CosmicExplorer

All mental disorders exist on a continuum (shades of gray), and the exact line dividing "normal" from "disordered" is fundamentally a human made construct. In a sense, everybody experiences micro manic and micro depressive episodes because everybody's mood is variable.

If I would have to bet my money on it, I would bet that Connor, during those last 6 years, was more happy than the average person. I don't think it was a suicide. I think it's likely that his death was actually caused by not enough neuroticism rather than too much.

His last(?) interview from 3 weeks ago. Seems completely normal here.

I wouldn't be surprised if he really was taking meth, cocaine, MDMA, and fentanyl as he mentions here, in 4:04 he's clearly on MDMA his pupils are huge

I'm curious what toxicology tests will show

The market doesn't necessarily have to crash, it can also just go kind of sideways for a decade or with mediocre 3% returns a year. The expected return for the next decade is very low right now.

Don't underestimate extremely elevated mood states. Most people have never experienced them so they can't even imagine how powerful that is. Mood is like a lens that colors absolutely everything you're experiencing. Most humans, for most of the time, are in a very narrow "normal" mood state, yet that "normal" mood is arbitrary, it just so happens that it's most conducive to survival, so evolution shaped most humans that way. On the extremes, mood can get so insane that it's impossible to explain to somebody who hasn't experienced it. Mania can get so strong that you feel literally invincible, your mind works faster than on meth, a million ideas a minute, unlimited energy levels and no need for sleep, even physical pain can not bother you. On the opposite spectrum, depression/bad mood can get so strong that orgasm is experienced as painful/bad valence, you're constantly in insane emotional pain for no reason and get angry when you wake up in the morning because you wish to die. Mood colors everything, and you're always in a mood.

Connor took looksmaxing seriously

It's insane how many horrible things happen when people, especially low consciousness/low development, are intoxicated with alcohol. One of the most irrational things in society I can think of is that alcohol is legal, and all the other drugs that cause less harm are not. I'm not necessarily for or against the legalisation of hard drugs, but for that to make at least some sense. Either we delegalize alcohol, or legalise drugs that are beyond a reasonable doubt, not more harmful to society than alcohol, which are almost all drugs. I'm a taxi driver, and alcohol is the cause of 90%+ of the biggest problems and risks in my job. I would rather have clients who are zombies on fentanyl, or even people on meth (but meth only, not on a combination of drugs, as it's almost always the case), than have to deal with people on alcohol. It's really hard to think about a worse drug from a harm to society perspective.

12 angry man, Intouchables, Taxi Driver, The Godfather (I don't hate it, but it was really underwhelming)

36% tax for unrealised gains is crazy, many people are investing in the stock market to fund their retirement/retire earlier, this tax will make it no longer worth it. Those huge taxes would make sense If they would give people UBI, but that's likely not happening any time soon.

Same. Those games are really easy for me. It really shows how bad AI's true understanding of things is (if there's any). For anybody interested in trying those games https://arcprize.org/tasks/ls20

https://arcprize.org/leaderboard Humans are at 100% in ARC-AGI-3 AI on ARC-AGI-2 has not yet reached human levels but it's close. However, there's a very strong suspicion that models benchmaxxed (they created similar puzzles/tasks and trained AI on it, for it to then do better at private evaluation ARC-AGI tests) their way to the scores on ARC-AGI-1 and ARC-AGI-2. When a new benchmark like that drops, it's the best moment to see how far away we are in terms of the general intelligence that humans have. If AGI would be achieved, there would be no possibility of a new benchmark on which a gap between average humans and AI is big.

The amount of weight he lost in 40 days, is something you would expect from fasting for 40 days.

The biggest problem is reliability of AI. Imagine that you have 1000 truck drivers that are willing to work for cheap, and they on average, have the best, superhuman reaction times, are the best drivers. But like once every 5000 miles they hallucinate objects, cars, trees... that aren't there, or become completly non-responsive for like 8 seconds. They would be economically useless, they can't do the job, they're unreliable and dangerous. But look at those benchmarks! On average they have insane statistics! AI's "floor" is way lower than that of humans.

Opioids are the best-known substances for escaping suffering and pain (bad valence). Known since Mesopotamia, they are effective, yet modern science still does not know how to prevent the body's tolerance to them (negative feedback loops). That is why they often fail in the long term and should be avoided. They prove the principle that while profound relief from suffering is possible, it cannot be sustained with current technology.

I was once on very high dose of pure molly (crystal) + moderately drunk and yet still unable to capitalise on a girl grinding on my dick in a club, it obviously makes you more extraverted but it's not some magic pill, it can still not be enough. High dose of benzos or even alcohol is probably better if you need lowering inhibitions, getting more extraverted

ARC-AGI-3 benchmark is made to test AI in something like that, and currently it's doing horrible in it compared to humans.

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Well, that's exacly what those studies are showing. Brain on psychedelics vs anesthetised brain is like the polar opposite. I'm talking about brain-death. Perhaps the body have more metabolism on psychedelics, I don't know about that.

@Vynce I used the word sleep colloquially, the brain is less active on psychedelics than in sleep. Furthermore, metabolically, the brain under anesthesia is further away from a state in which the dead brain is than in a normal sober waking state, and the brain in a normal sober waking state is further away from the dead brain than the brain on psychedelics. The point is that psychedelics are the best death simulator we have. https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1119598109 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15179026/ (in rats) "Human EEG studies with serotonergic psychedelics consistently report a broadband spectral power decrease (delta to gamma) most pronounced within the alpha band (8–12 Hz) and a decrease in functional connectivity and integrity of networks [21,22,23,24,25,26]. On the other hand, increases in higher frequencies (gamma oscillations, 30 Hz and above) have been also described [27,28,29]; however, the effects are hard to interpret due to typical contamination related to increased tension of the facial muscles. MEG, in contrast to EEG, is devoid of this contamination [30], and on the contrary shows a decrease in oscillations within the gamma range [31]." https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1518377113 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15179026/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-51974-4 Anesthesia: https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(24)00446-X?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS089662732400446X%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Psychedelics only reduce brain activity/metabolism. The remaining activity is more connected, yes. But your brain is essentially going to sleep while you're on them.

If you hit Tonny Robbins in the head with an axe and after that he loses all his energy, does that mean his energy was 100% environmental thing? In that discussion I assume at least somewhat normal life, not doing extreme and rare, harmful stuff, like for example having a diet of literally only potato chips or only sugar or being severe alcoholic or lying in bed 24/7 I'm interested in how much is possible to move a needle when you already have at least somewhat normal life, like 95+% of people have.