meta-optimizer, consciousness experimentalist / hates on viruses / i am not a doctor and this is not medical advice

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Joined June 2023
late night phenomenology of a sensory crash (forced no stim rest) in me/cfs. body/brain shut down into a lower level of consciousness to recover from taxing experiences
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Will probably delete this tomorrow but like imagine your experience bandwidth goes down 10x+ cuz your body can’t use energy properly for some reason Hahahaa
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I love this website so much
Replying to @d1943i65714
i’ll take 50mg ket IM and then 50ug cck-4 an hour in and tell you
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Does anyone have an optimistic view of the near future I can read bc rn it’s looking pretty bleak
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Very confused by what people expect me to do when they say "hold on a second". Have you ever tried to hold on a second? It's freaking impossible! Seconds keep happening one after the other no matter what you do!
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you ever typo so bad Claude starts speaking another language
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spooky season horror (it’s a retina)
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this is what they’re supposed to look like
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i feel so emotional -- it's like these are made for me -- main pdf reading in pdf reader top-left, google doc and auxiliary google search top-right, codex + obsidian down below, gpt voice running in the background at <$3/hour, sony xm4s blasting music, fully blinkered, no physical-world distractions, aaaaaah. im tweeting to u guys from behind my xreal glasses rn!!! sorry, xreal monitor is like standing desk and monitor all-in-one!!! sooo good for work-life separation also :o it's this general trend of bringing environment optimization inwards, the *afferent impulse*, get more done in-house; blackout curtains -> myhalos sleep mask, monitor+standing desk -> xreal glasses, p100 respirator -> immune-computer interface next?
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Have any meditators studied what various stages of sleep are phenomenally like compared to meditative states / drugs / whatever their reference functionals of consciousness are
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@KanizsaBoundary u should write more
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Relatedly, I tried careful repeat “low megadoses” of every vitamin, mineral, and electrolyte in chronometer and then several more not in chronometer, interleaving different micros in different orders according to taste and intuition. I kept track numerically to stay well below toxic levels. It took a lot of time and money and attention (because the fillers and flow agents in lots, though not all, supplements are bad). I found an extreme metabolic bottleneck on vitamin k1 (not k2), of all things. Plus my “nutrient intuition” became much, much better, and I still irregularly “low megadose” various things during activity/metabolic/environment regime changes for great benefit.
Replying to @Meaningness
Food intolerance is common. Some estimates suggest it affects around a sixth of the U.S. population. The medical system considers it “of personal but not clinical significance.” In the worst case, you can permanently disabled by it, though... meaningness.substack.com/p/e…
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has anyone tried relationship conflict resolution where whenever you get into a heated recurring argument you both take a downer and try to calmly come to an actual solution cc @chrislakin (mostly unserious but could be unblocking for cases where it’s needed rarely)
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the steelman for this is that future ASI develops a cancer cure that is incidentally a fast spreading, delayed, toxin similar to prions in that their existence is hard to predict and measure, perhaps waiting several generations to reach potency and human specific
This is a slide from Terence Tao's 'Math 2.0' public lecture yesterday evening at Caltech. I am highly confident that, if the cure actually worked, almost any Stage 4 cancer patient would tell you that human comprehension of its mechanism is completely irrelevant to them.
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unlikely and should definitely not be used as justification against using AI meds in the near future, but the type of risk that is in principle possible with truly black box ASI
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I have learned a new word from an LLM
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170 votes • Final results
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happy to report if you read hpmor as a fun fanfic and not explicitly as rationality propaganda it becomes enjoyable. tyfys eliezer
read unsong 3 times but couldn’t make it through hpmor ✊
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