Oshan Jarow
Consciousness • Economics • This is all very bewildering | Writing: @voxdotcom Co-founder: @LEPossibility Podcast: https://t.co/3QuUePUgBh
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Sep 30, 2024 |
vox.com | Oshan Jarow
From electrical fields to ultrasound waves, the growing science of brain stimulation could launch a new era of meditation research. It might move us beyond self-care, stress, and depression.
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Sep 4, 2024 |
nationalobserver.com | Oshan Jarow |Seth Klein
This story was originally published by Vox and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaborationEarlier this year, projections from UN Tourism put international travel on track to recover to pre-pandemic levels — putting a swell of tourism on a collision course with the increasing danger of climate disasters, from wildfires ripping through Greece to megaquake warnings in southern Japan.
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Jul 22, 2024 |
vox.com | Oshan Jarow
A major study backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman shows that cash could be a great tool against poverty. No need for fears of runaway AI.
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Jul 21, 2024 |
vox.com | Oshan Jarow
A new RAND report outlines policy options for who gets to sell psychedelics, and who gets to buy them.
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Dec 29, 2023 |
schwartzreport.net | Izzie Ramirez |Oshan Jarow |Kenny Torrella |Stephan Schwartz
I’m not going to lie to you: 2023 was an ugly year. War rages in Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan, with millions displaced, injured, or dead. On top of global strife, AI-fueled misinformation runs rampant, we’re barreling past climate goals, and abortion access dwindles. But when the world is mired in horrible things, it’s important to imagine a better future; without hope, new solutions wouldn’t be possible. In 2023, despite everything, there were moments when that hope actualized into meaningful wins.
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Ido Hartogsohn tells the history of American psychedelia through 7 chronologically arranged visions for the use of LSD: 1) Produce psychosis 2) A psychic weapon 3) Mental health treatment 4) Spiritual experience inducer 5) Creativity booster 6) Innovation aid 7) Political tool
giving an LLM a good essay about taking LSD approximates, to some degree, the LLM actually taking LSD
@bashu_thanks it is a post about an LSD trip, which for humans loosens rigid priors, and it has vivid evocative language about the challenge of shifting a rigid enough prior. the AI had a rigid priors problem. seemed worth a shot
A lot of people responding with “some beings can obviously be more or less conscious than other beings, therefore consciousness is not binary,” But being more or less conscious is perfectly compatible with there still being a binary or threshold between conscious or not
I’ve never been able to make sense of this position: consciousness seems to me obviously binary; a being either has it or does not. The lights are either on or off.
