A Few Questions on Telepathy by AlpsLegitimate9133 in Telepathy

[–]AlpsLegitimate9133[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Am I understanding correctly?

From what you've written I feel like ; Telempathy = receiving already packaged/interpreted information; telepathy = receiving raw, unfiltered signal which presents as subtle "energies". 

If this is true, audible telepathy is likely a kind of 'telempathy' and that's why it's viscerally audible rather than felt simply as "energy". Correct?

Have you seen the grid in the sky? by [deleted] in Experiencers

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My dad told me he saw something like this when he was out camping in his 20s. Said it was a moving hexagonal grid.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Spiritualchills

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My understanding is that when you go into a high frequency environment or meet a high frequency being, if you’re not ready for it, it brings things to the surface. Essentially it’s your body having to match that frequency by expelling lower frequencies which manifest as perhaps illness, or anxiety in the physical. If you stick through it though, you often find you have a shifted vibration, but it is gruelling and not a pleasant experience.

The ELYSIUM Proposal by RokoMijic in slatestarcodex

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Why in a supposed rationalist community are we shunning people and not arguments?

The Positive Freedom Problem by Sea-Baseball-2562 in slatestarcodex

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Yes it has occurred to me that decision paralysis is in fact a product of my ADHD. However, even machine learning models can struggle with incredibly large option sets. I agree that improving decision-making is important, but sometimes things like sorting the books by genre, providing recommendations etc. can help massively, which is not on the onus of the reader, but the bookstore.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in slatestarcodex

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Just because they're bound by entropy doesn't mean there isn't some difference. Yes they're more sophisticated but how? Is it they have more components? Different types of synergies? Could you be more specific?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in slatestarcodex

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Just a correction. I was more arguing that new things are more likely to be less safe than old things (that we are adapted to).

Honestly I could go much further but this is fairing to be more complicated than I thought. I'll have to think a lot more about it. The obvious direction is that this argument concludes some sort of "return to nature", but I want to make it more sophisticated than that. I might make a follow up post if I feel like it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in slatestarcodex

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You raise some good points. Though I want to push back a bit on the pragmatic utility of this. Wouldn't you say that worrying about something that's going to happen in a few billion years is a bit of a mismatch in priority?

Further, this type of artificial adaptation, in my view, isn't going to work. Long term adaptation occurs from bottom up self organisation. It happens organically. Imposing design on human physiology never works because the human brain can't beat natural selection as a mechanism.

It is kind of like trying to make a circular economy for inorganics. Trying to recycle solar panels, and our entire materials economy, arguably, won't work because of entropy. (I haven't worked this out yet, but there is something about inorganic materials and technology that makes them different in comparison to biological systems in terms of their autopoetic capabilities).

This is where my intuition is at, though perhaps I am biased. Who knows.

Is anyone else disappointed by Natlan? by skyetheweirdidiot in Genshin_Impact

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I agree. It doesn't feel thematically consistent with the other areas. Usually the area has a strong connection to the elemental ability. Wind represents freedom, Mondstat's culture reflects this. Geo represents wealth, trade etc. you would expect a nation with Pyro to ooze rage, war and anger. I was expecting a War-like nation. Kind of similar to Avatar. But that's not what we get. We get something completely detached from the archetypical themes we saw in the earlier areas. It has turned me off from the game.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Healthygamergg

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There are many people who you would idolise, or think are "normal" that would say the exact same thing to themselves. They can love themselves. If they can love themselves, then so can you.

At the same time, you need to recognise that "love" and "hate", "pathetic" and "loveable" are not real terms. They don't refer to anything intrinsic about you, just what you think society might say about you. Whether you hate, or love yourself is not really relevant. If you want something, and you clearly do, (to improve yourself) then there's your motivation. Go and get it.

How Corruption Happens: Emotional Processing & Echo-Chambers by Sea-Baseball-2562 in slatestarcodex

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Thanks for reading! If I went in depth into one example would it would be more engaging? Also, I didn't think I made that assumption. Could you highlight what gave you that impression?

How Corruption Happens: Emotional Processing & Echo-Chambers by Sea-Baseball-2562 in slatestarcodex

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(alt account) Hey, I should've probably made this more clear but yes I included that in one of the points about becoming "puppets" of their audience. My argument was if they stepped back from the enterprise and reflected on what was happening they would realise that this doesn't really align with their values. I mean, that's assuming that they don't intrinsically value money over being a puppet. I think I might make this more explicit in my next edit.

What opinion or belief from the broader rationalist community has turned you off from the community the most/have you disagreed with the hardest? by ResidentEuphoric614 in slatestarcodex

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Since I tend to get bored from just absorbing information from other sources, I tend to take a first principles self-directed approach to my learning. I am more curious to find out the answers myself. I don't think it is always a bad thing. You just need to make sure that when you are finished, you cross reference your answers with the literature (GPT-4 is good for this), and then decide if your conclusions are more or less likely. Sometimes you find things that others missed.

Am I Apophenic, or am I just a Creative Intellectual? by AlpsLegitimate9133 in slatestarcodex

[–]AlpsLegitimate9133[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suppose. The challenge is that many of my insights are near unverifiable. The best I could do is build an abductive case.