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Feeding the ghost in the machine tonight A billion pixels, but none of them are bright Waxen faces staring from a hollow frame A million voices, but they all sound the same We’re drowning in the silver, we’re starving for the gold In a marketplace of stories that never have been told. And I find it kinda strange, I find it kinda grey Watching all the beauty slowly melt away It’s a kingdom made of slop, a digital debris A world of hollow echoes where I used to be me No heart in the rhythm, no soul in the skin Just a shallow ocean where the noise wins. Brushes of code painting ghosts of the past Nothing is sacred, and nothing will last No blood in the ink, no sweat on the brow We’re trading the fire for the "here and now" A sea of white noise, a plastic-wrapped dream The world is a glitch in a soulless stream.

Behold, The Slop EP The Slop Song - 2.mp3

This resonated so much with an experience I had a couple of years ago it's hard to communicate how intense and nightmare-ish mushrooms can be, specially at high doses, you've done a good work describing the thing! even though it is different for all What I'm gonna say, comes from having tried many different things, in order to heal this trauma, because it is a trauma. There's something that -the body- learns after this experience, which the human mind cannot just simply override by shifting the focus. First, lower the dose! start with 0.2 grams, I know it sounds like microdosing, but it is not. After having an intense experience, the microdose hits different, it can feel like an entire gram. and the second advice, which might be controversial, take them in combination with a dose of mdma (depending on your weight, it could be between 80mg to 120mg). this substance slightly deactivates the fear response in your body, and if you take mushrooms while in that state, you will get to feel the mushroom while having a small chemical "advantage", which lets you, with your consciousness, rewire your brain. if you are interested, you can also check the following maps studies: https://maps.org/mdma/ptsd/phase3/

hahahahahahahaha 👽 🚀🛸 nice are you an alien using a computer? or are you an alien, with a human vessel? what part of the podcast do you think was the most interesting?

Hey people (and aliens if u are reading)!! I hope you are doing fine I found this video interesting, because is not like a usual podcast, Dr. K pushes back a lot on the fundamentals of psychology and the structure of the human mind. around and hour and 11 minutes in, Dr K talks a little bit about the benefits of ego-death, which I think is cool! "if you look at your experience of existence, there is more to you than thoughts, emotions and ego" "there are studies that show that you can predict the therapeutic benefit of a psychedelic trip, based on an ego-death experience" "it has to do with the deactivation of the default mode network"

Yeah me neither, in any case, getting the foundations right is important. Good luck with your leetcode! On the sidenote, I'm building an iOS app for people who wanna practice for programming interviews, particularly for iOS roles (yes, kind of recursive) Apple is reviewing my app and soon I'll be able to publish it to the store, if it is of your interest, I'll let you know when its online!

Yes, but as you said, eventually there will be need for new people. Seniors will grow old, and new talent will be AI-assisted native, imo..

Yup! the human brain is very lazy Writing code by hand, but most importantly thinking about the solution on your own, and actually reviewing the code, is crucial for truly getting the most out of using AI. I also ask the bot about different possible implementations. usually the first one is shit.

Chiill

It's not a bug, it's a feature! 👾

Is this because of the limited nature of forms? Any form, and in particular what we think of living beings, must have some bias baked in within them, for survival at least.

might worth the watch!

Definitely!! Nowadays I push myself to write some code every now and then, but mainly, I've been achieveing a lot more work done using multiple agents. I initiallly hesitated to pay $20/month for a claude account, but now I have many accounts due to high use. Somedays I'm talking to 3 agents at a time, and it feels like my job as a programmer changed to ai-agents-evil-lord and I use the word evil-lord, because it feels like that! sometimes being a little evil to the bots make them understand the work. Overall, it has been an intense ride, and for my case, it led me to create new projects outside my main job, which, actually is even more work than before, but I enjoy the things I build, and also understand them enough to be able to go and fix things when needed, I don't relly 100% on AI, but it made at least 100% improvement on my output.

Leo, amazing video. Super clear and well articulated. Keep it up! There is something deeply existential about this matters, I feel this are not just human notions. Does this ring any bell? I'm just trying to understand what this intuition is trying to tell me. Do you think that higher order living beings, whose baseline Cosnciousness is an extreme expanded version of a normal human, have any issue understanding epistemology, or ontology, or understanding how it would impact them in their cosmic life? It took me by surprise, the message at the end. True Religion. The word religion bugs me.

this is precisely the reason why there is an absolute infinity, and within this infinity, all the distinct infinities. what makes them distinct is the imagining of a limit between them this imagining is absolute infinity's imagining We as humans can think of multiple infinities, think of the different infinites of numbers, nested within eachother What if God can do the same, but on the cosmic scale?

directly

What could possibly limit God from imagining infinite instances of itself, all distinct and disjoint from each other, total and absolute onto themselves? There cannot be such a limit for God, therefore, it is possible. And if you think deeper, it is the case.

it is uploaded, but I think they might have hidden it for now

Hey there! quick tip from a tech who's fixed similar slowdowns many times before: slap Cloudflare in front of the site. the free plan usually does the trick for forums, blogs, landings or sites like this. why it helps: -Caches images/CSS/JS. kills a ton of server load -Blocks bad bots & scrapers automatically (huge for Invision forums) -Adds speed tweaks with basically zero effort setup: -Free account at cloudflare.com -Add domain -Change nameservers (or just proxy the A record) -Orange cloud ON This won't fix deep database issues, but for bots or random slowness, it's often a game changer. adding Cloudflare won't break, delete, or mess up your existing forum setup, plugins, database, posts, user accounts, etc, it is just a network layer. Worst case? Rare temporary glitches like redirect issues. You can always pause Cloudflare in seconds to revert instantly, no permanent changes. Cheers!

this does not mean you must pursue an entire college degree, nowadays most people in serious tech roles are dropouts....

Some valid points mixed with wrong conclusions. Partly true for generic wrappers. But my point wasn't "build a ChatGPT wrapper." It was: learn real software engineering and sell custom solutions to real businesses. That's not a bubble, that's technical consulting, a business model that predates the internet. Irrelevant. OpenAI spends billions on research and compute. You're not competing with OpenAI, you're using their tools to solve concrete business problems. That's like saying "don't open a restaurant because the company that makes a very specific and new type of industrial ovens isn't profitable." If you pay attention, the Ad's business model is coming to chatgpt soon, so, don't just see things as they are now, think longterm. To found an AI research startup, sure. To sell custom software to a local business still managing inventory in Excel? No. The gap between what most businesses need and what they currently have is massive. You don't need to be elite, you need to be competent and understand the client's problem. Exactly, and that's my point. Most are chasing hype without technical foundations. My advice was the opposite: study computer science properly, understand the deep concepts, then apply them. AI accelerates execution, but without fundamentals you're just another person selling smoke. Hope this helps!!! Also, VALUABLE THINGS REQUIRE DEVELOPMENT OVER TIME!!!!!!!

It is the best time to study computer science, and get very rich selling custom software! Now with AI you can study, learn and understand deep software development concepts, while testing the knowledge and creating your own things. Think about any business, of any kind, most of them are using software already, you could sell custom-tailored solutions, which would actually make their business grow. I think that one way of becoming very wealthy is to help other people get very wealthy too, so in this manner, the question changes and becomes: How can I help somebody with their business in such a way that they get more money and also feel like they should continue to collaborate with me? Instead of just "how to get money online"

To lower cortisol levels!

😳 Thanks!

Psychedelics are not just drugs. Psychedelics are Consciousness-expanding tools. See, it is weird what you said, because on one hand you assume this are just drugs, and on the other hand you take this as a serious possibility ""get concepts back in experiential form"", which makes no sense.