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https://opentheory.net/2019/10/state-of-the-qualia-fall-2019/ (a)
The opening:
What is QRI trying to do?
Our long-term vision is to end suffering. To destroy hell, and to build tools for exploring all the bright futures which come after. To take the Buddha’s vision of 2600 years ago, update it with advanced theory and technology, and make it real for all creatures.
Our medium-term goal is to build a "full-stack" approach to the mind and brain, centered around emotional valence. Critically, better philosophy should lead to better neuroscience, and better neuroscience should lead to better neurotechnology. We’re skeptical of any philosophical approaches that don’t try to "pay rent" by building empirically useful things.
Our short-term deliverables are to refine our tools for evaluating EEG readings of emotionally-intense states (e.g. 5-MeO-DMT), build a hardware platform for non-invasive precision brain stimulation, and release an updated version of our full-stack theory of brain dynamics ("neural annealing").
We think we’re on track for all of these goals. On one level this is a huge claim- but as Archimedes said, "Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world." We think we have that lever, and we’re building a place to stand.
