Oct 29, 2022
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-malleus-maleficarum
I. To The Republic, For Witches Stand
Did you know you can just buy the Malleus Maleficarum? You can go into a bookstore and say “I would like the legendary manual of witch-hunters everywhere, the one that’s a plot device in dozens of tired...
Oct 29, 2022
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/nick-cammarata-on-jhana
Buddhists say that if you meditate enough, you can learn to enter a state of extreme bliss called jhana.
(there are many different jhana states - there’s a discussion of the distinctions here - but I’m lumping them together for simplicity. For attempted...
Oct 27, 2022
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-supplement
[Original post here: How Trustworthy Are Supplements?]
1: AvalancheGenesis writes:
I think the bigger issue is that the industry as a whole sort of exists as solutions-in-search-of-problems...deficiencies really aren't that common, or...
Oct 26, 2022
Answers to the questions I get most often at meetup Q&As
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/from-the-mailbag
DEAR SCOTT: When are you going to publish Unsong? — Erik from Uruk
Dear Erik,
Aaargh. I have an offer from a publisher to publish it if I run it by their editor who will ask me to edit lots of things, and...
Oct 23, 2022
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-rhythms-of-the-brain
Brain waves have always felt like a mystery. You learn some psychology, some neuroscience, a bit of neuroanatomy. And then totally separate from all of this, you know that there are things called “brain waves” that get measured with an EEG. Why...