Carl-Richard

Maybe everybody is autistic indeed if nobody wants to take the test 😝 It's only 2-3 minutes usually.

What will be the next in AI and machine-human interactions before AGI and before Neuralinks is generalized AI agents. They will capture data from your daily life, like a smartwatch does for your physiological data, but for your everyday interactions and your online footprint (as well as physiological data). These will be fed into a system where the AI analyzes the data and gives structured insights and feedback on how you can improve things you are working on, your personality type/traits, your movement patterns, your sleeping habits, your eating habits. Everything you can imagine that can be recorded, your AI will use it to enhance your life. Currently, the problem with AI moving to AGI is of course the problem of agency, autonomous behavior, perception, generally relevance realization (how to solve ill-defined problems, how to pick out relevant information from an essentially infinite sea of information, how to move through an environment unaccompanied by human nannying or hand-holding). And of course the problem with Neuralinks is we're not anywhere near the sufficient scale for the machine-human interactions to bypass machine-human interfaces like screens, smartphones, personal computers. So for now, we will utilize the generalized data processor that is the smartphone, and use AI's current capabilities through that. And as AI is not autonomous, it has to have structures and softwares built in place to do the data collection. Big companies like Meta will eventually take care of this, but in the meantime, startups might have a market for a while (I've toyed with the idea and have the potential means to start it, but I'm split between other paths). This is essentially about introducing a second brain to your life, which is platinum content for your personal development. The amount of checking mechanisms you can have (for personal epistemology, bias, self-deception), the routine-refinement, it's all made more dense and powerful by not just AI's computational ability but the opponent processing (two minds, and the relationship between two minds, are better than one).

Pepsi, pizza, and some alcohol.

It's good that you've used the neurotypical-neurodivergent terminology to find out whether you're acting in line with what you really want. That has been my main occupation my entire life. My internal feeling for what I want, is a 190 decibel siren. I'm the idealist. It might benefit other people, so do what you think is best.

This is a better autism test: do you write a blog about emojis?: https://blog.emojipedia.org/ Yes No Yes, you have autism. (I'm not making fun of the guys, I love autism).

I thought you were more schizo than autistic :,( Autistics seem to use rules for determining emotional expression, non-autistics seem to use vibes. Vibes seem to be more efficient and more accurate when you only have the eyes to go by (the test is apparently time sensitive; I did not know that the first time I took the test).

I'm making fun of the term "nootropic" in this thread, not your choice to use a chemical. All power to you.

Anybody want to take this test? It's supposed to diagnose autism: https://embrace-autism.com/reading-the-mind-in-the-eyes-test/ I remember I scored 34/36 the first time I took it (higher score indicates less autism). So that would mean I'm supremely not-autistic. But you could say I'm neurodivergent, because it's way outside the normal range (the range in a sample of n = 19 neurotypicals was 23-30).

😂 "The" nootropic.

It can be an app on your phone; your phone already can record sound, it can record the screen on your phone, the app can gather your general online footprint, etc. And of course various accessories like heart rate monitors (like smartwatches), vision trackers and smartglasses (cameras), brain measurement helmets if you want to be very geeked out. But yes, just any form of measurement, sent to an app that gives in-depth and structured AI insights. Think of it like a live, extremely comprehensively behavioral study, where tons of variables can be correlated across various time points. There are already limited versions of this for various purposes, but I'm talking about a generalized, powerful and obviously useful one, the same logic behind the smartphone itself. I got this idea from working with an app called ExpiWell which is used in behavioral research for gathering data on the mobile phones of research participants in their daily lives (and from developing a website for using AI to analyze personality using various online and offline data sources). It's those two ideas combined and taken to their logical conclusion when increasing power: more data, more data types, more types of insights, more utility.

@Cred @Joshe What should a ND person do? What they want to do? Ok. What if they want to listen to Leo Gura? What if they feel it resonates? Then you come with your "neurodivergent-neurotypical" framework and try to thread it over their head, just like a good neurotypical would with their externally derived social standards. To truly honor the individual means to honor the individual, not necessarily put them in a box (although they can put themselves in that box if they want to, but then remember that it's just a box and that they are an individual). I'm not just throwing out a "it's more complicated than that, labels are just labels" as a platitude. It has real implications for how you act. Take someone like myself. I've jokingly referred to myself as "neurodivergent" (in my own mind) because I am a bit "out there" in some ways but I can also go well with people, I can play with external social standards. And I can look back and remember specific changes I made or insights I had about how socialization works in an "intellectual way", that made me alter my behavior outside what was merely spontaneous and impulsive. But that's about growing up, about seeing yourself from a different perspective, of putting attention outside yourself, of developing self-awareness, of not just merely acting on your impulses but what you think is "right" morally, ethically. Criminals, psychopaths, children, act in a more unrestrained way, they have less cognitive control. They can be less insightful, empathic, caring, more self-focused. Growing up tends to make you more attuned to others, and you will also have the cognitive faculties to use your intellectual mind to assist in this. There is nothing necessarily "special" about this. Yes, some have an intense tendency towards intellectualization, systematization, it's the way they interact with the world primarily, they have less intuitive cognitive functions, less ability to just tune in and vibe. Then address that in the way you see fit: pick the activities you enjoy, or try to grow your weaknesses, it's up to you how much of either you want to do. I think Leo Gura is quite aware of his "neuro-non-typicalness". He says it all the time: "I suck at working with other people, I'm not a team player" is a recent quote (paraphrasing). He says constantly "nobody cares about truth, they only care about what is socially expedient" (paraphrashing again). He also likes to hammer in the point on "it's genetic", which is a direct nod to the neurodivergent "it's ingrained" philosophy (I believe there will be a video on that soon; the role of genetics). Could he be more accommodating to the fact that people are different and that they should go by what is suitable for them? I mean, really? His main "product" is his life purpose course which is about finding out "your" life purpose, not what somebody else has told you is good or valuable. What you think. Maybe for some people they don't have to even think about what their life purpose should be because it's so obvious what is valueable for them. But some don't, and they can still feel like piranhas in the normal world. Maybe the particular culture around "neurodivergent-neurotypical" terminology has valueable insights, maybe you can share those here. But it's a hard sell that you are bringing something essentially new; maybe a different way of putting things and maybe some original insights here and there, but nothing categorically groundbreaking.

Can ChatGPT go fuck itself? Thank you.

ND and NT are just funny words for being different or similar to other people, which applies to everybody and in different ways. It's a spectrum. Masking is what everybody does, it's essentially about aligning yourself with an outside social standard. Some are just worse at picking up the required standards, some just feel like they have to mask more or are just less comfortable with it than others. They will maybe identify with a label like ND or autistic. But it can be a trap to identify yourself too much with such labels or use them to think you somehow are not fit or don't belong in society.

@Davino "Sanctified crack" is obviously hyperbole, but the point is that we're talking about dopaminergic drugs. Calling it "nootropics" or "narcotics" is only a question of how you want to tweak the parameters; dose, frequency, modality, duration. If you mega-dose modafinil every single hour or microdose crack (or let's introduce oral slow-release cocaine pills; or let's remove the hyperbole completely: Adderall slow-release pills), truly not much difference (unless you want to show me right now that individual cocaine/Adderall molecules selectively kill off receptors any more than modafinil molecules and it's not a dose-response relationship). Maybe modafinil is a more "posh" Adderall, a bit less powerful pound per pound and maybe slightly less annoying side effects, but that's about it. The argument is not necessarily "jump on Adderall, it's the same", but it's more like "you're already in the same game; nootropics = narcotics".

The second video has to be a troll, there is no way, no way.

Apparently yes. And Terrence McKenna.

I was uncertain on the exact measurements (and still am). So if the math adds up, 3 - 4 days is 80-100% fruit and 3 - 4 days it's greens, veggies, nuts, seeds (and maybe some fruit)?

Besides, mind is counterintuitive. I'm the first person to say bio-psycho-social - it's all connected, but they are also not the same. Maybe more juice doesn't equal more gains for the mind. In fact, testosterone is good for mental functioning in the right doses, but too much impedes it. @Davino In fact, you might actually question whether you should try "optimizing" (super-dose) testosterone as well if you're under the conception that more dopaminergic transmission is better (as testosterone is also dopaminergic), unless you care about being fertile I guess.

One of my criteria for quitting weed was it impeded my spiritual practice. Listening to teachers talk about presence when you're stoned: "yuuuuus preach bro" Not stoned: "why the fuck am I out of food, why the fuck am I not hungry, why the fuck can I not sleep, fuck" The crux of the meditative effect of weed is the way it dissociates you from your normal thought patterns, from your memories, their usual connections and their emotional weight. It's like your mind is a circle and you draw a smaller circle within it and that's your new mind for a while. The circle can move across the same larger circle, but only capture parts of it at any moment. And it affects meaning-making and how you draw connections (when you strip the usual web of connections, even if the web you spin now is in a sense smaller, it can be different such that new connections can be made). So creativity can be enhanced, new connections can be seen. And the dissociation is not just connective/semantic but also temporal (because of course, it will easily forget where it was 20-30 seconds earlier; the classic short-term memory reduction). And sometimes that can be freeing if your mind in the sober state is too threatening that you actually try to dissociate yourself from it even while sober, such that your mind shrinks then too, maybe even more than in the weeded out state. Weed for me felt like an expansion the first times I tried it, then now in later years, the times I've been exposed to it, it seems constricting. But it's also expansive in again other ways, in the realm of presence, beyond thinking patterns.

Fasting and calorie restriction definitely does something. Purely plant based has done things too in the past. If you care about function and nothing else, listen to what your body wants.

I feel good sometimes while fasted. The question is, on average or in total, how much of your diet is fruit and how much is not? I'm trying to gauge what kind of diet is a sustainable "middle".

Crack and armodafinil both have dopamine reuptake inhibition. Ketamine and pyrozalam do not have such similarities. Crack and armodafinil is comparing a small apple vs a big apple (with some glaze; norepinephrine and serotonin reuptake inhibition). Ketamine and pyrazolam is like comparing a carrot and a cauliflower (except you shouldn't eat them together as then you can easily "become" a vegetable; i.e., have a vegetable overdose).

I think solipsism as it's usually conceived falls under the concept of crypto-materialism. Earlier I've presented it as an epistemic phenomena of clinging on to the epistemic norms and empirical frameworks of materialism ("materialist science", leading to largely discarding psychic phenomena, telepathy, spirits, etc.). Solipsism as it's usually conceived is more of an ontological phenomena. You want to propose that "there is only you", "there is no self", "there is no objective reality, only a dream", but then you cling on to the ontological norms of physical creatures, physical constraints like time and space, perceptual contents, while making firm statements about these things (their limitations, their extension, their locality, closesness, visibility, immediateness). In reality, non-duality makes no claim about reality other than its oneness. Any elaboration in any direction is an overreach.

If it doesn't change you much, you wouldn't do it.

I bet every stoner has thought about quitting.