This article makes me regret telling elon about simulation theory at burning man that one time
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2025
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The dude's fully learned advanced physics?
Where DMT pen
He's the Messiah........
I didn't know DMT came in vape form. What a time to be alive.
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
I'm a thing, Greg. Can you put me in a vape?
Only once.
What do you taste like?
sure, i just need a crematorium, and a mortar and pestle…
With the right tools, yes. I could vape you.
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?
Did the society became so stupid that being an idiot influences is now a valid profession?
Yeah.
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.
Remember the dude with the immortality rings?
No and I'm afraid to ask.
Idiots get clicks and clicks make line go up
Slow news day at their office
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.
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.
Memory is one of the weirdest things about the human experience, it's still relatively unknown how we store and "revisit" memories on some levels, and our memories are not records like photographs or data on a hard-drive, they're really more like saved simulations that you rerun every time you bring them up, this is why they can be so radically wrong or distorted from actual events. Every time you run that simulation your brain will "smooth out the edges" and fill in gaps with whatever it predicts should be there.
Your brain is so good at doing this, that you can easily wire yourself to have false memories. Most people are unsettled by this prospect but you can use it for fun! Example: I have altered my own memory of the 2004 disaster film "The Day After Tomorrow" to also include Frankenstein's Monster as one of the dangers of the frozen world, and have clear memories of Frankenstein's Monster clomping around with his pack of wolves looking for the protagonist. Great movie, highly recommend you watch and re-write in your mind.
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.
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!
Bring on the lost memories, if the world ends in abject horror, well it's only speeding up what's happening.
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.
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.
Great, I've been suffering through Capitalism and now I have to learn that it's not even real Capitalism.
It’s failing just like real capitalism. Or succeeding I guess…if you’re a sociopath.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The dmt is doing the heavy lifting there.
Like the Kumail Nanjiani joke about a new drug called "cheese," made by mixing Tylenol PM with heroin.
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.
Does Dmt know something we don't?
Spill the dmtee
Your body knows dmt should deployed at the time of death. Maybe its uploading you to the cloud.
I always wanted to be with the fluffy stuff. Great!
I was just about to say😅 with enough dmt anything is a simulation. Lasers are just for aesthetics
I don't know who needs to hear this, but people, please do not take psychedelics and put lasers near your eyes.
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!
laser light has this way of enhancing interference patterns as it spreads out, this is why it has weird looking patterns when projected in a wide angle.
This is also probably what the person in this post was seeing and tripping on, staring directly into a laser pointer while high as balls.
Do not take psychedelic with remaining eye.
Emphasis on AND. Putting lasers near your eyes is a sober activity.
This is true. Laser Doppler Vibrometry and Atomic Force Microscopy are two legitimate examples of using lasers near your eyes while sober.
I'm sorry, I thought this was America!
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