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@nickcammarata
Oct 3, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Pro tip you put anything into your body that changes your mind, send yourself dosage and time. You’ll have a perfect record of everything you’ve ever taken, and if you do end up in medical emergency you can access it on anyone’s phone to give to your doc
I do this with molecules I put in my body that don’t change my mind too, but I’m really careful. The chance you end up in a state where you can’t recall is probably lower, so I wouldn’t stress over it
I think “risk tolerance” with this stuff is largely a false dichotomy. Good safety protocols go incredibly far in allowing a lot of experimention without much risk. Shulgin threw totally unknown molecules into his body for 50 years and was healthy and happy as a clam
Eg it’s quite common to read a paper about a drug you might associate with being physiologically or psychology dangerous where like all 200 people they tested on all had a fantastic time! If half your friends have bad times, it’s because they’re being unsafe with no upside
apparently I am not as hardcore as some of you

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Nov 22
everyone loves the do what feels good advice until they realize it leads to letting go and dissolving into nirvana
the both convenient and inconvenient truth about the physics of consciousness is that the right type of nothing feels better than almost every and possibly literally every something
though I guess it’s completely unsurprising from a mathematical sense if it turns out the limit of valence is zero. the answer to every question like this turns out to be zero, one, or infinity. the global peak was gonna be nothing or maxing it out. turns out it’s the former
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Oct 17
my experience on "the path" or whatever so far is there's an incredible, shocking amount of karma stored in the body from unfelt emotions over what has been a kind of pretty overall great life. its wild how much the body stored. going through the storehouse is exponential with time, and can be done with almost no suffering, but lots and lots of feeling

at least thousands of hours total just letting contractions untense, on the hour long zoomed in view it feels like maybe this is all procedurally generated and fake but over the year to year view it's super obvious in a daily felt experience way that the total storehouse is decreasing, which is also what all the books since forever say is how it works
mostly i dont control when the things want to come up, i try to just drop whatever i'm doing and lay down for an hour and let them flow/uncontract unless i'm quite in the middle of something. more flexibility in your schedule def makes this easier. sometimes 30s, up to 1-2hrs
i think to some extent until abiding centerless awake awareness it's hard to work through the storehouse because the rate of contraction creation isn't low enough, need to stop the creation before you really work through it ime. which is also what the books basically all say
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Aug 20
meditation might have the worst pedagogy of any field. they solved the cause* and cure** to suffering but hid it behind weird poems and deities

* clenching and resistance
** train to not resist, see how you gradually feel way better, see the non-specialness of self-sensations
I guess I don’t even know what to cause the field, bc meditation is more (part of) the cure than the field itself. maybe the field is early phenomenology researchers?
I wouldn’t say they solved psychology but they solved the most important problem in psychology, which is why is life hard and bad sometimes and what is needed to make it not that hard and mostly wonderful
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Aug 18
any view of intelligence that's fixed across time (like iq) is dumb, my ability to solve hard intellectual problems over a given span of time varies like 100x depending on how i'm feeling. i'm bottlenecked on "time in ideal state" not peak capability and i suspect most are too
i do think intelligence disparities are very real but i rarely think it's the bottleneck even within like theoretical research sciences (most of what i do), but certainly in most applied areas
if we needed to compress it to numbers i think we should have two: intelligence variance and peak intelligence. basically every scientist i know has enough peak, the most productive ones i know stand out largely bc emotional regulation and good health to near it 90% of the time
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Aug 14
the most wealthy people mostly got there by purposefully doing the things that create the most wealth over a long time horizon

the most happy people mostly got there by purposefully doing the things that create the most happy over a long time horizon
the way you make the most wealth isn't by making higher and higher hourly wage it's by creating an equity and then causing that equity to go up, usually via a tech company. that's sort of just how the "physics of wealth" works out
the way to the most happy isnt getting all the things you want, it's learning to feel the cause of suffering (contraction caused by clinging) and stopping it, after which happiness arises on its own, usually via meditation. sort of just how the "physics of happy" works out
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Apr 3
if you’re high functioning autistic I think it’s worth trying to change it and mitigate its downsides, the “I have autism must accept every symptom 100%” thing I think is a bit too far. mdma, oxytocin nasal spray, meditation, exposure therapy, regular therapy I think can do a lot
I think autism is completely real in the same way that depression is real but identifying with “I’m a depressed person” can be extremely life limiting. I think it’s important not to fall into learned helplessness. Though kindness with yourself along the way is critical too
predisposition doesn’t mean destiny, muscles we’ve strategically let atrophy long before we know what was happening bc they were overwhelming for us don’t have to stay atrophied our whole life
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