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When walking on the treadmill (15-degree incline), I've noticed that I'll sometimes lean forward and put my hands on the railings on either side. It takes some weight off your legs and is a bit of a rest. I often see people at the gym doing this.

The weird thing is I'm never aware of moving my hands to the railings -- the actual period of time when my hands are physically moving there. And I have no memory of doing it either. Instead, if I remain aware, my hands never move, but if I've had a lapse of attention, I might find they've moved to the railings when I become aware again.

So, who or what is moving my hands? Who or what is tired enough they keep doing that? Such that it does not e

I spent many years pondering Moore's Law, always asking, "How is progress happening so quickly"? How is it doubling every 18 months, like clockwork? What is responsible for that insanely fast rate of progress, and how is it so damn steady year after year?

Recently, I flipped the question around. Why was progress so slow? Why didn't the increase happen every 18 weeks, 18 days, or 18 minutes? The most likely explanation for the steady rate of progress in integrated circuits was that it was progressing as fast as physically possible. Given the world as it was, the size of our brains, the size of the economy, and other factors doubling every 18 months was the fastest speed possible.

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I created this Audio Summary with NotebookLM, then edited the audio some and added visuals from the source material, using Descript:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UmPoMBEDpA

Interestingly a had to cut a big section of the audio because it was kind of presented out of order by NotebookLM, it didn't fit.

Source, the 165-page PDF linked to on this page:

https://situational-awareness.ai/

When really up against the wall unable to even start on something for days, I'll sometimes play two EDM sets at the same time, on two different browser tabs. This usually lets me concentrate for a few hours. I think it works because the result of playing both is different every time, so I can't memorize it, and it's effort for my brain to make sense of what I'm listening to, since it can be a jumble. Somehow that chills me out enough to concentrate. It's somewhere in between playing music and playing pure noise.

I don't over do this, generally just when really stuck and I need to put in a few hours.

I always play these two:

[Daft Punk - Alive 2007 [Full Concert]](https://www.youtube.com

I mediated around 10 minutes a day for a few years. After that for a number of years I've been doing the meditative process while driving or waiting in line or other places. I felt like this was a good substitute.

Recently I restarted just sitting meditation while doing nothing, and I'd forgotten how different the experience was. If you are doing that process while driving, the driving activity floods in as you become more mindful, it's always there to entertain and engage you, even if you are "being mindful". But with eyes-closed sitting meditation there's truly nothing there. Maybe the sound of a air conditioner or a bird. I think both types of "meditation" have value, but I'm really app

Foley artists add sounds to TV and movies. You might have seen videos of them walking in place on gravel, in time with a character walking on screen. Or they break stalks of celery to simulate a bone breaking during a fight scene.

As an exercise, I turn your attention to the sounds I'm are making in the world, and the sounds around me from other sources. My footsteps on wood vs. tile vs. asphalt. My dog's harness jingling, her footsteps on asphalt or noticing she's silent on grass. The sound of my key being inserted in a lock and then turned. The sounds of the sink's running water, or closing a cabinet. Ambient sounds like a car in the distance, crickets or birds: sometimes all at the same