I can't think of a way to repurpose the ratchet effect with a more fitting outcome, but if you could, I believe you would get a similar outcome. I think it's just basically Democrats hating being called out for violating my rights because they don't support compromise, on the other hand, they prefer blaming republicans for blocking me from the ratchet effect.
Not about the meme's format, but the message itself, sadly.
Benjamin Riley is a lawyer with experience in education, who started a relevant company. No degree or significant experience related to machine learning or neuroscience. He is an expert of neither human cognition nor LLMs, as implied by the headline
There's a broad push in the therapeutic psychedelic community to use the term "challenging" instead of "bad" because semantics and framing matter. I know it can be annoying, but some words carry an unfortunate connotation that's best subverted by using a different word altogether.
I do take issue with the words "bad" and "good" in general, but I wouldn't say that there are no experiences which can be described as bad. (I'm also an amoralist and believe nothing is inherently "bad," so at least I'm consistent, however unpopular)
I recommend Frankl because I realize this sounds inherently invalidating, but if anyone is allowed to say it, it's a holocaust survivor. I'd recommend "Man's Search for Meaning", which he wrote shortly after being liberated from a concentration camp.
Kind of, yeah. If you think this is dumb (beyond your reductionist take, I mean), I'd genuinely recommend you read Viktor Frankl (I ignore the religious stuff tho, personally, tbc)
It's a specifically important distinction to make for psychedelics though. If you go into it thinking bad trips are real, you're more likely to have a challenging trip, and you're more likely to have a defeatist attitude afterward creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Especially when using psychedelics therapeutically, it's extremely beneficial to go into it with the mindset that there's no such thing as a bad trip. It reduces the odds of having a challenging trip in the first place, makes them less challenging when they do happen, and improves successful integration of challenging trips afterward
People don't like to hear it because it sounds like invalidating toxic positivity, but you're right. Aside from fringe cases, there's no bad trips- only challenging trips. It may even be traumatic, but that doesn't make it an inherently bad trip; it's all about how you respond to it and what you do with it after.
My older brother used to call me "butt munch" all the time as a kid. I never stopped to consider what that even meant, let alone consider he'd end up quite correct
Okay so called "leftist," now you've finished your transformation into an unjust man?
I'm so tired of Democrats just being Republicans in disguise