Being a bodyless head with a freak long tongue is not only okay—it can be an exciting opportunity
Benjamin Riley is a lawyer with experience in education, who started a relevant company. No degree or significant experience related to machine learning or neuroscience. He is an expert of neither human cognition nor LLMs, as implied by the headline
I used to excitedly answer in case it was a telemarketer
They would often ask to speak to “the man of the house” and then I would get to say, “Excuse me?? You’re speaking with the woman of the house!” After letting them do their pitch I would say some variation of, “Well I’m a child so I’m not allowed to [buy windows, etc]- goodbye.”
Lol mike wazowski in the corner
Yeah 60m2 is absolutely tiny for a whole family
“What if you run into a crazy person!”
It is a real thing but that pic is fake
<3
I get lazy bc irl I get to just rely on my authority instead of actually explaining myself lol
There’s a broad push in the therapeutic psychedelic community to use the term “challenging” instead of “bad” because semantics and framing matter. I know it can be annoying, but some words carry an unfortunate connotation that’s best subverted by using a different word altogether.
I do take issue with the words “bad” and “good” in general, but I wouldn’t say that there are no experiences which can be described as bad. (I’m also an amoralist and believe nothing is inherently “bad,” so at least I’m consistent, however unpopular)
I recommend Frankl because I realize this sounds inherently invalidating, but if anyone is allowed to say it, it’s a holocaust survivor. I’d recommend “Man’s Search for Meaning”, which he wrote shortly after being liberated from a concentration camp.
Kind of, yeah. If you think this is dumb (beyond your reductionist take, I mean), I’d genuinely recommend you read Viktor Frankl (I ignore the religious stuff tho, personally, tbc)
It’s a specifically important distinction to make for psychedelics though. If you go into it thinking bad trips are real, you’re more likely to have a challenging trip, and you’re more likely to have a defeatist attitude afterward creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Especially when using psychedelics therapeutically, it’s extremely beneficial to go into it with the mindset that there’s no such thing as a bad trip. It reduces the odds of having a challenging trip in the first place, makes them less challenging when they do happen, and improves successful integration of challenging trips afterward
People don’t like to hear it because it sounds like invalidating toxic positivity, but you’re right. Aside from fringe cases, there’s no bad trips- only challenging trips. It may even be traumatic, but that doesn’t make it an inherently bad trip; it’s all about how you respond to it and what you do with it after.
When I was a young moron, often making long drives at night on unlit roads, I would watch videos while driving by placing my phone on the dashboard and watching the reflection on the windshield
One of my local Walmarts rearranged months ago but still hasn’t updated the signs and I get so annoyed every time that I have to steal something
I wonder if this level in Human Fall Flat is inspired by that photo
I found this, which you might also find interesting!
https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/positive-anymore
I hate it tbh
That was me growing up- I got threatened with anger management therapy as young as 9yo. And now I’m a therapist lol
I’ve always wondered about people who use the word “anymore” like you do. Can I ask where you’re from?
thank you sergio
I voted based on the image alone