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Benjamin Anderson

Nicola Tesla on Walter Russell:
>You are so hopelessly ahead of your time that I believe the only way your knowledge can be saved is to write it down and diagram it, then seal it in a sepulcher with instructions that it be opened in a thousand years.
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2025-05-03 22:40:42

more social, less media

2025-05-03 22:04:28

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which one

2025-05-03 14:51:00

starting a new project soon
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2025-04-30 02:50:00

senescence isn’t a response to damage. it’s a thermodynamic surrender.
it’s the system cashing out, admitting that the cost of recovery outweighs the cost of replacement.

2025-04-14 15:00:33

Everyone thinks they would do better with power than those who already have it

2025-04-13 20:44:44

For the generation having grown up amidst doomerism, the ultimate act of rebellion is delusional optimism.

2025-04-08 02:56:01

if you take 20 planks from Theseus’s ship and put them on a different ship with millions of other planks, does that make the other ship Theseus’s ship?
No. So to say taking 20 dire wolf genes and putting them in a normal wolf makes it a dire world is a bit of an overstatement.
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2025-04-08 02:18:30

#peatstr
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2025-04-07 04:19:30

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I have not- worth a watch?

2025-04-04 16:13:28

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funny you ask there is a subset playing in tower grove this sunday but i will not make it

2025-04-04 13:29:30

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Been on a rock climbing kick recently! Will do that with some of our people here sometimes. Another subset will do the gym together sometimes

2025-04-03 14:23:14

i have found with minor tweaks, 4.5 passes ai or human tests as human when copy lasting text into these apps.
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2025-04-03 14:21:32

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it actually advises against strenuous exercise. encourages activity based, eg tennis, basketball, climbing, hiking etc but overall unclear, not exactly rigorous, giving it a try

2025-04-03 13:03:56

gm
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2025-04-03 03:02:06

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listened to this today. rock solid.
@nprofile…dg4z podcasts are the only economic content my fiance consumes

2025-04-03 02:59:29

feel better during the day than in a fasted state. sharper. no 2-3pm hunger slump.
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2025-04-01 12:40:10

new blog on why membrane pumps theory may be wrong or at best incomplete https://www.consciousrepository.com/p/a-fundamental-error-in-biology

2025-04-01 03:09:40

i am going on the fairy prince diet, will report back
https://fairyprincessdiet.gumroad.com/l/fpd

2025-03-27 15:55:48

Antwerp
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2025-03-27 10:16:45

gm
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2025-03-27 10:15:59

Membrane Theory might be false. In Belgium to figure it out.
Will blog about this next week here:
https://www.consciousrepository.com/

2025-03-27 10:08:44

tl;dr: Schizophrenia might not just be a disorder of waking reality—it could be rooted in a dysfunction of dreaming.
Dream enhancement may become the penicillin of psychiatry: cheap, scalable, and profoundly transformative.
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2025-03-27 10:08:11

Could schizophrenia be fundamentally a dream deficiency?
Dreaming is more than random noise—it combats cognitive 'overfitting' by injecting nightly stochastic disruptions into our neural networks, enhancing generalization.
But what if this mechanism fails?
Erik Hoel’s Overfitted Brain Hypothesis proposes dreams evolved to combat 'overfitting'—a common neural network issue where systems learn patterns too well, becoming incapable of generalizing.
No dreams, no generalization.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389921000647
Imagine training an AI on pictures of dogs, but you only show it Labrador Retrievers. Later, it mislabels a deer as a dog because it overly learned narrow features (brown fur, four legs). The brain can similarly over-learn daily experiences.
Now, apply this to human cognition. Without dreams—our brain's way of adding noise and randomness—our neural patterns become rigid. We risk misclassifying new experiences, creating distorted realities.
Hoel argues dreaming provides nightly exposure to corrupted, hallucinated, and sparse sensory inputs.
These unusual, story-like disruptions recalibrate our brain's models, promoting adaptability & generalization.
Dreams therefore act as natural neural regularizers.
Schizophrenia often involves hallucinations, disrupted narratives, and a blurred line between perception and imagination.
Schizophrenia could be what happens when this regularizing dream mechanism fails.
Without adequate dreaming, neural networks may dangerously overfit waking experiences, distorting reality models.
This would result in increased hallucinations during wakefulness, as the brain attempts spontaneous self-regularization.
Studies already link reduced or disrupted REM sleep (the primary dreaming state) with increased risk and symptom severity in schizophrenia. This aligns with Erik Hoel's OBH.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8446088/
Dreams seem to buffer our mental models from becoming too narrow or too certain. When dreams fail, mental flexibility suffers, possibly manifesting as psychosis or delusion—hallmarks of schizophrenia.
Michael Johnson's Symmetry Theory of Valence suggests mental health thrives on balanced neural patterns. Dreams might help maintain this cognitive-emotional symmetry. Without dreams, asymmetry emerges, possibly manifesting as schizophrenia’s emotional dysregulation.
https://opentheory.net/2021/07/a-primer-on-the-symmetry-theory-of-valence/
Johnson's Vasocomputation theory highlights vascular states as cognitive 'latches.' Dreams may regulate these tensions nightly w/ dream deprivation leading to chronically clenched cognitive states—fueling schizophrenia’s hallucinatory episodes.
A testable idea is that dream-deprived individuals should display heightened cognitive rigidity and elevated hallucination potential when awake, which is already mostly known to be the case.
Known schizophrenics may have dream disorders.
With tech like portable EEG and dream journaling apps, assessing dream frequency, vividness, and content in individuals with schizophrenia vs. controls would be pretty feasible.
I record dreams nightly in Obsidian.
If true, enhancing dream activity (via REM-inducing pharmaceuticals or neurostimulation techniques) could offer novel therapeutic pathways.
We might treat schizophrenia by amplifying dream function, promoting neural generalization.

2025-03-26 13:23:16

Kabane Coffee shop in Paris.
Would recommend.
are there any nostr location signing services?
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2025-03-26 07:50:05

gm
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2025-03-25 14:59:31

gm, this is where is post from this week
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2025-03-25 14:53:47

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well if thats the case and you like to read i definitely recommend going straight to the source. mike publishes prolifically. that said not everything is high signal bc of the publish or parish incentive.
this is one of my all time favorites, a good foundation for what underlies alot of the other work:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02688/full
from there I would recommend mike’s blog, he has been publishing writeups of his best stuff as it comes out recently and linking to the primary paper if you want to dive deeper:
https://thoughtforms.life/
from there you could browse the lab website by topic and just bookmark what jumps out at you:
https://drmichaellevin.org/publications/topics.html

2025-03-25 14:43:26

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whats your preferred modality and how deep are you trying to go?
self plugs in the meantime:
- a paper i wrote on this a while back: https://www.thebenjam.in/bioelectricityaging.pdf

2025-03-25 14:19:39

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hi - currently operating one of probably less than a dozen biotechs in this space.
the tools we have now from neuroscience are making this paradigm much more approachable than it ever was before. eg- voltage reporting dyes, genetically encoded voltage indicators and more to make playing with electricity in the body smarter than it has ever been before.
still very hard to image in vivo in complex organisms. In any case- we can still identify patterns corresponding to certain cell states in specific tissues and see how these translate similar to how we do now with drug discovery, eg bind this molecule with this protein and see how effective it is in the body

2025-03-21 09:07:22

gm
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2025-03-20 05:57:21

headed to geneva tomorrow who should i meet

2025-03-18 15:04:16

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science folk wya

2025-03-18 06:31:15

The business journal is a pageant show for prostitutes. Write your own stories

2025-03-18 06:23:35

The problem with most of science is that most of it is a game of the more money you raise, the longer you can play slots.

2025-03-15 22:35:19

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one of two reactions
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2025-03-15 22:35:02

telling the tsa agent you wont do the stupid photo thing is a high agency move

2025-03-15 12:54:12

throwing away mail solicitations
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2025-03-15 01:35:35

every morning by cole ray. 2023
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2025-03-15 00:30:24

Denver tomorrow for a few days. nostriches in denver?
caw caw

2025-03-15 00:29:46

fridge ($400) vs. lab fridge ($10k)
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2025-03-14 06:45:17

the internet facilitated the human super organism to gain self consciousness

2025-03-11 05:16:44

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Ive been here and its v cool

2025-03-11 01:51:35

stonks are crooshing
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2025-03-10 05:19:46

Any recommendations on red lights to use indoors?
#peatstr
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2025-03-09 00:02:42

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would cop in a heartbeat

2025-03-08 23:36:54

art wasn’t made for expressing yourself thats what art therapy is for

2025-03-08 23:35:08

where to have socratic dialogues
asking for a friend

2025-03-07 02:47:28

Art became more about truth than beauty after ww1

2025-03-06 18:53:36

gm
aloha
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2025-03-04 15:36:44

Headed to SF 10-13th if any nostriches want to meet a stranger from the Midwest
Caw caw

2025-03-04 15:35:59

Flexing my agency by telling the TSA agent I am opting out of the photo

2025-03-04 03:14:41

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they use beef tallow 💪

2025-03-03 16:42:19

Smashem’s is the best burger in 314. Open for counter proposals to be reviewed expediently
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2025-03-02 02:03:20

ive never felt so pinpointed by a meme
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2025-02-27 15:57:51

gm
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2025-02-27 06:10:02

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it seemed useful so made the app to try w/ other languages and share around

2025-02-27 06:09:53

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i built an endpoint so i could tailor a Ukrainian model to how i want to learn and just call it at this #
1 (314) 912-2772 vs using granola chatgpt voice model when im driving or cooking or something

2025-02-27 06:09:29

know anyone learning a language?
i made this and looking for feedback before i invest more time to make it pretty and ask users for $
https://callmytutor-cf7a6707dc23.herokuapp.com/

2025-02-27 04:31:48

talking to someone who bought in at 102k
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2025-02-27 04:13:39

@npub1x9p…n8sm hello stranger it is fun to build bridges out here in the frontier

2025-02-27 04:06:27

welcome to nostr my friend
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2025-02-26 16:55:25

new rule: never skip the song when shuffling

2025-02-25 05:47:23

i fw timothy chalamet now, lfg
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2025-02-25 05:34:08

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sorry this kinda renders stupid

2025-02-25 05:33:41

💙📈
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2025-02-24 23:22:29

moving to a new lab today
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2025-02-24 17:19:17

The FDA should have never gotten jurisdiction over efficacy

2025-02-24 14:02:35

gm
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2025-02-21 22:29:09

In 1935, Ervin Bauer proposed a unique idea about how energy works in living things. He said that ATP—the energy molecule in our cells—doesn’t directly power the work our bodies do, like moving or thinking. Instead, it rebuilds a supply of high-energy, stable structures that our bodies use to get that work done. Bauer saw life as a kind of 'excited stable state,' not just a constant flow of energy creating order. He also suggested that when we do work, it creates a bit of chaos (or entropy) in our bodies. To fix this and keep our structure organized, we rely on sunlight and nutrients from food to restore that living order.

2025-02-21 22:11:37

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what are the tools you use to communicate and listen?

2025-02-21 22:10:19

use discovery. follow liberally to populate your feed with things that will bring you in and trim as needed later. commenting on other posts.
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2025-02-21 18:36:36

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this book is great. for those interested should follow dr michael levin at tufts for more recent work in this area

2025-02-21 18:35:25

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Are you familiar with the work of adam adamansky in Bristol?

2025-02-21 17:25:45

In biology, being at rest constitutes an excited state. High energy through low entropy. Primed to respond and react.

2025-02-20 17:38:58

TIL that da Vinci managed to estimate the “gravitational constant” within ten percent of its actual value ~150 years before Netwon.
Amazing.
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2025-02-20 15:56:39

gm
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2025-02-19 18:01:34

bro its so convenient tho bro, you can easily swap your btc for other shit coins whenever you want bro, its so fast, don’t you want that bro?
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2025-02-19 15:34:41

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

2025-02-18 23:54:07

Amid winter’s quiet drift, we orbit the unknown,
Heartbeats echoing in vast stillness.
Like distant planets drawn by an unseen force,
We become each other’s silent reflections.
Still, the city glows in twilight’s hush,
A stage for our cosmic reveries.
In the half-light of memory and dream,
We slip through time like a whispered secret.
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2025-02-18 16:17:40

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Gm💙📈

2025-02-18 15:53:25

the new bob dylan movie was really good. ‘a complete unknown’
based on a book called Bob Dylan Goes Electric about his early career and eventual break from the folk community.
i will be listening to much of his music this week. any favorites? There is so much to go through

2025-02-17 03:55:53

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the 11% rebate is needlessly challenging in order to avoid customers actually taking advantage of it

2025-02-15 22:40:24

Sculptures by Alessandro Gallo
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2025-02-14 19:14:06

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https://image.nostr.build/672b770632cac09b1d5f3e31e7f901984ddeb25411fe5bf81c805e35e927411f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/8e8c73acc33bb9c16e74663fb927cb6811b9ad3eddbbb5c64b288aa36e2ae438.jpg https://image.nostr.build/29f2afe7295f45d96a01e93c41c9462278b4b36aad36659b1119eb6262bf842d.jpg

2025-02-14 19:08:35

happy valentine’s day
the artist here is marcus alvarado https://image.nostr.build/90a11e22b593308b73c5c7577014c9f0e82550c2674f6c3a499c0affc3631c13.jpg

2025-02-13 00:17:09

i am very impressed with deep research from openai. like an on demand review article generator

2025-02-12 05:03:27

bold claim, ill hear it out
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2025-02-09 09:19:56

This is good podcast with @nprofile…7lve where he makes the bull case on Bitcoin, data privacy and nostr.
Good to share with lay friends and young people to introduce them to the value of what is being built here
https://fountain.fm/episode/Tgxwc30r3OPhAzQnR0lM

2025-02-09 05:07:13

What is the closest thing to YouTube on nostr rn? Is it fountain or something else?
I am very interested in how nostr can enable modern patronage
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2025-02-08 05:23:09

Dubai is Arab Vegas

2025-02-08 02:16:07

flydubai in flight safety video is unhinged
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