jules22

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by jules22 3y ago
10 year GPUs would be the norm from here onwards.
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by jules22 3y ago
I hope Intel, as the underdog, can do mid-tier cards, but with lot more VRAM. I can see myself using multiple LLM models at once, not necessarily running at once, but interleaved.
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by jules22 3y ago
That's fine, and gamers can no longer be expected to upgrade every generation or two, like they used to, if the improvements are going to be marginal between generations. The enthusiast market will just shrink and of course that no lon
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by jules22 3y ago
> But the subject is esoteric. Peers are in short supply. Yes, which is why individuals cannot do research alone. We need a well organized effort with proper subject recruitment so that there is a sufficient pool to investigate and all t
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by jules22 3y ago
> n=36 and p=0.0000006 That is how pseudoscientific studies often look like. Low n, fantastic p, yet no replicability when you should expect 100% replicability. Why? They always turn out to be badly conducted experiments. https:/&#
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by jules22 3y ago
I just read science, not the unsubstantiated metaphysical claims of meditation traditions. Playing the fantasy of an "omniscient oracle" often seems to be the ego trip of popular meditation gurus today. They are all quite scientif
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by jules22 3y ago
You seem rather influenced by Indian right wing pseudohistory. It's similar to arguing Ayurveda isn't very harmful because it is ancient. An appeal to tradition. > stacking shit like rocks on top of each other They still do in
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by jules22 3y ago
Yes, TM variants are the popular ones here, not vipassana or mindfulness. I do think it is the most harmful one. I haven't seen harm in mindfulness yet. It is best not to discuss meditation under 1 tent. I prefer your terms.
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by jules22 3y ago
> Ah, the old "you're criticizing me, ergo you believe everything I am criticizing unconditionally" fallacy. What fun... I don't believe that you do. I said you used a familiar argument that quacks use. I do not belie
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by jules22 3y ago
> I don’t avoid the Rocky Mountains because they reinforce my friend’s beliefs about God I do avoid them (figuratively, not literally) because I value my critical thinking. What I observe in meditators is a gradual loss of trust in logic
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by jules22 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Jahn#Parapsychology_... Experiments under Jahn's purview also explored remote viewing and other topics in parapsychology. In 1982, at the invitation of the editors of Procee
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by jules22 3y ago
> Ironically, only living through this fear is what causes the bad trip in the first place Where is the evidence for this? None. > the fear of "never coming back" Psychedelics sound like fun, but I have seen quite a few brok
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by jules22 3y ago
I am literally talking about the literature. Kuijpers, Harold JH, et al. "Meditation-induced psychosis." Psychopathology 40.6 (2007): 461-464.
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by jules22 3y ago
> The human brain is far less rational than we tend to believe. Recent research indicates that we hallucinate our world All the more reason, to not take reason for granted. > Senior meditators spend vast amounts of time examining thei
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by jules22 3y ago
> sounds like you have not given any time to a truly good-faith exploration of these methods To me, this is just a variation of "never mind the science, why don't you try for yourself" argument you find in quackery. I foun
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by jules22 3y ago
fixing terrible writing 1.) meditation was not really always doing what enthusiasts claimed it was doing. 2.) it was making people develop bizarre beliefs and generally become irrational.
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by jules22 3y ago
> You have to do your own research. Generally a bad idea. Usually leads to quackery, pseudoscience beliefs etc. Individuals are much worse than institutions on matters of research.
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by jules22 3y ago
The thing is, these "No true Scotsman" justifications only come out later. Despite significant literature on meditation psychosis, meditation is promoted as a completely safe practice and risks are almost never mentioned to new pr
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by jules22 3y ago
> You're supposed to find the evidence for yourself This is the argument of quacks and charlatans (including the meditation charlatans aka "gurus"). A quack will always argue to ignore criticisms of his snake oil and just
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by jules22 3y ago
I thought Advaita denies only the duality between the soul and the world soul, while denial of the world is more of solipcism. Buddhism can deny self, but Buddha can also say, his self alone exists. In any case, these are just beliefs. We k
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by jules22 3y ago
> As a small example, neither one of us could make a stealth bomber capable of dropping nuclear ordinance anywhere in the world nor perform the required R&D to properly design one. I never said they weren't good at tech and engi
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by jules22 3y ago
I don't disagree. This is hacker news. We all know how skewed social media is. We all understand the biases of recommendation algorithms. However, my point is not one of presenting a representative sample, but rather easily accessible
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by jules22 3y ago
Life being a hallucination is in fact one of the hallucinations that can be caused by meditation. These are called derealization hallucinations and are reported in meditators.
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by jules22 3y ago
Your account of an awe experience is quite common. Francis Collins had a similar experience. I am not unaware of these accounts. I agree with much of what you said. But I also think it makes people a tad more open to irrationality after suc
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by jules22 3y ago
Brian Josephson won his Nobel and then got into transcendental meditation. He was talking pseudoscience since. It does not take away from him that he is a smart man, but it seems to have effected his rationality quite a bit. I know some med
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by jules22 3y ago
I did not argue that it was inert. I actually argued that 1.) not really doing what enthusiasts claimed it was specifically doing. 2.) making people become develop bizarre beliefs and generally become irrational. It can be a cult pseudoscie
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by jules22 3y ago
PMC has a lot of junk journals. Don't fall for them, especially if you want to use "Dr" in your nick. Most meditation research is rather low quality. Don't go around just googling your confirmation bias. One would not re
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by jules22 3y ago
There is no reason why he should be taken as an authority. "anything transient is false" is wrong at so many levels.
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by jules22 3y ago
Supernatural claims made by meditators that are obviously not true are what keep me from experimenting with meditation. I don't want to mess up my brain. I value it. All the senior meditators I know have some element of irrationality.
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by jules22 3y ago
There are a bunch of psychology phenomena that explain such things. No Wifi involved. I generally find the followers to be quite suggestable by people they designated as a guru.

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