Spyke
boboreply

According to the dude, people with no foreknowledge also saw the same things. "Seeing the code of the matrix" definitely sounds better than "DMT enhances random patterns".

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ttrpg.network

Can show you the secrets of the universe using a DMT Pen and...

Anyone else get "Thinking quickly, Dave constructs a homemade megaphone, using only some string, a squirrel, and a megaphone." vibes.

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RebekahWSDreply
lemmy.world

I still think of that scene at least once a month and giggle!

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discuss.tchncs.de

Dave the Barbarian is an American cartoon series produced by Disney that ran for one season between 2004 and 2005. The show is about a cowardly barbarian named Dave who is tasked with protecting the kingdom, as well as the princess, while his parents are away fighting evil.

KYM Entry about the scene

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but people, please do not take psychedelics and put lasers near your eyes.

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untorquerreply
lemmy.world

Emphasis on AND. Putting lasers near your eyes is a sober activity.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

This is true. Laser Doppler Vibrometry and Atomic Force Microscopy are two legitimate examples of using lasers near your eyes while sober.

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untorquerreply
lemmy.world

Im working my way up intensity to build an immunity. I'm all the way to class IV indirect. Hoping to achieve direct by the next eclipse so I don't need my Raybans.

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It appears to be on some sort of apparatus that can make it draw a line, I wouldn't be surprised if there's some gimmick that makes it actually draw cryptic letters or something too

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Take psychedelics, why not, go for it.
Put lasers near your eyes, absolutely.
But never, EVER, take psychedelics
and ALWAYS put salt in your eyes!

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I'm old dude, we didn't have vapes: if you wanted to meet your higher self you had to use a bong or a pipe

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sopuli.xyz

If what we perceive as reality is a simulation the purpose is quite clear, to observe the behavior of overconfident idiots unfettered by the mediating tendencies of a too reasonable reality.

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HyonoKoreply
lemmy.ml

Maybe it’s some higher dimensional grad student simulating something to get some plots to add to a poster his postdoc wants him to present at a small time conference somewhere. Our consciousness is just a side effect because he insisted in doing the coding in Haskell.

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boboreply
lemmy.ml

Our consciousness is just a side effect because he insisted in doing the coding in Haskell.

Lisp is the true God's programming language...

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Nazreply
sh.itjust.works

That's so many nested assumptions, lol:

Assumption table

  1. Graduate student in academia
  2. Running a simulation for data
  3. For a conference
  4. Haskell

The probability value of all four being true simultaneously approaches ≈0%

Don't forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.

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angrystegoreply
lemmy.world

Come on, it doesn't work like this. You can disprove the funny theory only if you give us an even more ridiculous one in it's stead.

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muzzlereply
lemmy.zip

Don't forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.

Most of it is empty. The trick is lazy evaluation.

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Our telescopes eats up CPU cycles fast, the poor blokes cloud server will come with an unsuspecting bill this month...

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Yeah, it uses a simplified model unless you look too close. That's how you get those funny quantum effects. Although, I have to say, great sativa, dude

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lemmy.world

Don't forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.

I mean, if it's really a simulation, all of that would be... simulated.

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I know; I'm just fishing out counter-examples and counter-arguments.

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shneancyreply
lemmy.world

and honestly, even if it is a simulation, so what? do you have a way to get out? can you even exist outside of it? do you hurt or love any less knowing that? what are you supposed to do about it? give up? lay your simulation body on the simulation dirt and simulation die?

none of it really matters does it, especially because you can't know if it's possible to leave/exist outside. as far as you know this life is still the only thing that is certain

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krunklomreply
lemmy.zip

If it's a simulation someone must be running it. Maybe we could get their attention somehow.

Praying obviously doesn't work. Maybe if we all stripped naked and just kind of started getting it on in a giant juicy fuck pile that would get their attention.

And they could make things suck less.

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AppleTeareply
lemmy.zip

That's assuming the someone running the simulation is even aware we are here. For all we know, they're just trying to model out the behavior of stars and black holes.

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dmention7reply
midwest.social

If I was playing The Sims, and one of my Sims started showing un-mistakeable signs of self awareness, I would panic and ctrl-alt-delete that shit so fast.

Maybe its better if we DMT-and-lasers our way into a plan before we start banging on the glass.

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mander.xyz

They go for a swim without a ladder when they displease the elder gods.

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discuss.tchncs.de

Absurdism is your friend. If nothing matters in the long run, if all of existence is absurd, why not enjoy the here and now?

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Daftyduxreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Your body knows dmt should deployed at the time of death. Maybe its uploading you to the cloud.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

Like the Kumail Nanjiani joke about a new drug called "cheese," made by mixing Tylenol PM with heroin.

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If anyone was curious the reason for "cheese" is to turn black tar heroin into a snortable powder. It's not really well known because people who buy tar smoke it or inject it and if you wanted to snort heroin you would just buy powder form, but powder used to be hard to find on the west coast until fentanyl became big.

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In our lanoratory I remember an warning sign:

Do not look at the laser with the remaining eye !!

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ozymandiasreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

well it’s always vaporized, burning it will destroy it…
but it turns out, with a little chemistry you can put anything into a vape

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Even if we were in a simulation, we only exist inside of it and knowledge of whether or not we are "real" doesn't actually change our interaction with the time and space inside our universe.

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antonreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

The only thing one could do with knowledge of being in a simulation, is trying to find bugs and exploits.
From now on, I expect anyone claiming we live in a simulation to have a working perpetual motion device, faster that light communication, or something similarly impressive. If they don't, their claim is meaningless useless.

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lemmy.world

Just because they can't find exploits in a simulation sophisticated enough to run a seemingly infinite universe doesn't mean there's no simulation.

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I know, but otherwise there is no use for the knowledge that we live in a simulation. Unless someone can contact the outside of course.

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No, but it does mean they have no evidence of being in a simulation.

Which is about as meaningless as saying we live in a universe dreamed up by Azathoth.

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RedFrank24reply
lemmy.world

Great, I've been suffering through Capitalism and now I have to learn that it's not even real Capitalism.

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Theory is that the human (and maybe other) brain creates a simulation of the world experienced through the senses and that 'you' interact with that. Everybody has their own simulation, no code to speak of. Drugs can 'hack' it by messing with the simulation and perception.

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lemmy.curiana.net

Crazy people were spreading stupid shit like this on youtube for decades but I would really like to know why Vice thinks this is newsworthy now. Did the society became so stupid that being an idiot influences is now a valid profession?

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being a court fool or village idiot have been professions too. The problem nowdays is that too many people look up to the idiots as someone to seriously listen to, not as entertainment.

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Alex Chiu? I think that is his name…I haven’t thought about those in years.

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This article makes me regret telling elon about simulation theory at burning man that one time

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Yeah, drugs and looking into lasers will definitely change your brain, no doubt. Dunno if I want advice from someone who does that, tho…

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Well, a friend of mine took acid with a TV in the room, and it enabled him to see what was behind the signal, between the scanlines, on the other side of the picture. He then saw the message that held the secret to unlocking the truth of the universe.

It said: LSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSD

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Ah, from the picture I thought he would teach us how to read barcodes (which do underpin human reality), but it's just some boring simulation stuff.

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aussie.zone

Heheh. Reminds me of the guy I knew who did a DMT trip and claimed to be able to see between the atoms and retrieve lost memories.

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fckredditreply
lemmy.ml

Maybe the lost memories were meant to stay lost? Who knows what eldritch horrors we uncover? I think the lost memories should stay that way: lost.

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I remember being taught something that resembles the idea, you wrote, when I took a course on cognition during my PhD. Memory is probably the most fascinating aspect of cognition to me, TBH.

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I read about this idea before with a tidbit about how because of this your best and worst memories are your least reliable. Cool thought!

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Bring on the lost memories, if the world ends in abject horror, well it's only speeding up what's happening.

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"Let's see how close I can get the lasers to my eyes without going blind..."

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lemmy.world

Not sure how you can it these days, but I recommend static on a TV over this.

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KeenFlamereply
feddit.nu

What I mean is - youtube compression destroys the effect. And why do you think it's AI?

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I was just joking sorry, I just found the concept of AI doing fake static humorous. Forgot my \s

It's actually really cool to see this and it brought back memories - I do wonder if they just looped a short bit or recorded the full 2 hours

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"Could you see the day? Could you feel your whole world fall apart and fade away?

Get along, get along, Kid Charlemagne Get along, Kid Charlemagne"

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Hmm if I say that if you add magic mushrooms to the mix you can change the simulation to your advantage, will you follow me? I could use the extra cash.

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sh.itjust.works

Here, you want a mind fuck? I'll let you have it for free:

Bell's Theorem: The universe is not locally real (either the speed of light is violable or properties of things do not exist until observed). Light simultaneously takes all paths, and so does everything else if given the right conditions. We just perceive "Location" as a property things have because of probability and the fact that all of the other potential locations have probability functions that average out to zero (not a quantum physicist, so probably not using quite the right terms there). "Everything" literally is "Everywhere, All At Once". The world that we perceive is nothing more or less than a vast ocean of waves within overlapping fields. The interference between the waves, the troughs and crests, are the objects we perceive. Nothing is truly as you see it, even yourself. Also, the force of gravity doesn't exist. Time just passes slower near massive objects.

That's the best I can do for ya. First hit's free.

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I don't see how these facts of physics say anything about our reality being simulated? Or even contradicting if we really exist etc? I mean they can get your imagination going sure but being able to verify the human experience is the penultimate arbiter

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Comments all seem to refer to an article and this post doesn't link to any article. ? (edit: never mind, I looked up the name and I don't need to see anything more).

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