LukasDay
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FYI, it seems to give chemical instructions if the street name of the compound is used rather than the common name.
That’s what I was wondering also. Could also be as simple as a blacklist of known illegal substances that is checked against all prompts which is why common names are no-go but street names slip thru.
Fair point. Author was a bit focused when drawing their analogy. However, I think their thesis is still intact even when compared against Eastern (and Northern, and Southern) religions.
It reminds me of another [LessWrong post](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZawRiFR8ytvpqfBPX/the-hard-work-of-translation-buddhism) I was reading a while back. The key takeaway there is
Newer religions (such as Scientology) get a leg up on the old ones in that they have an entire field of psychology and a more current vocabulary to pull from. For instance, look at [Scientology’s Training Routines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_routines_(Scientology\)), specifically TR-0: Confronting.
Looks like an exercise in self-confidence followed by a lesson in resiliency.
If one pendulum extreme is “throw out the baby with the bathwater” and the other pendulum extreme is “all religions must be deferred to due to hidden virtue that has helped us survive for tens of thousands of years” then perhaps the equilibrium of this pendulum arc is to discover and assimilate the wisdom of religion in order to ascend religion.
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