snikeris

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   by snikeris 11y ago

   Thanks for the invite!
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   by snikeris 11y ago

   I would sit with you.
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   by snikeris 11y ago

   I would be interested in something like this as well.
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   by snikeris 11y ago

   Regarding exercise, just do something that's slightly more than what you're doing now. You don't have to go running or go to the gym if you don't feel like it. Start small. Just get up right now and go for a walk around
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   by snikeris 12y ago

   Kesey about this book, from the article: > I had no major problems with the book then, though I haven’t looked at it since. When he was around us, he took no notes. I suppose he prides himself on his good memory. His memory may be good,
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   by snikeris 12y ago

   Yes. The R/D is expensive and there are many more failed drugs than those that make it to market.
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   by snikeris 12y ago

   William Blake, especially Auguries of Innocence.
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   by snikeris 12y ago

   Random trivia of the day...this guy (John Perry Barlow) also wrote Grateful Dead lyrics. He primarily collaborated w/ Bob Weir.
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   by snikeris 12y ago

   The freedom to modify the code w/out having to share those modifications.
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    by snikeris 12y ago

    Time is an illusory phenomenon that arises due to memory.
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    Patterns of Refactored Agency (2012)(ribbonfarm.com)

    1 points by snikeris 12y ago|0 comments
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    by snikeris 12y ago

    IIRC, Carl Sagan's Cosmos has a scene of this event from the monks' perspective.
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    by snikeris 12y ago

    I think this guy would probably take issue w/ your use of the word better. If one man's better is another man's worse, perhaps "better" exists only in your head. Also, this quote comes to mind: The reasonable man ad
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    by snikeris 12y ago

    I enjoy the Grateful Dead's long improvisational jams while coding. Try track 10 for example, and be sure to listen to it in its entirety: https://archive.org/details/gd73-07-27.aud.weiner.gdadt26.26...
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    by snikeris 12y ago

    I think you've got the wrong idea. It's not about numbing the individual from the suffering they are experiencing; it's about gaining a new perspective and transcending the part of you that perceives your impending death as a
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    by snikeris 12y ago

    In the same vein (and including at least one essay by him): http://csp.org/practices/entheogens/EFR.html
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    by snikeris 12y ago

    "According to Ross, cancer patients receiving just a single dose of psilocybin experienced immediate and dramatic reductions in anxiety and depression, improvements that were sustained for at least six months." You might have made
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    by snikeris 12y ago

    Most writing is structured such that you don't need to read the entire thing to get the gist of it.
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    by snikeris 12y ago

    Includes an interesting account of Robert Jesse's (former Oracle VP, software engineer) efforts to resurrect this research: When the history of second-wave psychedelic research is written, Bob Jesse will be remembered as one of two sci
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    FoldingCoin(foldingcoin.net)

    158 points by snikeris 12y ago|88 comments
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    by snikeris 12y ago

    Is your own experience not enough? It is a phenomenon that you are experiencing right now.
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    by snikeris 12y ago

    From the article: It was a puzzle so bewildering that, in the months after his talk, people started dignifying it with capital letters – the Hard Problem of Consciousness – and it’s this: why on earth should all those complicated brain proc
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    by snikeris 12y ago

    How would you know if something is "simulating consciousness"?
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    by snikeris 12y ago

    My favorite library for this: https://github.com/cgrand/enlive
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    by snikeris 12y ago

    I found his "Who am I?" page interesting: http://davidpratt.info/cv.htm
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    by snikeris 12y ago

    Any suggestions for helping someone when they're in that state? Or for helping them grow such that these states are less frequent?
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    by snikeris 12y ago

    I almost exclusively read from: http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/
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    by snikeris 12y ago

    If you're looking for a good read on some of the principles discussed in the parent, Early Retirement Extreme [1], is an excellent resource. [1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/145360121X/?tag=oildepletiove-20
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    by snikeris 12y ago

    Some folks feel like the war on drugs infringes upon their freedom of religion. There have been some exceptions made [1], but the general populace is prohibited from using substances that have been used entheogenically for thousands of year
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    by snikeris 12y ago

    With all the concern about net neutrality, I'm surprised there is not more interest here in technological solutions to the problem. We have the hardware (cheap wireless routers) and software (cjdns) to break the near-monopoly on last-m