Bone comic book series by Jeff smith.

It is the perfect balance between Tolkien and Disney, had a influence in making comic books more popular in the 90s-00s.

Its mainly aimed at kids but its very enjoyable to adults as well, it has the topic of metaphysics front and center.

https://kids.scholastic.com/content/kids64/en/books/bone/books.html

There’s also a key difference between topological temp changes and core temp changes, the tummo Buddhist monk studies are looking mostly at topological changes as a result of core temp changes which look more like metabolic rate changes, one of the key variables they pay attention to is lack of shivering to induce the temp change.

I dont have the link anymore but I read something about how our bodies have vagal neurons that allow us to sense inflammation and modulate immune activity as a result so I think we can even manually control immune response.

People are capable of a lot of manual control over their body but its mostly a result of awareness of the mechanisms and practicing the skill, I think the reason for most people not doing these things but various animals do is because they basically spend all their time being attentive to their body without much reason to distract themselves like us humans.

My comment here isnt directly related to op but another body control skill besides temp that I can do that I never hear about that I learned when I was bored in class too was to control my hair standing up.

I can also control my hunger/thirst with visualization.

I can control my minds action-reward loop.

I’m kind of just cracked on mind/body control in general lol

I dont have the link anymore but I read something about how our bodies have vagal neurons that allow us to sense inflammation and modulate immune activity as a result so I think we can even manually control immune response.

Does he genuinely hate it or is this just half serious joking, or maybe it was serious long ago and now its a joke to himself because he likes the money and other people seem to like laughing at this half serious joke and so he keeps doing it.

Yes actually, a friend found one after I showed the gif to them.

https://mstrawberryman-ui.github.io/focus-reader-/

Thats actually a perspective thst hadn’t clicked for me until just now, that even learning basic words in kindergarten classes and they have funny images of anthropomorphized letters or whatever else spanning across the room, that’s subtle but powerful memory techniques being ingrained in us.

I think I understand the mechanics and intuition of how it works enough that I could apply the techniques easily enough if I wanted to but I otherwise don’t just go around spending time memorizing random mildly useful things for fun because I have other things I can do with my limited thinky power, I don’t really know how I got decent at this stuff in the first place but it just be how it be I guess, I don’t think I compare skill-wise to anyone that has actually practiced it more seriously but i can defenitely be very flexible with this stuff if I need to be.

Yeah speed reading and visualization, two massively useful underrated skills to improve that can save you loads of time if you do the right things.

For visualization there is what are called memory palaces where you basically create a symbological image or story (series of images) that are so absurd that you just simply remember them in great detail, and you can use each detail to trace back to something else more important, that’s how you get people reciting hundred of didigrs of pi or whatever else, they have just created a system that encrypts digits of pi into a more rapidly accessible format that makes it feel like you are finding information rather than it bubbling up from the depth fo your mind.

The trick there is that it feels slow and tedious and hard at first but the more practice and experience you have with encoding things, the more quickly you can just remember the most insane amount of shiz with little to no effort.

Evelyn woods speed reading book

I don’t think it helped me in particular because I have always known how to read fast and keep comprehension but it lays out all the variables that go into it, you get out of it what you put into practice basically. Speed reading is the equivalent of 2x speed videos but works much more often in real life.

Here is a quick test to prove to yourself how fast you can go

Yeah I’ve been seeing Moore’s law as a function of tech advancement basically, like its not s doubling of cpu specifically, it’s a doubling of tech change rate

Came here to mention king gizzard and the lizard wizard who is carrying all of the genres into the future.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4CSCjCSCjJM&list=OLAK5uy_m1ABaNjc7jZhb8FNXn4j9VtYZcH1zNN18&pp=ygUZS2dsdyBpbmZlc3QgdGhlIHJhdHMgbmVzdA%3D%3D

Sounds like a politician lol

For now, I think even if absolutely nothing changed with how they fundamentally worked from here on out and just kept throwing more money and data at them they could still actually automate some things away at some point, but they definitely will be also getting fundamentally better on top of this.

That is a good point, if partial economy is automated that leaves partial money available to handout as ubi.

I had dismissed ubi because that is something that would only happen if there is enough pain on the consumers for them to give handouts, I guess this did happen when covid started up but that wasn’t seen as a similar function as ubi…which actually I read about some tests of ubi awhile back and they seemed to do what we think they do but the tests seem to make that not so obvious.

She has a very interesting physique for sure, she is short but has the arm length that hangs a little low like how it does in tall people

I think the right idea is that work should be automated away because the sole reason why people work at all besides for themselves is to make the economy function and so automating the boring work of making the economy function makes a lot of sense to do so that we can be freed up to play a different economy game that is about responsibility.

The pain point for the time being is that in the inbetween stages there isnt yet a clean way to make a hand off to that system so whenever something is automated it just leaves people high and dry

Rule #76: Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.

I got detention once for being sleepy, I didn’t know until recently that I had been dealing with chronic low blood pressure problems as a result of a diet thst didn’t sustain my body properly, the load on my body was from school mostly so I couldn’t just reduce it and I couldn’t really eat more because school lunches weren’t enough and snacking wasn’t allowed.