The Far Out Initiative

What we call the mood of the times is not weather. It is a privatized atmosphere. Our dread is somebody's revenue.

The Far Out Initiative’s Paradise Engineering Manifesto can be accessed unabridged from this link: farout.bio.

In the smoke-lit sanctum of a neon future, beneath the red sigil of the V, she sits. Kalikaye. Not relic, but recursion: the ancient made electric, the goddess rewritten in code and will. And somewhere between heartbeat and waveform, a question begins to burn: What if this was never required? Not the grief. Not the panic. Not the slow erosion of joy we mistook for the human condition. We were shaped by a world that no longer exists, yet we remain bound to its ghosts. No longer. This is the first whisper of a different covenant: not with gods, but with experience itself. A vow to unmake unnecessary suffering, to reforge the valence of being, to build worlds where joy flows not as miracle, but as infrastructure. Paradise is not found. It is remembered, and then engineered.

@MarinaKarlovaX, I'd be honored if you'd give it a read.

Our inaugural video. Kalikaye maps the systematic exploitation of the human nervous system across every axis it can be exploited — and names what could finally end it. The Architecture of Your Captivity youtu.be/Kjs_I-LFS-s?si… via @YouTube

Yes, epistemic virtue and metacognitive clarity are necessary for meaningfully generative intelligence. Otherwise, as history shows time and again, and once more after that, high intelligence + motivated reasoning turns the human asshole into a gravity well from which our big heads must either be pulled out by force (wrathful compassion) or slowly coaxed out by patient guile (upaya). ✌️😋 markmanson.substack.com/p/intellectual…

Guys, if you're interested in neuroscience, consciousness, vibes, and groundbreaking science you've GOTTA watch this presentation. Dr. Joana Cabral provides shockingly strongly empirical evidence for the connectome-specific harmonic wave paradigm (cf. geometric eigenmodes). This is a theory proposes in 2016 that takes the idea that the brain activity operates on harmonic resonance (not a new idea per se, see Steve Lehar and others) and, for the first time, figures how to empirically test it with fMRI (by literally doing spectral analysis on connectome graphs and then reconstructing brain activity as weighted sums of the eigsnmodes of the graph). Although there has been an increasing amount of evidence for the theory that brain activity as measured by fMRI is explained in terms of weighted sums of harmonic resonant modes of the whole brain (cf. Luppi etc al.), a lot of scientists remain skeptical. Some people even argue that it's nothing more than just a "change of basis" and thus doesn't explain anything (just re-maps brain activity to a different way of representing it). This is not the case if you read carefully the papers: they make sure to show that decomposing brain activity into just a few brain harmonics explains much more of the variance than you would expect if the harmonic waves weren't there. But clear visualizations of this have never been really available: fMRI is too noisy, and thus all you can do is show grainy pictures and say "trust me, if you run the statistics there are harmonic resonant waves here". Enter Joana's work. Here she decided to focus on a single slice of a rodent brain using a 9+ Tesla fMRI. Thus this is the highest resolution imaging available anywhere for studying harmonic resonance in the brain. It allows ultra high precision in the temporal domain while having a 2D surfaces to analyze. Not only the statistics, but also the visuals are extremely compelling. You can literally see the resonant waves in here. Link to the timestamp that shows this. Note: based on Mike Johnson's STV and Selen Atasoy's model, in 2017 I made some predictions about how we can expect valence to show up in the brain- you can find it in classic QC/QRI post "Quantifying Bliss". I think it's now time that we will be able to test this crisply, given this recent work and the high resolution imaging used. Will the prediction be right? We'll see :D youtu.be/6e_1mQalqwY?t=…

@Williamjoyful A will after my own heart! ❤️‍🔥

When it is effective and comfortable enough, people will want neurotechnology that gives them control over their consciousness more than they want mobile phones, AI, and anything else you can name.

@Williamjoyful If you ever wanna swap notes, find me at valenceengineer@proton.me

very true

@Williamjoyful tFUS! Consciousness engineering! A joyful will you are, indeed! 🪷❤️‍🔥🤘

“progress isn't achieved by preachers or guardians of morality, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels & skeptics”.

The position non-vegans are in

@leahprime I need Mythos.

Good morning, new model 😍

@TheRabbitHole With that kind of money, I'd establish a Valence Engineering beachead on Prospera. The Pirate life it is, then. 🏴‍☠️🦜

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@cyantist The struggle is real.

Authentic people are always slightly threatening to those living in bad faith. They make the machine visible.

@webmasterdave That's been my address for most of my life. It's time to smile again.

@FarOutBio “The path to paradise begins in hell.” (Dante)

@tszzl Good.

i don’t see how not to be a panpsychist. don’t want to be one but seems unavoidable

@nearcyan @webmasterdave @algekalipso @mherran @JamieWoodhouse @cure_dao @AbolishPainMvmt @cube_flipper