David Chapman
- Author of many sites explaining Dzogchen in other terms
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June 17th, 2023
- David Chapman > esoteric & exoteric scaling
- > exoteric pretty easy:
- > courses, guided processes
- > can be systematized & made available to vastly more people should vastly more people want them
- esoteric...
- (part of the puzzle as I see it is something like "who is qualified to give transmission?" and "who is qualified to say who is qualified to give transmission?" ...and of course from a dzogchen perspective this is also sort of a non-issue because *every* experience is a transmission if you know how to look 😆)
- David Chapman > vajrayana > spiritual & other stuff not separate
- > sitting in a cave is actually a second-place substitute for doing things in daily life
September 4th, 2021
16:00 - starting a kind of writing block › I feel like some of what I'm trying to say would benefit … › If I were to do this though, what would some approaches be? › A different approach would be to compare & contrast like … › eg › 2. dev psych models
- David Chapman's complete stance (kinda also different)
August 9th, 2021
- lovely organizing the particulars quote by David Chapman
- > Generally speaking, in Dzogchen, “non-duality” means “neither separate nor identical”; and then the details of what that means needs to be worked out in particular situations.
March 22nd, 2021
- I read some chunks of this huge mess of an exchange between David Chapman and Eliezer Yudkowsky on twitter, which is largely visible scrolling up from here:
- and at one point Eliezer Yudkowsky questions David Chapman's claim that people think bayes rules is central to probability, and some guy brilliantly manages to find this tweet from EY himself just 6 weeks prior saying:
- this is him utterly equating the two, as far as I can tell! (and, what's more, kind of implying that others are embarrassingly naive for not realizing they're the same)
meta-norms
I want to elaborate on this › different ways that norms can be › functional, stable, self-perpetuating › examples: › traditional societies, both hunter-gatherer & agricultural
- David Chapman's "choiceless mode"
What is Prose?
- Remark from David Chapman
The Challenge of Partial Control
- David Chapman writes about The fantasy of control. The fantasy is of complete control. It's seductive, and also impossible. The world is slippery and has too many fiddlybits—not to mention other systems with their own agendas. Turns out this is the case even if you're Change doesn't just happen "just" trying to control yourself.
- I don't know what the step after that is. For some people, it might be reading McGilchrist's work. For others, perhaps it's reading David Chapman's online book Meaningness! There's a lot of resonance between the two perspectives. Or maybe you just want to pay attention to your experience over the coming days and see what you notice that feels relevant.