Interesting

These skyhooks are taking jobs away from pigeons

Im telling you if we don't find work for them they are going to just gather on our cities' streets one day

Never happen, we can just keep shitting all over them, what the fuck are they gonna do?

Haha! Go on side boob

This is one of those things thats both mind blowing *and* makes total common sense.

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If any machine life is to emerge here, humans and non conscious AI will need to solve the 'hard problem of consciousness'.

Penrose and Hameroff's Orch OR appears to be the most viable theory at this point, but even that has it's problems, especially relating to decoherence.

And, of course, there is the Fermi Paradox. There's been time for the emergence of many civilisations in the universe, but we've yet to see any - organic or otherwise.

It could be that we're alone, or that civilisations don't tend to overlap because they are inevitably short-lived.

I lean towards the latter explanation, mainly because of the disgusting way we treat our planet in pursuit of personal enrichment.

This guy actually compares the situation to the moral responsibility of nuclear scientists in the 1940s. I think this isn't quite a parallel not so much because of the stakes but because he is asking people to go beyond their jobs and become activists where as the 1940s guys (including Einstein) were petitioning existing leaders.

Those 40s scientists were up against something inevitable so they could only stall things a bit, this lot can actually enable.

You don't think twats stealing people's data is inevitable?

Yeah it's an infinite loop of cat and mouse i reckon

and we think identity politics is bad now

There's a 1989 Japanese horror film called Tetsuo that ties in with this description. It's about a chap who starts grafting pieces of metal onto his body. Freaky fucked-up stuff.

I know it well! Great movie.

It's a bit vague if you ask me because it means *everything* that comes after us: AI, cyborgs, augmented humans and god knows what else. I prefer "trans-humanism" which implies people transcending the human body.

Post Humanism means information tech based evolution whereas transhumanism means the "everything"

If an individual has a cranial implant to reduce epileptic fits, have they entered a Post Humanist phase?

Transcending the human body?
I believe that this is called Death.

version 1 is a little more humble than that, but hell if you're into magnets

That's a lot like the question "When is the Singularity?" the moment that artificial intelligence passes humans'. A lot of people laughed at Kurzweil's predictions for this happening in the 2020s, but with all the progress in the last year and the exponential curve this is following he might be right.

It might be easier to say its coming than it's here. If you work as an uber driver or a stock trader you are already taking orders from an a.i. entity much smarter than you.

One word - Skynet.

this

Post humanism hahah... maybe parasitism? As a species we are already doing it.
Btw. Im down only for analogue transhumanism in any case.

but brain-mix tapes are going to be a pain this way

what is analogue transhumanism?

In essence it is man being puppeted by Satan into trying to eradicate God. To replace God with a counterfeit. It is the attempt at justifying what was done in the Garden of Eden and fulfilling Satans promise that 'ye will be as Gods'.

I would argue we are already in a post-humanist world, and have been for some time, with the evolution of media, pointedly the internet, on group mentality, opinion and aligning of thought. All through intense, persistent and unrelenting social pressure, various political propagandas and essentially, marketing.

The coagulation of collective conscious intentions via the internet, dispersing opinion, values and philosophies, dispenses of the opinion forming skills of those exposed to it more and more as generations turn over. This has happened in stages since the introduction of the web and I believe can be prevalently seen in the west. In particular, in political states which lean more towards capitalism, as this effectively 'supercharges' the evolution of these mass influences.

We as humans are physically not really evolving any more, Darwinism isn't exactly hitting the spot for us, take a walk through any small town centre and I'm sure you'll find it hard to disagree (We do still hold the record as the best long distance land animal though if I'm not mistaken). We do however evolve behaviourally at an astronomical scale when compared to other species.

Whether the invocation of an effective 'hive mind' on our selves causes us to enter a state of 'post' humanism is open to debate of course, but i think on the Richter scale of change it scores rather high.

Much like me, I am also very high.

I did and I missed it tbh. Not so much for the focus but for awareness feeling when it first kicks in. That said glad I took a break.

I take classes and still have shit to get done

Anyone here have noopept?

kinda stopped after all the lockdowns

I just did after near daily use for months and I felt bad for 6 days max. I can't say I missed it a lot and used the time to experiment with other nootropics especially the racetams. I will start the semester all healthy with noopept and then start slipping in the moda when studies start heating up.

Also some other noteworthy switches here:

He says they currently think the brain’s hypothalamus—known as the seat of control for hormones, body temperature, mood, hunger and circadian rhythms—may also act as a regulator of aging.

Other approaches that have been discovered to have anti-aging benefits in animals include calorie restriction, the drug rapamycin and parabiosis—the practice of giving old mice a blood supply from younger ones. The fact that these diverse strategies all seem to work suggests there may be more than one way to age, and that multiple complementary therapies may be needed to significantly extend longevity,

'Parabiosis' - also known as vampire facials in Hollywood. Yes that's right, Kim Kardashian has aborted fetus blood rubbed on her face. This is common practice. Loreal also a whole range of more expensive products with this in it. Also 'Blood boys' are a profession. This is a rabbit hole you don't want to go down as usually the source of this blood is disturbing.

A vampire facial is carried out using a person's own plasma that's separated in a centrifuge from their extracted blood

yes very creepy when money is traded for life itself but it seems an ethical market is possible as healthy people have a surplus and all the means for extraction and testing are really well established.

Andrenachrome?

You don’t need much. Just a tiny taste.

Hi spiceX1

While calorie restriction makes logical sense I remember reading the study about the rejuvenating effects of young mouse blood on older mice - fascinating Research.

Maybe Keith Richards is actually 250 years old? :O)

What is epigenetic treatment consist of?

Also did you know that you can slow down your biological aging by eating right, exercising right and your mindset plus environment by up to 3 times

Hi denofsim

Good stuff.

Given organic chemistry IS chemistry surely the 2nd law of Thermodynamics would prevent one from rewinding the clock fully.

We believe psychedelic therapy also has this magical ability ;-)

Would be nice if this included hair loss

exit strategy

How can the rest of the world let this happen? They've rejected Facebook's crypto coin pretty easily.

It hasn't happened yet. The VR story is yet to be told

People are just people.

Cheers BB

Not for long bigga

UK is going to shits

As long as an authority is collecting taxes you are always going to wind up in the same place. Power will be used to obtain the money and money will be used to obtain power to get more money. These are rules of nature.

reminds me that there is nothing more organic than shit.

Maybe nature will just wipe 98% of us out in a massive self imposed detox. Highly possible, and for the rest of the poor beings that live here along side our seemingly never ending cyclic bullshit, maybe highly desirable. Feeling a wee bit nihilistic today, my deliveries not here yet. Lol.
Btw way op, loving the nod to Spider Jerusalem. My son wore that pair of glasses to a hippy festival last year and was well raging when only one person got it. As I told him, wrong crowd.

Swap some of your bitcoin into chainlink and ethereum and wait for the boom, cash out and take yourself off to thailand where you can live like a king, my exit strategy lol

Oh the revolution is coming… tbh it’s looking more and more appealing 😂

amen. very inconsistent

Thanks for the heads up. I wasn't aware there was inconsistencies. I'll do some research into it.

I probably should mention that most of the ones I've bought on LB are good and I've bought carts from 5 different vendors.

I've had 2 duds but the rest of them were very good, just various degrees of potency

Yeah that’s true enough, the potency varies with each seller, I think the best I’ve had is MJconcentrates so far, but I know GC has got some carts in now that i wanna try out. If you’re making the carts yourself, you’ll at least know the potency depending on the weed or concentrate you decide to use for it.

See, I only do vapes. Did have a quick look at the inconsistencies but I think as long as you have a good branded cart (my personal favourites are heavy hitters and select-at the moment) and a decent enough battery, you're good to go.

Yes, you should look into each brand to see the vibe on the Web and then make an informed decision. A good friend did say that he's not been feeling anything bad nor is he growing any extra fingers, so he's going to stick with vaping. He does have a point.

Only bad experience I've had with a cart is I ponce dropped my vape and the cart smashed. Gutted, best part of a gram gone.

the 2 bad ones I had burned too fast. I'm not sure what the problem was but I could watch the contents disappear with each toke. After 7-8 puffs, it was all gone.

I prefer ingesting b/c it's longer and more intense high for me. I vape with the carts to kill the time I wait for the ingestion (green dragon, distillates, or brownies) to kick in or when I want to catch a quick buzz

Plus majorly the strains and quality of the materials used in the first place is more of the primary factors.

I’m having trouble with this myself too HBiz with the quantity of weed to 1g cartridge ratio, I think it works out to a similar amount for homemade rosin, where you usually gain back 10 - 25% back depending on how much you put in. For example a gram of weed will get you a return of .1g - .25g of rosin if you have a rosin press or you can do the hair straightener method. With that being said, you’ll probably need to have 4g - 10g or more, but I’d say the 7 gram mark on average. I’m honestly not too sure mate, hope someone can help inform us on it more who’s more experienced. Hope this helped though.

Thanks Bd

Well you worked it out and quite correct with the 10-25% return on extracts. Then cutting out the fats and lipids. You can work it all out reverse engineering it quite easily.

I can answer this with a good level of accuracy. I used to have a small rosin press (rosin bomb rocket) amazing peice of equipment for enthusiasts such as myself. Using that I would get about 20% of what I was pressing which is actually pretty decent for the price point of the press.

So my experience of my own pressing adventures was 5gr of flower was making 1gr of rosin pretty consistently using top quality flower ( bear in mind the quality does make a difference something lower in thc will inevitably produce less of a yield).

The standardised calculation of volume is 1ml /gr ( if you had a gram of rosin and melted it you would have 1ml of liquid)

I'd do mine 50/50 so 1 gr rosin with 1ml of carrier liquid would make 2ml e liquid resulting in 4 x 0.5ml carts with what started out as approx 5gr of flower.

Nothing more satisfying that watching rosin seeping out of the press onto the parchment paper, that's the money shot right therr 😂 check put youtube for rosin pressing and you'll see what I mean 😉

Even with a 20% yield when I removed the flower pucks they would be visibly coated with oil so I'd save them and smoke them when times got hard so there would have been more that could have been pressed had I used a more industrial press. No doubt . Although too much pressure does release fats, lipids and other things you don't want so there is a sweet spot .

Long way around answering your question but hope that helps 🙂

Ps don't waste your flower by pressing with hair straightener method you won't even get 10% becuase you can't apply the same comsistent pressure that a hydraulic press can and your missus will go spare 😂😂 trust me lol

It's a combination of time , pressure and temp that is a deciding factor when pressing so when I say there is a sweet spot just to clarify, this is what I mean , its not just about the amount of pressure you apply to the nugs but also the temp and time under pressure it does take some experimenting to be able to feel things out and I think everyone has their preference. Sometimes I wanted a darker hashy rosin and sometimes I like a lighter cleaner tasting rosin . I'd adjust these factors accordingly

Very interesting read, thanks👍🤓

I am unsure. Ive tried a few. MJ concentrates THC is the most powerful on here. Radar breeders Grandaddy purple vape is best value on here. I have had some rubbish from another site advertised as gorilla glue vape. Very weak.

Also recommend Marshall Sahlins - Stone Age Economics.

What’s the books name? Thanks

What are the side effects of modafinil?

Find better natural nootropics. A building block L Tyrosine, Siberian Ginseng - so many so much better with less side effects and less problems.

What is the correct dosage for my first time using modafinil?

It depends what you are using it for and how you plan to move forward.

If you are a shift worker or have chronic fatigue syndrome you are going to want to manage for long term effects, you'll be taking it up to 5 times a week (always take a couple of days off) and you want to get away with the minimal dose that will keep you awake, that's going to be 200mg for most people but 400mg is possible after a month of usage. taking more than this is serious business, even with a relatively benign drug like moda, make sure you have the medical history for this especially cardio health and monitor closely.

if you are taking moda for an exam or project a 1/2 (100 mg) will get you through a day if you don't eat much; a full 200 mg is ok, don't do more without an a.d.d. diagnosis.

whatever you do stay away from caffeine and other stimulants.

It gets even better apparently thats a VR bandana.

Almost as good as the Petticoat 5 :)

Nice podcast on this my nerdy biggaz

revenge is still harm fella. see the prime directive.

The prime directive on Star Trek is easier to define than "do no harm" on little biggy but I do agree it's unequivocal harm.

Article is implying the money follows the system of organisation so while you're spot on with the transitional state we are in now it would appear the corporations have more disadvantages where we are headed like tax and administrative burdens.