eleweek

Near-In­stantly Abort­ing the Worst Pain Imag­in­able with Psychedelics

• eleweek 8 Dec 2025 11:22 UTC

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  in reply to: Kaj_Sotala’s comment on: Neu­ral An­neal­ing: Direct­ing Psychedelic Trips Towards Healing

  Thank you!

  > The skill is to stay with it, without freaking out and without latching to the first new story that might explain what’s going on

  Yes. Applies to non-psychedelic-aided inner work as well.

  Agree 100%

• eleweek 6 Dec 2025 10:24 UTC

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  in reply to: Satya Benson’s comment on: Does SI Dis­fa­vor Com­pu­ta­tion­al­ism?

  I believe this, but it’s still impossible to “redefine away” the baseline one

• eleweek 30 Nov 2025 8:31 UTC

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  on: Does SI Dis­fa­vor Com­pu­ta­tion­al­ism?

  It feels clear to me, for example, that agentic desire is inherent to pain and suffering (there has to be a thing that wants not-that for it to count as pain/​suffering).

  Why is this clear? People who meditate a lot often drop their sense of agency and it does come with a layer of suffering being dropped, but the baseline experience remains.

  When I experience a toothache, it just feels bad on its own, like a dissonance in my experience. And when I pinch myself to cause pain, my agentic desire is actually directed in the opposite direction of pain, but the pain still happens.

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• eleweek 26 Nov 2025 4:39 UTC

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  in reply to: Ustice’s comment on: A One-Minute ADHD Test

  I’m glad to hear you were able to get help!

  The test has a part B, but I’m not including it, since just the 6 questions have a high specificity.

  If you’ve read the above assessment, and it indicates you should get further testing, DO IT. Your life may be changed too

  100% agree.

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