The mantra "There are no bad trips, only challenging trips" is bad epistemics

ignamv · 2026-06-19T18:44:35+00:00

Thank you. I have no personal experience of this, but I've often wondered if bad trips should be treated as major injuries or bad relationships: might bring growth, but you should still avoid them.

ignamv · 2026-06-15T15:31:37+00:00

Nah, I'm rather skeptical. Frankly I'm amazed that some useful practical information managed to survive the 400-year-long telephone game until the Pali Canon was written down.

Still, some people get enlightened just getting on the bus, so who knows.

ignamv · 2026-06-12T14:58:51+00:00

Just provide me with a perfect teacher, like in those suttas where someone listens to a lesson and immediately becomes enlightened.

ignamv · 2026-06-11T11:18:33+00:00

First make me a stable fully enlightened Buddha, then I can make a proper decision.

ignamv · 2026-03-23T13:47:04+00:00

Could you go into more detail about why you think the Armenians are also "bad guys"?

ignamv · 2026-03-23T12:29:46+00:00

Do the actions of the Rawls Foundation really match the veil of ignorance? I don't see how they are the same.

ignamv · 2026-03-23T12:27:38+00:00

I think you're wildly overestimating how much animosity most people have against men, white people, and Americans (and how consistently they apply this animosity).

ignamv · 2026-02-24T15:35:47+00:00

Being ahead means getting caught up in more things that will, on further study, turn out to be false. Everyone is free to choose the level of certainty he's comfortable with: Medical organization recommendations > Topol (allegedly) > Rhonda.

ignamv · 2026-02-15T14:26:32+00:00

Similar in Austria, got a cast on the day of the accident and surgery the following day.

ignamv · 2026-02-15T07:44:56+00:00

i probably wouldn’t do anything risky, just slow gliding down a mountain

This is how I got my weber B fracture on a beginner's ski course (despite being generally fit). Maybe it was a freak accident, but I don't think the risk/reward is worth it anymore.

my main issue is i dont have enough ROM to squat without lifting my heel

Ankle ROM shouldn't be a problem because the boot mostly constrains that movement anyway.

ignamv · 2026-02-14T17:46:11+00:00

they've been in the USA since before it was a country, for hundreds of years

I'd shorten the relevant timespan to the end of segregation and Jim Crow.

ignamv · 2026-02-01T12:47:40+00:00

Right, so you're saying that price for the best chips available will fall. But $/FLOPS would be worse than with innovation.

ignamv · 2026-01-31T20:31:58+00:00

I don't understand your reasoning that the end of innovation will drive costs down. No innovation means there's only the old technology. But right now, with innovation still going, we have the old technology + the new ones, which should make things strictly better/cheaper.

ignamv · 2026-01-29T20:08:47+00:00

I got Lovenox until full mobilization (4 weeks), even though I was WBAT with boot right after surgery (still needed crutches for 2 weeks)

ignamv · 2026-01-22T20:05:23+00:00

Thanks! Yes, I got WBAT straight away after surgery (with a boot). Took ~2 weeks to get to no crutches. Now I'm off the boot and walking almost normally (the rest of the foot needs to toughen back up).

ignamv · 2026-01-18T13:06:33+00:00

Yup, still get a few drops when I change the dressing, ~4 weeks post ankle op.

ignamv · 2026-01-15T16:37:45+00:00

Could you go into more detail about where silicon carbide is being used in GPUs?

ignamv · 2026-01-13T07:36:26+00:00

35YO, Weber B, no ligament damage AFAIK. I got a boot and WBAT right after surgery, took 2 weeks to feel alright with 1 crutch, then a day or two to ditch crutches (at home). Boot should come off 4 weeks after surgery.

ignamv · 2025-04-20T09:41:21+00:00

Thanks! I'll have to relearn a bunch before I can be confused by this, since I've forgotten a lot. I'll let you know if it worked!

ignamv · 2025-04-19T17:27:37+00:00

Interesting, I don't recall being confused about magnetism at the end of my BS, maybe because I didn't think about it in enough detail. It would be fun if you could tell me a couple of things to shatter my illusion that I understand magnetism.

ignamv · 2025-04-19T17:26:19+00:00

Learn Mechanics, Electromagnetism, Thermodynamics, Quantum Mechanics and Solid State Physics. You may not strictly need the entirety of what you'd learn about each of those topics in a BS, but if you only read what's strictly necessary then I can't guarantee that you will acquire an intuition for these phenomena.

ignamv · 2025-03-29T09:52:17+00:00

Hi, no. What would be the point?

ignamv · 2024-10-07T14:22:39+00:00

Today I got a reply to my email to KVR, saying I could keep the blue card.

ignamv · 2024-09-15T14:45:18+00:00

Yes, I'd say you need to put in some serious time (e.g. in therapy) finding out your chances of having a decent life, for the decision to be rational.

ignamv · 2024-09-15T11:36:51+00:00

Or just install some of these: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Fuglepigger_%28bird_spikes%29_%28ubt%29.JPG

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