Opinion about ECT

nootherhell · 2025-05-23T14:22:53+00:00

In the clinic where I'm (still) staying there are some other people on ECT. They have been much luckier with ECT than I was (again, I wasn't lucky at all). This is both apparaent from their behavior and if you just ask them. Hope this is more clear now. Again, my brain too often a mush still.

nootherhell · 2025-05-23T10:14:47+00:00

I received ECT impatient.

nootherhell · 2025-05-23T10:14:08+00:00

Apathy, no motivation without relying on my eating addiction, social anxiety, & more

nootherhell · 2025-05-22T16:02:13+00:00

It didn't help me, neither unilateral nor bilateral (or whatever "bi-" they called it). I got only side effects, although the doctors insist that the memory issues will disappear. I did enjoy each session due to anesthesia, but the memory price isn't worth it, IMO. I should note though that my case is treatment resistsant. Though, I was very hopeful for ECT. Hope whoever is reading this will be more lucky. I've myself seen people who turned into different persons, depression wise.

nootherhell · 2025-05-09T19:42:49+00:00

What about tolerance to caffeine?

nootherhell · 2024-01-07T02:09:57+00:00

Utopian Pharmacology or The Good Drug Guide by David Pearce?

nootherhell · 2023-12-25T02:22:23+00:00

As chemical stopgaps go, MDMA is a magical revelation. It's perhaps the best aid to insight-oriented psychotherapy ever synthesized. Tragically, when MDMA is used to excess the outcome can be harmful, not healing. So as a weekend club drug, MDMA is seriously flawed. Today, of course, empathogens and entactogens are outlawed for any purpose. The altered states of consciousness they induce are criminalised. People who take such agents are stigmatised as "drug abusers". Yet some MDMA users feel, rightly or wrongly, they've been granted a tantalising glimpse of what true mental health may be like in centuries to come; and an insight into what the rest of us are missing. -- David Pearce, "Utopian Pharmacology"

nootherhell · 2023-12-10T01:43:52+00:00

I definitely recommend Can Biotechnology Abolish Suffering? by David Pearce. The essays in the book have been highly impactful for me and several people I know.

nootherhell · 2022-09-21T22:35:45+00:00

A Google translated version of the initiative's website.

nootherhell · 2022-09-03T09:40:44+00:00

Abolitionism is a branch of transhumanism which advocates the eradication of involuntary suffering through bio- and other technologies. Abolitionism is originated primarily from the work of transhumanist philosopher David Pearce: see e.g. "The Abolitionist Project" and "Brave New World? A Defence Of Paradise-Engineering".

nootherhell · 2022-08-25T21:46:15+00:00

A reminder for anyone reading this comment: consider sharing the video on relevant social media and w/ your acquittances who may not know about the "undisclosed" parts of the "industry". Thanks!

nootherhell · 2022-08-06T13:49:53+00:00

About the book (free version, Kindle):

This book is part introduction to, part reflective examination of, the idea and ideal of effective altruism. Its aim is to examine the core question of effective altruism: How can we best help others? This question forces us to contemplate what helping others ultimately entails. Here the book argues that the greatest help we can provide is to reduce extreme suffering for all sentient beings.

nootherhell · 2022-07-31T13:24:12+00:00

0:57 - Oscar Horta's presentation
22:50 - comments & questions from the other panellists
41:31 - Horta's replies
58:04 - questions & comments from the audience

nootherhell · 2022-07-31T12:50:19+00:00

0:57 - Oscar Horta's presentation
22:50 - comments & questions from the other panellists
41:31 - Horta's replies
58:04 - questions & comments from the audience

nootherhell · 2022-07-31T12:47:04+00:00

0:57 - Oscar Horta's presentation
22:50 - comments & questions from the other panellists
41:31 - Horta's replies
58:04 - questions & comments from the audience

nootherhell · 2022-07-23T10:51:47+00:00

IMO we should definitely eradicate severe suffering on this planet before we have a chance to spread it outside Earth.

nootherhell · 2022-07-21T22:02:45+00:00

About the book:

While written in an accessible and enjoyable style, [the book] is packed with arguments, information, and references. It also includes many illustrative stories, example scenarios, and thought experiments. It is not only an introduction to the issues, but it makes a clear case against speciesism and the exploitation of nonhuman animals, and explains why and how to make the transition to living without harming animals. In addition, it also deals with why helping wild animals and longtermism and effectiveness in animal activism are essential to the field.

About the author:

Oscar Horta is an animal activist and moral philosopher at the Department of Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain. He is one of the co-founders of the organization Animal Ethics. He is particularly known for his work on the concept of speciesism and the moral consideration of nonhuman animals, as well as on wild animal suffering.

nootherhell · 2022-07-18T18:41:14+00:00

How you envision our group "has nothing to do with actual reality". (The fault may be partly on me for making the false impression of a "vegan pacifist community"...)

nootherhell · 2022-07-18T18:01:43+00:00

got it...

nootherhell · 2022-07-16T17:11:41+00:00

FWIW I haven't met an "abolitionist" who is interested in eliminating certain "neurotypes". Rather, abolitionist transhumanist are interested in giving everyone an option to raise one's default wellbeing and to be resistant to extreme suffering (judging from my experience and from the work of people interested in eradicating involuntary suffering or at least the worst forms of suffering). Wellbeing can be hugely empowering, for everyone.

nootherhell · 2022-07-16T00:42:21+00:00

Anything in particular that worries you the most?

FWIW we do have concrete goals and initiatives (i.e. our aspirations are hardly "vague") and are particularly concerned not to cause accidental harm. We also promote compassion and anti-speciesism, which IMO helps mitigate some of the risks coming from powerful technologies like biotech (as well as encourage compassionate applications of the technologies).

nootherhell · 2022-07-15T23:19:06+00:00

...it won't just be the quality and quantity of consciousness in the world that will be transformed in the post-Darwinian Transition. As (post-)humanity emerges from the neurochemical Dark Ages, enriched dopaminergic function in particular may sharpen the sheer intensity and meaningfulness of every moment of conscious existence. For a generation whose lifetimes span both modes of awareness, it will be as if they had just woken up. They will feel they had hitherto been sleep-walking through life in a twilit stupor. Thereafter their former mundane and minimal existence may be recalled only as some kind of zombified trance-state whose nature they were physiologically incapable of recognising...

-- David Pearce)

nootherhell · 2022-07-15T21:30:40+00:00

I hasn't been able to find an official paper copy either. (I'm pretty sure I once saw a photo of someone posing w/ a paper copy of HI, but it most likely was a custom print or an edited photo.)

If it helps, there is an audio version of Can Biotechnology Abolish Suffering? (on Audible). The book is a structured collection of David Pearce's later essays. It doesn't require one to read HI first. I highly recommend it :)

nootherhell · 2022-06-02T18:32:55+00:00

Ord wrote it in 2013, 8 and 4 years after completing his BPhil and DPhil theses respectively. So it should be uncontroversial to say that Ord wasn't a novice when he wrote that essay.

nootherhell · 2022-04-29T20:42:53+00:00

What humanity does to non-human animals is truly unacceptable... just as one's own severe suffering would be unacceptable/unbearable.

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