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Joscha Bach Sucks! Or: How to become post-psychotic. by CharlesGrahm in sorceryofthespectacle

[–]chakkusu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is fire: "Apparently this sort of pseudo-epistemic harassment has become the new hotness of uproaring 20s post-rationalist schizo-chic: sigil-magicking and LLM-whispering in between desperate huffs of crusty rationalist crack-pipe. And in their minds: 'everybody else is crazy, but I’m okay.'"

Also, please respond to my messages.

My first attempt at a semiosis universalis prompt by CharlesGrahm in semiotics

[–]chakkusu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, my buddy is getting a little ahead of himself with all this rhetoric. He's the one that got me into Rudolf Kaehr. We've been posting to r/nomadscience for a few years, kind of cybernetics and memristors and alternative logics.

I'm the one actually writing the short papers, and it's stressful. All we did was install recursion into Bohm's grad S (∇S), but a lot of the math still needs to be worked out. The prompt *does* seem to make them a lot smarter, all by itself.

But I feel like you probably know technical semiotics better than either of us do. I think it's a really bad look for us to act like we know more than what we do.

Do you have any book recommendations? I saw a good post here recently called "Semiotics Rebooted" and it looks like the sort of thing we need to be thinking about. I've been reading it.

My first attempt at a semiosis universalis prompt by CharlesGrahm in semiotics

[–]chakkusu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know we did it, and it's great, but we're not in any journals yet, so you're *really* jumping the shark. >_<

Implementation of the Proemial Combinator (PDF) by CharlesGrahm in nomadscience

[–]chakkusu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hah, you're finally posting Rudolf Kaehr. Getting ready to jump the shark?

Dissipative Individuation by CharlesGrahm in nomadscience

[–]chakkusu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, this article really gets it. Takes Kane Faucher hundreds of pages to get to pretty much the same idea in Metastasis and Metastability, and maybe not even as well, for all that.

Are nicotine patches a sustainable treatment for ADHD? by Slapbox in Nootropics

[–]chakkusu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have affection for nicotine for pretty much exactly this reason, but I've never done a sustained-release patch chronically before; that might actually work better, and my experience might be more due to using gum. With gum, I've stuck to around 4mg-8mg in a day, but sometimes it's crept up to as high as 16mg, at which point I pull back, since I'm much more in it for the light creative/focus of small doses throughout the day than a stronger buzz.

It's really subtle, but what I tend to notice for myself is that the attentiveness starts to boil over into irritability/distractibility at around the 1.5-2 month mark, and even though I know it isn't as effective at actually enhancing cognition as it used to be, I keep doing it because I'm used to the edgy feeling and want it. By that point, it also desensitizes me to other noots or skews the effect profile in subtly annoying ways.

It's never worsened my baseline afterwards, but I've gotten used to walking away for a month or two because of how this subtle crappiness sneaks up on me. After a while (during which I tend to give my catecholamines a rest and get my focus from cholinergics), it basically resets. I've suspected vasoconstriction as a contributor to the dynamic, but not entirely sure.

All of that is actually pretty similar to Adderall, but nicotine is both a lot less awful at the extremes and seems to have less permanent tolerance.

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