blatman posted:

if I take melatonin it takes me like 8 extra hours to feel like i'm actually awake, just hardcore grogginess for most of the following day

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Before trying Monroe I'd have dismissed this outright as absurdity but having experienced it I am pretty drat convinced the man figured out how to hack brains with sound

And that said if you can recommend any resources on the topic that'd be awesome because I am certainly fascinated by its potential

hseroK divaD posted:

some users engage on what he calls "competitive meditation"

goochtit posted:

quote:

Do you think we should fund such investigations in the future?

Regarding UFOs? Yes, for sure, despite doubts I’ve just outlined. I see it like this. I think some percentage of any research budget should go to investigating flying objects which cannot be identified. That should be an obvious part of the job for any defence system. Is it a threat? What is it? Should we worry? And then, if they do exist, and are extraterrestrial, maybe one day we’ll capture one! That would be great. Then we could study it.

But even that aside, we’ve actually had active research programmes ongoing since the 1960s. We’ve been sending out signals, trying to receive signals from potentially intelligent civilisations in the galaxy. The SETI Institute is all about that, of course.

Now, a new programme at Harvard, the Galileo Project, established by Avi Loeb, is trying to get people to be a little more open to the possibility that there could be alien artefacts floating around out there, throughout our solar system, and beyond.

Of course, the UFO enthusiast community has always been interested in that, but what’s different here is that Professor Loeb carries the pedigree of a Harvard professor, and is associating real analytical science with the endeavour. I wish the project the best of luck.

Mola Yam posted:

post this in the anime forum

my bony fealty posted:

NDT seems to have improved his dumbass brain on ufos a bit

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/a-conversation-on-the-universe-anti-science-and-vexed-question-of-ufos-1.4751418

still a complete brokebrain who leans into the national defense angle instead of the natural curiosity and need to know that a real scientist would have, of course

my bony fealty posted:

NDT seems to have improved his dumbass brain on ufos a bit

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/a-conversation-on-the-universe-anti-science-and-vexed-question-of-ufos-1.4751418

still a complete brokebrain who leans into the national defense angle instead of the natural curiosity and need to know that a real scientist would have, of course

Barry Foster posted:

Man, I so want melatonin to work on me but even that amount gives me hosed up crazy dreams that wake me up when I just want deep sleep

Even 3 mg

I know they say you should actually take 0.3 mg or something crazy small like that, but I can't be bothered to keep ordering it at great expense from the States (you can't buy it OTC in the UK)

strange feelings re Daisy posted:

Someone gave NDT the Sam Harris talk

strange feelings re Daisy posted:

Someone gave NDT the Sam Harris talk

Sleekly posted:

lol capture one, way to go NDT
the choice of 'capture' as opposed to any other possible type of interaction say a lot bout mr big brains over therr

Pontificating rear end posted:

That coming from the guy that speaks of the pomposity of humanity at-large, too. I'm tempted to @ndt and remind him how there are beings more powerful than himself

poisonpill posted:

who is Sam Harris? from a quick google search he looks like a podcast self help guru grifter

e:lol stanford grad goes to India for intensive meditation learning

Zarin posted:

I wonder if I could out-armwrestle NDT

Rickshaw posted:

sam harris came up as a "new atheist" in the 2000s by carrying water for the US military establishment. as a neuroscientist and atheist, he is naturally an expert on all subjects and holds forth on philosophy in his popular podcast. notable achievments in philosophy include when he solved the is-ought problem in ethics in his ted talk, where he stood up on a stage in front of millions of people and claimed that pure science alone can furnish us with a total + complete morality.

Sleekly posted:

i think there are people here who could earnestly out debate him, that would maybe sting enough for him to realise hes become a joke and turn it round and start thinking again instead of whatever shtick hes on.

what is it anyway? friendly science guy? tv seeking yes man?
just a garden variety acdemic sex pest? certainly its not tue image he probably thinks he projects

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

I think someone stole Lue's old burner twitter or Lue is having a difficult one
https://twitter.com/facelessbureau1/status/1473836496297750528?s=20

Wheeee posted:

Do you think we should fund such investigations in the future?

“Regarding UFOs? Yes, for sure, despite doubts I’ve just outlined. I see it like this. I think some percentage of any research budget should go to investigating flying objects which cannot be identified. That should be an obvious part of the job for any defence system. Is it a threat? What is it? Should we worry? And then, if they do exist, and are extraterrestrial, maybe one day we’ll capture one! That would be great. Then we could study it.

This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: you hurt it, and keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.”

my bony fealty posted:

that's Blindsight right

I didn't love it and kinda hate it but I am glad I read it

pissinthewind posted:

im hemispherin on the gateway rn