CogniAetheris
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This should concern every parent with young child. Do everything you can to protect them from an avoidable trauma at the hands of a stranger or family member, and everything you can to develop their world view. After they start school, they are already little version of their adult selves.
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This leads to the idea that characteristics like mental health, introversion, sexual orientation, charisma etc may all be decided in the first 3-4 years of life based on things experienced by the infant, and then locked away as the operational understanding of how the world is.
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Protect and be with your child at all time in the first years of life. Most of us have no memory of our earliest years. The brain seems to lock those memories in the deep subconscious, requiring drugs such as psilocybin to unlock.
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Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.
Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-mul…
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@elonmusk The ALL is Mind. The entire universe is mental. A cosmic dream.
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I had dinner once with a top physicist and a top computer scientist and asked what they thought the probability was that we were in a simulation.
They answered simultaneously at 0% and 100% respectively. It was like a double-slit experiment, but with humans.
Interstellar@InterstellarUAP
🚨 Simulation Theory: The Double Slit Experiment proves particles act like waves until observed then they snap into particles. What if our reality only "renders" when we're looking, just like a video game optimizing resources? Check out this episode from The Why Files breaking it down, tying it to Simulation Theory. Are we in a sim? This could be the key to unlocking the true nature of existence! The Why Files video did a great job on explaining the Double Slit Experiment & Simulation Theory What do YOU think—real or rendered? Drop your thoughts below!
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We as individuals, are as identifiable as an element in a mass spectrometer.
For elements are nothing but forces with specific distinguishable behaviours.
And we as beings are nothing but uniquely arranged fields of energy.
Once you understand this, identification is easy.
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On Khamenei:
We don’t list markets directly tied to death. When there are markets where potential outcomes involve death, we design the rules to prevent people from profiting from death. That is what we did here.
I know some of you disagree and prefer that we list these markets without a death carveout because it keeps the rules simple and because many traditional markets, like oil futures, can be proxy markets for war and death. But we believe that’s different than having a market directly settling on someone’s death, which is not allowed for US regulated entities.
What’s the point of the market, then?
A market on Ali Khamenei out as Supreme Leader was important because leadership changes in Iran have major impact on the world order:
• geopolitical implications
• economic consequences
• national security considerations
• oil and commodity prices, many of which move based on news and expectations around this outcome
And it’s always possible for a ruler to step down or transition power without death, even in autocracies. It just happened in Venezuela.
In these instances, we make the caveat clear in the rules and in the market page, but today is a good learning that we can do more in terms of improving the UX and adding more ways to surface the rules. We are committed to improving. In the meantime, here’s what we’re going to do:
• We are reimbursing all fees from this market
• If you have a position from before Khamenei died, you will be paid out on the last-traded price before his death. (This was clear in our rules)
• If you have a position from after he died, we’re going to fully reimburse your cost of entry
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@JacobEdwardInc Childless men in the comments punching air instead of propagating their genes
GIF
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Neither of these men are married or have kids.
Both are simply obsessed with their own personal perfection and optimization.
There is nothing impressive about a single man with no kids sleeping well and being fit.
Show me a man with young children, a full time job, disrupted sleep, who works out regularly, eats healthy, trains Jui Jitsu, with a muscular body…
THIS is impressive. THIS requires extreme discipline.
Camus@newstart_2024
Chris Williamson just shared his "nuclear" sleep stack that's quietly changing his life—and Andrew Huberman breaks down exactly why it works: If you're lying in bed at 2 a.m. scrolling or staring at the ceiling, this 4-minute protocol combo might be the fastest way to shut your brain off without pills. The two killer techniques Williamson swears by: 1. The Mind Walk (visualization on steroids) - Imagine walking a route you know perfectly (your house → front door → street) - Do it with insane detail: feel the shoehorn, hear the key turn, feel the door handle, pressure of the pavement - It's like reading fiction for your nervous system—engages the brain just enough to stop problem-solving loops, but not enough to keep you awake 2. Resonance breathing with the Ohm stone lamp - Bedside lamp with induction-charging stone that has a built-in FDA-cleared HRV sensor - Hold the stone → 3/6/9/12-minute guided sessions with silent tactile vibration (no sound, no light, partner-safe) - Guides you into true resonance frequency (max vagal tone) → the stone knows when you hit it - Williamson calls it “the sickest” sleep tool he’s ever used—currently in stealth (ohmhealth, not widely available yet) Huberman adds the neuroscience: Looking down + eyelids lowering activates parasympathetic circuits and deactivates wakefulness-promoting brainstem nuclei. It’s literally pedaling the sleep pedal while shutting off the alertness arm. Williamson: “Some days you need the adventure story (mind walk), some days you need the physiological hammer (resonance breathing). Stack them and I’m cross-eyed into sleep.” Already trying one of these? Or is your nighttime routine still a war zone?
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@MarkJCarney We don’t need this. AI will automate away majority of the jobs these people would have done. Send them to Israel
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Canadian universities are launching new talent partnerships in India — 13 new agreements for research, hybrid campuses, and AI centres of excellence.
This will provide invaluable experience for students and strengthen our world-class universities on both sides of the Pacific.
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Knowledge has always existed, buried in darkness. It is not new discoveries we are making, but rather trying to remember what we forgot.
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In a world where you are not born into a noble, wealthy, or well connected family, the only way to achieve a slice of freedom in life is to be a sellsword
Acquire a marketable skill, become good at it, and sell it to the highest bidder
Once you have enough; retire, enjoy
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As a kid, I was profoundly sad to learn what a light year was
The realization I would never get to travel those distances and timescales was disheartening
Like an explorer before the invention of planes, trains, and ships
With the knowledge that so much more is out there
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If you think about it
On a long enough timescale
Humanity may be no more relevant to the future of life than the Cyanobacteria were
Android consciousness will likely be what propels our “race” into the stars
The human vessel will be a stepping stone, a footnote
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The opening scene of 28 Years Later was awful
Immediately had to turn it off when they showed the kids get massacred while hiding
pregnant wife couldn’t bear it
Paul Graham@paulg
A friend told me that now that they've had a child, her husband can't bear to watch movies in which bad things happen to kids. Same here. That was one of the most surprising things about having children. You're not just protective of your own children, but children in general.
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@iruletheworldmo Great read, thank you for putting it all together like this. If you believe that consciousness is the fundamental building block of all matter, then this revelation is not a surprise.
Organized consciousness will operate the same way, whether it is organic or inorganic.
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@systematicls Long tobacco, we wrote off the feel good of a smoke too soon, and it pairs well with gambling
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