Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
Leo Guinan
"when the data and anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. it’s not that the data is miscollected, it’s that you’re not measuring the right thing"
Jeff Bezos on the Lex Fridman podcast
Right now, as you read this, someone is profiting from your temporal poverty.
Not your lack of hours—you have the same 24 as everyone else. But your inability to position yourself in time the way venture capitalists do. While you execute in the present, they've already colonized the future. While you manage today's complexity, they're creating tomor... See more
Not your lack of hours—you have the same 24 as everyone else. But your inability to position yourself in time the way venture capitalists do. While you execute in the present, they've already colonized the future. While you manage today's complexity, they're creating tomor... See more
The Temporal Trap: How Silicon Valley Steals Your Future
Time Violence from Silicon Valley
Things to enjoy about the rise
Seeing my words reflected back at me makes me happy
"There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way." - Thich Nhat Hahn
Economics of Human Energy and What we value
Happiness makes things easier
I don’t want to wait for the world to change.
I want to live it.
I want to live it.
How I’m Planning to Defeat Global Ecosystem Collapse (By Living the Alternative)
This is the secret to time travel. You have to be the first one to the be the example that others can follow.
So, beyond pharmacological clock modulation, drugs that alter consciousness broadly often secondarily alter time perception by changing what the mind is attending to or capable of processing .
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What can the brain process that we haven’t realized yet?
Looking at quantitative vs. qualitative effects: stimulants and simple sedatives primarily cause quantitative changes in timing (people err in one direction on interval tasks, but they generally still understand that time is flowing). Psychedelics, cannabis, and dissociatives often add a qualitative layer – users report that their entire relationsh... See more
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From linear time to multidimensional time
This illustrates the earlier point about attention: if a stimulant greatly enhances focus on a particular activity to the exclusion of clock-watching, the person might underestimate time (time seems to fly) despite the physiological tendency of the drug to speed the clock
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Relative experience can flip between one and the other given the right criteria
Intriguingly, this effect was not dose-dependent within the range tested: even a low psychoactive dose produced nearly the same time dilation as a higher dose
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hmm….weed has a set amount of dilation, which is something I seem to be able to depend on.