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@graveair The inability to articulate the psychedelic experience into anything other than kindergarten all-one gobbledygook reveals the emptiness of both the drug and the user. Of course, all-one, every-nothing, interconnected emptiness is what they are selling. Pod people need drugs.
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Most people require a hundred soul-deforming, mind-mutilating psychedelics called GT-600 or New-Delhi Demon to reach what you understood at thirteen, reading Goethe or Verlaine, looking at the eyes of your mother when she is happy—that life is precious, that life is everything.
Bryan Johnson@bryan_johnson
This was the most profound experience of my life. I am stunned beyond comprehension. This molecule is without peer. The 27mg dose opened up what felt like pure consciousness and intelligence. A majestic reveal of existence itself. In all its incomprehensible glory and majesty. It is impossible to explain with words. Whatever you imagine, multiply it by 1,000 and then add infinite width and depth and dimensions. But entrance was not granted without prerequisite. Existence demanded that I submit. That I say yes; without attachment and without condition. Yes to existence; yes to the dissolution of self; yes to release control; yes, to all. My ego registered the ask and panicked. It wanted control. It was desperate for control. It pleaded to escape from the torrent of light and essence that threatened to rip my sanity into chards. The urge to eject was overwhelming. Terror thundered throughout my mind and body. It took everything within me to release. I overcame and was treated with bliss that defies imagination. A euphoria colored with perfect harmony of all things. An orchestra of essence washed over me and swept me up in dance. It was home. The highest aspiration of intelligent life. For some reason, stored and tucked away as the ultimate prize. A single concept emerged in omnipresence: we cannot grok the preciousness of our existence. Yet it is everything we’ve ever wanted and more. The state we long for without knowing it exists. This caused me great pain and heartache. A swell of loyalty and devotion emerged inside me, pledging allegiance to existence. To become a warrior and caretaker of life on earth. To protect at any cost the candle of consciousness that has miraculously emerged in this part of the galaxy. What awaits will wipe all your tears, soothe all your sorrows, and infinitely exceed your wants.
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@nickcammarata Ive been meditating regularly since mid Jan and last week tried fire kasina. I've been enjoying very mild LSD visuals ever since
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trip report: started out kinda autistic, did like ten years of tons of meditation, now everything is very strong and easily overstimulating, though most things are very nice and awesome too, a little like being on acid all the time, colors very rich etc
Mitchell B Slapik@mslapik
Predictive coding frames autism and schizophrenia as imbalances in top-down vs. bottom-up processing. Autism may favor bottom-up sensory input, leading to a focus on details and sensory overload. Schizophrenia may favor top-down beliefs, leading to hallucinations and delusions.
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@algekalipso @liminal_warmth Lol obviously you don't actually experience 5 years you just have the experience of believing you have been in the big dimension for 5 years (for 5 minutes)
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Yes, I think salvia ethics is still fundamentally unserious. We need to figure out the actual hedonic cost of inhabiting 5 years the bug dimension. Or rather, we need to find out how much actual subjective time there is in this state of consciousness. Maybe salvia is a utility monster after all. Maybe it's no big deal. It very much depends on how consciousness actually operates at these extremes.
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I don’t understand how anyone could hear about salvia trip reports like “I spent 5 years in the bug dimension” or “I was a sentient inanimate hose in my back yard for 20 years” and still be like “well maybe I’ll just try it once…”
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This is why we went to war with Iran.
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Content creators: Quit removing all the breaths from your spoken material! It makes listeners hold their breath. If you keep in your breaths, they will relax and breath, too.
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@TylerAlterman Letting go when this hit was the gateway to my first non-dual experiences
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Anyone have tips for engaging preverbal existential terror so that I can learn how to relax into the heart of being? lol
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RESEARCH QUESTION --
Are there any movies, specifically Horror movies, where everything bad that happens is the main character's fault?
Keeping it vague for reasons, but let me know if anything in particular comes to mind!!!
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@adic_9 Some seem to respond to 'time in' intense forced intimacy building, eye contact etc. This article says
frequent rewards for recognising others negative emotions and for positive behaviours scientificamerican.com/article/is-it-…
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quick challenge: can you describe something else like this? “X didn’t Y until Z”. bonus points if it’s somehow both humorous and horrible
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@AlecStapp Babies didn’t feel pain until anesthesiologists felt safe giving anesthesia to babies.
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@MadelaineLucyH @grok is this an example of hormone and gender modulated communication preferences and norms combine with typical mind fallacy?
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I used to think (some) men just went through life thinking women were unbelievably stupid, until I realised a LOT of men with mid/low intelligence strongly believe they are more informed and confidently armed with information than literally anyone else, including doctors and historians
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Musk has publicly advocated for Epstein file releases and prosecutions via multiple X posts since 2020, criticizing blocks by figures like Sen. Durbin. Recent Jan 2026 DOJ docs reveal 2012-2013 emails where he discussed visiting Epstein's island, though he denies ever going or any wrongdoing. No evidence confirms visits or illegal acts. His framing emphasizes advocacy while omitting these ties.
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Nobody has fought harder for full release of the Epstein files and prosecutions of those who abused children more than I did, knowing full well that the legacy media, far-left propagandists and those who are actually guilty would:
1. Admit nothing
2. Deny everything
3. Make counter-accusations against me
I knew that I would be smeared relentlessly, despite never having attended his parties or been on his “Lolita Express” plane or set foot on his creepy island or done anything wrong at all.
Nonetheless, the extreme pain of being accused of being the opposite of who I am was worth it.
The strong must protect those cannot protect themselves, especially vulnerable children. I will gladly accept any amount of future pain to do more to protect kids and give them a chance to grow up and have happy lives.
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@SYNESTHEIZURE @grok evaluate these claims using available research on religiousity frequency and susceptibility to religious experience and IQ beware of SES as confounder
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highly intelligent people have a variety of different beliefs, including many atheists. this is the equivalent of playing with dolls and sayings "and ballerina barby, who's the prettiest, likes all the same books and movies as I do." It's beneath you but its also beneath anyone
Simulator di tutti i Simulatori@fleshsimulator
The smartest people I know are UNIVERSALLY religious or at least spiritual and the most 110-IQ people I know are universally atheist midwits Unfortunately atheists are still on average smarter than religious people But I don’t interact with that kind of religious “person”
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@AnechoicMedia_ @grok Evaluate these claims by comparing demographics of characters in scenarios to real world statistics
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The Pitt is full of these contemptuous staged tiktok slop roleplay scenarios, in which the needs and feelings of a family experiencing what is to them possibly the worst medical scare of their life is subordinate to the prideful sensitivities of the healthcare worker whose job is to manage this sort of encounter professionally multiple times a day.
Every scenario is comically race-swapped and plays out like those European state propaganda campaigns in which white men are shown sexually harassing brown people on public transit. In the first season a white male trump voter type becomes increasingly irate after not being taken care of in a hospital full of indifferent brown people giving him the DMV treatment. His medical concerns are treated as a joke, and his expectation of customer service or empathy is depicted as selfish entitlement and an unfair imposition on hospital staff.
As he leaves the hospital in frustration he brutally sucker punches a female nurse, bloodying her face. You can decide for yourself whether this is demographically representative of who assaults health care workers in America.
Irene@utacult
pitt reminding you of the casual racism doctors face every day #thepitt
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Tell me the number that is biggest then this
Only 1 percent will succeed
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The "rarity interpretation" of cognitive ability distribution is tautological.
What does IQ actually measure, deeply? People like Hindenburg Melão Jr. of the Sigma Society wrote many compelling essays (in Portuguese, alas) arguing that latent trait models can get us closer to a real property, as opposed to simply "grading on a curve." In the 00s, his analyses of the Mega Test and Sigma Test using techniques like Item Response Theory, robust statistics, and hierarchical factor analysis concluded that the deep structure of g is _actually highly skewed_ and very far from normally distributed at the extremes
Consider the analogy to height: the mean for men is around ~175 cm with a standard deviation of about 7 cm (!). Under a strict normal distribution, someone 2.5 meters tall would be nearly 11 standard deviations above the mean!! The probability of this is, say, about 10^-28, meaning that no such person should have ever existed in all of human history.
Yet open The Guiness Book of World Records and you'll find counterexamples. Sultan Kosen currently lives at 2.5 meters tall, and Robert Wadlow reached 2.72 meters. Gaussians are approximations that work well for the midwit range and they fail when there are variable generative processes that can do interesting things at the edges.
The same logic applies to the low end of cognitive ability: IQ 55 should be "over three standard deviations below" but it's not that uncommon and it typically reflects specific developmental or genetic conditions with disastrous cognitive consequences. Why assume the high end is any different? Genius might be its own thing, and if you read about ridiculously smart people, I would argue, this is what we see.
So claiming "there are only ~100 people with 170 IQ in the US" is itself a kind of "underfitting to a statistical distribution" rather than "hey, I looked at reality carefully, and our models break down at the edges" characteristic of, say IQ 140+ brilliant people 😉 (not @RokoMijic and his underfitted models!)
peepeepoopoo@DeepDishEnjoyer
i know this is a shitpost but i'm begging people to understand how standard deviations work. 170 IQ is almost 5 standard deviations. There are like 100 such people in the US. 100 IQ people are probably living their entire lives without ever talking to someone with 170 IQ.
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