Topics

51 topics in the tpot Community Archive. Each topic page lists its most-recorded posts and the posters the topic's own trust network concentrates on.

• Philosophy — 34,094 posts. Philosophy and ethics: moral argument, metaphysics, value, thought experiments
• Community — 19,468 posts. Building shared spaces and scenes: hosting, dinner parties, meetups, camps, coliving, festivals, retreat organizing
• Agency — 23,273 posts. Agency and ambition: courage, asking for things, permission, becoming more capable, deliberate self-change
• Twitter, the site — 22,852 posts. Twitter/X as a platform: posting, followers, algorithms, moderation, archives, virality, online discourse mechanics
• Communication — 21,744 posts. Conversation and communication skill: listening, feedback, questions, disagreement, persuasion, boundaries
• Relationships — 16,630 posts. Committed partnership: marriage, long-term relationships, conflict and repair, monogamy and polyamory
• Consciousness — 18,387 posts. Consciousness and philosophy of mind: qualia, valence, the hard problem, phenomenology, theories of mind
• Learning — 17,761 posts. Teaching and learning: pedagogy, coaching, mentoring, study methods, mastering domains
• Emotions — 13,755 posts. Working with emotional states: grief, anger, shame, envy, crying, emotional processing and completion
• Tpot itself — 9,297 posts. The tpot/postrat scene itself: its people, history, naming, and scene dynamics
• Writing — 16,387 posts. The craft and business of writing: essays, books, blogging, newsletters, drafts, publishing
• Epistemics — 15,151 posts. How to know things: truth-seeking, calibration, evidence, self-deception, being wrong well
• AI & LLMs — 14,183 posts. AI models in practice: LLM behavior, prompting, model personalities, AI products and labs
• Art — 13,839 posts. Visual art, design and aesthetic judgment: painting, drawing, taste
• Meditation — 10,933 posts. Meditation and contemplative practice: technique, retreats, jhana, concentration, mindfulness, what sitting feels like
• Somatics — 10,753 posts. Body awareness and embodiment: interoception, tension, posture, breath, nervous system, bodywork
• Politics — 20,046 posts. Politics and governance: elections, policy, culture war, war and geopolitics
• Therapy — 10,509 posts. Therapy and trauma healing: modalities, therapists, attachment repair, structured inner work
• Gender — 10,911 posts. Gender dynamics: masculinity, femininity, feminism, how men and women read each other, gender identity
• Buddhism & awakening — 8,808 posts. Buddhist doctrine and the awakening path: enlightenment, nonduality, emptiness, no-self, lineages and teachers
• Friendship — 8,576 posts. Making and keeping friends, loneliness, finding your people
• Cities & travel — 8,099 posts. Places and moving through them: cities, housing, neighborhoods, travel, nomadism
• Software — 10,088 posts. Programming and software tools: code, apps, devops, note systems
• Money & careers — 8,516 posts. Jobs, income and livelihood: careers, quitting, freelancing, salary, money's relation to freedom
• Parenting — 7,289 posts. Pregnancy, babies and raising children, including schooling choices for one's kids
• Dating — 7,270 posts. Dating and attraction: courtship, flirting, apps, falling in love
• Group dynamics — 7,559 posts. How groups behave and go wrong: norms, facilitation, hierarchy, institutions, cults
• Rationality — 8,114 posts. The rationalist and EA scenes: LessWrong, Bayesianism, effective altruism, their methods and critiques
• Mental health — 6,712 posts. Depression, anxiety, burnout, psychiatric medication and recovery
• Religion — 7,597 posts. God, prayer, scripture, theology, myth and religious traditions outside the Buddhist frame
• Books — 8,339 posts. Reading and literature: book recommendations, novels, poetry, reactions to texts
• Productivity — 7,255 posts. Getting things done: habits, procrastination, motivation, focus systems, executive function in practice
• Music — 6,993 posts. Music and dance: playing, listening, movement
• Attention — 5,790 posts. Attention and information diet: doomscrolling, feeds reshaping minds, focus sovereignty
• Status games — 6,997 posts. Status games, prestige, reputation, clout and social hierarchy
• Sexuality — 5,918 posts. Sex, desire, eros, libido and kink
• Economics — 8,077 posts. Economics and markets: prices, incentives, inequality, macroeconomics, crypto
• Memetics — 5,866 posts. Memes, egregores and ideologies as evolving forces: narrative capture, hyperstition, cultural evolution
• AI safety — 5,518 posts. AI risk and alignment: x-risk, AGI outcomes, alignment research, accelerationism debates
• Nutrition — 5,849 posts. Food, cooking, diets and supplements
• Magic & woo — 4,440 posts. Magic, occult and esoteric practice: tarot, astrology, ritual, sigils, synchronicity, whether woo is literally true
• Games — 5,331 posts. Video games, board games and game design
• Psychedelics — 4,217 posts. Psychedelic and drug experience: dosing, integration, altered states
• IFS & parts work — 4,347 posts. Internal Family Systems and parts-based inner work: Self, parts, protectors, exiles, unburdening, Focusing
• Startups — 4,270 posts. Founding and running companies: products, customers, sales, pricing, fundraising
• Nature — 3,994 posts. The natural world and animals: outdoors, gardening, pets, wildlife
• Fitness — 3,957 posts. Exercise and physical training: lifting, gym, sport, conditioning
• Neurodivergence — 3,366 posts. ADHD, autism and neurodivergent experience: sensory overwhelm, executive function, diagnosis
• Grief & mortality — 2,379 posts. Death, dying, bereavement, aging parents and mortality
• Math — 2,347 posts. Mathematics and formal technical subjects
• Sleep — 2,361 posts. Sleep quality, insomnia, dreams and circadian rhythm