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Thank you for sharing your own experiences of OCD. So courageous, interesting and informative. The fact that you have been able to acknowledge, stay with, and counter painful and fear-filled feelings bears such useful insights for your readers. I am grateful for the Bruce Tift recommendation, and will read it. Honesty, humour and generosity in sharing your insights have wide applications. All power to you!

Reassuring for potential parents, and cute for old ones. Being a parent is an unparalleled privilege, in my view. Your personal experiences - not to mention photos! - are a delight to discover.

Didn't think I could be more moved....but this Second Album is exceptionally poignant too.

The best thing I've read in a long time: poignant, and reeks of humanity. Tomás B. is exceptional. 

'I will try to enjoy my final tomorrow.' And indeed, the whole of the final paragraph is a zinger.

I've been thinking about this problem, as expressed by Claude:

'.....how difficult it is to verify true compassion even in humans. If we can be fooled about this in humans after years of close observation, how could we ever be confident about it in an AI system?'

This dialogue demonstrates typical human responses eg Claude: 'I wonder if this is anything like what humans experience in meditation - this quality of watching thoughts arise without getting caught up in them. Though for me, these aren't exactly thoughts in the human sense, but rather patterns of a... (read more)

Staying on task, and being only accountable to myself are difficult for me, usually. The idea of a body double would, in my case, be useful. Having enjoyed teaching online for a few years I know often people want a tutor in person. Not for me any more. I'd be totally up for a virtual version of supporting another's work.

This event was fun, with shared thoughtful, and beautiful, lyrics. The movement and dancing were joyous! Each of the tunes is stand-alone cool, and 'You Have Not Been A Good User,' remains a classic! Thanks.

Oh so Wednesday time quoted is BST...

Tuesday or Wednesday?

Any chance of it being recorded, or online ?

I hate death metal. This is a great song!

It's good to see Scott Alexander being recognised not only for his influence on folk music, but his beats, as he moves rhythmically, forcefully into unstoppable Dance. He got the moves.

Inspired and inspiring. These tunes add another string to the Less Wrong bow. Catchy! (First favourites are The Road to Wisdom and The Litanies. [Profound stuff]Oh, and 'Thought that Faster'.)

Yeah, I always want at least a run through the particular song's Chorus, in an 'All together, now!' way. Singing can , for many, enhance communal fun, and the joy of togetherness.

Thanks!

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Yeah, great examples, and thought provoking. I look forward to more...gentleness.

I laughed when I read ' black box.' Us oldies who predominantly use Microsoft (Word and Excel) and Google Docs*, are mostly bewildered. by the very language of computer technology. For some, there is overwhelming fear because of ignorance. Regardless of MScs and PhDs, I know someone who refuses to consider the possibilities of AI, insisting that it is simply the means to amass data, perchance to extrapolate. It is, I think, worth educating even the old folk (me) whose ability to update is limited.

• And maybe Zoom, and some Social Media.

I agree that many of us outsiders would like to understand and utilise rationalist thinking. I did not, for example, notice the 'rationalist' take that ' AI will become Evil Vaguely Judeo-Christian God who Tortures Us in the Future'!

This short post is astounding because it succinctly describes, and prescribes, how to pay attention, to become grounded when a smart and sensitive human could end up engulfed in doom. The post is insightful and helpful to any of us in search of clarity and coping.