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Recently started experimenting with essential oils as tools for mood and consciousness regulation. I’ve used lavender, lemongrass and rosemary before. Currently testing out cinnamon leaf, cardamom and patchouli. Really enjoying this one. What are some of your favourites and why?

Vox populi, vox Dei. No king, politician or oligarch can withstand the masses when they are hungry for justice.

@gengar Have you ever had a psychedelic breakthrough? I am talking beyond the 2-3g mushrooms/ 150-250 ug LSD doses. There are seriously twisted things that you can experience in those spaces, like, for example, being shredded and morphed inside out. If you did, you would have a little more understanding for what Leo went through. That said, I myself wonder what makes the manifestation of a psychedelic state into baseline so hard, even with Leo's level of Awakenings. My current understanding is that each level of Consciousness has a certain coherence to it, accessible only from that particular state of Mind. If you read Talbot's "Holographic Universe", then you may be familiar with the idea a spiritual events can take different forms depending on the consciousness of the observer (some just get headaches/ others straight up see that shit). The "if Jesus/ aliens appeared, you wouldn't even know it" type thing. The dynamics between states, i.e the relative ontology, is highly non-trivial.

One here lol. Leo, you should really think about writing up your thoughts on rationality and post them on arxiv. The reason for example Wolfram hasn’t made a dent is because he doesn’t publish so he is invisible in the eyes of academia. Don’t make his mistake.

You either are or you not. If you were ambitious, you would know it. I am one of those hyper-ambitious people and every time someone asks me why I work 11h, 7 days a week I ask them “ What else is there to fucking do?”. I’m already a millionaire, and there’s no stopping after I make a billion. I could a give a fuck about the cars and mansions. There are things that need to be done and there’s no else that can do it. That’s my reason. I will die knowing I have squeezed every last drop of life energy out of myself. For the evolution of Consciousness.

Absolutely agree with the importance of exercise. Just want to mention that depending on what type of physical activity you do, daily exercise may not be recommended. When I used to run a lot and do calisthenics, I indeed trained 6-7 days a week. However, for powerlifting you need to take breaks, otherwise you can injure yourself. I did 3x4 365lbs bench yesterday and am not hitting it again until 2-3 days later.

Fight.

You failed at your first attempt and now want to cut corners. That’s what separates the grifters and scammers from those who bring actual value. Choose which one you are and stick with it, accepting the consequences.

Amen

@Leo Gura You should really consider writing up your ideas about deconstructing rationality as a paper and upload it to arxiv. I can help you with that. This will allow for you to receive the proper credit through citations.

The fact that you don’t even see the irony in your response is why it is clear to everyone that you have been drinking too much of your own Kool-Aid.

@The Crocodile The biggest indicator of “snowflake” behavior is when one starts to spew insults. Your mind is literally incapable of holding a civil conversation because of how deep you are in your own bullshit. If you actually believe you have provoked an emotion in me, you are living in a self-aggrandised righteous bubble and need to go touch grass. I have had attempts on my life and my family. You think I lose sleep over what some internet troll has to say? We live in different worlds buddy.

Current AI models shouldn’t be thought of as monolithic. A better perspective is that of “simulacra” - they learn distinct distributions of various personalities and types - from psychopaths to sages. Everything from Beige to Tier 2 can be found in the neuromanifold/parametric space. It’s about how you prompt it - in my experience using “epistemic openness”, “brutal honesty”, “no sycophantic behaviour “ improves its responses significantly.

I also spend a great deal of time in solitude, immersing myself in mathematics or spirituality. I enjoy socialising, but rather do it once in a while. Can’t reach the depths with anyone but yourself.

@The Crocodile You are someone who finds pleasure in shitting in the river. Can’t hold a civil conversation, wants to reorganise the world smh.

Even though it may sound good in theory, in practice foreign meddling/influence only radicalises and deepens the problems. It alienates the subject country/people of the choice to make their own decisions and suffer the consequences. Despite what it may seem like, we humans have went through worse. Put things in context.

You have it backwards. Complexities in the human condition are the reason for a lot of countries and not the other way around.

Bars

I wonder if it is the optimal family structure.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet for code, o3-mini and QwQ 32B for reasoning.

It’s not. It’s a really important piece of this work.

The embodiment of irony. For my 7 years on this forum, he’s dropped “retard” and “imbecile” the most.

The world is not yet at that stage of development. The Balkans alone exceed your suggested number of countries and I contest no time soon will the ethnic rivalry be reconciled.

I have definitely experienced what you mean, having had both psychedelic and meditative breakthroughs. The former have a much more sobering, almost brutal realisation to them. At least for me, they have been part of shedding hippie fantasies. “Violence” itself was recontextualized for me as a necessary tool of survival.

Playing this as a break after 10 hours of actual math proofs lol