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Even a blueberry-banana smoothie makes me feel wonky (but eating the banana and blueberries in their normal form seems OK). When you break down the fibers, it's like knocking off the 4-HO-group of psilocin and it becomes DMT. I need that steady release or physiology gets out of whack.

I've found if I deviate too much from a certain ratio of carbs, protein and fats (and fibers and anti-inflammatories), my mind becomes foggier and slower. The same with eating too often or too much. The goal when eating I've found is to pack a lot of energy into your body (of course "the right type" of energy and the right amount), cut off the initial glucose response by walking or working out, and then ride the steady blood glucose without eating anything else until you're hungry again. Eating an in-between meal or just a fruit at the wrong time messes with that cycle, it kick-starts digestion again, blood glucose rises again, and if you don't lower it adequately, you end up with symptoms of restlessness, inflammation, brain fog (and of course you become desensitized to insulin so you want to eat more and after less time).

The concept of a male escort, especially a high-rated one, is really fascinating. Notice the personality type. Notice the social status, the philosophy and values, the type of interactions that women want out of it. They (the good ones) seem like highly caring, sensitive heroes.

I think the reason I reacted so strongly (to "why not simply listen to this institution that landed on a highly generalized consensus for various reasons and with various caveats instead of learning about things yourself?") is that I felt it was an invalidation of all other methods of epistemology (which at least for me I don't think is true and was probably not intended either, although maybe partially), and even if I were right in all my observations, I don't think he would ultimately care, unless it was supremely pragmatic to do so.

"I just follow the dietary recommendations from the national institute of public health; they have 1000s of scientists that have done more research and better research than I could ever do".

It's so strong. When I started ordering supplements from abroad, my mother (doctor) was like super skeptical meanwhile she is buying Nycoplus (the main generic brand our pharmacies sell) which do not have any non-state or independent third-party certifications, do not provide publically available contaminant reports and are generally subpar (e.g. use non-chelated minerals, the shitty non-phosphatized B vitamins). At least she doesn't go full stepdad "I read two sentences on government website about dietary advice and that is all I need for living healthily" (which depending on your standards, fair enough).

I knew I thought that 🤭

There is something I've coined the "Scandi delusion" that probably most people who live in Scandinavia (including myself in the past) are under, that everything in Scandinavian countries is so safe, no worries, institutions are rock-solid and provide all the best all the time, they have created a perfect safety net that us as privileged citizens can exist under. It is a delusion, as demonstrated above. It's also related to a feeling that Scandinavian countries are somehow exempt from military threats and that a military invading is like "illegal" or impossible or against the laws of the universe. Meanwhile, we're next-door neighbors to Russia (literally bordering it) and some of the most militarily strategic NATO countries with respect to Russia. Nazi Germany invaded Denmark and Norway only a few decades ago.

Based on what? Here are some funny statistics from this article (https://tidsskriftet.no/2020/06/debatt/kan-miljogifter-true-oss-som-art): According to "Nordisk ministerråd", exposure to PFAS is responsible for 750-1250 deaths a year in the Nordic countries. Furthermore, they estimate these countries use 21-35 billion Danish krones per year to counteract the negative health effects and excess mortality caused by PFAS. A multi-center study of three regions in Norway found that 100% of blood donors had PFAS blood levels above suggested cut-off values.

You think Scandi water ain't contaminated? :>

AI is helping me re-code this human slopware (software slop) I'm using to finally get image reconstruction of my brain data. Sloppidy doppidy. EDIT: Bro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slopsquatting That's so fucking funny, and smart, (like my man).

13 is quite specific. That's like the transition phase between primary and secondary lower school in my country. Tits, ass and makeup mainly occurred after that transition as far as I can remember. But that transition is fast.

What a seriously insightful and thought-inspiring perspective! It is true that we must recognize our strengths as well as our weaknesses. That shows strength of character, not condescension. It's not about being superior—it's about showing one's superiority through a show of humility.

You couldn't tell a 90-year-old smoker with COPD dying from lung cancer from a 2-month-old baby.

The only thing that is worse than AI prose is cringe condescension using Leo language models (LLMs).

@Basman 0:27 The way that Reddit user described trying 5.2 and interacting with it is actually fucking my mind so hard, it's like giving me feelings of gore. It comes off like they may very well think it's a real person that lives inside the computer that they're talking to. I sometimes forget there are people out there that have virtually zero idea how computers work, how AIs work, how really anything slightly technical works, that they are almost destined to fall into these kinds of traps. I used to hang out with some girls in and around high school (they went to a different school) and especially one of them, they were sweet and all, but I really got the sense that there are simply different IQ levels (she couldn't keep track of our discussions in English in my friend group where some came from an international school; she said she doesn't really speak English).

Lol, when I had the thought above, I thought about of course PsychedSubstance (I think) and also Quentin Experiment (and also Dakota Of Earth). But I was also a bit puzzled why I had the thought as it didn't quite make sense that I would put these last two under "trauma dumping" (although Quentin Experiment did talk about taking his break and becoming a dad and it was very personal, but still, it didn't quite fit to me as "trauma dumping"). That said, I haven't watched much Dakota Of Earth either, you could probably find something there, but anyways, I couldn't find the connection. Anyways, the fact that my thought didn't seem quite logical (it basically only applied to PsychedSubstance alone, which wouldn't really warrant a generalization like that), in hindsight might have been a sign that it was something external I was picking up on and not some intuitive insight born out of seeing connections within my own mind (as they tend to be experienced as significant because they are quite logical or profound in how they connect different things). I think you @Natasha Tori Maru have commented on this that when you suspect an externally sourced thought, (I believe you said) there is a lack of logic behind them (?), or at least there is something off, like a disjunction, like a sort of randomness in how it occurs. If simply the latter, that would be consistent with what you @Oppositionless are describing with how you had never talked about him before that (and it's consistent with the three original dreams I wrote about in the thread; they seemingly popped out of nowhere, seemed highly deviant compared to the usual dreams).

Last night, I had a dream that I was being chased by several tornadoes. Then today I read about the tornado incident in Kentucky with an estimated death toll of 100 people, which is the worst tornado event in the history of Kentucky. About two weeks ago, I had a dream where PsychedSubstance got kicked out from his own house. Today he released this video: The night my dad's boss died from drowning, I had a nightmare where I was being chased by a ghost, fearing for my life. I usually never have those types of nightmares. What is this?

Bro I swear to god, earlier today when I was vacuuming or making breakfast, I had the thought pop into my head "YouTube channels about psychedelics eventually just turn into trauma dumping channels" for some reason. Then 7 minutes ago, this was posted: This is crazy, if you don't understand, read the original post. I've already had a specific premonition about PsychedSubstance (and that time it was also about his housing situation? 🫥🫠). @Natasha Tori Maru

Only one report in my city from 20 years ago 🥲

Bro, who's "fearing" AI here?

I predict that won't happen until the other areas of AI research integrate with (or overtake) LLMs. If you simply keep refining a wax figure, you will just have a more impressive wax figure. Humans move, they are concerned about survival, they adapt to their surroundings in real time, they make agentic decisions, they are autonomous, self-sustaining, self-building, they have a thirst for knowledge, they ask questions, they don't just respond to someone pushing a button or through connecting them to a network of computer scripts. Anything that has a push-to-start function, that doesn't talk back to you essentially unprovoked or independent of clearly defined constraints, and sits idly by inside a non-portable data center, will most certainly have limitations that reflect that. The day you fear that AI will be able to come into your home and murder you like Ted Bundy, that is maybe when you will truly have trouble distingushing AI text from human text. But even so, we can distinguish people we know based on personality. Ted Bundy has a certain personality, we can distinguish him, even though he is a human (escaping "he's an animal/predator" descriptions); I've for example identified previously banned forum users on new accounts through text multiple times. Maybe AI will inescapably have a certain personality that you can pick out.

I think a good heuristic for diagnosing someone as a "thinker" vs a "feeler" is how often they say "because". Because it indicates the use of logical thinking. "I think this because this is connected to this, and this is this, therefore this is this. Why? Because this is this. And because this is this, this is this." etc. If you are a feeler, you are more likely to just say a sentence and then let it stand on its own. It doesn't need further elaboration, because it's just what you feel. It didn't come from a deep systematic process of going from one thing to the next. Maybe you could derive the process after the fact (and perhaps that would indicate or give more evidence that it would be a more consistent or "true" feeling), but the process you arrived there was through feeling. In that sense, feeling need not be devoid of "logic", but it's devoid of conscious use of logic (logic as a declarative process). It can in a way be a shortcut to a logical process, but you have less ability to be aware of it and perhaps test if it's sound. You can of course be feeling in an inconsistent way and that would be what people usually look down on feelers for, but it may not necessarily be the case; it could depend on how accurate or attuned your feeling is. And the way feeling works is it's semantic rather than syntactic. You judge primarily by its pure holistic quality, not by relationship to other qualities. But ironically, a feeling can therefore contain syntax (relationship between parts) because you can feel the whole as a quality. If something is coherent, if there is consistency between the parts, you can feel it. That's how you can judge whether something is coherent with your values or not (without stating your values declaratively). You can simply feel whether there is coherence. Perhaps there is also a feeling element to whether one logical conclusion follows from the premises declaratively. But then, the distinction between a feeler and a thinker is how often or how many connections you "feel" (again, declaratively).

"Because" might be a good example but in general you want to look at the use of certain connective prepositions (e.g. thus, therefore, if, so, then). And the more (or less) connected (e.g. if->then->therefore) the better.

Try to weather balloon yourself out of that one.