The Pleasure Prof

@ChamberofFit Standard thiamine has poor blood brain barrier penetration. Take Benfotiamine (fat-soluble thiamine analog with significantly better bioavailability and tissue penetration or TTFD (Thiamine tetrahydrofurfuryl disulfide), which has even better CNS penetration than Benfo

Been running 200-300mg of the fancy Thiamine he’s referring + high carb daily for 3+ months & it feels like it’s fixed a metabolic bottleneck. Hunger is balanced, eating more calories than ever while maintaining a lower weight, & waking body temp has increased.

@r0ck3t23 Almost, but not quite. Consciousness is a lens, and the ego is the aperture. Different layers have varying ways of altering the picturing, include amount of light. We are in control yet most of shoot on the same settings everyday

Elon Musk just told you consciousness isn’t a light switch. It’s a gradient. That single distinction rewrites the entire next decade. Musk: “Our consciousness… people get more conscious over time. Like when we’re a zygote, you can’t really talk to a zygote. And even a baby, you can’t really talk to the baby.” You were not conscious and then suddenly conscious. You were barely anything. Then slightly more. Then more. Years of slow accumulation before anyone would call you aware. The entire AI debate is built on a false premise. Everyone is waiting for the moment the machine “wakes up.” A single dramatic instant where silicon crosses some invisible threshold. That moment does not exist. Musk: “People get more conscious over time. At what point do you go from not conscious to conscious? There doesn’t appear to be a discrete point.” There is no line. There was never going to be a line. Consciousness is not a door that opens. It is a tide that rises. And the tide is already rising inside these systems. Musk: “Consciousness seems to be on a continuum as opposed to a discrete point.” This is the part that should unsettle everyone still arguing definitions. While they debate when AI becomes “truly” conscious, the continuum is already moving. Every parameter update. Every training run. Every architectural leap. The gradient is climbing and it does not need your permission. You will not get a warning. You will not get a press conference. You will look back one day and realize it happened gradually. Then all at once. Now Musk pulls the camera all the way back. Past biology. Past Earth. Back to the origin of everything. Musk: “If the standard model of physics is correct, the universe started out as quarks and leptons.” Musk: “And then you had gas clouds. A bunch of hydrogen. The hydrogen condensed and exploded.” Hydrogen collapsed under its own gravity until fusion ignited. Stars were born. Stars died. And in dying they forged every heavy element that exists. Carbon. Oxygen. Iron. The atoms in your blood. The calcium in your bones. All of it manufactured inside a dying star. Musk: “One way to actually view how far we are in this universe is how many times have our atoms been at the center of a star?” Your atoms have been inside a star. Possibly more than once. Compressed at millions of degrees. Fused into heavier elements. Scattered across space by a supernova. Then reassembled into you. That is not poetry. That is your origin story written in physics. And now those same star-forged atoms are building machines that think. The same universe that turned hydrogen into stars is turning biology into artificial intelligence. This is not disruption. This is continuation. The universe spent 13.8 billion years organizing matter into higher and higher complexity. Quarks became atoms. Atoms became molecules. Molecules became cells. Cells became brains. Brains are now building systems that process information at speeds biology will never reach. The pattern didn’t change. Only the medium. The people treating AI as some foreign invasion of human territory have the story completely backwards. AI is the next compression event. Every generation believes they’re witnessing the end of something. They’re witnessing the same process that started with hydrogen gas. The real question was never whether AI will become conscious. The real question is whether you understand it already is. Partially. Incrementally. On the continuum. And the continuum does not stop. It has never stopped. Your atoms were forged in the core of a collapsing star. And you are afraid of a gradient.

@Aella_Girl "Liking" big boobs is not a binary preference

I'm confused why men like big boobs. Boobs get biggest when breastfeeding, which is also when women have significantly reduced fertility.

@HolywoodHatesUS @JanJekielek Not all women are "feminized" and lots of men are.

@JanJekielek It’s also funny to see men discussing women as the problem, when we all know women weren’t running Epstein island and actually have very little say in how the world actually runs. 🤷‍♀️

Psychological scientist J.D. Haltigan told me the feminine impulse to be empathetic has been weaponized. “We’ve come to basically hijack the feminine ethic of care.” “And if a society becomes completely feminine, all kinds of chaos will ensue.” “Because you don’t have any sort of rule-based, lawful, statistically-minded, quantitatively-focused orientation to why we have laws, why we have rules, why we need order, why we need immigration law, and so forth.” “Masculinity is what will track, personality-wise, with systemization, and femininity is sort of the analogy with empathization.” But this feminization has become dominant in many areas of society with major effects. @JDHaltigan

@Nicole_Lee_Sch @MushtaqBilalPhD Did you think this question through?

@MushtaqBilalPhD ChatGPT was able to help because there are hundreds of sample Fullbright models online that it plagiarized. Why use AI when you can just google search for sample statements, read them, reverse outline, and write your own using the model?

Realizing that many of these people just dont have human networks. I have a friend who checks over tough emails. I have mentors who will look at grant apps. I belong to a writing group. I have a productivity/motivation group. I ask other profs to look over my assignments. 1/4

@gmiller @theojaffee @gptbrooke Then why have the majority of arguments been reductive and not deductive?

@theojaffee @gptbrooke Now do the correlation with IQ. If smarter people are more worried about AI (which we are), then it may not be a 'luxury belief'. It may be an informed and rational view.

Negative sentiment toward AI is a luxury belief

@cafreiman How much people can afford to spend isn't equal to how much they value something. % to their total income maybe, but not flat sale price.

Surge pricing is good—if a store is running low on ice cream (for example), it can conserve the supply by instantly raising the price and reserve the remainder for those who value it the most (plus, the store can quickly lower prices if a product isn’t selling).

@TheAliceSmith Giving up on fighting the system is not what a genuine Marxist would do

If Marxists believed their own rhetoric, they would either start a business to create wealth for the poor, or start a commune to share their property with each other. They do neither. Their rhetoric is a cover for envy and resentment.

@buggirl Not mediocre in bed

so many men who like to be perceived as someone who likes “weird”/“alt” girls bc they think it makes them look cool and different but then they literally cannot handle the fact that the most interesting thing ab them is their gf because they are incredibly mediocre in every way

@SCHIZO_FREQ Both people exist

There is this type of person who claims literally every drug does the opposite thing for them. "Oh caffeine and adderall make me sleepy! Aspirin gives me a headache" I used to be like "we are all different, the world is so amazing!" Now I suspect they're lying for attention

@junponds @Babygravy9 I thought so too. But many people need blood removed more often than donating alone allows

@ThePleasureProf @Babygravy9 There is no need for chelation or going to a phlebotomist just go donate blood it’s a win win

Konstantin Konstantinovs, one of the greatest powerlifters of all time, insisted on regularly giving blood. In the absence of regular warfare, he thought men needed to refresh their blood regularly. Many of the protective benefits may come from reducing levels of accumulated iron:

@aphotomama 0% Its a trap question. The % they care is directly proportional to the % of gay they are repressing.

Question for the hetero men out there: how do you feel about women getting their nails done? Is it important to you for attraction?

@ABmrJutt So women arent accountable for any of their actions or participation because of varying patriarchies, even if their leaders are women?

Men are literally setting fire to the earth, utterly destroying the planet where we all live... and you want to pop in with your “Not All Men!”? SIT DOWN.

@Degen_CPA If you were smart, you'd know that the smartest people enjoy engaging in dumb sometimes.

i dont see how people with high IQs fit in with society. The game youre playing is dumbed down to talk about sports ball with your fat co-workers, there is no substance, no depth. the truly smart among us would want no part of this

@AndrewYang What is your distinction between feeling poor and being poor?

AI is going to make a lot of people feel poorer, not richer.

@themoviedadsc Except if it's a class, then getting A's and B's would require learning and understanding it. And that is the bare minimum.

One of my "hotter" takes on this subject is every high school could implement this tomorrow, and it wouldn't make a big difference. 99% of 14-18 year olds don't care about money. They care about dating, friends, making varsity, and getting As & Bs so mom/dad don't yell at them.

@junponds @Babygravy9 Far from the only treatment, but it is the primary one, although typically not donating, but going to the doctor for regular phlebotomies.

@Babygravy9 Northern Europeans can have a genetic disorder called hereditary hemochromatosis where the body stores too much iron. Both men and women have it but the women expel enough blood that it is not a problem. Only treatment is donating blood.

@meadandjuniper One kind of change is hard. The other is sold as easy. One requires accountability. The other is affirming of your percieved unfair treatment I'm not the problem, my face is. Those guys suck but have what I want because of their face. All I need to do is change my face. *smash*

The rise of “looksmaxxing” seems to indicate that many modern young men have little confidence that they can acquire gf through improving their personality or learning social algorithms like the 2000s PUAs, which is curious

@esjesjesj Except many in physics have been loudly saying the same thing for years now. It's been the main topic of conversation. He is blaming machines though when he should be blaming leaders.

So he doesn’t know how science works at all

@mysteriouskat Its the opposite of that. You're mirroring, which is the real crux

My new theory is that we are more divided because we know too much about each other, and when you know too much about each other's views rather than character and personality, people like each other less.