So one reason I need to do this buddhism thing before I get real on the business is… this is real.
AI is incoming. Tech can build a brain but it can not build an ethicist. It’s woefully unprepared and any ethics system that is bred _after_ money is involved will be inherently broken.
Right now I am retired and can spend 5 years not worrying about money. I can use this time to train myself to be an oldschool ethicist of the soul. I can translate the teachings of the buddha into modern language for myself, to get it ingrained into my psyche in 1s and 0s.
I can also leave some kind of interpretation online where appropriate.
I guess key points:
1 - Make sure this does not become a cult
2 - I forgot the other one haha. Still with the adhd but ari makes me chuckle about it
This med could be incredibly helpful for trauma therapy because of how easy it is to rewrite your emotional saliency. Easy is the wrong word. It give you access to a deeper stratum of real emotion, is how it feels. Everything resonates more. Like after a near death experience.
Another interesting thing when I started ari is that I started finishing / fixing old art pieces I hadn’t realised were unfinished / broken. I’ve never fixed an at piece. Ever. Adhd. I walk away. This is a big deal.
So this medicine, I think, could be exceptional for a 3 day trauma retreat. Or a 3 day brain washing retreat. We do not want to start another aum cult, that’s for sure.
I think I’d just want to be an advisor. I honestly don’t know. Because dopamine. Powerful stuff. The stupidest of ideas will seem genius if dopamine’s in town.
Anyway I’ve always used drugs to guide my own self-therapy. I can see that now, and it’s actually been very effective. I literally needed the dopamine from the weed in order to access the memories, because of how my brain works. It's science.
I can’t do talk therapy because I have a small memory and slow processing. What I can do with my brain is to take an idea and run the diverge/converge cycle on it a million times in 3 seconds and find god twice and somehow find out that the answer was a stubbed toe all along.
Because that's what dopamine does - makes a stubbed toe into your god.
So for someone like me, and I don't know how many people are like me if I'm honest knowing what I know now...
But for someone like me I think that upping ari and writing in a log cabin for a few days would be a great way to process trauma. The best way. And easily replicable.
But this is definitely not someone should do on their own if they might be as sensitive as me; I am a very experienced drug user and self-induced-mania user so I think I could hold on where many may not have.
I suppose I also need to train to spot these mind states within myself
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