swayvil

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by swayvil 3y ago
How are opioids worse than antidepressants ?
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by swayvil 3y ago
Consider that 10% of the population is on antidepressants. And the world hasn't blown up. Given the choice between antidepressants and opioids, I'll take opioids.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Here's how. If you have good opioids in hand then there's no need to buy opioids of uncertain strength from dubious sources. Thus your dosage is more controllable. If your supply is reliable then there is no seesaw of deprivation
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by swayvil 3y ago
Just make high quality opioids easy to get already. It should be as common as beer. The present system is deranged.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Complexity is trivial. That's the lesson here. It's human perception that's special. It's special in that it has an uncommonly low bar on what's considered impressively complex. Which implies something important, no
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by swayvil 3y ago
Because concerning myself with security in this case is absurd. The ubiquitous concern with security is absurd.
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by swayvil 3y ago
I appreciate this deeply. Only zuckerberg would flag it.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Like one of those 1920s blubber-shaking machines, except for your awareness.
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by swayvil 3y ago
I'm just going to leave this here https://vimeo.com/313049496
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by swayvil 3y ago
Complexity, tho dazzling and impressive, is apparently a small trick. Consider the simple algorithms that generate fractals, alife and random numbers. Problem-solving intelligence appears to be similar in that we consider it impressive and
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by swayvil 3y ago
Don't get your robe in a rumple Mr funny haircut. The truth is stranger than etc.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Well as a present practitioner, I say it's possible, done every day, and more common than you think. And I don't care how many old secondhand books you stand on.
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by swayvil 3y ago
>but it's impossible to get out of the mind... That's bold. A million monks, mystics, meditators, artists and hallucinogen enthusiasts might argue otherwise. But arguments probably wouldn't make a dent.
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by swayvil 3y ago
I did not mean to suggest any kind of exclusivity. No "just live" or "just stop the mind". What I offer is a bit of perspective. The mind only looks big when your nose is buried in it. And when your nose is buried in it
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by swayvil 3y ago
But reality isn't a story. It's a nameless, formless, infinitely deep thing. And you don't need a story to navigate it either. A story (map, theory, etc) is just one (immensely popular) way. Maybe our deep concern with storie
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by swayvil 3y ago
What takes less effort, the low effort post or the complaint about the low effort post? But seriously, it's a subtle joke meant for esoteric perspectives. Intended for like 1%.
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by swayvil 3y ago
It's all the cardio. Fish do cardio 24-7 their whole life. Therefore older=better.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Only artists will understand this. Artists will dodge the bullet and carry on. Everybody else gets an invisible bullethole. They will suffer without understanding why.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Many of us never see reality. Air-conditioned home to air-conditioned car to air-conditioned office. Artificial goals and artificial entertainments. All communication with members of your office and echo-chamber social media organs. The who
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by swayvil 3y ago
AI makes McDonald's hamburgers. Cheap and infinite. 90% of the population consider that haute cuisine. Eat em all day. Suffer inexplicable tummy aches. Etc. So let them. It isn't like we can do anything about it.
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by swayvil 3y ago
UBI could fix this. A man values truth when it doesn't conflict with his paycheck.
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by swayvil 3y ago
The brown one
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by swayvil 3y ago
My bet is on "uncommon attention management strategy".
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by swayvil 3y ago
>Lawyers representing Grant Pass say no, emphasizing that enforcing local regulations should not be considered cruel and unusual punishments. Now that is a dystopian logic.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Maybe some of these extremely wealthy people could voluntarily surrender some of their wealth for the health of society. Consider the measures we took for covid. Surely poverty is an equal if not greater threat.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Getting sucked into a dream-world/story/abstraction is a feature, not a bug. It's an attention-conservation strategy. Looking at an abstraction takes less precious attention than looking at reality. And abstractions are so ma
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by swayvil 3y ago
Do you "practice programming" or you you "make something cool"? Both lead to learning to program I suppose. But the former is an alien concept to me. The latter is the more natural.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Faster for what?
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by swayvil 3y ago
Ultima III for me. That game has a VIBE. It's like the King Crimson of games
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by swayvil 3y ago
Arguing for an afterlife is probably a wrong turn. Better to see it for yourself (in a way that doesn't involve dying of course.) The far reaches of meditation (dhyana, yogic self-cultivation) can provide such. But that requires a lot

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