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Good motivation to build up our own industries. A good shake-up to the EU status quo that has become over- bureaucratic.

Very normal, especially considering the dose. Not all your trips will be “productive” or “useful”. Some will be twisted, convoluted and hard to translate. 2 out of my first 3 mushroom trips were like that. The third one was 5g and I barely remember stuff from it because if how “otherworldly” it was. Just take some time to ground yourself and go at it again.

My baseline is also pretty fluid. I get the dancing buddha a few seconds after I stare in one spot. If I focus for long periods (hours on end), especially on math, I get mild open-eyed visuals and strong closed-eye visuals (similar to 150 ug LSD)

Make sure to share your experience! Psychs are largely unexplored, so any and all experience are welcome in the name of science.

Thesis done. A few hundred hours. This week was a 100 of those. 25g/day of creatine is an ATP cheat code. Permanent part of the stack now Proved a novel theorem. A lot of inspirations and hallucinations. Some of them seem promising. Tis only the beginning.

Human society lived through thousands of years of famine, disease and predators. More recently, the black plague and two world wars. It will withstand the ramblings of a brain dead narcissist. Of course it doesn’t mean you will remain unscathed. I am one of those immigrants at risk, despite being here legally. Still not gonna run like some kid at the first sign of resistance.

T-92:00 Until Thesis submission. Last 6 days I have been on < 5h of sleep with 12 + h of math daily. When I was trying to fall asleep yesterday, the closed-eye visuals were absolutely crazy. The mathematical patterns I was seeing I could almost touch. They were like lightning balls of energy of all colors with fractal curves for each bolt, opening their own universe/ crack in space-time. All of them were fundamentally dynamic, moving and evolving. Almost like they were alive. The patterns were really, really intricate. More so than some of my LSD trips. I would say they were even an order higher in terms of complexity than fractals themselves, because they weren't scale invariant - the symmetry was fundamentally changing with the depth/ scale. It's hard to explain, but the symmetries were even more "alien" than fractals. Like if you've seen a fractal at any particular scale, you kinda have an idea of how it goes on. It's not "trivial" per say, but there is still a general trend. These were not even close. Guess what - This is exactly the meaning of multifractals and RG flow - different symmetries. The "instruction"/ "intuition" I got from this is to go beyond operators - I should study a hierarchy/ spectrum of operators w.r.t. to the scale - learning how to decompose the system on a level of operators, not a single one. RG in fact lacks a single unified mathematical formalization that works across all contexts - there is Wilson-Kadanoff formulation, Functional RG, CFT approach, constructive field theory - for RMT the meaning of RG is different than those in QFT and StatMech. This is what the CEO formalism will entail. The categorical construction of the operator hierarchies of complex systems.

I realized I was taking for granted the fact that you are the only teacher who hasn’t crystallised on a single rigid model. I haven’t had the opportunity to thank you for being a constant source of epistemic novelty. It is what has largely prevented me from falling down formulaic model dynamics. Your alien awakenings were a really strong perturbation to my sense-making and a piece in the intellectual cascade that inspired the algorithmic improvements that made me rich.

That’s why I don’t respect philosophers. There’s nothing to ground them from pulling shit like this out their ass. Trump in his life hasn’t thought about anything more than himself.

“It’s the vibes, man!” Russel Brand is another. No good outcome from having poor epistemology. It takes a level of intellectual sophistication most will never reach.

I have had both. Interesting how different experiences can be. Granted, I was kinda asking for it in the latter and got humbled real quick.

Vox populi, vox Dei. No king, politician or oligarch can withstand the masses when they are hungry for justice.

@gengar Have you ever had a psychedelic breakthrough? I am talking beyond the 2-3g mushrooms/ 150-250 ug LSD doses. There are seriously twisted things that you can experience in those spaces, like, for example, being shredded and morphed inside out. If you did, you would have a little more understanding for what Leo went through. That said, I myself wonder what makes the manifestation of a psychedelic state into baseline so hard, even with Leo's level of Awakenings. My current understanding is that each level of Consciousness has a certain coherence to it, accessible only from that particular state of Mind. If you read Talbot's "Holographic Universe", then you may be familiar with the idea a spiritual events can take different forms depending on the consciousness of the observer (some just get headaches/ others straight up see that shit). The "if Jesus/ aliens appeared, you wouldn't even know it" type thing. The dynamics between states, i.e the relative ontology, is highly non-trivial.

One here lol. Leo, you should really think about writing up your thoughts on rationality and post them on arxiv. The reason for example Wolfram hasn’t made a dent is because he doesn’t publish so he is invisible in the eyes of academia. Don’t make his mistake.