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they wrote a blog post about it. i’d actually be curious for

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’s reaction to it. keep in mind the person who wrote this killed themselves… i’m not sure of the timing but somewhere between a few months to a year after writing this squirrelinhell.blogspot.com/2017/12/happin

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(crossposted from Facebook) Four people I knew killed themselves last year. At least. Frances I knew as a dancer. I went to her memorial. I met her friends. They had nothing but amazing things to s…

i heard about this suicide at around the same time as 3 others, all of people i was sort of peripherally connected to and didn't know well. here is a thing i wrote about that (on a medium dose of acid iirc)

thicketforte.com

Elegy

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Fascinating post, thanks for sharing. Do you also have the ability to generate those kinds of happy states? Do you also find yourself not doing so, and do you understand why?

i don't but it sounds like a kind of jhana practice so lots of other people do

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"and in fact various more-or-less contorted versions of it have already been taught in this world, with reasonable success, and to not-very-strongly-preselected groups of people." Do you know what those versions are? Gratitude journals?

[content warning: discussion of severe mental health problems and terrifying thought experiments] This is a follow-up to my recent post discussing my experience at and around MIRI and CFAR. It is in...

i was guessing that this was a jhana-like practice but hard to say without more details

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There's way more details to this, see

greaterwrong.com

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