deemster (u/deemster)

deemster commented on Using Ghidra and Python to reverse engineer Ecco the Dolphin 32bits.substack.com/p/und... · Posted by u/bbayles

bitbasher · a year ago

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how incredibly odd the Ecco series is? For anyone that beat the games. You go from swimming in an ocean to flying with aliens. It's bizarre. Some people classify it as a horror game.

deemster · a year ago

The name of the game probably comes from dolphins echolocation ability. Another explanation I like to entertain is that the name is a reference to John C Lilly. He was a scientist who believed in an alien organization called the Earth Coincidence Control Office or E.C.C.O. He also studied dolphin intelligence and communication. He gave dolphins LSD in an effort to communicate with them. John C Lilly is an interesting rabbit hole to go down.

deemster commented on Psychedelics are challenging the standard of randomized controlled trials theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/chapulin

s4mw1se · 2 years ago

LSD was expected to be the holy grail of mental health treatment in the 40s and 50s before it was made illegal by the U.S. and the rest old the world following in the united states foot steps.

I’m very grateful that we are starting to see research really pick up steam and public companies like MindMed pushing for FDA approval with MM120.

It’s bittersweet though because it also is proof of how much progress we lost over those decades.

Not to discredit PTSD and Mental Health research, but just to expand on how much we don’t know about our mind and what these chemicals really are…

DMTx had its first round of clinical trials, where participants have extended experiences in DMT hyperspace and all share common hallucinations (i.e talking to other lifeforms).

What’s interesting is that these experiments are showing us how our brain models the world. Unlike freebase N,N-DMT which is a short lived rocky experince. These patient reported and the data showed that after the first few minutes on DMTx things started to normalize (the brain started modeling their world better)

One of Strassmans patients years ago said on DMT that these entities could share more with us if we learn to make extended contact.

Albert Hoffman the inventor of LSD also said he had contact with external entities on a trip (eyeball with wings) and said that it told him that they chose him to discover LSD for the sake of humanity.

The DMTx participants all reported that these entities knew about their life and their traumas and helped them process these all in different ways. They all reported that these were beings of a higher intelligence and felt that they were external.

Psychedelics are 100% challenging the gold standard. Whatever the that is lol.

deemster · 2 years ago

> One of Strassmans patients years ago said on DMT that these entities could share more with us if we learn to make extended contact.

If you want to hear some really wild stories read Ayahuasca In My Blood: 25 Years of Medicine Dreaming. Such as ayahuasca curing a man who received a bushmaster bite or entities revealing an herbal cure for a woman's liver failure.

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blueflow · 2 years ago

The comments section is an trash fire. Some people seem to be more than ready for the apocalypse to actually happen. What a sad state of affairs.

deemster · 2 years ago

It is sad but I think it points to how meaningless people find their lives. That's a big issue, why have we created a society where everyone is so miserable they want to watch the world burn.

deemster commented on Virtual Boy: the rise and quick fall of Nintendo's enigmatic red console arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/LorenDB

deemster · 2 years ago

Playing the Wario game on the Virtual Boy is a very nostalgic memory for me. It was short lived though, my parents got rid of the device because it was giving me headaches. What a blast from the past!

deemster commented on Smoking has long-term effects on the immune system pasteur.fr/en/home/press-... · Posted by u/gmays

DoreenMichele · 2 years ago

Smoking may be self medicating for depression and at least one study suggests smoking lowers the risk of death for people who suffer depression.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37923037

Some drugs that treat depression have a side effect of causing a lot of people to stop smoking. Maybe someday we will understand depression well enough to effectively and reliably treat it. At least until then, blanket statements about smoking aren't really reasonable.

I hate smoking. I have respiratory problems. I don't want people smoking around me.

But nicotine is a morally neutral chemical that, like any chemical, can have constructive uses.

deemster · 2 years ago

>Smoking may be self medicating for depression and at least one study suggests smoking lowers the risk of death for people who suffer depression

That's interesting because nicotine contains MAOI(monoamine oxidase inhibitors) compounds that are used treat depression.

deemster commented on Everyone Is on Their Phones theguardian.com/lifeandst... · Posted by u/baymax05

kjkjadksj · 2 years ago

Orwell couldn’t imagine such an effective propaganda device. We aren’t hiding in a corner of the room to avoid the telescreen, we are all too eager to hold it a good 8 inches from our eyes every time we have 5 seconds of free time. No time left to even freely think.

deemster · 2 years ago

Huxley did, our world turned out to be more like Brave New World than 1984. Folks are too inundated with distractions to care what's going on around them.

deemster commented on Almost half of British teens feel addicted to social media – study theguardian.com/lifeandst... · Posted by u/thm

nonethewiser · 2 years ago

This is the solution for a lot of behavioral problems. The instinct is to do the bad behavior less, but the solution may instead be to do something else more.

deemster · 2 years ago

A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit - Erasmus

deemster commented on Facebook Is Being Overrun with Stolen, AI-Gen Images That People Think Are Real 404media.co/facebook-is-b... · Posted by u/ugjka

Ancapistani · 2 years ago

I like to browse the "conspiracy" side of TikTok - not because I believe them, but because I think it's interesting to watch them form, rise in popularity, and be replaced by the next wave of strange ideas.

In the past month or so I've noticed an increasing number of videos that use obviously AI-generated images as "proof" for everything from a flat earth to Tartaria and the "mud flood".

All of the videos are getting comments that call this out... but they're never anywhere near the top. Of course, the other comments could well be AI-generated as well - but I don't have enough faith in humanity to believe that's the likely.

deemster · 2 years ago

I've seen a similar thing on TikTok where an AI generated voice of Joe Rogan is used to narrate conspiracy theory content.

deemster commented on What Sam Altman Did That Was So Bad He Got Fired from OpenAI businessinsider.com/what-... · Posted by u/jacooper

milesvp · 2 years ago

Forgive me, but that quote sounds like something any economist would say. Is there more to it than that? was he pushing to dump toxic waste? or was he pushing to align insentives so dumping isn’t a dominant strategy? I’m having a hard time imagining why the topic would come up in a bank.

deemster · 2 years ago

You can read the whole memo here, it's not long.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summers_memo

Certainly comes off to me as a policy recommendation to dump waste in developing countries but I guess that's in the eye of the beholder.

deemster commented on What Sam Altman Did That Was So Bad He Got Fired from OpenAI businessinsider.com/what-... · Posted by u/jacooper

AlchemistCamp · 2 years ago

What crime has he done, exactly?

deemster · 2 years ago

His most famous controversy is this quote from a leaked memo when he worked at the World Bank.

'the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that'

Also you could consider his polices being a key factor in the financial crisis of 07-08. Maybe crook wasn't the right word but he's certainly an unsavory character. I'm sure I could find more examples.