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"If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner."
-R B Fuiler
- LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripadapreposterousuniverse.com ↗Submitted 3 hours ago to technology@beehaw.org | 0 comments
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- Comment on World record 💯 2 days ago:
Plot twist: he grows up to be the next Neal Peart. In 20 years you pay $200 to watch him in concert.
- Comment on Do people in the military think Pete Hegseth is a dipshit? And when he does changes they just placate him? 2 days ago:
The real problem are the troops (presumably ~25-30%) who love the Department of War and are glad we’re finally putting those woke pansies in their place
- Comment on Now with Limón! 2 days ago:
Please repost in 3 months
- Comment on Large Hardon Collider 2 days ago:
Goats
- Comment on We've All Been Here 5 days ago:
Please help understand. Am dumb; do not get
- Comment on Would a disk shaped planet have uniform gravity like earth or would it vary depending on whether you're near the center or edges? 6 days ago:
- Comment on [drugs] what does LSD feel like? 1 week ago:
Why didn’t Nancy sing about them shrooms instead
Well, that was covered by IMO a superior vocalist
Also … it was 1967. Acid and pot were well known counterculture icons the average radio listener/album-buyer in Sinatra’s market knew about; hence the lyrics. And the popular conception didn’t draw a lot of distinction between the different drugs. Hippies did that stuff to “get mellow”.
- Comment on [drugs] what does LSD feel like? 1 week ago:
Oh yeah and one more thing especially given the actual song in the OP – do not take acid to “forget your troubles”.
IT WORKS THE OPPOSITE OF THAT
Have your shit together as much as possible before you dose.
- Comment on [drugs] what does LSD feel like? 1 week ago:
I’m glad erowid has survived all these years. My best stories may or may not been saved there for posterity, and therefore cannot be referenced here 😋
The bicycle thing is something I have done several times on several continents (fun fact: LSD is the easiest drug to bring on international flights)
One time in college, myself and a group of friends all biked to a big field and simultaneously took LSD, shrooms, and edibles. I finally really grokked freshman physics when the force vectors on the frisbee were glowing neon.
- Comment on [drugs] what does LSD feel like? 1 week ago:
100% prefer shrooms
Actually visual
Much less forced introspection
Less cognitive impairment
Shorter duration
- Comment on [drugs] what does LSD feel like? 1 week ago:
Oh, and it’s qualitatively different from weed.
As an analogy: no matter how much alcohol you drink, you never feel high like you ate a single gummy.
Imagine eating a whole bag of edibles while strung out on coffee and not enough sleep. It’s… not really like that
- Comment on [drugs] what does LSD feel like? 1 week ago:
It really is a matter of “set and setting” (to quote Leary), plus chemical variability due to black markets.
Sometimes a trip can be intensely visual and have you giggling at an unnamed wonderful shared secret.
Sometimes a trip can just be a sense of existential doom and a vivid imagination, the worst kind of disjointed lost nightmare you half-remember from childhood.
It’s not binary ofc. You have 6-8 hours of intense experience, which is a lot of time to drift from one mental space to another.
The #1 thing I can suggest is to plan a well-stocked bicycle picnic lunch in a low-traffic park. Bring water. Bring a first-aid kit. Bring a friend or two. Bring a frisbee. Bring lots of different kinds of music to listen to. Plan to spend a lot of time walking or sitting quietly, enjoying nature.
- Comment on Disc drive needed 1 week ago:
It was 2002. Was going on a 1 year assignment to Australia.
Spent almost 24 straight hours feeding CD after CD into my fancy 6x reader, ripping and converting to MP3.
Almost 25 years later(!), same direcory has been added to and copied to a hosted VPS from which I stream.
- Comment on Is there a point to the Straight Of Hormuz? What is the difference between the Iranians having it than the US? What does it mean for the average joe in either country? 1 week ago:
appease their allies in Saudi Arabia.
Former allies who now tolerate the US but very intentionally also make alliances with China and Russia.
Kinda like Canada.
Nice job, Donnie
- Comment on Is there a point to the Straight Of Hormuz? What is the difference between the Iranians having it than the US? What does it mean for the average joe in either country? 1 week ago:
US was there to ensure all ships may pass without being shot at ir charged a toll.
Iran is there to shoot at ships and charge a toll.
Thanks Donnie
- Comment on Don't be influenced 1 week ago:
- Comment on Different strokes 1 week ago:
milkshake all over your cock and it probably wouldn’t be very pleasant
Dude already confessed to Vancing milkshakes.
I think we can assume he thinks a lot of yucky things “feel good”
- Comment on Who is Jordan Peterson? 2 weeks ago:
He is also the world’s Wisest Human and he invented the Time Cube
- Comment on CMV 3 weeks ago:
Pressing down on the little red button and very gently rocking
… can produce gushes
- Comment on Is It OK to Eat the Same Things Every Day? 3 weeks ago:
I have maybe half a dozen favorite meals. They have been probably 80%+ of my meals for 40+ years
I may or may not be ok but having a boring food routine does not particularly impair you
- Comment on What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling? 3 weeks ago:
Beach is dirty Ocean water is dirty Sun causes cancer
Never understood the draw
- Comment on What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling? 3 weeks ago:
“What are you doing honey?”
“Working”
“Looks like you’re playing nethack again”
“I’m waiting for the CICD pipeline”
- Comment on No Vaccines. No Weakness. Only Testosterone 4 weeks ago:
Still more coherent than Hegseth
- Comment on Once lunar colonies are established, would they attempt to break away? What would independent lunar republics look like? 4 weeks ago:
Nope, never read anything by Samuel R. Delany
I did read a lot of L Ron Hubbard, for a moment I thought you were referencing his short story collection
- Comment on Alternative medicine 4 weeks ago:
IRL or on Dreddit, I’d be happy to share some crazy stories
- Comment on Once lunar colonies are established, would they attempt to break away? What would independent lunar republics look like? 4 weeks ago:
Dammit, that’s what I get for going on 25-year old memory of last reading the book. In my defense, one of the main character narrators captains a space ship that goes between Earth and Mars and this provides insight into the two cultures.
Oh and BTW he’s got a wife on both worlds. Spicy
- Comment on The pinnacle of Commonwealth culture. The trifecta of kids entertainment. 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇬🇧 4 weeks ago:
Daddy Pig is a pompous fool who fails at everything and exists only to be a subject of ridicule.
Reminds me very much of the role of Fred Flintstone.
It always struck me as a kid what a dark, sick society demands we laugh along at the man kicked out of his house to sleep outside as he screams and begs.
Fuck the Flintstones. Stupid brainrot and morally reprehensible. Nice theme song & character drawings, tho.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 4 weeks ago:
it’s trial and error all the way down
Oh God LD50 is the craziest thing ever.
Here’s how it works:
Let’s just assume dose-response is linear. So, go find what concentration of chemical X (medicine, food additive, cosmetic, whatever) kills 50% of the bacteria/rodent/etc population. Draw a line from there down to 0% dead at 0 concentration.
Now decide what % of deaths is acceptable, given the benefit of chemical X. Use the line we just drew and that tells you what the regulations should set for max concentration under as-directed usage.
This ignores that - response curves are very often literally curves, sometimes with more than 1 minimum - response curves (and lines!) often depend heavily on all sorts of other chemicals’ presence in the environment, in varying mixtures & amounts
It’s a combinatorial explosion we can never meaningfully test against. We do what we can, with the tools that we have.
