Carl-Richard

I've heard a story of a guy who was extremely sick lying in bed, and he saw the sun rise and set incredibly fast, like his frame rate was completely out of wack. So it seems like poor health can increase frame rate by a lot (frame rate as in how fast the movie plays). I think when in good health (and in a good mood), each moment feels "fuller", but at the same time, time also passes quickly. It's maybe not something that is easily captured by words. This is a very nuanced phenomenological territory. The problem could indeed be trying to divide the experience of time into a chronological notion and not looking at it more as a informational quality (again, "fullness"). Maybe the way to think about it is that the frame rate increases but also each frame expands. The way we define a frame (or an event) is a bit arbitrary, and actually you can keep dividing each separate event into smaller pieces indefinitely. So when you're more healthy, you capture more of each event, each event becomes more sub-events, and even though each event passes by more quickly, you have to move through more sub-events as well. What the sick person lying in bed must be doing is just removing a lot of sub-events or contracting the fullness of each frame. By the way, take what I said with a grain of salt because I'm ironically horribly sleep deprived, I'm not quite able to assess whether it makes sense (I don't even know where my frame rate is at 😂).

@integral You have to distinguish between retrospective time dilation (episodic memory) and moment-to-moment time dilation (perceptual "frame rate"). If you're in a good mood, time generally passes by quickly moment to moment. If you're doing a lot of often new things, often hard things, looking back it feels like time has passed by slowly. On the other hand, if you're just doing the same things every day, every week, every year and you're used to the routine, you'll look back and think "wow, those years just flew by". Weed and psychedelics massively decrease your perceptual frame rate (time feels like it moves slower moment to moment). And if you use weed chronically and you do the same things all the time (as one does), you increase the retrospective time dilation (looking back, time flew by). Psychedelics on the other hand tend to decrease it by a lot (because you tend to experience many new things on it). Generally, the more obstacles you face, the more things make you think, the more new things you do, the more data points you go through with elaborate processing, makes time pass slower (both retrospectively and moment to moment). The more flow, the less obstacles, the more habitual, the more data points you go through with implicit processing, the more time flows uninhibited.

Wadeva m8 my non-nativeness comes out when I'm sleep deprived. Mooot.

He should. It's a partial egoic intepretation / lashing out that sometimes happens when coming into contact with non-duality. It's delusional.

Which is why "sports will never not be unfair" or trying to make the differences as small as possible is a moot point. All that matters in the end is agreement on what differences are OK (which generally leads to a balanced outcome).

That differences are unfair on a moral level does not compute in sports. There is no play without differences. The very reason you want for winning is that you were intrinsically different from the opponents.

What is not a psychic phenomenon? I would classify it as a coincidentally (not intrinsically) extraordinary experience, something that most people have simply happened to not have experienced, not because they are necessarily unable to experience it, but because they simply haven't done the right things (i.e. be in nature and touch a tree in an elevated state). It's kinda sad that it's now a seemingly extraordinary thing to connect with nature in any fashion. I think you can experience a similar effect without sprinting if you do things like (especially in combination) fasting, nofap, technological fasting, meditation, avoiding chemicals / chemical detoxes (fluoride, heavy metals). Sprinting is just one way to perk your system.

Why does it have to be liquid? Eat some fruit.

Vitamin D deficiency literally kills your DNA.

Maybe you're an overmethylator. That could also possibly explain your sensitivity to weed. My problems above seemed to vanish by taking the multivitamin on an empty stomach before making my breakfast, and then taking the rest of the vitamins and minerals after eating the breakfast. I've also gotten my zinc bisglycinate now, but I haven't thought much about the difference it makes. I'm curious, what happens when you eat certain foods that naturally contain maybe 10x the amounts of the chemicals that you are reacting so strongly to? Here is a list compiled by ChatGPT-o3 (which, in my epistemic OCD, I used to show what is possible, not what is fact ):

Again, simply immediacy and convenience. If you like the picture and you want it and it's more convenient to pay 2 dollars than going through the effort of prompting an AI and printing out the picture, you'll buy it. Immediacy and convenience is actually arguably one of the main factors of commerce. If you wanted, you could make your own car, your own computer, grow your own vegetables, produce your own eggs, build your own house, etc., but that's usually not convenient when you can outsource that work to others with more resources and you just give them money instead. If you reframe maybe most of your expenditures as convenience-maxing (or time-saving) and also investment opportunities, you'll become much more rational about how you spend your money. With money, people tend to operate on traditional principles and heuristics like "save your money" and being frugal when the way they spend their time otherwise is directly antithetical to the goal of money. For example, many people choose walking for 30 minutes to avoid spending a few bucks on gas or renting an electric scooter. Those 30 minutes can be spent investing your time in something valueable with compounding effects or actually working. Traditional principles and heuristics are robust, but not very comprehensive or flexible. I've gained a lot by questioning how I'm used to spending my money or societal expectations around spending money. I spent 2k$ out of my own pocket on Meta ad campaigns recruiting people to my master's thesis project. "What?" you may ask, but I gained a spot on regional-national radio speaking about my project, I gained stellar data and immense sample sizes that are virtually unheard of in that setting (good for future career opportunitues and getting the work published), and I got my advisor interested in continuing working with me after the project. So that's definitely worth trying out. That was maybe a bit of a tangent, but nevertheless, never underestimate the power of going against the grain and questioning socially reinforced notions, be it selling people soda at the beach or AI images on the street (although honestly, there are probably better ways to spend your time unless you thoroughly enjoy it).

Solipsistic human centipede: Actualized.org.

It assumes an outdated view of cognition ("the symbol-processing perspective"), of cognition being like data stored on a computer which can be transmitted and uploaded in different formats. A more updated view is embodied cognition, of cognition being something that is embedded in the very substrates that seem to correlate with it. In other words, to see and think like a human (and a particular human — yourself), you must be embodied in that particular human form. But then you also have phenomena like astral projection and remote viewing and other non-physical forms of perception and cognition that go outside of merely human kinds of cognition. Even if your ego can't be uploaded mechanistically into a computer, you could step out of your ego and perceive the world outside of those constraints. Things like astral travel and remote viewing requires stilling of the mind and thus stilling of the ego to be performed in a controlled manner. But to counter all that again, there is nothing impossible in principle about reality creating a scenario where mind-uploading seems to be happening. We just don't have good evidence of it happening from our local human perspective. Given an infinite universe with infinite potential and infinite forms, nothing is really impossible. But you probably don't care about that and are more interested in upcoming technological inventions in the next 50 years, and then I say probably not.

Semantic confusion: thinking you've invented a new concept when you're just pointing out a particular example of it and giving it a new word.

Some people, particularly older people, are unaware of picture-generating AI. People also sell soda and fruit at the beach for profit. People pay for convenience and immediacy. Although in this case, many people would probably just pay because of pity (or to escape the situation if you're really predatory).

Infinity in all dimensions, Alien intelligence, hyper-dimensional DMT beings, yet also a flat hallucination localized to my physiological point of view. Truly marvelous mental gymnastics. You're assuming such depth of ontology, of things that are implicit and hidden, multiplistic and rich, yet you also collapse it all down to the flattest ontology of them all; only what is most explicit and obvious, limited and constrained. Why? We can have an infinity of universes with an infinite variety of qualities and things, yet only one person on Earth who experiences, only one perspective that exists. Good one. As if multiplying a perspective is not the most obvious thing you can do as a Creator. Just because your eyes are limited to 3D doesn't mean God is. God runs his simulation in 4D, 5D, 6D, playing Chess inside a microbe on your nutsack. Open your god damn mind, or just get it out of your ass.

(For context, this is arguably the best PKer in the game dying in a tournament because he couldn't handle the extremely laggy servers). 21:07 It's interesting how essentially the top PKer in the world is not the best because he can quickly adapt to new situations and for example change his PKing style to suit the lag (which he didn't but which you definitely could), but because he is so incredibly intuitively dialed in to the game when it works as it should. That's the difference between IQ and skill. IQ doesn't necessarily predict how well you do at a given activity or how deeply you master it, but it does predict how quickly you learn it. Oda is not known for his IQ but he is known for his immense skill, and this clip is a perfect illustration of that. It's also an illustration of how when you break flow and intuition, you break the highest expression of skill.

Just one problem: it will argue both for and against solipsism 🫢 Considering even the best LLMs routinely make mistakes, would you want misinformation to be spread in your name?

Working out implies not injuring yourself.

Actually, we have genes for that: it's called cancer. It's just not sustainable, on a finite organism with finite resources, on a finite planet with finite resources. Enviromentalism is baked into our genes also.

The God Gene, the one Richard Dawkins didn't write about when he was busy writing The God Delusion. Interesting how denying God also means you write books like The Selfish Gene? 🤔

I was going to mention "antagonistic pleiotropy", which is probably my favorite concept in biology: traits conferring fitness early in life decreasing fitness later in life. For example, testosterone being associated with performance and fertility while also reducing longevity. It also destroys people trying to argue for diets based on what our ancestors ate (because again, evolution doesn't care about longevity). I might have to burn through some gorilla karma before I get there myself. Maybe when I turn 30 or something.

If it's the case that working out less is more conducive to longevity but it leads to things like lesser bone density, lesser muscle mass, lesser VO2 max, lesser testosterone levels, lesser endogenous endorphins levels, etc., then you are trading health and wellness for longevity. Think about this: we are not wired for longevity. We are wired for sex and reproduction. What makes us feel good today, what makes us more healthy today, does not necessarily map on perfectly to living until you are 120. The super-athlete who works out 12 hours a day and focuses all of their life around that does not actually run themselves into the ground with too little restitution and too much fatigue. They have adapted to that life at that moment, they are functioning at the highest levels and they feel on top of the world. But the brightest stars burn the quickest as they say. They might develop health conditions down the line despite being the healthiest at their peak (if we define health as maximizing functioning in any given metric), not just in spite of their previous health but in fact because of it.

It was like I was experiencing grounding through my hand. My adrenaline and heart beats and exhausted energy all got sucked into the tree like it was channeling it into another dimension or into the ground and its roots. We should spend more time with trees.

I would say some form of resistance training 2-4 times a week and some high-intensity cardio training 1-2 times a week, but be mindful whether you're getting enough rest at higher frequencies. I've been doing resistance training 3.5x a week (every other day) and sprints (lately also rotated with 4x4 intervals) 1.75x a week (every 4th day) for 1.5 years now. I've realized I should probably cut down on some of the sprints/4x4 because I sometimes don't feel fully rested even after sleeping well. I will maybe try rotating between sprints/4x4 every 4 days and every 6 days ([1.75+1.17]/2 = 1.46x a week).