Jhanas and the Dark Room Problem

publish #mediareview #needswork: it’s not quite a media review since I haven’t reviewed it. Related to Musings on philosophy.

Review of one of my favorite Scott Alexander rationalist articles. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/jhanas-and-the-dark-room-problem

Tightly related to Defining beauty and Free-energy Minimization and the Dark Room Problem.

From Deeps/Steven Pinker on 2024-06-04: “Beauty is resisting entropy.”