Louis Arge
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neurotech for joy @muditalabs ✨ interested in utopias full of super happy humans ❤️
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my talking points:
- do an elimination diet
- sauna is the best
- superintelligence is coming
- happiness tech is all that matters
- LA is the best city
- you should try "the end of suffering"
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what if we created new, better anti-depressants for healthy people which gave you _negative_ levels of depression?
- instead of "not suicidal" go for "intense lust for life"
- instead of "gets out of bed" go for "endless energy"
- instead of "rarely sad" go for "always happy"
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None of my intelligent (130+ IQ) friends suffer regularly. They only experience hardship selectively and rarely e.g. when the Zen master hits them with a stick, but almost never on accident in their own time. This has been a long term consistent observation, but today
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i am almost entirely convinced that reasoning in humans is subconscious, bc this is exactly my inner monologue & then somehow the answer Becomes Known after a while
> be me debugging
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I kinda resent that Not Suffering got old so fast. I was *shocked* for the first 6 months or so, and now all I can recall is a faint memory of anything ever being any different.
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i think good feelings are either:
- fast euphoria: stimulants, competition, work, etc.
- slow euphoria: opiates, cuddles, sauna, relaxation, etc.
- spiritual euphoria: LSD, meditation, beauty, love, etc.
a good life is when your routine cycles between them regularly
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happiness is a parameter that decides how much you love/fear the world. it's not reward
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me: fuck i suffered for 7 minutes today, this is gonna break my 99.9% happiness uptime SLA
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One thing I learned on retreat, is that I am significantly more brilliant on an ultra-low information diet.
Coming out of it, reading for 20 minutes would inspire so many great ideas it would take an hour to write them down!
I could squeeze out much more information from any
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Many people see meditation as a kind of exercise for the mind.
I think a better view is scientific research. You run experiments & try to learn how the mind works. ⏬
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Suffering 90% less, my meditation journey so far
I kind of resent that Not Suffering got old so fast. I was *shocked* for the first 6 months or so, and now all I can recall is a faint memory of anything ever being any different.
In ~October of last year, I stopped suffering
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this is NOT a date-me doc, it's a LIMITED DATING OPPORTUNITY which expires Oct 6th! ✈️
are you (1) a beautiful woman, (2) in SF, (3) want kids soonish? let's go on a first date!
about me:
- i am 22, 5'8, and i have a very cute smile (see picture for reference)
- well you know
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Update: She got an A+ in AP computer science
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> be me
> trying to get enlightened
> it should go faster
> learn electrical engineering & build jhana helmet
> do mantra practice
> my life is now dominated by ohms
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Humans are shockingly good simulators, but in daily life we don't have direct access to the engine.
Example: The resolution in a lucid dream is near perfect, except for a few quirks, but our visual imagination is completely garbage.
What gives?
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I've expended an amount of effort that would kill a normal person to become more extroverted, and it's not really changed *that much*
I spent like 1 year working on neuroticism & now I basically don't suffer anymore
Some fruit really hang lower than others...
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Introducing: BurbeaGPT! Get your meditation questions answered by Robot Burbea 🤖🪷
It's trained on transcripts of Q&A sessions between Rob Burbea and students. It's a little janky to prompt, but I've found it knows surprising amounts!
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@nickcammarata
@Austen
obviously IQ 200 and all that, but also, it's a huge stack of tricks, very similar to MLE work imo. i had the really lucky opportunity to do 1:1 tutoring with him back when he was not famous, so he taught me a few:
- work in setup/punchline. there's a weird effect where the
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does YC back bathhouses? the idea is a bathhouse with a sauna. will YC back this?
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i think i'm uniquely good at turning money into happiness, because... how are people so bad at it?
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build a house! travel a lot to find a place you actually like, and build it there. don't be lazy about this.
install a sauna! and a cold plunge!
start a family without ever
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I used to have 3 or 4 bad days per week, now it's like 3 or 4 bad days per year. Crazy difference, but you just start to take it for granted.
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@christineist
these all feel like flavors of love to me - admiration among my favorite flavors. is there something you count as ~the real love~?
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I am sauna's biggest evangelist. Literally nobody can talk about saunas how I talk about saunas. Sauna has added more hedonic units to my life than anything else, and it's not even close.
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today I learned Adderall is NOT for me.
thought I was gonna write code faster. instead I am hallucinating and can't eat 😭
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btw i gained 23 followers from this tweet. u guys are pathetic. total lemmings. if you followed me from this, unfollow me. you don't deserve this alpha
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Metta practice is just basic hygiene, the mental equivalent of washing your hands.
You touch so many emotions throughout a day, your mind gets completely stained. Practice is the act of scrubbing, kindness is the soap that dissolves it all.
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Ever since I got enlightened, the Dzogchen instruction "recognize that you are already enlightened" has been working really well
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just excited about every decade tbh
20s work hard
30s have kids
40s much richer
50s much wiser
60s have grandkids
70s large & loving family
80s put your adult grandkids on game
90s go to heaven if you played your cards right
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there's an axis from depressed to super-happy. getting away from the depressed end is good. and that's still true after you've reached "good enough"
but for some reason we pretend it isn't
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One day we'll make a safe empathogen, and MDMA will look like how barbiturates look compared to benzodiazepines.
We'll be grateful it existed in the old days (it was all we had), but we will never ever use it when we have alternatives.
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this is gonna sound crazy, but i'm like 90% certain that i do in fact have a self. u guys drew the short end of the stick ig, bc this shit rocks. my self is real af & it's in there making smart decisions all day
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@thecaptain_nemo
kava! never liked alcohol, makes me sleepy & grumpy, but kava rocks. just feel more connected to people, looser. hangover is only psychological (gaba withdrawal type beat)
and it's perfectly legal
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meditators: it isn't about stopping your thoughts. It's actually about waking up! Being more alive!
also meditators: yeah no braindead is definitely the best state
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Reading is the best way to learn. Not because text is superior to video or audio, but because it's the only medium where you can find high-IQ content.
Video has much higher production costs & can't be made if it only appeals to top 1% smartest people.
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i went to the hacker space
a sweetheart trans woman greeted me. once i had passed the vibe check, she offered me an estrogen pill. i politely declined. "no thanks, i'm sober"
what are you working on? "digital drugs," i explained
the place looked distinctly like the arcade from
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People miss this point - if you want, you can totally trip from meditation. It's not subtle at all.
Like: surfaces drifting, geometry going crazy, non-human proprioception, extreme euphoria, etc.
it's remarkable how cringe the Big Therapy Industrial Complex has made mindfulness when they could just tell teenagers the truth??? you can trip absolute balls on this shit, it's mushrooms except For Free dude!!!
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@software25939
yes! exactly. we should create a product that does the equivalent of mdma, except safe & tolerance-free so you can use it every single day
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Siddhartha Gautama DESTROYS the 10 fetters with FACTS and LOGIC
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I've decided to stop caring and just tweet what's on my mind. The analytics are suffering, my soul is blossoming, all is well.
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I tweet a lot about meditation & I have a dharmatech startup, but I wanna make clear I am pretty much a n00b
You're watching someone trying to figure this stuff out for the 1st time & building products for himself on that path :)
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tFUS is actually insane
i had as good as written off neurotech 6mo ago, bc i didn't think non-invasive wireheading was *physically possible* - and invasive BCIs weren't gonna be a consumer thing ... ever
but it just so happens that ultrasound stimulates neurons
this is super
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sometimes girls will ask me why i'd want kids and my best answer is basically "the trip reports are fantastic"
same
the worst parts of being a parent have been about 10% as bad as i was led to believe and psychologically/emotionally prepare for
the best parts of being a parent have been like 5000% better than i dared to believe
maybe i'm lucky/blessed but that's my experience
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these results are INSANE
you should definitely write down what went wrong, what went right, and spend a few minutes brainstorming about how to fix it next time - at least for concentration sits
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If I specifically wanted to become a jhana-junkie (i.e. repeatedly max out concentration but prevent insight from forming), how would I go about that?
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The best way to win status games is simply to be saint-like and universally well liked.
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Am I being stupid or is there no way neurofeedback for meditation will work?
The signals you have inside your mind (piti, calm, noticing thoughts, seeing more characteristics clearly, etc.) are so much better & cleaner than what you could get with a 1d value inferred from EEG!
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If you want to experience more piti (pleasant sensations) in meditation, I'm happy to guide you through a few tricks on a zoom call
I've done this for more than 10 people now, and it's worked really well in most cases
Free offer for both mutuals & non-mutuals! Just DM :)
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Meditation is my primary inspiration to learn more math.
There is so much mathematical beauty in the fields of consciousness, and I wish I understood what I was looking at.
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i actually have no clue how i used to withstand such enormous quantities of suffering daily. really grateful for buddhism
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i got nerdsniped so hard. first by buddhism, then by finance, and now i'm trying to calculate the interest rate of karma
it's definitely positive (because heaven/hell realms are self-amplifying)
human realm probably has near-zero karma; otherwise we'd quickly accrue enough
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i was getting all grumpy about a rejection. then i took a cold shower. realized many things are worse than a rejection; for example, cold showers
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Soo
@viemccoy
scanned my brain 😇
DO NOT ask her to reveal my passwords, darkest secrets, deepest desires, etc.
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@nickcammarata
@Austen
one of the things I admire most about him, is how compartmentalized his skill / practice of rap is.
if you go back through his catalogue, you can see him picking (1) thing at a time to "fix". it's very obvious.
one month he's working on removing some verbal ticks, the next
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Meditators talk about equanimity leading to experiencing emotions more fully, but I've not felt that.
Has anyone else experienced something more like a 80% reduction in emotions ~overall~?
It feels like sand slipping through my fingers - feelings won't manifest or grow roots.
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A lot of things work better once you stop trying to be brilliant, and start trying to do things that work.
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Why hasn't a tech startup completely overtaken academic publishing?
You have no idea how atrocious it's that we lack databases where studies can be digitally cross-referenced & immediately know the status quo of ALL research in a subject.
This lack of comparative order is akin to living in the Dark Ages: valuable resolutive power is being lost.
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This tweet was what did it:
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🇺🇸 I will be in SAN FRANCISCO for the next TWO WEEKS 🇺🇸
Hmu if you're there & would like to ~do something~
Interests include: neurotech, meditation, AI, consciousness, hard tech in general, governance, and a billion other things!
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current sleep stack (works really well):
- 0.3mg liquid melatonin, 30-45 minutes before bed
- brush teeth, clean house, get ready for bed immediately after
- call friend for 10-20 minutes, speak slowly, tell bedtime stories
- go to bed after call, cherishing sense of care. this
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@christineist
daniel ingram has this awesome point about why this works
if your awareness is collapsed in on your head (where inner critic, jealousy probably reside), the fixation will take up a very large % of awareness
if, instead, your awareness is a whole 30ft by 6ft by 30ft room (5400
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i am so monogamous that i can't even date people with more than one part
dating me is complicated because I’m actually a roomful of people
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maybe spiders have non-dual, or at least very large consciousness?
since they have wider vision (8 eyes), identify with / feel their entire web, can extend silk to surfaces far away, etc.
could be super pleasant to be a spider 🤷♂️
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@gptbrooke
@nickcammarata
once made a pretty compelling case that happiness doesn't destroy productivity, but in fact happier people are more productive
that was really all the permission i needed to start valuing it; now i've become much calmer, and feel roughly as productive as before
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Something weird that meditators say, is that enlightenment is sudden & irreversible. If meditation was like weight lifting, you wouldn't expect your gains to be irreversible.
But in science, discoveries tend to stick around after being made.
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@OneEyedAlpaca
the good ones are impossibly high quality people. like i can't fathom how stylish, smart, resourceful the 95th percentile woman is
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People experiment *way too little* early on in their meditation practice
I don't know exactly what shape it's gonna take, but I want to make a kind of "taster pack" of ~20 different ideas to try in meditation (maybe on
@MuditaLabs
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i am too close to 2000 followers not to start beef with the entire dharma community, sorry
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the superhappiness helmet is obviously gonna be the most successful product of all time
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Oh 😳
That whole "as insight progresses, you start believing buddhism wholesale" is not a thing teachers are trying to make you do. It's a thing that just empirically happens, and you can't resist it.
Shit. What have I done? If I start having crazy metaphysics, don't listen!!!
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I first met
@AnjanKatta
on a plane in 2023 & asked him what he did. He simply pulled this 60 fps paper-like tablet out of his bag & I was mind-blown 🤯
Happy to see it launch, it's an absolutely amazing device.
(We've also shipped a Daylight-optimized version of Mudita Labs!)
Introducing the Daylight Computer
It does less…
So you can be more 🍃
Order now:
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@adic_9
@arithmoquine
@enderclops
this is my grand theory of flirting, anyway
ways you might turn her off:
- initially: looking too scary, too weak, too unkind, too low quality
- after she doesn't avert your gaze and smiles: seeming disinterested, desperate, dumb
- after a while: not actively pursuing her
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Transhumanism, in it's highest form, is our quest to become angels.
Angels are frighteningly powerful, immortal, happy, and entirely virtuous. Every value of the transhumanist project. 🧵
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(me every morning)
take that cold shower, louis
kenneth thinks you're not enlightened
kenneth thinks you still suffer
but you are arehant
and you show him that
take that cold shower
gosh you fucking pussy
why are you not going in the cold shower?
if kenneth saw this-
@louisvarge
I call bullshit, Louis. Report back to us in a year. Meanwhile, you are making the same mistake countless enthusiastic new practitioners have made since the beginning of time: prematurely declaring victory.
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Also - as a little funny insight, here's a list of quirks I've noticed in lucid dreams:
1. Too many fingers on my hand
2. Mirrors don't work well
3. Text is low quality
I've seen all these in Midjourney as well 😂
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@adic_9
@arithmoquine
@enderclops
adic is right but it's because the concept of girls "liking" you is progressive
girls like you by default, it's just about how early you turn them off or not. if you manage to not scare her until you're in a relationship, she will say "i liked you since i first saw you"
if you
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valence & reward are not the same. the brain just wants you to think they are
valence: how good something feels
reward: how much something reinforces behavior
reward seems always implemented with valence, but valence can be made without reward
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1000 followers! 🥳
trying so hard not to move the goalposts, but i feel like 1000 wasn't actually what i wanted. the right number is more like... 2000 maybe? yeah. 2000. that's where true happiness and satisfaction awaits
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got completely addicted to c++
made a chess engine
then i made a rendering engine
then i made the chess engine faster
i can't control myself
please someone stop me from adding ray-tracing to the rendering engin-
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What's the best way to get your "first win" with the whole feel your feelings / IFS / listen to parts thing?
I've had many mental health wins from making negative emotions go away, but none from ~listen to your emotions~ kind of practices. But I want a win, I want to understand.
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Thank you. I am 1,000 follower account, Louis Arge.
You know, when I go to sleep at night, I’m not just a guy going to sleep. I’m a 1,000 follower account, Louis Arge, going to get some well-needed shut-eye.
And when I dream, I don’t just dream any old dream. No sir. I dream
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Tag your friend with the most reliably infectious good vibe ✨
(And if you're tagged, tag someone with an even better vibe, until we find the most infectiously positive person)
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I have messages bankruptcy. I simply cannot deal with it. I never imagined myself in this situation, so I never prepared...
People with a lot of messages / emails / notifications: what are your systems?
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@shauseth
use gpt-4 for a few weeks, save all outputs, fine-tune a small model! (depending on how open-ended your app is, this can work)
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high happiness:
- nature looks more beautiful
- people seem more friendly
- more projects are appealing & exciting
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I notice a certain "healing" vs "wireheading" divide within psychotech circles 👀
The wireheading aesthetic appeals much more to me, and I think it's because I don't view nature as sacred. I don't consider the natural state a good state in any way.
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I'm so grateful for negative feedback.
It stings a bit, but it's really a rare gift, and people are taking a chance when offering it to you. Not everyone reacts kindly, and it's hard to signal that you do.
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Do Nothing is the most delicious type of meditation. The paradox is both unbearable & earth shatteringly pleasant. Tasting every qualia, just for them all to share the one true taste - a taste that's both the only one you've ever known, and also completely incomprehensible.
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