Carl-Richard

I'm not a Stockholm Swede but a Vestland Norwegian, so close enough (not really). I remember one time I was technically in benzodiazepine withdrawal (but only mildly), I was drinking with some of my friends and I started thinking about how I had become tolerant to the GABAergic effects of the alcohol and that I would start to feel more of the NMDA antagonist effects than usual. And at one point I tried to do some pushups in the bathroom and it felt a little more weird than normal alcohol. I have never tried dissociatives outside N2O, but I could see how that would be what a threshold amount of ketamine would feel like.

That's what materialists call "quantum woo-woo". I can see Professor Dave sniveling something fallacious and dogmatic like "anybody with the most basic understanding of QM knows that non-locality only applies to single particles, not macroscopic objects 🤓🙂‍↔️".

Got an example?

He gets a photograph and is supposed to guess where in the world the photograph was taken. He got a photograph of a clear blue sky twice and guessed the right country twice.

It could be faked, but he has many clips similar to this, and they're all livestreamed on the go. Most of his impressive clips are definitely mostly down to knowledge and memory, but these two clips are less likely to be that. And it makes perfect sense for someone who is good at GeoGuessr to have good intuition. And sometimes, intuition has no explanation other than you're literally downloading some information from the ether.

Logic is an attempt at putting pure structure into words.

I just stumbled upon this video summarizing a cutting edge research-finding from December 2024 that have given new insight to how cancer cells grow when exposed to glucose and also glutamine, meaning that a ketogenic diet that also eliminates sources of glutamine could significantly reduce cancer cell growth. They did the study on brain tumors but have yet to study other cancers.

My God did you just call Sv3rige intelligent? He once tried to debunk a statement in a video he was reacting to by referencing a study and linking it in the description for people to read. He linked a case study from the 1800s. A case study, from the 18 fucking 00s. I'm not joking. And it didn't even address the statement, as the statement was about the total digestive time of different foods from consumption to excretion while the case study only looked at digestive time in the stomach. I'm still not joking. I pointed it out and it seems like he has now removed the link. EDIT: Haha I just saw the topic was locked, I was so eager to respond I forgot about it. I apologize 🙂🙏

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Max Karson must be feeling like the biggest saint in the world right now.

Elon is not nazi. He is Super Mario:

😂😂 You and @Schizophonia never fail to make me burst into laughter.

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Literally thought about that the second before I scrolled down to your post. There is this phenomenon in my country (Norway) where under virtually any TikTok video where the subject is only vaguely related to immigrants (and even when it's not related at all), people (probably mostly teens) will spam "Stem FrP", which means "Vote the Far-Right party". And maybe not coincidentally, that exact party has been leading in the polls for the last few months now for the first time ever.

I haven't gone all the way through academia so I'm speaking mostly based on feeling, but the truth is that unless you are starting your own personal business (but even then), you have to jump through probably just as many hoops and play just as many games in any other career as in academia. That's just survival in the 21st century. It's just that the thing that happens to many academics is they go into it a bit too idealistic and then they get bummed out and write a book about why academia sucks later, which is why academia tends to get a bad rap, but in reality, it probably doesn't suck that much more than other kinds of jobs.

I really just think it's because he doesn't know how to control his bodily movements, but that's maybe me not reading Twitter.

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It's not really about the products, although they do make things simpler. It's about the philosophy, the methods. The people at Blueprint, which the woman is a co-founder of, are true lights in the dark, and you can hear it in the video. I was mostly reacting to her as a person: her radiance, her vibe, mind and story. She has a lot: bright mind, vision, passion, 'good energy'.

"Am I allowed to have fun?" Cmon.

What would you need to find out to think it's a scam?

You feel better, think better, live better, much better.

There is an interesting dynamic where you will point out something like aluminium and evidence of harm or lack of conclusive evidence and decide "maybe it's good to avoid that", but then you move over to something else where you don't do the same evaluation of evidence. I see this with people going from plastic spatulas to wooden ones, or fluoride toothpaste to hydroxyapatite toothpaste, or from standard deodorants to whatever natural version that also has dozens of different chemicals you can't spell the name of. Where is the research on the safety of wooden microparticles? Where is the research on the safety of hydroxyapatite nanoparticles? Where is the research on every single chemical in the natural deodorants you just bought (and have you read all of it or any of it)? While being health conscious and discerning about what you expose yourself to is a good thing, the right course of action given a consistent application of standards is not always that obvious (except full elimination, while tanking the costs of that).

Don't worry, I can tell

I just thought about why some people tend to like natural drums better than programmed drums (which I tend to resonate with, even though my most listened song on Spotify for the last two years uses programmed drums ). When you listen to natural drums, you can tune in to how the drummer feels while playing it. You tap into the natural flow that the human body is capable of producing, with all of its theoretically speaking "flaws and inaccuracies". As a human, you are ironically more able to accurately resonate with those flaws and inaccuracies than the near perfect accuracy of the programmed drums. And even more importantly, you tap into the state of the drummer which is one of joy and creative expression. On the other hand, with programmed drums, there is nothing like that you can tap into. There is no true depth behind the sounds that you hear. It's just a flat, empty void. This is the same feeling I get when I ask ChatGPT about something difficult. You get this harrowing sense that there is nothing behind the sentences. There is no mind there that understands what is being said. There is nothing to tune into, nothing to resonate with. I hope they fix it with the next version 😛. Similarly, I think listening to another person speak and the degree to which you understand them depends a whooole lot on how well they themselves understand what they're saying. It simply doesn't cut it to read out some words in clearly enunciated language. If the person doesn't have a proper understanding, that is what you will tune into. The understanding itself reveals itself by virtue of what it is — holistically. You cannot reduce something like understanding down to pure syntax and word usage. Any such representations of the real understanding must come downstream from the real understanding to accurately evoke it. The way ChatGPT works is it takes such representations, that indeed generally come downstream from the real understanding, and throw a huge sea of them into a meatgrinder, and each chunk of meat is assembled and recombined together based on its training, nothing of which has anything to do with understanding. Shucks.

We'll see. Btw, you don't have to declare when ChatGPT is not used 😂. It's only if you use it 😉.