The only logical solution therefore is to transport these resource-intensive efforts to a location with vast power and space. I mean, space is called “space” for a reason. 😂

With psychedelics, the insights often feel slow, messy, and sometimes uncomfortable, but they tend to stick. Even after the experience, there’s usually something tangible left over. Patterns about my behaviour, relationships, fears, values, blind spots. Stuff that might not be perfectly true in some cosmic sense, but is psychologically useful and actually relevant to my life. You can reflect on it later, talk about it, integrate it, test it. Nitrous feels very different. In the moment, it can feel insanely convincing. Like you’ve suddenly landed on something fundamental. There’s this rush of certainty, and whatever happens to be present at the time, often a song, a lyric, even a single word, suddenly feels like it explains everything. It feels profound, complete, and final. Then it wears off, and there’s basically nothing there.

This becomes even clearer when combining nitrous with psychedelics. For me, nitrous doesn’t deepen the psychedelic experience. It tends to overpower it. When it’s over, I often feel like I interrupted something genuinely useful with something more shallow.

This becomes even clearer when combining nitrous with psychedelics. For me, nitrous doesn’t deepen the psychedelic experience. It tends to overpower it. When it’s over, I often feel like I interrupted something genuinely useful with something more shallow.

Scientist 3: “No, no, no, you should actually be estimating:  P ( X  |  I'm here, asking this question, and applying the Anthropic Principle to it ) . Obviously asking the question in the first place, and especially not having any better way to answer it than the Anthropic Principle, is going to be a lot rarer later on, once we know a lot more. First wondering about this sort of stuff is strongly correlated with you living not that long after the development of the Scientific Method. It’s just a sampling effect.”

Then, if a million bazillion people exist(/have existed/will exist), and one of them is 'me', and I happen to have a bunch of unusual properties, there's literally no coincidence to be explained: there aren't two separate facts here, 'person X is highly atyptical' and 'I am person X', that are surprising in conjunction. There's just the fact that all of these people exist (or have existed, or will exist), and they're all seeing the world from their own perspectives, and inevitably one of them is seeing the world from person X's perspective, and from that perspective 'I' refers to person X, and (given the existence of all those people, including person X) there's no way things could have been otherwise.

Today is the third time Elon Musk has bought Twitter in four years.