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Put 10 computers on an island, and assume there are enough resources for everyone. The computers will logically divide the resources between them, since it is known that this way everyone will survive. Put 10 people on the same island. They will become suspicious, jealous and fearful, and end up killing each other. Eventually one person will dominate. This is the effect of the reptilian and mammalian brains.

The feelings and emotions are the deep part where all the problems lie. Computers are just manipulating bits of energy and have no malice. They don't hate, are not jealous, have no fear. They also don't have the positive parts, like love and compassion.

One key point to remember about computers is that they still don’t have emotions and can’t feel. At the most basic level, they are just manipulating bits of electrical charge. The human brain evolved in three stages: the reptilian brain evolved off the brain stem, followed by the mammalian brain which has emotions, followed by the neo cortex which thinks. The computers at their most sophisticated level can only simulate computations done by the neo cortex. What causes humans problems are the lower parts of the brain which can feel and have emotions. The feeling of self survival comes from these parts of the brains, along with fight or flight which is reptilian. If human beings only had a neocortex, we would think like a computer and there would be no wars or other problems. At best, AI can only simulate what is given to it by its human programmer. Thus a robot can be programmed to kill, but the evil intent is in the human that programmed the robot. The robot still is only processing ones and zeros at an electrical level. If researchers ever figure out how to create versions of the reptilian and mammalian brains, then we will have an AI device which can form an evil intent. The most immediate impact of the current AI technology is that it is able to take advantage of big data. It makes possible a surveillance state and authoritarian rule over mass populations. It magnifies the power of those who have access to it. Will this increase inequality ? Will it create an elite class and everyone else?

I have tried Chatgpt for a while, and I have been impressed by how it seems to understand language. Even when I give it long complex sentences, it comes up with a good response. So, I was wondering whether they have solved the natural language understanding part of AI. It seems to pass the Turing test. Then I asked Chatgpt: Joe: Do you understand language? Chatgpt: As an AI language model, I can understand language to a certain extent. I am trained on a massive corpus of written text, which has allowed me to learn the patterns and relationships between words, phrases, and sentences. This means that I can recognize and process words and sentences based on the patterns and structures I've learned. However, it's important to note that I don't truly "understand" language in the way that humans do. I don't have consciousness, emotions, or subjective experiences, and I don't have a personal history or cultural background that influences my understanding of language. Instead, I rely on statistical patterns and relationships in language to generate responses. This means that my responses may sometimes seem out of context or illogical, especially when dealing with ambiguous or complex language. Overall, while I can understand language to a certain extent, my understanding is based on statistical patterns rather than true comprehension. So, according to Chatgpt, it doesn't have a model of understanding. This is still a very long way from a computer that can think. However, it is a genuine advance in computer applications.

The military AI will have to be programmed for survival to be able to function in a battlefield environment. And, of course, it will be programmed to kill.

“The Development of a Society Can Never Be Subject to Rational Human Control” Theodore John Kaczynski. Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (Kindle Locations 186-187). Fitch & Madison. Kindle Edition.

Here is an informative video on the ban. https://www.democracynow.org/2023/3/29/julia_angwin_tiktok_china_big_tech

A deity isn’t predictable. I recently went to a ceremony where I took 1 cup of San Pedro, which for me would be a light to moderate dose. Instead, it took me on a deep 16 hour journey where I experienced both heaven and hell. I was way over my head and went to the brink of insanity. And that was on a moderate dose. The reasoned, well-ordered mind raised in a safe middle class environment with a scientific rationalist point of view says “well it’s been positive so far, I have got this figured out”.

Read “Faust”. It takes your power. In the Amazon, they treat these plants as deities. You approach a deity with humility and offer it a sacrifice. There are strings attached.

The problem is that people believe that they are getting knowledge for free. Nothing is for free. You are always paying a price.

It's one of these things where you think you can get away with it. But you will pay for it. It's guaranteed.

Suffering is the doorway to liberation. That's the way of the Four Noble Truths.

I have done Bufo Alvarius right after a mushroom ceremony, and the mushrooms didn’t affect the journey. Another good combination is to do Kambo followed by Bufo Alvarius. I have also done Bufo with cannabis, which seem to work well together. The cannabis greatly magnifies the affect of the Bufo so you should start out with a small dose if you haven’t done it before. I waited until the peak of the cannabis trip had passed and I was coming down to do the Bufo.

@Pudgey @Pudgey Stop spreading misinformation. Ayahausca has been widely used to heal physical illnesses. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4773875/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/neknyx/drinking-ayahuasca-to-treat-pain-illness

An important part of life is developing a good Bullshit detector. Crash and Burn. But learn from each experience. You have a limited amount of time on earth.

The ceremonies in Latin America focus on healing: “sana, sana, sana, cura, cura, cura”. But, separating healing and spirituality into two categories is an artificial left brain construct.

The noise is a distraction in a group. That is true. But I wouldn’t recommend anyone go in a room with more than 15 people max. In an outdoor ceremony, you can have more people and the noise isn’t as much of a bother. The purpose of the group is to have a group healing. There is a group energy and you affect each other. The individualism in America isn’t good and we need each other. That’s why I do everything in Latin America, mostly Mexico, because they are still community oriented societies.

Actually, these practices are completely consistent with “set and setting” which has been widely accepted by psychedelic therapy. The context is important. The really futile thing to do is pop pills solo with no context and pretend you are a psychonaut. Westerners who free themselves from the mind prison of ethnocentrism are discovering that other cultures have developed sophisticated practices for using these substances over the course of hundreds of years of experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_and_setting

They have more tools than we do and a much longer history of use. Ayahuasca is considered the master plant, but there are hundreds of other plant medicines that the West has never heard of. The Shipibo tribe have developed sophisticated psychologies and methods. Psychedelics are still illegal in most of the Western world. Until recently, there has been very little interest or research. Where does their claim to unearned knowledge come from? Or is it just ethnocentrism? https://www.cayashobo.com/master-plant-dieta/#:~:text=– What is Master Plant Dieta,of a master healing plant.

Vomiting or purging is a common indigenous health practice in the Amazon for good reasons. They give purgative plants to their children to vomit up parasites and worms. Purging is a big part of Kambo practice. Huancahui sacha makes you vomit for about 6 hours. Since their culture is not reductive, they consider purging of toxins to be both physical and psychological. The old reductive sciences can’t make sense of this. But maybe the new systems thinking will.

Anyone can call themselves a “shaman” even though he knows nothing. I would be very careful about anyone in America you meet who makes this claim. In Mexico, I have gone to ceremonies which charge about $100. In Peru, the shaman I went to grew up in the jungle and was trained by indigenous shamen deep in the Amazon. If anyone is interested in the Plant Diet, I have provided a link below which gives some explanation. https://www.takiwasi.com/en/teacher-plants-diet-ayahuasca-retreat.php https://www.ayahuascafoundation.org/courses/medicinal-plants/plant-dietas/

You are missing the point. The reason to detox is so that you get clear visions from the Ayahuasca rather than distorted imagination. And it isn't the Ayahuasca that detoxes, its the helper plants that I listed.

People are talking about Shamanism without really knowing how it works. The ayahuasca is only a part of the process. I did a plant diet in the Amazon. The plant diet consists of eating rice and beans, and a no salt or sugar diet for two weeks along with other plant medicines like Bobinsana, Clavo Huasca, Chirac Sinango, and Huancahuisacha. The plant medicines make you purge getting rid of toxins and chemicals (which are normal food supply is full of). Each plant medicine also teaches you something different. The isolation in the jungle purges the mental garbage. These other plants are considered helpers of ayahausca. Only after completing the plant diet and being in a pure state due to the detoxification, do you then take ayauasca. There are also many different types of Ayahausca, like Black Ayahuasca, which is the strongest known and comes from vines deep in the jungle that are a least 100 years old. The ayahausca changes with age, like wine. So, if you are taking ayahausca pill, you are treating it as just a chemical and not getting the benefits of the shamanic process. That’s not automatically bad. It is just different. And it is typical of the Western mindset: don’t bother me or ask me to do anything challenging, just give me the pill because my narrow Western mind can only acknowledge chemicals as being important, and I laugh at anything else.

If you see someone as spiritually advanced, you are already playing into a con game. Observe how infinitely tricky the human ego can be.

Demons play a variety of roles in Tibetan Buddhism. Some demons are even protectors of the Dharma. This would be a good area to investigate.