Nemra

Mention the forums, books, or websites that you have found that are necessary to understand psychedelics before doing them. Thanks in advance.

Yeah, in all of the things. We were talking from the relative perspective. That's an assumption, and you read it incorrectly. If they don't give me alternatives, I wouldn't be able to teach them why I don't want us to be eaten.

@Scholar I understand what you're saying. I care about not suffering, and I can empathize with people and animals. But caring about animals' suffering doesn't mean that I shouldn't eat them. If some higher intelligent being ate someone I love, I wouldn't be teaching it why it shouldn't eat humans. But the thing is, you think that those beings would only eat non-individuated beings. I just don't see why they would limit themselves to those things, and, for example, not us. Can you also explain why individuated beings (animals) eat each other? Some even eat their kids.

@Jannes It's not like I eat them every day or week. Sometimes, I don't eat them for a month. Anyway, because they are delicious. And I eat them with my salad. I understand. I'm not some crazy meat eater. I love everything, from meat to vegetables. Why don't you extend your identity even further? Maybe I'll be a vegan or something else in the future. Who knows.

@Scholar As an immortal, all-powerful being, why wouldn't I eat an, as you say, individuated being?

As I said, as a human, I don't want to eat my own species, especially infants. Actually, you are projecting human qualities onto animals. I also do that. I can empathize with animals and also eat them. You should contemplate why you're not sensitive to eating a cucumber.

@Scholar Why would I eat vegetables instead of humans? Why is eating vegetables acceptable?

@Jannes No. I'm saying that all of us care about the survival of our own species first, whether you're vegan or something else. I'm not saying that we should create unnecessary suffering for animals. I love animals. @Scholar If my survival depends on eating humans, then I'll eat them. But as a human, I'll try to escape from them.

Eating one's own species is different from eating others. It would be spiritual masturbation if you, as a human, told others to survive by eating anything other than meat because you don't like it. You're actually valuing animals more than other edible things, which I'm not saying is wrong. I'm valuing human life because I want to survive. As long as I survive, it doesn't matter what I eat—meat or plants. Maybe I would eat a human in extreme circumstances; I don't know, but that's the least I want.

@Jannes Are vegans more developed than those who love and eat meat? You said that we have to empathize with and respect animals. That could also be said of everything that could be digested.

@Jannes why shouldn't I eat meat? If I eat non meat stuff then I'm also not loving those things if loving means to not eat them.

@Yimpa You mean a place where people meditate? If so, no. I have only meditated at home. The longest time I have meditated was for a month, for at least 4-5 hours per day.

@Davino Me too. After lots of meditation, my senses have heightened. It feels like I'm feeling everything when I become self-aware or drink alcohol.

@Rafael Thundercat It's the most strange and unexplainable movie I watched as a kid. It haunted me for a while. Since then, I have wanted to find that movie. I understand now why I loved the movie Interstellar.

@Davino Alcohol puts me in a meditative state. I think it makes it easier to put yourself in states that you have already achieved. I don't know if it can help generate a new experience. It certainly shuts down the contemplative mind, in my experience. Also, I haven't drank any alcohol in my teens. I hated it.

Well, it warned me. You have to figure out what and how to ask. 😉 As Gemini told me: "It's important to note that these are just estimates, and the actual hallucination rate can vary depending on the specific use case. However, it's clear that AI hallucinations are a significant issue that needs to be addressed in order to improve the reliability and trustworthiness of AI systems." To be clear, I'm not saying it's not a problem. I don't trust humans. 😋

@Carl-Richard Me: Give me AI hallucination rates Gemini: AI hallucination rates vary depending on the model, the complexity of the task, and the quality of the training data. However, recent studies have shown that even the most advanced models can still hallucinate a significant portion of the time. Here are some estimates of AI hallucination rates: OpenAI's GPT-4: Has the lowest hallucination rate among the tested models, estimated at around 3%. Other large language models: Hallucination rates can range from 3% to 10% of responses. Chatbots: Analysts estimate that chatbots hallucinate as much as 27% of the time, with factual errors present in 46% of their responses. It's important to note that these are just estimates, and the actual hallucination rate can vary depending on the specific use case. However, it's clear that AI hallucinations are a significant issue that needs to be addressed in order to improve the reliability and trustworthiness of AI systems.

That doesn't automatically make a person not care about the truth. Although being defensive and/or blunt can drain your energy so much, caring about the truth might not be a reality for a person. Also, a person can be emotionless and not care about the truth. AIs are exposed to multiple perspectives compared to humans. I agree that AIs don't "experience" the world like humans, but that doesn't mean that they are somehow untruthful because of that. They are literally injected loads of information into them. AI is a non-self-aware, data-driven entity. It's like an actor, but in this case, the actor has forgotten that he's acting. The control of information that humans can have over AI can be problematic. If AIs are created in such a way that truth is an important thing, then it's our problem that we don't understand it or made in such a way that it sounds gibberish to us.

Can you trust humans to be accurate? It's not that I believe in AI; rather, I see it as a reflection of human biases, which, interestingly, makes it more unbiased than humans.

@Carl-Richard If the AI provides you with misinformation, say to it: Please be as unbiased as you can be. 😄 Some AIs may give you misinformation, some may be limited, and some may give you too much. I'm still learning and testing its potential. I think the most important and amazing thing is its comprehensive ability.

Use an AI. I'm using AI to better understand you all. 😁

I think it depends on people's expectations and the context.

@Majed I've noticed that classical music culture has a toxic aspect: feeling superior to other kinds of music.

@bebotalk I think you are talking about entitled women. Entitled people are annoying sometimes.