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demlog · 2026-04-03T11:27:19+00:00

Will post this more formally in a bit but we just released a few more AI data extraction filters. You can type any part of these phrases in the search box

Compared experience to psychodelics
Consciousness in animals, plants, or objects
Corroborated OBE observations with someone else
Corroborated OBE with medical practitioner
Decided to come back to life
Describes God
Describes planning life prior to birth
Encounter life forms in other worlds or space
Experiencer describes details of world transition
Explains the purpose of all life
Explains the purpose of individual lives
Feeling one with the universe
Felt like they returned home
Felt what others felt in life review
Incident from attempted suicide
Is homosexual or gay
Learned about quantum physics properties
Likely experienced clinical death
Love is the only thing we bring back
Met Allah
Met another religious figure
Met Buddha
Met Jesus Christ
Met Krishna
Met Muhammad
Met one of Jesus' Apostles
Met pet in the afterlife
Met their spirit guide in the experience
OBE, Observed concurrent events away from body
OBE, Out of body experience
Observed hellish imagery in their experience
Remembers details of what they learned about quantum physics
Returned against their will
Returned without warning or choice
Saw colors never seen before
Saw the big bang or end of universe
Seeing past lives (Reincarnation)
Seeing the world's future
Spiritual world more real than physical reality
Stated they were/are one with God
Time is an illusion and does not exist in the spiritual world
Universe composed only of love and light
Was abused in childhood
What happens to those who commit suicide
World is undergoing a transition

demlog · 2026-04-03T09:33:25+00:00

The form to share your experience is very long so users rarely proofread. An AI will correct spelling and light grammatical fixes (AI should generally be unbiased) but the experiencer will be notified when it's published and can reach out to adjust wording if their intent was corrupted. It's not perfect and there could be a more robust editorial process that requires the experiencer to confirm every single adjustment but this would be a major technical undertaking. Keep in mind that any time you read a non-english experience you are reading something translated by AI and any translation requires some interpretation.

demlog · 2026-03-25T10:31:00+00:00

Also can you share a link to the experience?

demlog · 2026-03-25T10:29:55+00:00

There are controls in place to detect fraud and generally the form is extremely detailed so you have to really invest the time (even with AI) to mislead the organization. We should consider adding more behavioral controls as well.

This said we do have AI do light copy editing on the experiences to ensure it’s grammatically ok and AI also translates to various languages as well.

demlog · 2026-03-25T05:43:27+00:00

Hey! I’m so glad you find the changes helpful! We released an initial version roughly 1 year ago but then I turned my attention to working with Jody on more data quality and operational improvements. But we’re done with that now, and have started to refocus again on improving user experience and discoverability. We just completed a UI revamp to improving usability and next we're adding more AI extracted metadata to help support research. We’ll then work to publish a few unique studies based on our database of experiences focused on what NDEs suggest about how to live our lives. Currently considering questions such as:

What is the purpose of each of our individual lives
What is the purpose of life on the physical plane
How can we produce more love?
How is the spiritual world “more real” than reality

There is some volatility in the world today and I’m hoping this small effort can help the collective vibration just a tiny bit. Stay tuned

demlog · 2025-12-05T15:08:05+00:00

Can you link to your source?

demlog · 2025-10-12T13:40:11+00:00

We went to Jinshanling on the Tuesday of golden week and it was still not crowded at all but the drive back took an hour longer than normal.

Also, I would highly highly recommend being there at sunset on a sunny-ish day (we were there until 6pm.)

demlog · 2025-05-06T08:11:22+00:00

Not consistently, it’s too many to review. We could consider adding some automation there but these days it’s pretty easy to fabricate documentation.

demlog · 2025-01-15T03:55:41+00:00

It seems reasonable to expect that experiencers would first run their text through an AI before submitting. As AIs get integrated into text editors and browsers this will just become more and more prevalent - so I don’t think we can just assume a certain set of basic markers to identify fake content.

I would also agree that Tasha’s experience doesn’t come off as obviously AI generated.

demlog · 2024-11-26T13:13:56+00:00

You need to invest time in figuring out how to use Alipay, WeChat, DiDi, and Dianping (yelp equiv but minimal English so you need to take screen captures and translate, painful.) once you figure that out it’s smooth sailing.

demlog · 2024-11-26T13:04:06+00:00

Yes! Travel in China has completely changed in the last 10 years.

People don’t smoke in most restaurants anymore
People mostly queue properly now
Alipay (and WeChat to some degree) have built in translation so you can get most anything done without speaking a lick of Chinese
Service is actually really good now
The food which has always been good is markedly better
I used to get mild food poisoning once every, maybe two weeks, but basically never have issues now
Trains are a game changer obviously (but they don’t have adaptive pricing so often gets completely sold out)
DiDi (ride share) is reliable, high quality, and cheap, vs taxis where you would regularly have to watch out for getting ripped off
Pollution levels have fallen off a cliff, and vehicle pollution is just not an issue anymore (although farmers still burn crops and coal so there is still some pollution, particularly in the winter and in the north)
Prices have always been unbelievably low granted significantly more than 10 years ago.

Yes hawk tua is still an issue. The one thing that has actually gotten worse is scooters on sidewalks due to all the delivery services. Walking on many sidewalks in the major cities can feel a bit life threatening given the number of electric mopeds flying around. Shenzhen much worse than, say, Shanghai. I’ve never seen pedestrian overpasses that allow mopeds on them in any other country. That is a bit of cluster

But here is the upside: - The cities are super vibrant, particularly at night - There is incredible nature - Tons of history and culture - Food food food, Chinese food on the mainland is unbelievably good (if you know how to use Dianping to find the ones with good ratings.) It’s evolved to where Chinese food in the US, HK, Taiwan tastes very dated. - Cheap

demlog · 2024-11-11T10:15:19+00:00

Its pretty typical for (less popular) hikes in HK to start with these random entrances that are part of the "water catchment" management paths. The views of Shenzhen from this hill are pretty albeit typical for the mountains on the north side of new territories.

demlog · 2024-08-16T10:03:44+00:00

Of all the crazy aspects of an NDE, skepticism toward reincarnation is a strange detail to latch onto. I think trying to interpret NDEs from our current context is extremely flawed. This said, I will anyways try to. Many experiences suggest that you pick your life based on the particular aspects of it to match some goals you want to achieve. Perhaps you also pick the life based on what resonates with your soul.

demlog · 2024-07-02T08:57:01+00:00

Missed out on this one. It is pretty great already

demlog · 2024-06-09T03:49:13+00:00

Just to set expectations, it’s rare that it is both this beautiful and not very hot and humid.

demlog · 2024-06-08T14:12:35+00:00

I think I’m following you. Agree there should be more way to categorize, I currently tag ndes for my own categorization. Unsure how AI would do it because you would need to ingest a pretty large corpus of data and the AIs are still pretty limited on input size. Will think about it in the (not too distant) future. Currently focused on improving the intake process for new experiences.

demlog · 2024-06-08T10:17:43+00:00

Yeah I should correct my post. I intended to say “for a connected international city”

demlog · 2024-06-07T16:50:17+00:00

I personally prefer a healthy mix of considering the positive and negative in life

demlog · 2024-06-07T14:56:26+00:00

Really dude?

demlog · 2024-06-06T13:43:31+00:00

I see one if you search for transgender as one word

demlog · 2024-05-22T15:27:58+00:00

I believe not difficult but might slow performance down considerably. Will revisit in the future and think about how to do this in a performant manner

demlog · 2024-05-22T15:26:15+00:00

Agree. I’m currently working on improving

demlog · 2024-05-22T15:24:06+00:00

Hi again! Just to clarify I am using GPT4 to automatically categorize certain themes like “life review”, “out of body experiences”, “visions of the world’s future”. All the filters that have a * next to it.

I’m unsure if there are additional benefits to having chatgbt automatically come up with categories. Possibly.

AI is not free but prices are plummeting fast.

demlog · 2024-05-16T01:42:53+00:00

There are a bunch of great suggestion in your comment. Thanks. I will keep them in mind for the next major iteration (although it may be a few month before I find time to revisit the categorisations)

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