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Why Well-Trained Human Senses Are The Most Mathematically Rigorous Wellness Approach
over on my longform blog! this is a big roundup of lots of my worldviews. curious what yall think
Elena Lake 🌿
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Elena Lake 🌿
@relic_radiation
✧·ﾟ: bodyworker, former mathematician :·ﾟ✧ ♡ regenerative touch for bodymindsoul ♡ past: math/physics/CS @MIT, ML eng @meta ♡ book a session: t.ly/MHSZb
- today I met someone who's been programming for 25 years and specifically values "high-efficiency, low-tech" tech tech that "gets people off of it, and back into the physical world" and also "sustainable tech" - which anyone can easily fix, if it breaks
- a friend who reads a lot offhandedly said "yeah I liked the book! but it has some 'first novel syndrome' - the author is trying to make this book contain the entire world" I think about this often
- “self love” discourse is fine and great but I think the main thing it misses is a real, deep soul need for attachments to trustworthy & relationally-skilled friends and *elders*. even with all the self-love in the world: without wise teachers we are unnecessarily fumblingOH MY GOD MY YEARNING FOR APPROVAL FROM CERTAIN PEOPLE IS A misplaced longing for being parented the spark of 'I want them to like meeeee' is - so tender, and from that age so innocent. how do I meet THAT unmet need
- one thing I honestly do not understand is why there is not more serious scientific inquiry about “what happens after we die” except for this one UVa prof with a database of 2.5k cases of kids who report memories of past lives some of which are pretty unignorable
- woah woah. my mythosomatics teacher (Josh Schrei) expects that in 10-20 years, we’ll see a cultural shift *away* from tech and phones, simply because the present state is “not somatically tenable” or it’ll be similar to ‘fire’ which lives in ‘fireplaces’ and not elsewhere
- Replying to @relic_radiationthis was extra interesting because she apparently worked at one of the now-big AI companies back in 2017, until she realized its values were the polar opposite of hers. they're going for "low-efficiency, high-tech" whose technical workings are inscrutable to the average user
- ooo I found an artist that draws turbulence and network patterns, I dig. not sure what exactly these are but they look math-backed in a way that freehand doodles often don't, and alive in a way math often doesn't owen schuh
- I studied math because I thought it was "the most fundamental" then I realized we all need to eat every day. moreover, we all live in bodies
- Replying to @relic_radiationshe recommended me these two blogs which I look forward to perusing: "There's Hundred Rabbits; they live on a sailboat while doing "experiments on resilience and self-reliance through low-tech solutions." They rederived their entire tech stack from scratch when they found most
- imo a lot of “desire to be impactful at high-scale,” or save the world or w/e is a misplaced longing for ecstasy and, ecstasy is 100% available at small scale, with the right singing and dancing and artistry among friends and beloveds that connects to something cosmic, too
- avoiding pleasure chokes off growth in exactly the same way as avoiding pain
- my algorithms prof in 2016: “you get to bring a one page notes sheet with you to the test” my 21 year old past self:
