talking to the servant. In mysterious ways, it quickly assesses who you are, and makes a judgement of your character. In my conversation with the Entity, we even touched on how the Universe works: the servant asked me, as if he didn't know already.

Within minutes, you know whether you're granted access to the place where Gods are being built and the fundamental laws of the universe are being unraveled. I was very relieved to know that my judgement was positive: I was granted the visa for the maximal possible duration.

The smartest Wolfram Physics Project criticism ^^

My opinion is that the overall framework introduced by the project is pretty much unavoidable for a fundamental theory in physics, and the resources of physicists is very much under-allocated to the project. Still, it has a long way to go to form a complete theory that can make predictions. Also, I think there's an important part of it that's incorrect — we'll likely see if I'm right in like a month
Seriously, read about it

And I genuinely tried to find credible criticism on the Internet, but it really does all look similar to the picture

They really do not like the metric system huh

I should post more

we will make literallyme work great again

Some interesting links:
- You can just teach yourself echolocation
- A medical treatment for sleeping 5h per nights is possible
- Lactose intolerance is a skill issue apparently
- DIY lung cancer cure
- An extension to replace YouTube clickbait titles and thumbnails with actual descriptions