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I don't want to kill my ego I want to cuddle it

@nosilverv You just have to want it enough

Nimitta jhana 4? Damn new goal to slave after

@chercher_ai Why should I believe you? 🧐

I'm skeptical of your experience I hope you'll do me the same honor

@RomeoStevens76 @gentschev My sand demon disagrees with your sand demon 🤔

@gentschev sand demon

PSA that you should swap candles if you use them. The difference in air quality is ridiculous.

@nosilverv If I view my blockages as teleological, then I'm relieved of the burden of being able to do them merely by saying "you can just do things" Phew 😮‍💨

“You can just do things” presupposes the block to doing is ignorance: you're not aware that you can. Saying you can, therefore, will make you able to do them. The teleological view is harsher: you’re not doing things because *you don’t want to* and the rest is rationalization.

There is no difference between "insensitive to" and "robust to" something Except there is all the difference in the world

"I'm at Kegan 4 mostly" My friend, the 4 was superfluous. You're at Kegan. That's it.

"I'm an Enneagram" Enneagram what? No just the type of person who likes Enneagram

@SkepticalAlpaca Oh right I was thinking ultimate personalisation (let's make something just for your unique individual cancer), in which case it's hard to think of anything other than vaccines But yeah personalised combinations of drugs for your cancer seems like a good way forward

@SkepticalAlpaca Wdyt are better options?

It doesn't have to be Objective to be Real

@karma_gardener @cube_flipper @selentelechia Yes! Absolute lifesaver when you have it bad. One of those "where have you been all my life" drugs

@cube_flipper @selentelechia oh man, i love oxymetazoline. but i'm never use it outside of acute virally-mediated congestion (which is, unfortunately, right now for me)

I know anhedonia is an occasional side effect of these drugs BUT there is also a phenomenon in supplement/nootropic/biohacker circles where if someone is claiming life-ruining or otherwise extreme side effects from something that's been around a while and is supposed to be well tolerated by most people regardless of its effectiveness re: the actual issue...they are usually doing some combo of: 1. dosing too much 2. increasing the dose too quickly 3. mixing it with other shit and being honest about that if you actually read their post or listen to them ("modafinil gave me horrible anxiety. I'm taking 3x the standard dose and also I'm taking 1g of caffeine per day" no way dude really???) 4. mixing it with other shit and not being honest about that (the guy who claimed he had some crippling life-destroying addiction to the nasal spray Afrin a few years back? polydrug addict, iirc, if you looked at his post history) 5. are doing some other weird crap, particularly with sleep or diet, like that nuclear physicist I once met who told me about when he was in undergrad and trying to gain weight and ate mostly protein powder to get to 300g of protein per day and then his fingers and toes went numb basically people who are doing this stuff independently are already a high-risk-tolerance population, OR desperate, and both of those groups do dumb shit all. the time.

how you feel about each Winnie the pooh character probably says a lot about you pooh: naivety piglet: anxiety eeyore: bummer owl: education rabbit: control kanga:? tigger: chaos roo: childhood? CR:?

@sergeantsup Yeah x.com/i/status/17060…

if you've spent significant time working on your health issues, you've probably come up with a lot of beliefs about what helps and what doesn't these types of beliefs are vulnerable to cognitive bias e.g. if you're convinced quercetin is good for you, you could notice the days you took it and felt better, without thinking much about all the days you took it and still felt awful if you have enough objective data, and you analyze it, you can check: does quercetin ACTUALLY alleviate your symptoms? and perhaps more importantly, you can get calibrated on a meta level. you can pre-register all of your beliefs about the interventions that do/don't help you, and then check how right you are you can learn how much you should actually trust your intuition going forward

@a_fellow_of I think "complexity" isn't well defined (or rather, there are many well defined measures that disagree), so it's more of a "what seems interesting to me" kind of issue. Whereas entropy is much more stable wrt definitions.

Is this generally true? Like, rigorously so?

You are looking for the Seat Of Consciousness I am looking for the Lamborghini Of Consciousness We are not the same

a complaint for the UX department of everywhere: Hey, I Was Reading That ...is my biggest problem with any UX, and it's everywhere. i'm in the middle of reading some text and it scrolls away, gets covered, etc. please, I beg of you, design your thing so that this Never Happens

Only people with ADHD truly understand what it's like to be AGGRESSIVELY uninterested in something like so uninterested you're angry

@DeclanWesting @emollick Briefly, you can ramp testing up faster if you're confident it's not going to be a disaster

@phantom_opus @emollick But you would have to safety test the final product, not just the prototype, so how would the prototype save you any time?

Every so often I think about how, in 2022, for $24B we could had "prototype vaccines ready for each of the 26 known viral families that cause human disease" so they can be deployed in 100 days if there was ever a need. This effort was not funded. ifp.org/why-barda-dese…

@DeclanWesting @emollick Yes - and the safety testing is essential! (IDK about the other delays) And if we can do some of that safety testing upfront then we need to do less when crunch time comes.

@emollick During Covid wasn't the actual vaccine ready within an absurdly short time frame after the first genetic sequencing? It was like under 30 days I think. The bulk of the delay was testing and regulatory approval.

I swear this era of inept text generation tells us something deep about vision-language models but I can't make it out. I bet @repligate et al would have something interesting to say on it.