This is a crosspost for one of my contributions to the Qualia Research Institute‘s exciting new HEART research project, originally written 29 February 2024. From 2-20 September 2023 I participated in the world’s first 5-MeO-DMT phenomenology & psychophysics retreat in British Columbia, Canada! All of the activities described were perfectly legal, and while the experience […]
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I often get compliments on my hair, and then astonished looks when I mention that I have been nopoo (i.e., shampoo-free) for ~9 years. Admittedly, I haven’t had long hair until very recently (I stopped cutting my hair almost two years ago), and the difficulty of maintenance does scale with hair length. But after some
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Serves: 2-6Taste: 5Preparation: 1 Health: 1 Everybody always asks me why my popcorn tastes so good. The short answer is flavacol, a potent buttery-salt that can be found in most cinema popcorn buckets. But the real trick to good tasting popcorn lies in the cooking method, which I describe in this post. Ingredients Method There
This post contains an edited transcription of an awesome conversation that I recently had with David Pearce and Kristian Rönn at the Swedish QRI Strategic Summit in July 2024. Like all of the best conversations it started with a walk outside, and the topics we covered fell broadly under the umbrella of philosophy of science,
“Sometimes it seems like the self – the sense of the self – is actually the collection of all this: body and mind and consciousness, et cetera. Sometimes in different ways it can seem completely independent of it.” Rob Burbea, 2010; ‘The Experience Of Self (Personality and Beyond)’ [45:57] Epistemic status: poetry What is self?
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When I’m not monkeying around, I’m typically reading, writing, or discussing philosophy with my peers, and of these activities, I think that philosophical discussions have the highest ROI. This is because (1) it an active process that demands a high level of sustained engagement, and (2) it allows you to outsource your cognition to the
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Serves: 4-6Taste: 4Preparation: 2Health: 4 Here is a delicious recipe that I improvised with Heye and Sebastian at Basecamp during my stay in the bay during the spring of 2024. While our expectations for this curry were low, its rich and creamy flavours won our hearts over. I recommend this recipe for when you are
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I am generally reluctant to spend much money on luxury consumables (e.g., eating out) because these experiences are typically fleeting with all the hedonic value extinguished within a mere few moments, rather than something that provides a constant source of enjoyment (e.g., a speaker system). However, I also follow the general strategy of min-maxxing investment
As a long-time reader of SlateStarCodex (now AstralCodexTen), I was both surprised and excited to discover that Scott has had twins! So excited that I enlisted the help of GPT-4 to write a short poem celebrating the occasion. Writing poems to commemorate special life events is something I do regularly for my friends, but this
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Serves:Taste: 3.5Preparation: 2Health: 4 Enjoy these (refined) sugar-free cookie bites as a healthy and delicious snack! Requires food processor Ingredients Method
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