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Re: Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics

#32
People who haven't used psychedelics don't tend to get or appreciate The Congress as much as those who have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPGhw4nACfk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPAl5GwvdY8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pqzaZcivh4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMMI8HWhqEc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHBl43lMJY0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film)

Re: Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics

#33
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Interesting, thanks! I can't make out anything resembling a lion, but I imagine I need to be higher for that.

Haha yeah it's harder for me to see now also. Two of the leaves of the lotus are darker those are his eyes, the white flower & female buddha are his tongue. The white skin of people are his hairs. When sober it feels farfetched, but it's all much clearer on a substance :)

Ahhh I kind of see what you mean! Very interesting, I wonder if this was on purpose or if the mind is just great at seeing things in shapes when on drugs.

Re: Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics

#34
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Wow this is way cooler than the ski goggles announcement! :D

Imagine subtly encrypting a message on all the users of ski goggles such that only people using psychedelics could see it.

Click on the period at the end of this dot.

"Informed Consent" to capture user tracking data will have an interesting interplay with "Dark Patterns".

Re: Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics

#35
post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha yeah it's harder for me to see now also. Two of the leaves of the lotus are darker those are his eyes, the white flower & female buddha are his tongue. The white skin of people are his hairs. When sober it feels farfetched, but it's all much clearer on a substance :)

Ahhh I kind of see what you mean! Very interesting, I wonder if this was on purpose or if the mind is just great at seeing things in shapes when on drugs.

Thangka's are always filled with symbols.

And the Tibetans have a strong culture of visions in dreams and real life.

For instance they often meditate long times without food & water, and they speak about how to protect against "demons" persuading you to jump of cliffs.

Although most or much more positives, projections of buddha forms appearing next to teachers etc.

There are also some shamanistic leftovers from the Bon Tradtion before buddhism took over. And some claim substances where used in certain traditions.

So I wouldn't be surprised if certain painters could see things like this, since it was so vivid while on truffles I think someone knew what they were doing, but who knows.

Re: Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics

#37
post #18

I can see the first one fairly clearly in my default state of consciousness, which I suppose confirms my theory that I have higher-than-average vision persistence. (I have never used psychedelics, and do not plan to) Tips to make it stand out more: HDR monitor at max brightness, increase playback speed to 2x Try not to follow the movement, but keep your eyes on a fixed location (e.g. a speck of dust on your screen)

Putting at 2x speed made it easy to read for me too, only the 3rd one was hard to read and I feel like that's because the lettering there is strange.

Re: Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics

#40

Is there a way to make some psychedelic LLM middleware to translate any new breaking API changes down into an acceptable format? High-level abstractions...

I mean, the LLMs are already hallucinating, so it shouldn't be that much of a stretch...
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