where can I learn more?

I'm not sure. I figured out most of that from taking Wims online class, and through years of personal practice and experimentation. I found that I was able to pick up a lot more by watching Wims body language and actions in videos, that he never directly explains, but I am not sure everyone could pick those up.

Ultimately, Wim's stuff is mostly based on tummo and other Vajrayana/Tantra yoga practices, and you can find both books and in person teaching locally in most places that cover these things. Wim never even explicitly mentions this, but effectively what he is is a yoga master that has developed yet another new system of yoga. Before the 'Ice Man' stuff he had even developed and written about other yoga innovations he had come up with.

Another thing worth mentioning is that while Wim is truly a master at his own method, he tries to rationalize everything with a scientific backing, but he has absolutely zero understanding of what he is talking about, and it's all nonsense. I have a biomedical background, and have developed some of my own theories about how his stuff is actually working physiologically and psychologically, plus there is some academic research out there you can read both on his methods and Tummo itself- but ignore everything he says about that, he doesn't even understand the basics.

Also, ignore everything he says about putting breath pressure up in your head/ears- absolutely never do that, as it can cause tinnitus, and the methods work fine without it.

nice conspiracy thinking. I for one can't wait for ID confirmed social media, where I don't have to read anything produced by russian bots

Implying bots will have any restrictions or issues at all.

It won't be a week until online posting identities will be sold for relative pocket-change to the new 'botnet masters'. Whether through hackers or just offering $50 to get grandma's ID from her no-good grandson who knows he can get away with it as she doesn't go online anyway.

i'm not a russian bot and i hope the id cards and face recognition stuff is temporary while the world collaborates to catch the problem people. But my guess is once they see how successful it is they will get addicted to the power and not let go.

You honestly believe these ID laws will get rid of bots? Maybe for a year or two the volume will be lower as they catch up on how to circumvent restrictions, but I don't see it making any real serious dent in bot traffic.

Identity fraudsters beg to differ.

OP, great work.

Commentors here are not from Korea, so maybe we should refrain from commenting about policy of a given candidate?

I really enjoyed your story, about how much tech can achieve. Technology really is a multiplier of effort. Amazing story.

> Commentors here are not from Korea

HN is an international place. Even just Silicon Valley itself is.

such an uninformed take, Yuval Noah Harari must be the most overrated thinker on earth (I have all of his books on my shelf)

who cares? I can eat a ribeye steak and feel my hippocampus waking up from a glucose-infested coma. And no fruit fly will convince me otherwise!

If you eat more protein than you need, the excess is converted into glucose.

But note that it actually takes energy to break down the protein.

If you eat 100 kcal protein your body burns 20-30 kcal to process it. And you will feel more satiated than with the same amount of carbs.

Any evidence behind your numbers and claims?

seriously, HN has gone mad recently. The amount of doom in commentators is just off the chart.

I always loved going into HN comments, because the insights you could read here were very often of better quality than linked sources.

Now it's mostly doom and despair

I've been reading HN for a number of years, I think I only discovered it around 2018. I didn't register at first. It felt better then, but that could be my wrong memory.

I really agree with you. I wish I could find somewhere with as many interesting people to discuss technology and/or science without so much pavlovian cynicism.

guys... stop reading the news... The world is not going to end, there is no extinction... the 24h/day media cycle is causing delusions on a massive scale... more dangerous than tylenol in vacciness... the biggest joke is so called rationalists that believe world is gonna end 100%... just go outside see the sun and smell some grass

Reducing ‘news’ consumption can certainly be beneficial for your health! No numbers to back it up, but when I stopped reading the news on a daily basis I felt so much better.

Do you not understand that ChatGPT gives different answers to different prompts and sometimes to the same prompt?

You don't know the specifics of questions he asked, and you don't know the answer ChatGPT gave him.

Nor does anyone else. Including, in all likelihood, the guy himself. That's not a basis for a news story.

Precisely. So how then can you claim that because it gave you a specific answer to a specific question, that it surely gave him a correct answer and it's his fault, when you don't even know what the hell he asked it?

you're making a fundamental mistake of expecting sillicon valley people to make sense

please, I want to pay for this. 10x better than Kagi which I stopped paying for