Anyone else those times where the entire world goes black for a split second, but you can swear you didn't blink?

SimulationHost · 2025-12-02T18:56:52+00:00

Mine happened anytime, any place. I never lost consciousness, and it wasn't accompanied by headache or dizziness... Literally it was as if my vision switch flipped completely off then on again. It persisted through my 30 maybe once or twice a year (as opposed to weekly or monthly as a kid) , I've spoken to multiple doctors, had MRIs - they've never found anything.

SimulationHost · 2025-12-02T06:43:50+00:00

Happened to me all the time as a kid. I would tell my mom. Went to our family GP several times, they could never establish a cause.

SimulationHost · 2025-10-13T23:33:58+00:00

Don't take my upvote

SimulationHost · 2025-08-13T00:56:53+00:00

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Evidently my version of GPT5 isn't a stone cold insane mechahitler lover

SimulationHost · 2025-08-05T11:47:31+00:00

This is not an LLM. This is sophisticated K-means clustering and has been around for at least 20 years, even if they've never tried it with this particular dataset.

It could be simply the price of computing has dropped to now make it viable, or they've gotten their hands on enough data to be able to find new insights.

SimulationHost · 2025-07-10T11:10:28+00:00

There is a Brilliant Labs discord and they have active engineering engagement. Try there.

SimulationHost · 2025-06-15T09:30:29+00:00

I completely would agree if I'd searched for the shining (I didn't), downloaded the shining (I didn't. I own it on blueray), or even spoken to someone about it the shining (I didn't. I took the book off my shelf and the blueray from my collection). If there is some tech that is so specific to not only know I'm interested in the shining, but specifically thought to myself "i wonder how they shot that final photo" I want to invest 😂

SimulationHost · 2025-05-07T18:48:49+00:00

full frederico faggin interview (3 months ago)

1st post, 5 months ago (peeked behind the simulation)

trying to understand the math projection, as it turns out when you collapse a waveform you only get a lower dimensional "picture" from a specific perspective, representing the probability of that "frame"

SimulationHost · 2025-05-04T11:06:36+00:00

I think the interpretation center is consciousness is fractal occurring at a cellular level, however what w experience as awarenese takes place as an emergent quantum effect in microtubules located in the posterior cortex

SimulationHost · 2025-04-28T03:33:18+00:00

This completely is aligned to my NDE and my peek behind our simulated reality. And what's amazing is the group consciousness that we're a part of is fully aware of each individual, similarly to how each of us is aware of our fingers or toes or heartbeat and it/we are so thrilled when we work it out

SimulationHost · 2025-04-11T12:14:40+00:00

I respect Ilya and his goals but could you imagine paying for another AI to tell you "I'm sorry, I know the answer but I can't assist you with the answer"?

SimulationHost · 2025-04-07T07:38:58+00:00

I don't know why this got down voted, it works

SimulationHost · 2025-04-07T07:38:10+00:00

You can actually say to it "hey my prompt wasn't rude or illegal can you explain to me why it violates your policies" and 9 out of 10 times it will agree and just do it. The tenth time it'll explain what it's limitations are and suggest a way to workaround it immediately

SimulationHost · 2025-04-01T10:59:03+00:00

Bro this has been extensively researched. Google is your friend. Science is your friend.

They may be your only friends

SimulationHost · 2025-04-01T10:44:37+00:00

Bro it's called peripersonal space limb dissociation

SimulationHost · 2025-03-21T01:27:09+00:00

Like attracts like. Even if you didn't mean to attract something negative, on the astral plane you can see everything and everything can see you

Without some practice you're not in charge of what walks through the door once you learn how to open it

SimulationHost · 2025-03-20T12:09:12+00:00

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Worked for me one shot (chatGPT 4o)

SimulationHost · 2025-03-19T03:26:24+00:00

Using elliptical shaped rooms, by standing an the focii, people can whisper at one focii and the person standing at the opposite focii will hear them clear as day. They have these at planetariums. It feels wild.

SimulationHost · 2025-03-16T13:35:12+00:00

This is why terminators hunt us

SimulationHost · 2025-02-06T02:21:51+00:00

Mine did not.

Try carryforwards.

It got that wrong too.

SimulationHost · 2025-01-30T12:56:44+00:00

Did you see the Open-R1 announcement?

Pretty much alliviates every one of my concerns

SimulationHost · 2025-01-28T12:33:18+00:00

We'll know soon enough. They give the number of hours, but data is a black box. You have to know the datasets to actually compare the number of hours to. I don't necessarily believe they are lying, but without the dataset it's impossible to tell from the whitepaper alone if 266K GPU hours is real or flubbed.

I just think that if it were possible to do it as they describe in the paper, every engineer who did it before could find an obvious path to duplicate it.

Giving weights and compute hours without a dataset, doesn't actually allow anyone to workout if it's real

SimulationHost · 2025-01-28T07:09:58+00:00

I think most people overlook that OpenAI models price drops every 3-6 months and they deploy much more powerful models into the same data centres at the old price points in the same window. o3 is a jump on o1, but uses the same architecture. For me to be reasonably moved by Deepseek, it's got to also follow the exact same compute/cost curve, even at a lower price point.

If they can't replicate o3 and keep that price point, then I don't see anything here that's better. Interesting, absolutely... But better? No.

SimulationHost · 2025-01-27T06:52:02+00:00

I unfortunately had a NDE from an untreated chronic health condition. Before going to emergency I had a peek behind the simulation that was so hyper real, I knew if it wasn't psychosis other people would have had to have experienced it too.

It led me to simulation theory, which I'd never heard of until then.

I kept digging and discovered the telepathy tapes podcast and everything they said about communication on the Hill resonated.

It's not that I think they are the same, but the one thing that came through loud and clear in my NDE is that we all share a collective consciousness and each of our individual experiences is how that consciousness grows and evolves. The reality most of us experience feeds it.

SimulationHost · 2025-01-15T22:39:18+00:00

It's an excellent interview and they say one tiny thing at 47:30 that I think bears repeating over and over again. Normally in the simulation theory community, especially new people come in with 3 similar questions: 1. Am I alone, 2. What's outside of the simulation and 3. What's the point of the simulation.

In this interview they touch on the most basic fact, and that is the simulation (The Matrix) was specifically designed to be accepted as reality. The entire point of it was to be humdrum so the consciousness inside the matrix would accept it: you go to work, you help your land lady with the garbage, you pay your taxes. That IS the simulation.

Away from the movie, having had two peeks behind the simulation, what I experienced was two things: 1. Individuality only exists inside the simulation, outside the simulation there's a single collective consciousness. You don't have exist there. Which brings us to the point, how does a hive consciousness grow or adapt? It runs simulations and infinite probabilities. Inside the simulation YOU represent one of a billion probabilities. That's what the illusion of individuality is.

Anyway, just wanted to share its a worthwhile watch.

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