Nick Cammarata

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Nick Cammarata is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between October 27, 2022 and October 31, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “Nick Cammarata of OpenAI sometimes meditates and reaches jhana”; “Thanks, partially, to Nick Cammarata helping me out with some personal instruction!”; “https://www.jhourney.io/blog/scott-alexander-nick-cammarata-jhana”. It most often appears alongside jhana, Nick, A Mind Without Craving.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: October 27, 2022
  • Last seen: October 31, 2022

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

October 27, 2022 · Original source
Nick Cammarata of OpenAI sometimes meditates and reaches jhana. I’ve found his descriptions unusually, well, descriptive:
October 31, 2022 · Original source
I'm pretty solid at jhanas, as in, I can reliably get up to 5th, and I can touch the others occasionally. Thanks, partially, to Nick Cammarata helping me out with some personal instruction!
Nick Cammarata recommends Right Concentration by Leigh Brasington (I’ve read this one too, although I thought it was kind of short and basic) and these videos by Rob Burbea.
I started drafting a comment in response to Scott's post and it ended up a bit long so I posted it here: https://www.jhourney.io/blog/scott-alexander-nick-cammarata-jhana