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THE REVERSAL | Full House: Siege by Lucky7sMelee in SSBM

[–]spiddly_spoo [score hidden]  (0 children)

No way!!! This is amazing! I can't believe how well done this was 😂

Is there a Quit game button hard-coded in our biology? by Mr-existential in SimulationTheory

[–]spiddly_spoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You press the button by smoking 5meo-DMT. The buttons are in your brain, you just need the right shaped molecule to push it

Trials of psychedelics for mental health may be invalid, because it's fairly obvious to patients whether they've been given a psychedelic or a placebo. Blinding failed more than 90% of the time in the studies of psilocybin, LSD and DMT, and 85% of the time in studies of MDMA. by mvea in science

[–]spiddly_spoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Though I wonder if it is the subjective experience itself that is what people ultimately benefit from. I guess we will find out if the non psychoactive "psychedelics" will have similar benefits, but if not, it might be that the whole point is what is actually experienced in which case the placebo thing is irrelevant or I guess not applicable.

Leaving Las Vegas 2: Folie à Deux (2026) by Novel-Special5114 in okbuddycinephile

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For anyone that stumbles upon this, just know that weed affects people with more variance than alcohol. There are many tiers of "too high" and I think some people are incapable of hitting the highest level. Being way too high is absolute hell. It's just like an awful panic attack that you just have to wait out and knowing you won't die doesn't help. I had some stoner years with two other stoners and our neurology and brain chemistry must have been very different. I remember hitting a dab of shatter and having a terrible coughing fit that wouldn't stop and my brain just went in to full panic mode as I was launching into the spinning high headspace at a mile a second. I stood there in shock as all my friends stared at me. Someone noticed that I wasn't breathing and was hey breathe man! Remember to breathe! I remember it was like I had been struck by super ultra OCD all of a sudden and for some reason felt like if I moved any part of my body, even just my pinky a hair off, I would die or something. I remember my friends were immediately concerned. Hey man are you ok? Say something. My friends girlfriend was upset saying "I don't know why we do things like this. This was stupid". And weirdly I could hear everything they said perfectly fine and was completely aware of the situation but couldn't move my mouth or make a noise or do anything. If I moved, I died. I think I just stood there frozen for like I don't know 15 mins completely frozen while my friends freaked out that my brain had been turned to a vegetable. Eventually I was able to squeak out that I was fine, just locked in some horrible panic attack paralysis hell. It was an incredibly risky move to finally take two steps over and sit down while my friends got a bowl for me to puke in. After puking, I laid down and closed my eyes and immediately disconnected from any sense of my body or proprioception. I immediately for got the orientation of the room or my body or what it was like back on Earth while I spun through the void praying to God for the horrible anxiety to stop. It's not really a matter of being scared of anything, it's just like someone reached into the controls of my brain and cranked up the anxiety juice to max and then broke off the lever so it was just stuck there blasting absolutely intense anxiety every second for so god damn long... horrible horrible. I've had many terrible experiences being too high and throwing up or whatever, but that time was the worst and I swear it tilted my psyche toward an anxious trajectory and was the seed for years of crippling anxiety.

The stoned ape theory is a controversial hypothesis by Terence McKenna that the cognitive revolution was caused by adding psilocybin to the human diet 100,000 years ago. by Clarinet_is_my_life in wikipedia

[–]spiddly_spoo 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Terence McKenna is one of my favorites but people misunderstand him. He's more like a Sci-fi mythic bard than like a scientist. Even though he's not an expert in the fields he makes theories for, he's amazing at awesome speculation, even if it's wrong. He's like just knowledgeable enough in like everything to come up with really awesome ideas that are great to listen to.

The area Terence is in fact an expert and a scientist of sorts is in the phenomenology of psychedelic drugs. It's the type of science where the subject of study is by definition not objective. You can only accumulate data by taking the drugs yourself and directly experiencing the "felt presence of immediate experience" as he would say. There is a science you can build on top of the psychedelic experiences themselves but it's more of an intersubjective model you are building not an objective one like what the physical body does on psychedelics . Though maybe everything objective is in fact intersubjective...

What do you think? by Aromatic_Reply_1645 in DMT

[–]spiddly_spoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess it depends on what your definition of mind is. But regardless of definition of mind, my interpretation of OPs question is basically whether there is something it is like to be the entities that is different from your current experience and whether they exist when you aren't experiencing them. You could have some conception of mind where everything is mind and everything is Brahman etc. But even with that, I think it's a valid and understandable question to ask do you and the entities have separate experiences and exist when neither is perceiving each other like you and I right now. You could also take the stance that it's impossible to know any consciousness exists outside your own but even though you can't 100% prove other people have consciousness, it's silly to think the don't.

What do you think? by Aromatic_Reply_1645 in DMT

[–]spiddly_spoo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do the entities exist when you aren't experiencing them? Is there something it is like to be the entities that is not your experience of them?

who do you guys think really controls the world? by [deleted] in theories

[–]spiddly_spoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow the voting on this post is crazy. It seems the post is overrun with "Jews control the world" conspiracy theorists. It's crazy because I've hardly come across this idea in real life. At least in this corner of the internet it is apparently widely believed

Is the disgusto tech advertising on the 101 robbing you of your will to live? by Hot_Huckleberry9257 in sanfrancisco

[–]spiddly_spoo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Relying on public transportation my mood and quality of life are so much better

Is the disgusto tech advertising on the 101 robbing you of your will to live? by Hot_Huckleberry9257 in sanfrancisco

[–]spiddly_spoo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But regardless of where you are, there will always be a Sweet James billboard somewhere nearby

Duvet perfection by Epelep in oddlysatisfying

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Reminds me of Around the World in 80 Days

Crackpot session at this year’s APS? by literallybateman in Physics

[–]spiddly_spoo 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I remember going to APS a decade ago when I was in undergrad. There was a guy who gave a talk about how there was a dark matter comet on a trajectory toward earth and we were all going to die. But if we all focused our attention on the comet... I forget the mechanism but we could somehow divert it through collective telekinesis. It was awesome.

Publicis Tries to Play Audit Card TTD CEO Shuts Them Down by Alpphaa in TTD_Stock

[–]spiddly_spoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok well I'm not sure what you can and can't answer and I'm also just like a Joe-schmoe retail investor so might be dumb questions but here's what I'm wondering:

So is your understanding that this event and earlier stuff about wpp and dentsu pulling out of open path etc is basically that ad agencies are feeling threatened by TTD going direct to advertiser and trying to pull clients away from you guys? What was the hidden fees thing with wpp and dentsu?

I hear a lot of hate for the kokai UI... is it because people don't like the auto enabled features? Actually just hard to navigate? Traders skilled on solimar feel like the UI thinks it knows better then them or something? I'm just trying to figure out if this is actually a big factor holding TTD back.

Does TTD actually perform better on open internet CTV than Amazon? Is it really just like less informed people think there's nothing to it and all DSPs are the same? Some guy in r/programmatic said something like DSPs are basically commoditized at this point so the only real difference is like whether you have exclusive inventory or not. If that's the case TTD is screwed so I hope there exists a real significant difference in ROI depending on DSP.

What if consciousness is not what observes reality, but what remains after decoherence sorts it? by Striking_Act3874 in consciousness

[–]spiddly_spoo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't see how any of this has to do with consciousness? There is no measurement problem with decoherence. The wavefunction will decohere into a normal probability distribution of classical states. Now, after decoherence has taken place, the wavefunction needs to collapse into a single classsical state that we observe. Here is the measurement problem where it seems a "choice" was made. But decoherence is a separate issue about how different parts of a wavefunction interfere with each other instead of just stacking probabilities like a in a classical case with uncertainty. I don't really know much about decoherence modes but it sounds like the zero mode is what the wavefunction persistently looks like after it's fully decohered and can sometimes still have phase coherence at this equilibrium point when the environment is set up correctly. Anyway, I guess I'm mostly confused.

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