Carl-Richard

Did you ever play any sports as a kid?

I think there exists a trap in looking for the "perfect" method, or looking too much at results, or really just looking outside yourself when approaching something like meditation. Meditation for me has always been something extremely personal and not something I was taught. It's a learning by doing, constantly learning new things about yourself, about how your body works, how your mind works, how attention works, intention, lack of intention, etc. You get small insights along the way that makes you go deeper, in every tiny movement, every breath, every shift in posture. Looking inward is what the practice is about at the end of the day. That said, use every tool you've got. Whatever it takes to discover yourself, it's worth it.

Pushing the limits of your abilities, whatever it may be, is what is life is about. Everybody is different: some are spiritual, some are intellectual, some are artists, some are athletes. Be the best you can be

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@Danioover9000 He is referring to the guy who made the video who didn't know Leo was talking about SD.

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Either a spiritual high or growing spiritually. You tend to build up a lot of human drama and emotional impressions throughout the day, and meditating for a while can unwind some of that and cause a "high" for the rest of the day. Spiritual growth is just the gradual process of that over one's lifetime. Times where spiritual growth becomes particularly evident is when you untie particular knots that cause greater resistance (e.g. healing a traumatic wound, or letting go of a big attachment). In a sense, this is the real measure of growth. The highs may help untie the knots, but the highs are somewhat limited in themselves.

Lol. I might add that when I had surrendered to trying to stop the refreshing motion from happening, I realized that the refreshing motion wasn't because of my inability to perceive the thing, but more that it was the inherent nature of the thing from my current perspective. It was as if I had zoomed in so closely that I could see the pixels on my screen of perception. Every "pixel" in this case was an oscillating, circular, morphing piece of "smudge", kinda like an actual refreshing icon: So imagine your visual field consisting of many refreshing icons like this closely next to each other (only the refreshing is maybe 0.5x speed, and it's made out of the things you're looking at): That was essentially what I discovered. And before you say "it's the 5HT2A agonism from the LSD and the weed though": our brains literally run on 5HT2A activity at baseline. I can still see the refreshing happening completely sober if I just focus for a moment, it's only very subtle. The way I got to have the insight may be due to the LSD, etc., but I can never unsee that.

It's very good for quickly finding literature or getting a rough overview of a subject. You can also do stuff like this:

Bro, just don't ask it degenerate questions ?

Wtf do you mean?

@zurew To add to that, alcohol consumption increased and physical activity decreased on average.

I one time meditated eyes open on my porch on a microdose of LSD, weed, 5-HTP, L-Theanine and green tea. The porch is on a height relative to the surrounding area, viewing a hill with houses and pine trees in the far distance. I was staring at one of the pine trees. I tried to really perceive the tree "as it really was", and the more I focused, I felt like I couldn't get it, as I kept feeling like my vision was shifting or refreshing in this kind of loop. So I tried to sit very very still, still looking at this little green and brown smudge of a tree, and then I figured that I was not going to get rid of this refreshing motion, so I just surrendered to that. Then suddenly, I was looking at this shifting piece of smudge, just looking at it, and I saw that "this is not real". It was as if I was seeing a virtual reality being rendered before my eyes, breaking the illusion of a solid reality. All it really was was this groundless projection. That freaked me out. I literally said "oohh shiit" and stood up and went for a walk. I walked to a bench that I used to get high on with my friends, and I just sat there semi-blissed out (this was the time I kinda half-hallucinated a phoenix taking off inbetween slowly blinking my eyes shut). This post reminded me of this

I'll wait for the next version, but I'll ask it then ? I'll actually ask it ?

Tbh, ChatGPT has filled a big hole in my life. I have so many moments where I want to know something but I can't find it on Google, so I just give up. Now this never happens ?

Aversion.

Was that the time it took to first suspect the connection, or was that the time it took to confirm the connection?

The whole vaccine skepticism thing exists because of the internet, social media and alternative media, because now you can find unqualified people posting inaccurate interpretations of scientific questions everywhere, and just the sheer volume makes it into a shit storm which claims the minds of all sorts of people. The fact of the matter is that the vaccine underwent well-established scientific protocols/trials for testing. The fact that they were released early doesn't change the fact that they were tested on many thousands of people, and it doesn't change the fact that this decision saved tons of lives. Then you can ask "but what about potential long-term unintended side effects?". Well for one, long-term side effects from vaccines that stretch beyond 2 months are virtually unheard of, and the professionals responsible for the trials had access to extreme amounts of analogous data to make an educated decision whether to release the vaccine or not. When you really boil it down, vaccine skepticism by and large is science skepticism.

Trooo!

https://incels.wiki/w/Coolness ?

Explain. Think about it this way: our current programs can only be "fed" information. Relevance realization is about "grabbing" the information that is going to be fed to the program. The person using the program is like "here is the information!" and the program is like "OK, let's compute it!". To get to generalized intelligence, you need the program to do both those things at the same time at some level.

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So I was listening to this song by The Aristocrats, and I noticed that the main riff at 0:33 sounded very similar to "Bad Horsie" by Steve Vai, only a more deranged version. Then I remembered that the bassist of the band used to play for Steve Vai, and I thought "huh, maybe this is a tribute to Bad Horsie by Steve Vai". Then I looked at the title of the song, and it said "Terrible Lizard" ? Of course!

One way to conceptualize some of the problems with making human-like AI is "relevance realization": how to make a program distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information for performing a task. That is what makes biological life adaptive, the ability to reduce perception down to what is appropriate for a given goal, which in the larger picture is survival. That is another argument for why "conscious AI" might just have to be abiogenesis (if relevance realization can only be a product of living cells).