Old man 1: Life is one trouble after another. I’d be better off dead, better yet, I wish I was never born
Old man 2: True, true, but who has such luck ?.. maybe one in a thousand.
My blog: https://cerebralab.com
I’m also building an open source generic ML library: https://github.com/mindsdb/mindsdb & https://github.com/mindsdb/lightwood …. which I guess might be of interest to some people here
The problem with dyi tests is that they have no external validation—during my initial experiment I actually had a 5 min test I did 2x a day (generated so it was new problems each time) -- but the results from that don’t really make sense to anyone but myself, hence why I’ve chosen to forgo doing it.
In terms of saturating the learning effect, that’s a better approach, but getting people to put their time into doing that makes it even harder.
How is it contradicting ?
I’m saying “I don’t think people that have a short enough attention span and level of interest to not even want to DM me will do a 4hr/day thing for 2 weeks”
But maybe some of them would be interested in DYI-ing it, because that’s a different mindset.
So for those people I’d rather they DYI a thing.
You should try this and see, if noopept yield that much at doses where there’s no CV side effects that’d be a great and novel finding
I would say this is not enough data to close the market, I’d need some 3rd party self-experimenters to replicate it.
I mean games as in “playing catch while blindfolded” physical group activities
As for calling meditation and journaling training, that just seems like motivated reasoning, under that definition anything is training.
If anything journaling would lead to better verbal results, and, well, read my analysis
one reported being significantly better with conversation afterwards, the other being able to focus much better
The reason I’m not mentioning a step-by-step guideline is as follows:
Giving people a step by step guide, if someone claims to follow it they could sue me (as an individual) - I don’t want that. I will share it with people who seem to be good actors and actually interested—e.g. I shared it with the Lighthaven team, if they want to share it with people, I can’t stop them—but the liability is on them. I obviously shared what I did with all the people that self-experimented as “intervention”, if they want to plug other people in, fine by me.
My interest here is getting more information and aggregating it (which is public, I’m just measuring before/after for now) -- I’d like for people to reach out to me, for us to sync on data gathering, and for me to be updated on how they are doing whatever they are doing so I know if the before/after data is reliable.
It would take like 5 pages with if/else structures to get a perfect outline.
You need some dedication and common sense to do this, in that regard, it’s easy enough to look at my hypothesis and run a quick literature review then reach a conclusion about what you should do—and I’d actually like a “1000 ships” approach here where more people try to replicate in their own way—maybe my way of putting it all together is wrong, I’m starting from out of distribution data and using theory + heuristics that I’m not an expert at to translate it into something relevant for normal people.
If what you’re asking for is not “give me a step-by-step guide as to what to do”—then I’d ask what is unclear from what I already wrote, like, the general model I have should be enough if your intention isn’t to perfectly replicate this but just to extract “quick fix” style solutions for yourself (but those solution won’t work)
My worry here is that I say something like “One of the things you can do is to experiment with racetams and through careful monitoring and mood-observation figure out which one to take, at what dose, through what method, so that it doesn’t affect your BP or HR and feels good.
And then someone goes ahead, overdoses on a bottle of X labeled “not for human consumption”, and blames me. Or that someone does it badly (e.g. decoupled from the other interventions, without doing the careful experimenting required to figure out the correct substance/dosage/am) and then says “well, I did exactly what you said and it didn’t work”—Ignoring the fact that what I said involved 20 other things.
People tend to want easy solutions that they can apply in their sleep… and I actually want to build one, but I am like 2 years away in the best of cases, until then I’d rather recruit dedicated people to help me figure stuff out, as opposed to give advice about which I am uncertain, which people will follow poorly, and which makes me liable for spelling out those solutions
Sorry, the title was ironic, it seems that a lot of people got confused by that.
The point was more so that, indeed, there are no benefits to adding poison to your DMT...
See my correction, agree with both points, I don’t think it changes the example, I did a quick google and I’m not into weightlifting/strongman stuff, so I didn’t realize my misinformation was an order of magnitude off.
I still think it’s essentially fair to say these dudes are “buffer” than historical dudes and seem to owe that to advances in training and (primarily) PEDs
Yeap, that was my impression. I will just confirm “no” and direct other people to confirm “yes” to you—and, if you believe the trust adds up, you can resolve the market.
I mean if I write this it will sound very weird and not be followable because it includes things like:
Do this <weird practice> but find areas with low proprioception and do it there using something like <here’s an odd sub technique I did—but you kinda have to asses what works best for you>
I am trying to replicate this with more people right now so I’d rather not dilute the intervention specifically—hence why this post was not about what I did as much as why one ought to expect increasing IQ, in general, works.
Somewhere in between actually, I tried to do something like (2) but in part I’m sure it’s (1)
I avoided any conceptual/learning tasks and just did brain stimulation, non-stimulant drugs and various physical practices to avoid (1) as much as possible
You can toally do n-back training or take IQ tests to increase your IQ, and it’s pretty boring.
(IMO: Small effects with cheap devices, unclear side effects; larger effects with medical-grade lasers, but easy to hurt yourself and also unclear side effects; having the sun shine red/IR light at you probably works better.
Define “small” ? I’m using ~100W of NIR + RED and my current EEG feedback + NIR stimulation prototype will be at 24W (but with clever use of interference, which no devices do at the moment afacit, if you know of one I’d love to buy it though)
Lovely, if I end up doing this with the LW people that data might be credible enough to close the market ?
Otherwise I can provide confirmation from the people I’m doing it with presently (all fairly respectable & with enough of a reputation in the bay tech scene)
I can ping you to resolve NO if the first run fails.
See my other replies:
Because it’s an individualized approach that is a WIP and if I just write it down 99% of people will execute it badly.
If someone is smart enough to do this in a solo fashion they can literally google search for various techs used in various diseases, figure out what’s easy and would fit a healthy person, then do it.
I posted a broad overview of what I did, I can’t actually get it into a format where I could instruct someone to replicate everything well, that’s practically my point… if this was pill-level difficulty I’d be on shelves by now, but it’s not, it’s easy but easy at a level that’s hard to reach in current social structures.
Also I have no idea if overall +20 points is possible in healthy adults, as I push the limits playing around with this as a side project I’ll figure it out (:
I believe you, but why do you only want to explain the exact stems in private messages? Are you uncomfortable giving away your work for free, or afraid that some of the methods will be ridiculed?
Because it’s an individualized approach that is a WIP and if I just write it down 99% of people will execute it badly.
If someone is smart enough to do this in a solo fashion they can literally google search for various techs used in various diseases, figure out what’s easy and would fit a healthy person, then do it.
I posted a broad overview of what I did, I can’t actually get it into a format where I could instruct someone to replicate everything well, that’s practically my point… if this was pill-level difficulty I’d be on shelves by now, but it’s not, it’s easy but easy at a level that’s hard to reach in current social structures.
I’m perfectly fine giving this away for free, I am doing so as we speak with some people in SF :)
At this point though, I’m more interested in the trade-offs than in increasing my IQ. Education has made me more robotic, and it has made me think before I act (which does make me smarter), but this has made it harder to enjoy the moment and to “let go” and be myself.
Agree, social conditioning and amphetamins are a bad approach to increasing IQ.
Edit: Judging by the raw data, it seems like like your verbal IQ decreased? It’s really important. I should know since my spatial IQ is about 50 points above my verbal IQ.
See note, I got interrupted during a time sensitive task and didn’t care about it ⇒ so I moved forward, otherwise I’d have had to retake non-verbal components that I did care about.
I’m not a native speaker anyway (learned English in my teens), so the verabl IQ standalone is fairly meaningless.
Because it’s an individualized approach that is a WIP and if I just write it down 99% of people will execute it badly.
If someone is smart enough to do this in a solo fashion they can literally google search for various techs used in various diseases, figure out what’s easy and would fit a healthy person, then do it.
I posted a broad overview of what I did, I can’t actually get it into a format where I could instruct someone to replicate everything well, that’s practically my point… if this was pill-level difficulty I’d be on shelves by now, but it’s not, it’s easy but easy at a level that’s hard to reach in current social structures.
I doubt that will ever happen?
Like sure, I’ll take that bet, but it will never be satisfied either which way.