Carl-Richard

There are post-rational Christians. But of course it sort of deconstructs the concept. But still, they call themselves Christian.

IQ is like driving a fast car. It doesn't tell you as much about where you will drive, just that you'll drive there very fast (also depending on the road of course). There are many roads, and you can't drive them all. You are on a very particular road if you ended up here. And to think you needed a high IQ to end up here is ridiculous. There are many slow drivers around these parts 😂 (I heard they measured some monk's IQ to be like 70? 😉). Driving also depends on things like the skill of the driver (which is not the same as IQ), the sense of direction, passion and grit, obsession, potential roadblocks, good samaritans, the weather, the tires, the right guidance, the right maps. As Chris Langan once said, "IQ is not everything".

I think I just cracked the code for my particular regimen. I tend to eat a kiwi with my eggs and bread for breakfast, but I tend to eat it after the eggs and bread as a kind of dessert. Then I realized what if I pair the multivitamin that I usually take before my breakfast with the kiwi (because I have noticed some GI discomfort from taking it on empty stomach)? It should be smart because a kiwi is mostly water and fiber and should not interfere too much with the mostly water soluble multivitamin (all of it is water soluble except vitamin E I think). Also, when you eat a kiwi before a meal, you'll have the special digestive enzyme in the kiwi ready to go (possibly helping to digest the multivitamin as well) and also the fiber ready to coat the digestive tract so that it limits the glucose spike from the breakfast. And the various phytochemicals and vitamins in the kiwi could also work synergistically with the uptake and action of the multivitamin. Nevertheless, I've never felt better in terms of GI comfort and mental effects from my morning meal than this. Imagine all the other things you could simply reverse the order of or alter some of the process aspect and completely fix a problem or magnify some effect.

So I started taking a multivitamin supplement because I was already taking so many other supplements so I thought "why not?" However, I've noticed when taking a B-complex before of it causing a burning sensation in my chest and excess energy, which is why I stopped taking it back then. Now I'm getting similar symptoms, but I'm wondering if it's due to the B vitamins or something else? Here is the multivitamin I'm taking (it does not include vitamin A, D and K): https://www.apotek1.no/produkter/nycoplus-multi-uten-a-d-k-tab-999942p (Translated and NRV/RDI provided by ChatGPT): Nutrient Amt/tab % EU NRV ------------------------------------------------------------ Vitamin E 12 mg 100 Thiamine (Vitamin B1) 1.4 mg 127 Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) 1.7 mg 121 Niacin 19 mg NE 119 Vitamin B6 1.6 mg 114 Folic acid (Folate) 400 µg 200 Vitamin B12 2 µg 80 Pantothenic acid 5 mg 83 Vitamin C 75 mg 94 Biotin 30 µg 60 Iron 15 mg 107 Zinc 5 mg 50 Iodine 150 µg 100 Copper 0.9 mg 90 Manganese 2.3 mg 115 Chromium 35 µg 88 Selenium 60 µg 109 Molybdenum 45 µg 90 Magnesium 100 mg 27 ------------------------------------------------------------ I'm also in addition taking 300 mg magnesium, 30 ug vitamin D3, some negligible amount of fish oil with lower amounts of vitamin A, D, E (125 ug, 8 ug, 5 mg), 13 mg zinc, 75 ug vitamin K1, 500 mg calcium, 75 ug vitamin K2. The symptoms only started after taking the multivitamin. I'm also an active male who weighs 80kg and is 179 cm.

Longevity is roughly equal to health stretched over time.

I have a strong weird radar and I have detected all this (except the mormon connection which is interesting). And this is when I will drop my "virtually everybody is weird, society is weird, humans are weird". The person who runs this forum, is weird. The mods on the forum are weird. The users on the forum are weird — except the lovely ones, they are lovely and weird.

I was like "wut why are you talking about gut problems?", but sure. "Stress hormones" is one thing though; actually growing your body in response to stress is also a thing. There is a state I get into if I do a really good sprint (during it) that can only be described as ecstatic rage, where I literally feel like nitroglycerin is flooding through my veins. I wouldn't chalk that down to something like lactate for example, where you hit a ceiling of fatigue and you can't go anymore. It's more like the state of having absolute crushed some ceiling of performance and your body is trembling and surging with high-octane juices. Because to be clear, I don't do the "sprint til failure" method to maximize lactate. I do "sprint as fast as you freaking can", maximizing speed and performance during the exercise. This I believe is the main driver of the cognitive enhancement, or which pulls it to the next level. It's when you absolutely disintegrate your ceiling of performance. And if it's not clear, I haven't checked, but my heart is definitely max BPM after the sprint. And (I believe) my breathing is much heavier than if I do a 4x4 (unless the concominant feeling of fatigue makes it feel that way). Your body is truly pushed to the limit, and that has to do something to your brain, be it biochemically (acutely) or structurally (in the long run). And this state of rapture is also something I believe you will only achieve with running sprints, because you need that biomechanical edge to push you into that perfect flow state / state of rapture.

He'll the very least be the Newton to some Einstein of aging. And stopping aging is not impossible in principle. I don't know where you got this from. It's partially a scientific challenge and partially an engineering challenge, and Bryan is one such engineer, maybe an early one, or maybe not (big daddy AI is presumably around the corner). It's nothing if you have personal assistants and don't doomscroll your life away. How long is your daily health protocol on average (including time spent on food, cleaning, errands)? He supplements everything that he gets from plants as well. Many of his pills are already "redundant". Enlighten me (kek). One time in life, I only smoked weed and played videogames and thought that was the thing to do. I would personally love to sit in a hyperbaric chamber and chug pure oxygen while working. But that's just me 😂

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" - https://futurism.com/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosis On a related note, I have noticed a pattern of something I call "manufactured plausibility". It's when ChatGPT presents something in a format that sounds plausible but which doesn't match the actual patterns or facts. For example, ChatGPT very often tends to present things in a dialectical "pros and cons" kind of format. And for every "pro", it will find a "con", and it will tend to cite a respective source. But in doing so, it falls into the trap of confirmation bias. Once it has a found a source that fits to the "pro", for the "con", it will be more likely to pick a source that is not as reliable, or it will misrepresent the source, or just make an irrelevant point, because it needs to follow the format. It doesn't find the facts then fit them to the format, but it finds the format and then fit them to "facts". And this is just one particular example, but it in fact does this all the time. It's actually all it ever does, but it gets away with it most of the time, because most of the time, the format follows the facts. But the times they don't, e.g. when there isn't a good example of a "con" to a "pro", it will actively mislead you. I noticed this while constructing a prompt for typing one's MBTI type (but also from using it in general where I have some knowledge on the topic). You have to actively prompt it to avoid confirmation bias, and be clever in doing so, or else it will do it by default. And even then, it will engage in it. But that's partially a product of simply weaving a narrative or building a case (which is how LLMs "think"): you have to do exploratory sampling of information, write out your thoughts, follow certain leads and discard others. Maybe there are ways to minimize it by creating an AI that is not a normal LLM but is somehow is able to deal with abstract information and also produce language. Feel free to share if you know anything on that. This one is also curious:

Besides, your own "protocol" probably already rivals 5 hours if you work out regularly (and not in a home gym, so you have to travel), take saunas, meditate and don't have people to cook, clean and do errands for you.

He is on a mission to actually stop aging. That's incredibly noble and exciting. He doesn't care about merely feeling good. He wants to elevate humanity to the next level. It's a bit like Leo having truth as his number one value. The level of meaning he experiences probably outpaces any of the things he has to do 10-fold. And it's only a 5 hour protocol. So many people spend 5 hours pissing away their life on their phone doing nothing and destroying their brains. Also, his protocol is probably unmatched in terms of healthspan. The only knock you would have against it is that it's 5 hours long. The fact that he is vegan doesn't change anything, he would still take 100 pills. "Just get sunlight" is like one pill. https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/vitamin-d-myths-debunked When you're at his level of wealth and power, maximizing your healthspan and longevity this way is arguably the smartest thing you can do. You can easily adapt to a 5 hour protocol. People are completely blind to how complex and specific their habitual life already is. If you were to make Bryan adopt your "simple habits" at this point in time, it would be incredibly "hard" for him. It's changing a habit that is the hard part. Keeping it is easy.

Hmm. I only know he took steroids at one point to offset the effects of calorie restriction, but now he has upped his calories and I think he also went off the steroids(?)

You can have lofty philosophical ideas. Just use them for something.

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His commentary during it was "the more pain, the better" (paraphrasing). 7:14

Bryan Johnson shoots shockwaves into his joints with a special-made device in order to improve his joints. Is that high impact? VO2 max is definitely good for cognitive functioning. I just did 4x4 running. But there seems to be a trade-off between VO2 max and lactate. Lactate just makes my brain go insaneo mode. I've actually noticed a distinct difference in the stink from my headset after a sprint vs a 4x4 run. Sprint produces a much more sour and unpleasant smell which I have to be more rigorous about wiping off, hence lactic acid.

Pushing to the limit is the greatest feeling in the world. For example assault bike. (Volume warning): Or normal bike, but then you run into the issue of lesser upper body recruitment. I haven't tried assault bike yet, but my hunch is that sprinting is still better for maximizing energy output per unit of time again because of biomechanics. If your arms and legs are built to move a certain way, they will move better that way than if you move in some other way => better movement, more movement, more energy expenditure. Assault bike could lessen impact on joints, but I don't think impact is detrimental for expending energy (or maybe I need to think more about that).

If you're not going to spend that time after 3 PM reading for your degree: build something, do something that has a "narrative" or which grows, not something which cycles through the same low attention span things primarily driven by impulse. For example, I had a very awesome idea for a business for passive income (true in theory but probably not in practice because I can't stop tweaking things) that I will start setting up next weekend. And when I have time, I will play some guitar. Me personally, I work with my thesis all the time (except one day a week). And soon I will work a job next to that when I'm close to finished. If you get to a place where you feel there is not enough time in the day, that's probably a good measure (but then learn to schedule time off so you don't die of over-exhaustion or burnout).

You should be nice so that the other person is treated nice, not so that you are treated nice. Women like nice men, just not men who use being nice in an act of desperation. If you depend too much on your surroundings and you try to inhabit the role of a man, you won't be fun to hang around, especially for women. How to get women: have a backbone and be nice.

If you want to take a reductionistic evolutionary lens, you were given the ability to think abstractly ("have intrusive thoughts") in order to plan, predict and simulate movements, actions and events, such that you can create better movements, actions and events. It's not like thinking is this completely separate and isolated thing that occurs on its own without any ground. It spawned and branched out of an underlying foundation, of organisms moving out and about in their environment. Also, in your brain, your abstract thinking areas (the prefrontal areas) literally grows out of the motor areas (the precentral gyrus). So to "solve" the problem of abstract thinking is just to use them as intended — to guide and inform your actions. And that requires you to ACT (both as in "act" but also as in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy). If you were a tribesman living in the wild and you woke up and started your day, your thoughts would be "how can I chop this tree?" or "what footprints are these and which animal should I be expecting?". The thoughts are grounded in action, and necessarily so, because they are forced to survive. But when your survival is taken care of, you have to rediscover this purpose of thought in order to ground it.

When you got people like Mike Israetel who believe ChatGPT is conscious and cries while talking to it while claiming to have a 160 IQ, it doesn't surprise me.

Nothing is more boring than when relative discussions get derailed into the absolute. We were just giving examples of meaning, but now you want me to ground my a priori assumptions? Nowhere did I say what I'm saying is absolute.

@Nilsi I didn't come here to give an ontological guarantee, only to describe meaning. So when you started talking about discipling yourself, I thought we were talking from within the framework, from within the assumptions, not critiquing all frameworks or assumptions. But sure, if you want to call all frameworks or assumptions "discipline", you can do that.

Post-modernism is good for invoking pluralism and awareness of assumptions, not for disproving any particular perspective. So it's tangential to the discussion. It forces you to be equally critical of frameworks that invoke concepts like "natural" and those who don't. You haven't disproven that certain structures have a certain naturalness to them, only pointed at the assumptions underlying them. But postmodernism also has a chicken and the egg problem. Does not critiquing meaning rely on meaning?