VoiceOfLogic
I happen to be, unfortunately, the first human super-intelligence.
What a sad tragedy to see what others can't see.
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VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
I've seen people who don't internally verbalize claim they think faster than those who do. I can't say I agree to such a claim, I've never felt my chain of thoughts slow me down.
The word you're looking for is subvocalize.
There is at least one instance of one-subvocalization being faster that everyone can easily experience, try to learn how to do spead reading aka reading multiple adjacents words at once.
With enough practice you end up stopping subvocalization as it is a speed bottleneck. However, it is a very underresearched topic, it's possible non subvocalization has cognitive impacts such as altered memorizations performance, creative process and or ability to detect logical fallacies.
The more interesting question is that apparently many humans do not subvocalize (think symbolically) on average, which would impact many philosophical and computer science questions.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
It is obvious colonization ironically massively sped up those countries IDH/economic growth over long term however that should not occlude the probable fact that most colonizers don't wanted to significantly invest in the growth of their colonies, especially education.
Had them significantly tried to have an utilitarian impact on those countries their economic development gradient would have been far different and with difficult to quantify but not necessarily unknowable ramifications such as e.g. say, make the third world reach occident economic and IDH parity before the 21st century.
It is interesting in that regard, to follow the increasingly war-like economic agressions the hegemonic U.S are making towards China.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
That would be so coool :)
Rinegan too!
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
Hi dear mod,
This is in fact a funny quote from this famous meme https://youtube.com/watch?v=LmWQd8zhEg4
So I was being light hearted which contrasts with most of my hyper-serious longform comments, besides even literally this is not hate speech per se, one can diagnostic flaws in America as a "disease" from which it needs solutions/healing so it should be seen as an empathic statement that strives compassion towards the state of America and also could feed subsequent thoughts about what exactly are the problems and how could we solve them?
In case you think this is off-topic, the rise of censorship is a political, social and cultural problem.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
America is diseased, rotten to the core.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
Can a jury be sued for criminal incompetence?
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
I find IQ tests deeply inept there must be a lesser known better set of tests.
The simple fact among many that we don't even test for the detection of cognitive biases and logical fallacies in ourselves and in others is remarkably degenerate.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
Could you TL;DR your learnings?
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
Unrelated but his book the art of being right is a great one for learning logical fallacies.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
I feel like this idea has become quite popular since the egg video of in a nutshell.
The unification of qualia experiences by having no physical delineation is the most epistemologically sound metaphysical belief since it avoid many paradoxes.
What is the formal name of this belief and who postulated it first?
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
Right although some glasses have nice to have distortions such as a loop effect that makes your eyes appear larger than they are.
You can always wear contact lenses if that annoys you and optionally change the color of your eyes or make them appears reptile or feline like :)
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
but not true of the 'healthy antioxidants' people refer to
I mean vitamin E and C are quite weak but there are plenty more interesting ones that are semi-popular.
I'm pretty sure a few popular polyphenols are more potent than GSH. I mean I haven't checked since a long time but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that EGCG (from tea) is more potent or equipotent.
That seems unlikely to be relevant to health overall?
Haha funny. What could be more relevant to your health than the thing that drives 90% of your body degradation, the multiplier of our decrepitude, the root cause of ageing, oxidative stress!
You have no idea what this evoke in my mind, I have read more than 10000 papers in pharmacology, including a few thousands in gerontology. Oxidative stress is the root cause and the co-factor to most age related conditions/diseases to exists. Even more, it is a cofactor in most human diseases.
There is nothing that is more relevant to your health, and there is nothing that is supported by as many corroborating studies on earth.
Now if your question was more about polyphenols than oxidative stress in general, I don't see a salient distinction.
The potency of some is comparable or superior to the endogenous antioxidants and their upregulation of them is indeed relevant.
However an optimal antioxidant prophylaxis does not necessarily involve polyphenols, they are good candidates though.
The potency of an antioxidant does not matter that much in practice as there are even more important criteria, such as:
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the half-life, many antioxidants have bad half life, however their upregulation of endogenous ones, such as does the prodrug NAC, do last a long time.
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the tissue dispersion, you want liphophilic ones and hydrophilic ones, or at least an amphiphilic.
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reactive specie specialization, such as the key role of SOD for superoxides.
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oral bioavailability, e.g. EGCG needs omega-3 and vit C for absorption and maybe piperine.
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not paradoxically being pro-oxidative in various body conditions, a common phenomenon
One of the most potent antioxidant all arround is emoxypine, which not so surprisingly is btw the most potent anti-hangover agent.
The most neutral and effective mainstream antioxidant to take is NAC (gsh)
But why stop there?
NAC is a potent endogenous antioxidant.
however the limitation with antioxidants is that they dilute in your body and therefore are everywhere but in small quantity.
For various reasons, including antioxidative stress, you can't litterally saturate your body with antioxidants and therefore their effectiveness, while real, is often mild.
Some researchers have made a brilliant observation, 98% of our oxidative stress is generated in the mitochondria, as a byproduct of oxy(gen) energy generation.
The other observation to make is that the mitochondria respirate and that it is cyclycally, the only membrane in the human body to be electronically negatively charged.
Based on that observation, via an electron donor, they have been able to design a substance that specifically enter, magnetically, into the mitonchondria and accumulate in it.
Therefore for the first time in medecine history, we can saturate the mitochondria with an antioxidant, SkQ1, the biggest disruption of the century, which is empirically found to be 1000000 times more potent than NAC.
SkQ1 prevents alzeihmer, parkinson, tumors, and most age related diseases, in vivo.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
Including muscles?
You are talking about an hypothetical blunting.
Would they also develop an increased interest to a particular feature/stimuli?
Maybe feminine ones?
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
there aren’t secret super elite conversations that are way more advanced or complex than ones we have here out there
I beg to differ I think the motte can be disrupted, I intend to write a blog about it.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
The next tier doesn't exist in online forums although it can happen in some 1 to 1 private DMs.
The reason is simple, it's not even about the lack of geniuses.
It is that mental energy is an extremely scarce resource.
People are universally fucking lazy and have a budget of only a few minutes per comments.
On the rare instances where someone does lengthy researched comments, like I sometimes do, the person will systematically face disappointment as the probability that the community will engage with as much knowledge as passion and him are close to zero. Not even in the same order of magnitude.
Online communities are extremely poor, extremely scarce in energy.
I'm constantly seeing people stop at the same layer of the discourse, repeat the same shit they seem to systematically never learn from, until they die.
As usual, it is a tragedy to see what I see, and to this problem, there is almost no remedy.
Unmedicated ADHD types who can summon hyper-focus semi-reliably
Happy to see it mentioned.
Note however that i have unmedicated ADD and the few times I tried amphetamines it enhanced my hyperfocusing obsessive ability instead of decreasing it.
An effect that seems logical, since it give me more energy (which I chronically lack) and make thinking/reading even more pleasant.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
I'd argue it is trivial to implement a test significantly superior to the IQ tests.
E.g. Obviously test for the ability to detect cognitive biases and logical fallacies.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
Tldr; People with weird obsessions obsess over weird things because they like doing that, for nothing else. That obsession is a necessary component to be truly great at anything (among many other components).
I would say that the amount of dopamin rush that a human receive while digging/hyperfocusing on an obsessive niche topic is the #1 most potent predictor of how "genius" that persons is.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
I'd even go further, if someone hasn't yet had issues with censorship/moderation on reddit, it is an heuristic that this person is not very mentally active/a free thinker.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
The idea of doing an opposite mechanism to fight a given toxicity is trivial and indeed a good one in theory.
People have a fuzzy understanding when they talk about inflammation though.
One would be symptoms of exogenous toxicity such as indeed oxidative stress. But that is not per se what inflammation denote, it denotes an autoimmune toxic but potentially useful reaction, mostly mediated via some Interleukins, TNF and IFN.
I'm not talking about inflammative or toxic/oxidative food but I don't think long term anti-inflammatory is consensually a sound strategy for increasing lifespan. After all in most cases autoimmunity is supposedly useful.
However you should at least take everyday potent antioxidants to increase your lifespan/healthspan.
Essentially Skq1 + nac coadministred.
SkQ1 is the discovery of the century but it needs nac to cancel its ironically prooxidative effect on mitochondria bioenergetics.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
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synthetic antioxidants can be more potent than the endogenous ones
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many popular polyphenols not only act as direct antioxidants but upregulate the production of some of the endogenous ones.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
Given that the pill shifts what kind of men are found attractive
Source please?
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
I am well aware of this broken promise but should we be consistent and take into account other broken promises?
The Ukrainian people voted in vast majority to stay in the USSR
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
walking is, it seems, a unique nootropic and socializer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28354769
Has any mottizen seen the masterpiece that is Don't Hug Me I'm Scared? If so what did you feel about it? What did you think about it? And what content would you recommend based on this taste?
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