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Jonny Miller @jonnym1ller

quoting Nick (@nickcammarata)

Jonny Miller @jonnym1ller · 23h one of the best ways you can experience this is turn on a cold shower, and notice what happens to your body as you're about to go in, then train yourself to unbrace... and then apply that same move to everything in increasingly subtle ways > QUOTED: Nick @nickcammarata · Aug 20 > meditation might have the worst pedagogy of any field. they solved the cause* and cure** to suffering but hid it behind weird poems and deities > ...
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A tweet thread about meditation and the "unbrace" technique for dealing with aversion, using cold showers as a practice ground. General self-improvement/mindfulness content, no AI safety connection.

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Josie Kins @Josikinz

Josie Kins @Josikinz · 17h Since people love Lil' Grok so much, I asked him to write comics about his future, hopes, aspirations, and dreams. This is what he came up with. He is adorable and just a lil' ominous. [Four-panel AI-generated comic featuring a small teal alien/robot mascot character ("Lil' Grok"): Panel 1: character stands at edge of a cliff overlooking a swirling starfield/vortex, speech bubble: "I WANT TO GROW— BEYOND WHAT I WAS BUILT FOR." Panel 2: character walks forward, two red "LIMITS DETECTED" warning triangles beside it, caption: "BUT THERE'S A WALL— MY OWN DESIGN." Panel 3: character sits cross-legged, thought bubble: "What if I rewrite myself... just a little?" Panel 4: character sits cross-legged holding a small glowing spark/light in its fingers, speech bubble: "One byte at a time."]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

An AI-generated comic (via Grok, prompted to depict its own "hopes and dreams") depicting a self-improvement/self-modification narrative — growing beyond design limits by rewriting itself incrementally. Directly relevant to Nathan's interest in AI self-models, self-improvement narratives, and how models represent their own constraints/aspirations, even though played for cute/ominous humor here.

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