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by krzat 2y ago
There is a book about effect of keto on the brain: https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Energy-Revolutionary-Understand... Not sure how much evidence is for claims, but sounds somewhat reasonable.
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by krzat 2y ago
It's knowable in a sense that hallucination/scam is vastly more probable than an actual ghost (or any other supernatural phenomena). If there is a mistake in common knowledge, it's the belief that hallucinations/delusion
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by krzat 2y ago
This kind of human interaction is way too quick to have any deeper thinking involved. Because brains are prediction machines, if something unexpected happens that requires a quick response, it will be fully handled via autopilot. If it was
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by krzat 2y ago
Our capacity for delusion is pretty robust. Culadasa's scandal is a good example.
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by krzat 2y ago
Honestly the bigger problem is probably that creating lasting habits is hard. Everyone knows that exercise is important but how many people maintain a consistent routine? With mindfulness it's even worse because there is no way to trac
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by krzat 2y ago
Psychiatry seems to be very symptom based, depression is an umbrella term for many completely different problems that show as "big sad". Maybe it would be more productive to base diagnosis on some kind of brain imaging.
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by krzat 2y ago
Compassion towards enemies is especially interesting, it takes a lot of mental effort to go against the gut feeling.
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by krzat 2y ago
I had lucid dreams in the past, I can understand why people would call this astral projection, but to me it's pretty obviously brain produced experience. I doubt that anyone would believe in this stuff if they had Sack's experienc
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by krzat 2y ago
There is a condition called aphantasia, in which people are unable to visualise things, but are perfectly capable of doing visual tasks, such as art. The question "is this animal conscious" is quite close to a question "does
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by krzat 2y ago
Cheap geothermal seems like tremendously easier problem to solve than cold fusion, I wish that more effort was put into it.
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by krzat 2y ago
There is psychological approach called internal family system, it explains personality as collection of entities that cooperate unaware of each other. Perhaps some drugs disturb this to such extend that it feels like there are multiple peop
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by krzat 2y ago
Instead of making a logically sound movie, perhaps it would be more efficient to generate animated visual experiences that are meant to invoke certain experience. I wonder if it would be possible to generate randomly looking noise that invo
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by krzat 2y ago
Put some milk on high and see if your theory holds true.
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by krzat 2y ago
Exercise, therapy and some kindness/compassion mindfulness. Very powerful stuff.
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by krzat 2y ago
What would be actually pretty nice is AI girlfriend that also acts as therapist and pushes you towards healthy habits.
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by krzat 2y ago
We have billions of neurons but they create one coherent experience, it would be pretty elegant if consciousness was involved here. Basically: what is conscious is quantum, what is unconscious is classical. Vast majority of brain activity i
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by krzat 2y ago
We will get better with understanding black boxes, if a model can be compressed into simple math formula then it's both easier to understand and to compute.
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by krzat 3y ago
Brain is basically running a matrix-like simulation with a central person in it, for AGI we just need to simulate the thinking parts which is a simpler problem. But who knows how much simpler...
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by krzat 3y ago
It's remarkable how brain habitually ignores stuff that is relatively constant, no matter how impressive or how important.
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by krzat 3y ago
It's fascinating how plug & play our brain is. Just consistently supply information to it and voila, you have a new sense. One day we may have a marketplace where you can purchase a sense of north or your spouse's body tempera
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by krzat 3y ago
Perhaps, that's the question. What is required for the simplest possible consciousness?
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by krzat 3y ago
IMO those are details, we could drop the constatness and just ask - what is required to have a single moment of redness? Or even simpler, a single moment of one tingle. BTW experienced mediators apperently can experience no time and no spac
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by krzat 3y ago
Mixing consciousness with cognition is a mistake, Imagine a conscious experience of constant redness and nothing else, is there any intelligence needed for this?
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by krzat 3y ago
The real work is integrating info from the book into life, not reading it.
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by krzat 3y ago
Crying is the appropriate response to pain, much much better than drinking, getting numb or pretending that everything is ok. The trick is to not feel ashamed or weak for doing this, just cry and appreciate the relief it gives.
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by krzat 3y ago
If RAM comes loose often enough that support paper mentions it, it's not a good sign.
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by krzat 3y ago
The best thing I did for my music enjoyment was meditating. Working with audio receiver instead of emitter. It makes sense to me that audiophiles spent so much money, each new purchase gives a dopamine hit and a temporary illusion of better
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by krzat 3y ago
Is there any purpose to brainwaves, or are they just a side effect of communication between neurons through axons?
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by krzat 3y ago
What I think OP said, is that humans won't adapt to these challenges due to our biological limitations. IMO humanity will adapt, and the first sign of this is that those problems are getting recognized and given more and more traction.
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by krzat 3y ago
Probably a question to the guy above, but there is immediate psychological reward in any act of kindness or generosity (at least in healthy, thriving individuals).

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