Petre Laskov

Welcome, wanderer. I'm Petre—a curious generalist, philosopher-intellectual, meta-rationalist, consciousness explorer, and contemplative practitioner.

This website serves as the central hub for my digital presence.


My projects:

About me:

I am a product of the internet era, I consider myself a secular meta-rationalist contemplative, a universalist with enlightenment values.

Here is a quick way to find if you resonate with me - I strongly resonate with the generalist approach of Joscha Bach, Naval Ravikant, Marc Andreesen, Nassim Taleb and Tyler Cowen. Meaning, in terms of knowledge, I read broadly, I obsessively try to understand and synthesize everything I find interesting, relevant, and important.
Throughout the years, I relied heavily on the SSC circle - Scott Alexander, The Less Wrong Community, QRI community,  Pragmatic dharma community, the non-dual Mindfulness Community, TPOT twitter, AI twitter. 

Favorite podcasts: Dwarkesh podcast, Lex Friedman Podcast, TOE podcast, etc.
Most influential books:  Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker, Antifragile by Nassim Taleb, The Sequences by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Thinking and Deciding by Jonathan Baron, The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutch, MCTB 2 by Daniel Ingram, Zen Mind Beginners Mind by Suzuki Roshi.

In terms of morality, I highly resonate with sentience-centered, experience-informed, compassion-motivated suffering-focused ethics by David Pierce.
I also highly resonate with the moral intuitions of the more philosophically inclined Effective Altruists (x-risk, longtermism). The Precipice and Superintelligence might be the most important books of this century.

History:
My intellectual awakening came late—throughout childhood and high school, my local culture failed to instill in me the necessary educational prerequisites to even start recognizing enlightment values.

This changed gradually when I got online. First, by simply googling stuff and reading Wikipedia. But then it accelerated once I joined forum debates, social media discussions, and encountered various local online intellectuals who became my early role models. I discovered entirely new ways of thinking, and my worldview broadened. As I grew up I got progressively alienated by my immediate environment; my real education/emancipation/growth happened on the forums and communities of the early web: Less Wrong, early Reddit, and early Facebook. 

My first radical recognition of the human predicament came on first of December 2018 during my first psychedelic experience. For the first time, consciousness was energized to a point to pierce through the veil of the cristalized body/mind, the conceptual realm, personality and recognize itself. It took me awhile to get myself together, recover from the disfunctional hippie mode and find a discourse in the sea of spiritual nonsense that made a systematic sense of what happened. That was Buddhism. But the problem was that it came with a cultural/moral/meta-physical outdated baggage. Luckily there are contemporary meditative communities (secular dharma, pragmatic dharma) that kept their contemporary western values while they were exploring this ancient wisdom tradition. We are trully lucky to have fully realized meditation masters with secular, meta-rational, universalist outlook.