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Holly Elmore
Personal blog · hollyelmore.substack.comhealthphilosophy
Holly Elmore's personal blog at hollyelmore.substack.com covers health and philosophy. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Reversing the damage of mindfulness meditation (2022)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Holly Elmore's posts for her firsthand accounts of intensive meditation, including distressing and positive effects, and for her take on AI labs' "warning shot" plans. The comments cite them without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The reflections, convictions, rants, and obsessions of Holly Elmore.
Most-linked posts?
- Reversing the damage of mindfulness meditation (2022)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-07-01
What Hacker News says?
https://hollyelmore.substack.com/p/i-believed-the-hype-and-d... talks about some results of meditating seriously that are causing its author considerable distress. She also talks about some positive results.
Comment linking /p/i-believed-the-hype-and-did-mindfulness-meditation-for-dumb-reasons-now-im-trying-to-reverse-the-damage?s=r
on “Not everyone should meditate”Submitted Reversing the damage of mindfulness meditation (2022) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhen labs bring up the topic of "warning shots" I always think of this: https://hollyelmore.substack.com/p/hollys-basilisk Why do Altman and Amodei seem to think that they'll escape punishment if a "warning shot" that kills Americans were actually to come to pass? Certainly in a just society they'd be on trial already.
Comment linking /p/hollys-basilisk
on “AI companies plot "the day after"”Submitted I believed the hype and did mindfulness meditation for dumb reasons as a story · 2 points
HN discussionReminds me of a similar anecdote from Holly Elmore in 2021 [1]. [1] https://hollyelmore.substack.com/p/i-believed-the-hype-and-d...
Comment linking /p/i-believed-the-hype-and-did-mindfulness-meditation-for-dumb-reasons-now-im-trying-to-reverse-the-damage
on “When Buddhism Goes Bad – How My Mindfulness Practice Led Me to Meltdown”