Ion

If you find me liking your old tweets, know that I’m just clearing my bookmarks, not stalking

@0neaccord @bayeslord Did you follow any particular resource? Ive heard of Jhanas, but haven’t looked into it properly yet. I’ve done mindfulness on and off for years and attended a vipassana retreat. The effects for me have been subtle just feeling a bit more settled and calm.

@ionosphear @bayeslord Jhanas

You can achieve this with meditation too btw

Most people in the US and the rest of the Anglosphere probably do not understand the extent of their influence. In much of the rest of the world, the American way od life is higly aspirational and for understandable reasons. There is a lot worth emulating in the West. But online, what spreads most easily and widely are the shallow, trend-driven and vapid traits.

You think this is going to end up with Americans and British people and Canadians tweeting about subcultures and cartoons and jokes. But really, it ends with Japanese people tweeting about goyslop and hoeflation and Palestine.

If you’re depressed and sure you want to die, you shouldn’t expect the state to do it for you. Making it into a formal process and expecting people who love you to stand by, do nothing and watch you die is much worse. And more often than not, suicide is a cry for help. Many do not go through with it or do not succeed. Formalising it may just pressure them into following through and not to mention the possible indirect pressure once they view the person as more valuable dead than alive. I can underdstand the argument more in the case of terminal illness, where there is no real hope of recovery and the person is in constand severe pain. But depression is not that

@Noahpinion @Robotbeat I don’t know man it seems more gray area than that

Offering euthanasia to depressed people is state-sponsored murder. There is no ambiguity. It is murder.

@SpaceX Is there any way you could share the artist names and track titles for the pre-event music from this live stream? @SpaceX

Announcing TERAFAB: the next step towards becoming a galactic civilization twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@bronzeageshawty If you don’t mind sharing, when you say you align your life with your menstrual cycle, what does that look like in practice? And congratulations!

I did not have a glow up just by taking Chinese peptides. I stopped smoking I stopped drinking I do red light therapy for 12 minutes every day I started Olympic Weightlifting 4 times a week I drain my lymphatic system every morning I sauna and sweat ruthlessly I stretch every night I became a strict jihadist against occasional seed oils and processed foods I drink a liter of coconut oil every day I take magnesium glycine l-theanine and taurine and colostrom and whatever other esoteric supplements my Landlord feeds me I don't even ask what they are anymore I eat hella fruit I track my menstrual cycles and align my life with them I bought an organic cotton mattress and sheets and wool pillow I do scalp massages with a gua sha and boar bristle hair brush every night before bed I got a $400 haircut I replaced all bras and underwear and most of my wardrobe with natural fibers I go to the hot springs frequently I remove all blue light from my phone screen before bed I healed my relationship with internet addiction I opened my heart to intimacy and love and friendship I opened my heart to my family I found purpose in becoming a writer I cultivated deep and meaningful friendships in the city I live in I take 10,000 step walks every day that I can I always make sure to get sun on my face I stopped wearing deodorant 2 years ago I became less selfish and more giving I pray every morning to God thanking him for everything He's given me before I open my eyes and I listen to Neville Goddard audio every night before bed. It's not just the Chinese Peptides

@apstrusus84 @OpenAI @sama Yeah, read that, thank you

@ionosphear @OpenAI @sama Plus, BUT... This has since been clarified, and I posted an update. In short no actual change to model behavior, ToS change was minor rewording, and observed drift was just non-determinism and "human apophenia". x.com/i/status/19975…

With the removal of "medical services" by @OpenAI, @sama let me tell you a story about how you once made a useful tool, that probably helped extend my life, that will now never be able to help someone in the same way again. In 2023, I had two heart attacks within a week of each other. I do not fit the profile. I am fit, young, never had high blood pressure, or high LDL. Yet, I had significant CVD, to where I had 92% blockage in my LAD during the second bought. Despite not fitting the mold, I was put on "the protocol" and given blood thinners, statins, and medicine to lower my BP which was never, ever high. I had insanely bad reactions to each of these meds, and slowly was weaned off of each, as they each ended up near killing me, each for different wild individual reasons, with overnight hospitalization stays averaging once a week for months. After burning through my third cardiologist office, using ChatGPT, I was able to start searching for potential alternative root causes, and found and evaluated medical research in pursuit of that goal. I do not have medical training, but was, with the assistance of what was at the time a very useful tool, able to determine that I was very likely to have a rare genetic disorder. Testing was able to confirm this shortly thereafter, and I was then able to connect with a cardiologist who specializes in my specific condition. I went from an outlook to where I had stopped contributing to my 401k (as my chances of getting there were close to zero) to now where I may indeed have a chance at close to a normal lifespan. Additionally, the issues I had with the medications was also exceptionally odd, but not the first time I had similar troubles. I have always been overtly cautious about what I took, because I occasionally took something relatively normal (even over the counter), and ended up inexplicably close to death. Again working with ChatGPT, I was able to find commonalities in the enzymes used to either activate, or clear the medications that I had a history of issues with. This research led to the hypothesis that I was a poor metabolizer of a few specific enzyme pairs. I paid out-of-pocket for some pharmacological genetic testing, and found that not only was I a poor metabolizer, but I had a complete deletion of a gene pair responsibile for either activation or clearing for 35-40% of all over the counter and prescription medication. Meaning that they could reach blood levels up to 35 times what was normal with a single dose of some medication, potentially leading to death. This is not something that would have ever been looked for or discovered by a doctor, as it is exceptionally rare. I however, obviously had pretty high motivation to search for the root causes of the ongoing health issues plaguing me. Prior to the existence of ChatGPT, I had no ability to pursue this on my own, at least not in any meaningfully efficient way. And now, I am again now left at the complete mercy of our seriously inefficient, horrible healthcare system, due to what appears to be fairly arbitrary decisions, and an insistence on making ChatGPT increasingly less useful over time. One of the most beautiful usecaseses for AI, and specifically LLMs, is that it has the potential to work as an equalizer, where someone with a reasonable level of intelligence could, with diligence (and obviously also the ability to quantify and filter useful information), sometimes operate at near the level of experts, or at least the average practitioner. At one point, that saved my life. And now it will never be there to do the same for anyone else, as every major provider follows your example. It's sad really.

I agree, but a lot of the time reality feels cold and nihilistic on its own. People need some degree of myth or narrative to stay oriented. Without that, you end up feeling unmoored. The real challenge is finding stories you can genuinely believe in, ones that make you and the world around you better. Many things are “true” as long as you and those around you believe they are true.

Perception isn't reality. Perception is perception. Reality is reality. Once you realize that you can stop being enamored with your lies and clever ways in which you try to twist yourself into shapes that defy all known natural laws. You can learn to navigate reality as-is. You can become the kind of person who'd be able to crush stars in their fists.

@Mankosmash @cremieuxrecueil Isn’t he talking about people who consume CSAM? You may be right, but may be not all pedophiles consume CSAM or abuse children

@cremieuxrecueil You're wrong here. I've researched this in the past and the large majority of pedophiles have not, in fact, molested anyone. In prison studies of pedophiles, something like 75% had APD (sociopaths), suggesting that sociopathy is a large factor in victimization.

I'm in an airport right now, but I would just like to let everyone know that almost 9/10 people arrested for possession of child pornography also admit to physically molesting kids. If you think people try to do what they see in porn–and they do!–then you should oppose AI here.

@divya_venn I’d say be a little kinder to yourself. I don’t know you well, but from your posts you come across as bright and articulate. I think some things start to make better sense with time

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and feel sick to my stomach of myself. Of all the writing I do, of all the talking, of the masquerade of knowledge and the thirsting after more. I’m pathetic for not letting go, long ago, of the futile quest to know and be known. It’s impossible to really see the inside of a person’s head and share what yours is like. The most you can do is stand on the threshold of everything they are and call out your clumsy hypothesis. I’m disgusted with my own hubris in making these hypotheses over and over, in expecting anyone to get it right.

@gabriel1 Is there anything that you would be willing to share for free, that is also legal? Something that is simple yet overlooked by many, and has helped the people you’ve guided?

i lost count how many people i've convinced & guided through a career transition that has successfully given them x3-10 salary at top companies too bad i can't legally make money of it, and it's not culturally okay to make money from, so i guess i'll just never scale it up

@gabriel1 If you are frequently snacking on almonds, I recommend soaking them before eating, especially if you have a sensitive gut. It can make them easier to digest and may improve nutrient absorption.

pre lunch snacking (i first chugged two more glasses of milk)

@generic_void @default_friend x.com/nosilverv/stat…

@default_friend What are you referring to here?

I did that trauma release exercise going viral on TPOT and now I don’t care about anything anymore

@xlr8harder I think he doesn’t see what he is doing as conflicting with his goals. His ultimate goal is to extend human consciousness. He doesn’t care how that happens- whether it upends culture, institutions, relationships, how people reproduce, etc.

some people suggest that since elon has professed serious concern about ai xrisk, he must be intentionally recklessly speedrunning the race to the bottom to force society to deal with ai risk before models get too capable possible, but i think this is giving him too much credit

@xlr8harder I understand, it must be incredibly hard to for all these companies to forgo huge revenue streams. And if they won't do it, someone else will I guess. I do not have an answer. But seeing someone with as much clout & reach as Elon openly posting this all the time is disappointing

@xlr8harder Exactly. I don’t see people criticizing Grok’s AI companions the same way they are Meta’s. It almost feels like they don’t want to get on Elon’s bad side or something. I think he has done a lot of great incredible things, but I’m not for him hyping this up.

i gotta be honest. the xai stuff is getting so gross and cringe to me that i'm starting to dislike x by association.

@nabeelqu I agree, but i think XAI with Grok ai characters is headed that way too. I see a lot of lopsided criticism lately of Meta. I think in some ways, Grok AI is even worse than what Meta is putting out, especially with Elon hyping it up

Meta is by far my least favorite big tech company and it’s precisely because they’re willing to ship awful, dystopian stuff like this No inspiring vision, just endless slop and a desire to “win”

@yacineMTB Is this really that different from Grok’s AI companions? Everyone's going to want to jump into this space with the kind of numbers they do. And it is going to be difficult to justify banning them when other platforms & content are allowed.

Canada, the UK, and other non US nations should complete network ban Facebook This is fucking insane It's an actual attack on our vulnerable population, old people and children

@hubermanlab Psychedelics are said to strongly promote adult neuroplasticity. Can similar effects be achieved through other methods, like specific types of meditation?

I’m hosting a guest on Huberman Lab podcast that is an expert on neuroplasticity and use of non-invasive and minimally invasive devices including vagus nerve stimulation, to treat stroke, tinnitus, paralysis, and accelerate learning in anyone. What are your questions for him?