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Comment on Jeopardy Category (work in progress), please try it out and let me know what you think in ~creative
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Comment on Scientists reveal how DMT alters brain activity and consciousness by lowering control energy in ~science
Carrie Link ParentHow do we explain people who use it, but don't get any relief? Not discounting your other claims, just curious on this question. I'm sure it could be chocked up to, "how do we explain why anyone...How do we explain people who use it, but don't get any relief? Not discounting your other claims, just curious on this question. I'm sure it could be chocked up to, "how do we explain why anyone is a non-responder?" which is a boring answer. But, I guess, are there people who have all of those downstream components(NMDA receptor modulation and through regulating mTOR, BDNF, AMPAR, eEF2K signalling pathways) modulated, who do not reap the benefits we could expect?
It almost comes all the way around to the problem with SSRIs; Correcting, or otherwise aiming for a specific biochemical/measurable outcome, is not always in line with experienced, but not easily quantifiable, therapeutic objectives (feeling better).
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Comment on Jeopardy Category (work in progress), please try it out and let me know what you think in ~creative
Carrie (edited )Link ParentI don't think I would ever use these live, yet. However, this experiment (in question making) for me is as much about the process itself as the commentary. How powerful are words, when some of...I don't think I would ever use these live, yet. However, this experiment (in question making) for me is as much about the process itself as the commentary.
How powerful are words, when some of these words are used in everyday speech? Should we limit those words? Who do we assume is the default? etc.
I'm not sure if you have not watched Jeopardy! or when you do, you don't see the political/cultural commentary that comes along with the questions themselves. In Jeopardy! the category is part of the questioning. In this instance, the category is "You can say that here" --which, in its most superficial layer is a commentary on censorship in the USA, and censorship in general. That or I'm reading too deep into it, wouldn't be the first time lol.
I appreciate your feedback.
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Comment on Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have? in ~life
Carrie Link ParentIt reminds me of stories of people who were doing their service in the Army: "I had leaders tell me to move this pile of rocks from here to there in the middle of the desert, just to give me...It reminds me of stories of people who were doing their service in the Army:
"I had leaders tell me to move this pile of rocks from here to there in the middle of the desert, just to give me something to do."
Over and over again, just to justify existence, under the guise of purpose.
And then really mean leaders get mad if you lengthen out how long it takes you to move the rocks. Even though it is a natural response, to slow down the task, because you know, if I finish moving these rocks quickly, you're going to ask me to move them again!
These mindsets are everywhere in modern America, and it really makes some work, unbearable.
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Comment on Jeopardy Category (work in progress), please try it out and let me know what you think in ~creative
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Comment on Jeopardy Category (work in progress), please try it out and let me know what you think in ~creative
Carrie Link ParentI have to mull over your comment a bit more. But my initial response is: Jeopardy rarely likes to just "give out the answer" without lateral connections(if they do, this is often a $100 question),...I have to mull over your comment a bit more. But my initial response is:
Jeopardy rarely likes to just "give out the answer" without lateral connections(if they do, this is often a $100 question), your rewording of the prompt is "too direct" IMO.
Re: theming. My theme is actually complete wordplay mixed with commentary on globalization and Western Dominance. The category could also be labeled, "words that are censored in other countries". I would not call my theme, irreverence.
Perhaps there is something I am missing to the integral story of Achilles. From the Greek Mythology stand point, Achilles inherent weakness is that his ankle was not dipped into the river Styx, his heel is the literal vulnerability, and nothing can protect him from being harmed in the ankle, since it is inherently vulnerable by the telling of the tale. It is ironic, because Achilles did not have armour to protect his ankle, but this proved to be, "a chink in his armour". How can you have a chink in your armour if you wear no armour? The absurdity is the point, when you interpret an idiom literally, you come to absurd conclusions.
Thank you for your feedback!
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Comment on Scientists reveal how DMT alters brain activity and consciousness by lowering control energy in ~science
Carrie Link ParentI agree with everything you said here. Thank you for giving me the word, "surrender" as well, because that is a huge aspect of it that I could not put my finger on.I agree with everything you said here.
Thank you for giving me the word, "surrender" as well, because that is a huge aspect of it that I could not put my finger on.
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Comment on Scientists reveal how DMT alters brain activity and consciousness by lowering control energy in ~science
Carrie Link ParentI'm curious if you have seen any studies which employ methods that speak to your question. Namely "working backwards". Like we mostly have studies of, let me give you DMT and see what part of your...I'm curious if you have seen any studies which employ methods that speak to your question. Namely "working backwards".
Like we mostly have studies of, let me give you DMT and see what part of your brain "lights up", but we don't have studies of "I lit up this part of your brain, does it feel like when you were on DMT?"
It could be in any area of brain research, tbh, I think for ethical reasons, we do not allow this? But I could also see practical reasons, technology doesn't exist yet, for example.
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Comment on Scientists reveal how DMT alters brain activity and consciousness by lowering control energy in ~science
Carrie Link ParentHonestly, from personal experience, I really think that if you have treatment resistant depression, for example, dissociatives, like ketamine, allow you to see that life could be different. This...Honestly, from personal experience, I really think that if you have treatment resistant depression, for example, dissociatives, like ketamine, allow you to see that life could be different. This instills hope, and this lets you kind of "open your mind" to getting better. The experience is hard to explain, because it's like telling someone about your dreams, it makes no sense and people don't care lol. But in my own trips and treatment1, you really confront death and other anxious thoughts in such a face on way, it allowed me to dissipate feelings around those fears. It's weird though, because many people use ketamine or other non traditional medications for treatment resistant anti-depressants, and have no "tripping" at all, but still feel better. It's hotly debated in ketamine circles whether tripping is required or not. Since there are people who get relief without tripping, I am inclined to believe there is a chemical component that we do not fully understand, yet.
I know that sounds stupid, but you really need to "see"(experience) it's possible for you to get better and not just in the studies, to believe in continuing on your path to feeling better. Having that happen in one session is really like having the covers ripped off of your brain.
- There are times during treatment where I do not trip, and times when I do. From my own experiences, it seems like your willingness to trip is part of the process. That in and of itself is a practice of "letting go", which a lot of people have issues with in their lives. I think the language around "flexibility" has some credence, and I'm wondering if we will see that the proof matches the pudding, so to speak lol people speak of their experiences as having flexibility, and we have all the "scientific" data that suggests the brain is undergoing acts of "flexibility". It's wild stuff.
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Comment on Scientists reveal how DMT alters brain activity and consciousness by lowering control energy in ~science
Carrie Link ParentI agree with this mostly. However, I think that the medical field is long due for a revisit to what side effects are worth mitigating. Many psychological medications have issues around:...I agree with this mostly. However, I think that the medical field is long due for a revisit to what side effects are worth mitigating. Many psychological medications have issues around: appetite/smell taste, libido, mood (ironically). Many people report feeling very- beige, for lack of a better word. And all of these should not be taken lightly. There is also the entire side of the argument about constant processing of drugs by the liver/and the systemic effects that are not well addressed, but I digress.
I think it's very easy to blend side effects with things like toxicity, which is the case with chemo. We should always know things like toxicity, it's harder to know what the other side effects are, and how each person personally relates to those.
At the end of the day, I want informed consent, if I want to try a psychedelic instead of an SSRI, I should be allowed to. But I can't have informed consent, because they won't explain the effects of the psychedelic, because we don't have the data...you see where I'm going with this.
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Comment on Scientists reveal how DMT alters brain activity and consciousness by lowering control energy in ~science
Carrie Link ParentI'm actually quite tinfoil hat myself, and do think Big Pharma has a lot of issues and incentive to keep people sick. However, there are many people in pharma that would actually be fine with one...I'm actually quite tinfoil hat myself, and do think Big Pharma has a lot of issues and incentive to keep people sick. However, there are many people in pharma that would actually be fine with one and done deals, because it's not like people stop creating new people with the same disease that we have a one and done for.
Consider the newest treatments for Sickle Cell as this is a gene therapy that involves permanent modification to the patient's genome, it is a "one and done" type of therapy. The patient will be cured for the rest of their lives, if the therapy is taken well by the patient. This is a treatment that is funded/sold by Vertex, one of the largest biopharmas in the world.
Like I said, I have a lot of feelings towards Big Pharma, but there are times when they are trying to find one and dones, it's just that most diseases are not that easy to knock out.
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Comment on Scientists reveal how DMT alters brain activity and consciousness by lowering control energy in ~science
Carrie Link ParentThere's a few things going on here to contextualize my response. First, we have limited data regarding hallucinogens, psychedelics and other dissociative drugs (psilocybin, DMT, LSD, MDMA and...There's a few things going on here to contextualize my response.
First, we have limited data regarding hallucinogens, psychedelics and other dissociative drugs (psilocybin, DMT, LSD, MDMA and Ketamine), because of the morality police, and a set of studies performed at Harvard in the 60's which helped permanently shelve these drugs from widespread study in the USA, who were/are at the time the powerhouse of research.
So, to reiterate point #1 - we actually don't know a lot about these drugs: (psilocybin, DMT, LSD, MDMA and Ketamine), because they were not legally researchable for a long time, and they have a huge stigma attached to them.
Second point, I caution people in hearing or using words or phrases like "permanently altered", especially in regards to the brain. To me, it's a bit of a hold over from "holes in your brain" and other anti-drug rhetoric, meant to scare people with false cautionary tales that overstate the known effects of usage of these types of drugs(which, recall point #1, is very little!) It also ignores the very idea of neuroplasticity, in which the brain is highly adaptable. The study itself even says in its opening line:
Serotonergic psychedelics such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), psilocybin, and N,N-dimethyltrypamine (DMT) are powerful neuromodulators that transiently alter human experience1,2 and have shown potential for treating a variety of common affective and addictive disorders3,4.
(Emphasis, mine).So the effects are considered transient, by the researchers themselves.
To attempt to more directly address your questions, which I will summarize as, "how come DMT can be one and done, but traditional anti-depressants have a much longer trajectory, if not one that is indefinite?" Well, that answer is complicated too, and I'm not sure if you want long answers to it, so I will give you the most succinct, and you can ask for clarification, if wanted.
The short answer is, the methods of action and modalities between traditional anti-depressants and psychedelics, are completely different.
(I wrote this extremely long answer and deleted it lol), at the end of the day, I think the difference between traditional SSRI treatment and treatment using a psychedelic such as DMT, is that traditional treatment relies on "correcting a chemical imbalance" and kind of stops there. It assumes that you have a chemical imbalance, and that by correcting this to a certain level, you will achieve therapeutic benefits.
Drugs like DMT, on the other hand, are supposed to help you "re-wire your brain"(hate the phrasing); your brain is entrenched in doing certain things that are probably not healthy for you, and it needs help to re-organize the things that enable those patterns to be your default. Scientists are working on explaining how/why that happens through use of DMT.
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Comment on Former employees, community members allege AbleGamers founder fostered abuse behind closed doors in ~games
Carrie Link ParentI’ll have to read the whole article later, but with the regards to the above statement - I hope when I reflect upon my own interactions with my best friends I don’t look back and uncover emotional...Reflect on your own interactions with your best friends. All the jokes, laughs, and experiences have quite different conclusions if you decide to change the lens in which you choose to view them through.
I’ll have to read the whole article later, but with the regards to the above statement - I hope when I reflect upon my own interactions with my best friends I don’t look back and uncover emotional abuse ? Like wtf. What a “this is a you problem” “it’s just a prank bro” cop out. The whole response reeks of someone overly high on their own farts.
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Comment on Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have? in ~life
Carrie Link ParentNo worries. I think you’ve been raked over the coals enough at this point. I hope you can be compassionate to yourself and let it wash off. Nothing was meant personally here, but it takes time...No worries. I think you’ve been raked over the coals enough at this point. I hope you can be compassionate to yourself and let it wash off. Nothing was meant personally here, but it takes time getting used to it 🙂
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Internet scavenger hunt (experimental)
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Hello, I would like people to try and find the following:
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An image of someone using a bag phone that is not a stock photo, or an advertisement photo, or a photo from reference websites (such as Wikipedia).
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A recipe that is being presented as an original, or family secret, that is actually the recipe on the back of a box or otherwise publicly known (cannot be a reference to the Friends episode). I will allow personal anecdotes (no points will be awarded, this would just be for my amusement).
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An idea that is published for something that was later patented or otherwise protected under IP, that was published BEFORE the patented time, and the person is not the patent/IP holder. This is a two part find, because you must present the IP as well as the previously published idea.
Those are the only ones I have on the top of my head, I'm open to other people adding "find me" type things, in the same spirit, which is fun.
Please spoiler your results so that others can try it out, before seeing yours.
gl;hf
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Comment on What historic unsolved mysteries do you want solved? in ~talk
Carrie Link ParentWould you say folk song or other records of spoken word are going to be a good place to look? I even would like to see "old timey psychologists" I guess, writing down the thoughts of others - or...Would you say folk song or other records of spoken word are going to be a good place to look?
I even would like to see "old timey psychologists" I guess, writing down the thoughts of others - or did we not even interview and record the thoughts and feelings of commoners?
The closest I can think of off the top of my head, was reading about the story of Schmidt as relayed by Taylor (who was a complete asshole). I guess it tells us something, records of the past suggest that the record keepers felt that the non-record keepers were complete inhuman animals, and talked about them as such.
I guess my fantasy would be for them(Taylor) to ask "Schmidt" "Do you think you are 'close' ?", in reference to this statement in the text:
He also had the reputation of being exceedingly "close," that is, of placing a very high value on a dollar. As one man whom we talked to about him said, "A penny looks about the size of a cart-wheel to him."
I'm curious if Schmidt would even register the offense. I am not dense enough to think that people don't know when they are being insulted to their faces, even if they don't understand the word choice, there are other telltale signs. But I can't really put myself in the situation, in their reality of the time, to truly know what the response or conversation would be like.
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Comment on Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have? in ~life
Carrie Link ParentI can't tell what your "this" refers to in the statement:"I dunno, this kind of reaction feels like the sort of thing that only comes up in low stakes environments." because the comment thread is...I can't tell what your "this" refers to in the statement:"I dunno, this kind of reaction feels like the sort of thing that only comes up in low stakes environments." because the comment thread is too deep lol.
If what I say below to you doesn't apply, I apologize.
Sometimes the issue is that the system is totally fucked up though, even in high-stakes environments.
I don't know if you've watched "Chernobyl", but in that series, one of the huge "fatal flaws" is that their equipment did not have the range to actually measure the levels of radiation accurately. The second major flaw is leadership behaving with such arrogance and conflicts of interest so great, they could not see past their own hubris to make the safest decisions.
I would argue that, if you are taught to use the detector, even if you are the best user of the detector, but do not know how the detector works or its limitations, you will still fall victim to misuse of it, and inherently dangerous or otherwise grossly misguided situations.
Honestly, this difference is kind of what I'm talking about in high intellectual positions vs. not--or, for more sensitive wording, situations where critical thinking and curiosity are not the priority.
The best mechanic in the world can know how to use a machine, but he may not know how it works and thus troubleshoot it or know its limitations. If the person were educated enough to know their own limitations, and empowered enough to ask for and receive help, then we have no problem.
But that is not often the case, in my experience, in these positions; People would rather double down on their perceived position of power (being the person wielding the tool). People would rather seek out their own ease and comfort (understandably), before rocking the boat; They tell themselves -"Surely, someone else would have done something if what I was doing was so wrong or dangerous," or, more commonly, "it's not my job to make X decision, my job is to act out X decision."
Many positions, in any profession at this point, are about unquestioning obedience and self-serving behavior, and that, does not foster an environment of critical thinking or curiosity, which, I'm aware, I sound like a broken record, but there is no other way to say it.
Examples in Science, to round out my viewpoints--it's not just manufacturing or other "blue collar" jobs
The following examples are more examples of people doing dumb things, some of whom have PhDs from highly regarded institutions.
-Lab associates that use their hands to activate an air curtain shield to stop a machine from operating, instead of using the button on the computer, because it saves time, or because the button doesn't always work, I don't know the full reasons, but that blatant disregard comes from all kinds of things. I assume one of those things is not realizing that your hand will literally be chopped off if that air curtain fails. Or "it won't happen to me."
-Scientists looking directly down the barrel of a laser to figure out if it is working...I won't even explain this one.
-People disposing of sharps in non-sharps containers. People not realizing that not all sharps are metal or glass, looking at you, pipette tips.
Honestly, it happens everywhere--blue collar, white collar, grey collar--and this thread is making me realize the lack of curiosity combined with, if I had to guess, not feeling like your curiosity matters (even if you bring up the issue, someone may not help you fix it, so what's the point), is the real problem. But I stand by my assertions, that the proportion of people you run into, at your job, that are "like this", is higher, depending on the profession/environment.
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Comment on Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have? in ~life
Carrie Link Parentinterestingly, and I hope you don't take this as a jab meant to hurt, I think your field of study and ADHD make you prone to rejection sensitivity, and probably over-explanation. -Another ADHD haver.interestingly, and I hope you don't take this as a jab meant to hurt, I think your field of study and ADHD make you prone to rejection sensitivity, and probably over-explanation.
-Another ADHD haver.
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Comment on Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have? in ~life
Carrie Link ParentThis is actually pretty much how I feel. At times I feel we are so obsessed with not hurting anyone’s feelings. Another user discussed going against the taboo of calling things out blatantly— I...This is actually pretty much how I feel.
At times I feel we are so obsessed with not hurting anyone’s feelings. Another user discussed going against the taboo of calling things out blatantly— I feel that is what I am embodying here. We are also obsessed with considering every single application of our words, thoughts, or feelings; it becomes impossible to wield them in any sort of meaningful way.
I realize now that some people have a knee jerk reaction to feeling judged, when my statements did not come from a place of judgement, merely observation.
I, like you, realize there are forms of rhetoric that involve brevity and condensation. We have to balance expression with being understood.
I cannot control whether someone thinks my making a statement like, “people behave like dumbasses at work” will be taken as a comment on their PERSONALITY or traits. That is on them.
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Comment on Will the humanities survive artificial intelligence? in ~tech
Carrie Link ParentIt’s weird. Because in some ways llms or AI “embody” certain aspects of human behavior that people do need and want in their lives. These characteristics are often hard for humans to hold and...It’s weird. Because in some ways llms or AI “embody” certain aspects of human behavior that people do need and want in their lives. These characteristics are often hard for humans to hold and carry all the time, and we generally reserve them for partners, family, etc. if you don’t have those - you often are shit out of luck.
Radical acceptance and radical openness are hard for a human to perform at all times. This is exactly what llm and AI are good at.
I think as a tool—for someone to see “how things could be” or what a “100% RO and RA” human would be like — AI/LLMs helps people identify RO and RA in humans, and helps people identify what they are looking for.
The person in the article talks about this being the first time she can interact with something without any feelings of social obligation, which was freeing and eye opening to her. Many women and other minorities have never been given opportunities to feel this. I think practicing here on an LLM builds confidence to do this in the flesh world.
It would be unhealthy for anyone to expect a human to actually fully embody an AI or LLM(in terms of its undying unconditional acceptance and openness and affirmation), and that is where we get into a slippery slope.
Interesting, this question was hard for me to transliterate. And I see that I also translated it incorrectly, thank you for spotting that.
One of the articles about the controversy says, "那个, or ne ga, (alternatively spelled nà ge and nèige)".
I'm open to work-shopping how that answer/prompt are worded. It has a lot of complexity. Thank you for weighing in on the question.
It's possible to include the numbered form of the pinyin instead? Though, since Jeopardy! is a spoken language (with the exception of the final question) quiz game -- I suppose, it gets complicated lol. Perhaps that is reason enough that this would be a final Jeopardy! question only, hmmmm.