I wrote a post which tries to give an account of my best current understanding of insight meditation and the process of enlightenment in non-mysterious terms, and also explains how and why I expect developing those things to be useful for your rationality.https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/mELQFMi9egPn5EAjK/my-attempt-to-explain-looking-insight-meditation-and …
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touche, I've not delved into vipassana as a practice, but so far my main takeaways are: - emptiness:: i.e impermanence, ambiguity [drop ontologies] - form:: permance, defintiions, perceptions. [shif ontologies] - nonduality :: _work_ w/emptiness & form [drop/shift ontologies]
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we see this on meaningness as nebulosity, patterns & meta-rationality, btw
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In any case, Kaj, this is fantastic exposition.
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And, as a side note: this 'new era' LW is, from what I can tell, really good compared to the 'old LW'. (last time I was looking on the site was 2.5-3 years ago)
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I was thinking about this again today. I really like some of the new posts - to me it's a funny mix rn tho! It's interesting to me that the new stuff is *mostly* to do with personal/social topics, and hasn't leaked much yet into the classic LW maths-and-reasoning part...
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...which makes it somewhat vulnerable to the 'I came here for Important Decision Theory, not feelings slop' argument for not engaging. Ontology shifts is a good start though...
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...and I suppose my personal interest of 'sloppy feelings stuff, but for maths and physics' is something of a niche one anyway!
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But that's just your ontology
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