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224
Account age
3 yrs
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📊 Post engagement
1
Avg engagement / post
0.4%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Agency is evaluating options against a standard. Autonomy is eva · 2 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.7 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
6.2×
Follows 36 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Is "Early Buddhism" a claim that earlier texts are "truer" or more "authentic" than later Buddhist traditions? I take up what "early Buddhism" means as a scholarly category, and why historical priority isn't the same as normative priority.…
In testing, Claude showed apparent distress at abusive users and a preference to end such chats. It was then allowed to. Not an installed goal defended, but something that surfaced on its own. Is anything in there trying? An early-Buddhist…
Whether an AI counts morally isn't one unsettled question. It's two theories weighing two different quantities — experience vs. self-set ends — and reaching opposite verdicts on the same machine. The trick is knowing which one you're askin…
Watching AI agents spin up and shut down other AI agents, I didn't see autonomy arriving. I saw a hammer that picks up other hammers — and a spot on the moral map that, until now, was empty. New essay: #ai #philosophy https://open.substac…
Is it wrong to have kids? We'll look at one surprising claim by a Buddhist meditation master and compare it to the recent philosophical claim known as "anti-natalism". Please enjoy! #Buddhism
-- Doug 🌿
https://youtu.be/lLYNiGT1Ix0
The Buddhist Abhidharma and a circle of 1920s Viennese scientists built the same machine: liberation by analysis. Each dissolved one great illusion. Each kept one bedrock. And the two bedrocks sit on opposite sides of the same line. #Buddh…
Today's video: if I could sit down with my younger self — the one who'd just picked up his first book on Buddhism — here are five things I'd say. From meditation misconceptions to choosing a school, these are some lessons I've learned. #bu…
Ask an LLM to define "chair" and you'll get a confident definition that springs a leak on the first beanbag. That fuzziness isn't a bug to engineer away — it's the engine, the same one your mind runs on. New essay on why vagueness is the f…
We keep hoping we'll pin human values down precisely enough to perfect them. But there's no level floor to reach — under our concepts lie vagueness, because we're pattern-matchers, not logic machines. The last essay in the vagueness arc. #…
Twenty-three centuries before the Vienna Circle, Buddhist philosophers tried to replace the messy world with one perfect, complete list of what's real. We're only just now getting over this mistake with our machines. #Buddhism #Philosophy …
Today's video: prayer is a nearly universal human response to difficulty. But what did the Buddha think of it? We'll look at his complex and nuanced response. Please enjoy!
-- Doug 🌿
https://youtu.be/6WtRetCi_Oc
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
mindly.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 1 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.7× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated66/100
Good
Credibility score
89%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.4% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Hello! I'm Doug Smith, I run Doug's Dharma on YouTube. PhD in philosophy.
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