Bartender_Venator
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Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
I mean, TLP would diagnose this sense of change-as-death to be narcissism (to be fair, he diagnoses everything as narcissism). Personally, I'd love to be able to believe in Christianity - I find a lot of religion fairly silly and completely unfounded, but I also find modern scientistic materialism fairly silly and almost completely unfounded - but if the faith ain't there it ain't there.
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
Yeah I mean the true super-rich, the kind of people who have too many servants to get attached to individuals. Money's a bit like wine, in that it matters if your bottle of wine is below $20 or above $100, but in between it's pretty much the same.
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
In predictive processing terms: psychedelics relax your priors, which helps unstick the stuck ones (like depression).
The interesting thing about psychedelics is that you can titrate this somewhat, in ways that change it qualitatively as well as quantitatively. LSD/Psilocybin is a sledgehammer. Ketamine (in recreational doses, administered nasally, I have no idea about IV and no interest in trying) is more like pushing the clutch out on a manual car. "You" are still there, and can still contemplate things rationally, but you're separated from the world in a way that lets you be, for want of a better phrase, creatively objective.
The unfortunate side effect, for me, is that I spend a good deal of time on most ketamine trips thinking about how Nick Land was right about everything.
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
This is why my only streaming service is the Criterion Channel. The only advantage of streaming over piracy is convenience, so might as well choose your convenience to funnel you towards good movies rather than bad ones.
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
Returning to an organized religion is definitely the best outcome out of that possibility set. Oh, you mean I can just download a helpful and prosocial memeplex into my brain and all I have to do is accept Jesus Christ into my heart? Give me the pill - hell, give me two!
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
My brother pointed this out to me about myself once, and it was one of the most cutting (unintentional) insults I've ever received.
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
There are three classes of this: mean to the help (nouveau riche trash), explicitly nice to the help (lesser gentry), and "why would you be mean to the furniture?" (true money).
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
We had a kid from a Muslim family pledge our frat a year or two before I joined. He dropped acid with his pledge class, met Allah, dropped out of pledging, and every so often he'd show up at our parties with a big smile holding a can of Lacroix.
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
He claims to have been "radicalized" during the Revolutions podcast researching the Haitian revolution, though I suspect it was a long slow metamorphosis into being a boomerlib (the sections of the Revolutions pod on Indians and slavery in the American Revolution are also extremely cringe). His tweets today are something about how there's no ethical consumption under capitalism but it's particularly unjustifiable to be a Yankees fan, and then as you scroll down it's the worst redditshit you can imagine ("You'll be shocked to learn the guy who popped up to defend Pete Rose's honor and scold me for being insensitive spends his time on twitter harassing transwomen and spewing invective against Muslims").
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
Huh, I read it as an ebook and it flashed by. Books feel a lot shorter on Kindle, I guess.
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
Where exactly is here and what bars/gyms/coffeeshops do the pink swastika girls go to there?
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
A couple of people have brought this up, but there is no reasonable way to make the 1000+ page books listed fit in under 1000 pages, nor to blow up the smaller books to fit that size. Imagine a 999-page
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
All scores are compared to the 50-69 age bracket, even if you don't put in an age. I believe the test itself is a bit older than the usual internet quiz, since it's from Open Psychometrics.
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
I completely whiffed on that bit, probably should be in slightly more visible text.
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
Could be worse, could be Mike Duncan.
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
It's quite an experience, fan or no.
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
They are also asking for a photo ID scan tbf.
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
The way this works in practice is that nobody ever checks anything - every big team's games have a bunch of international tourists who don't care about the teams but want to see a game while they're in England - but if you have any items from the wrong team on you (even wearing their colours), or if you celebrate the wrong team's goal, you get kicked out and maybe kicked a bit on your way out. I could potentially argue this, but I doubt it would fly given that this is a case of the club choosing to enforce a never-enforced policy.
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
Yeah this is completely new. My brother has gone to many, many away games in the home end and has never seen this. I suspect it's because the club in question has a big reputation for violent fans and they don't want any of that to happen - and, let's be honest, they're not a club that really has to worry about tons of casual foreign fans or random tourists showing up.
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
Thanks for the offer - I did end up finding an analogue solution (see edit). Suppose that saves me from compromising my Landian principles... The reason I was asking for help is that, while I have a lot of experience with ChatGPT and Claude image gen, it just isn't good enough for true photorealism imo (that or I'm a promptlet), idk what the current cutting-edge tools are to get true photorealism, and right now I'm too busy to research into it.
BTW, speaking of football, if you are ever in London and want to catch an Arsenal game, there's a good chance I have a free season ticket that would otherwise go to a rando. You'd be very welcome to it.
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
I am in America and say "soccer" for Americans' convenience, but I'm from... well, from what used to be called the British Empire.
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
I've never heard of this happening before, but I guess since it's an important game they expect lots of away fans to be buying home end tickets (again, a totally normal thing to do).
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
So I need to send the photo by Tuesday, and this is the exact wording of the email: "Therefore, could you please provide photographic evidence that you are a [Club] supporter which can be from a party, event or fixture wearing merchandise or [Club] related evidence (Please note any merchandise will need to be purchased PRIOR TO January 2026)." Even if I could find a jersey at short notice in the US (not enough time to ship one), I'd need to try to go to some bar and make it look like I'm at an event - there are no Premier League games this weekend, so I can't go watch one of their games. If it wasn't for that I'd just go down to a soccer bar and ask to borrow someone's scarf.
Bartender_Venator
7mo ago
Or an away fan who might start a fight, that's a bigger concern.
I'm much more optimistic, in that I believe that much of the aspects of ourselves we consider to be distinctly human are actually necessary qualities of intelligence, and there will be many ways that even a superintelligence is human or hyper-human. And I would also rather see humanity gone and replaced by an able and energetic intelligence than eternally humiliated in something like a WALL-E future.
On the actual point of the conversation, SWIM would recommend to SWIY to be sure to source high-quality ketamine and start with small doses. If SWIY cuts out a line that looks like what you see in the movies he's going straight into the Interstellar black hole, that's what usually ruins ketamine for people. Put a nature documentary, some youtube drone footage of Iceland/Cape Town/Japan, or a cyberpunk anime on TV.
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