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I think it's also for interpersonal synchronization of the meaning of concepts, to avoid misunderstandings or conflicts. A social, instead of a personal purpose.
I believe it was due to reaching critical "mass" in communication bandwidth. More globally practical, "bettable" information being accrued than lost.
Mind, the rate of that is increasing ever since.
Not my idea, but cannot recall where I read it.
Isn't this simply because litigations happened and they just have to?
It's a bit dark, but I believe most warning labels aren't for our safety per se, but for the companies'.
Indeed, deadly extreme sports are not irrational. They are an uncheatable filter of fitness. Most modern costly signals are often skirted through luck, background or socially toxic behaviour.
Having hard evidence of one's superiority can be just the thing necessary to live a fulfilling life, instead of being locked in a stagnant cycle of constant doubt. For some, the latter is even worse than death.I'd wager people suffering from impostor syndrome rarely have anything else under their belt than safe skills.
Looks like I was wrong, impostor syndrome will still happily present itself in climbers, see gbear's counter. It even looks like it's the other way around: unfulfilled lack of self-worth fueling never-ending pursuit for achievement.
Oh no.
Now I'm reminded of all the seven grand unsolved problems in my life, and the myriad shameful issues that move nowhere. It all morphed into the greatest horror of all, total petrification through absolute hopelessness.
Now I have to slog through all the work of forgetting all but one of them to work on, ignoring how the other six progresses further than any advance I make on the one.
And I don't even have alcohol to help me because my sorry ass values learning above all.
Thanks dude!
(just kidding, I was already stuck way before I encountered this, time to go to sleep I guess. Just remember the law of equal but opposite advice :P)
I feel this falls in the error that most official medical information also falls in: Takes account of all the statistical risks and damage, but none of the benefits.
Sadly I'm just an n=1 sample, but psychedelic "over"use inoculated me to delusions to the point my beliefs (though not my emotions) are surreally stable. I don't believe I know all, but I developed a framework (much thanks to lesswrong and rationality) that is persistent even through most altered states of consciousness. No more great relevations. No feelings of going permanently and irreparably crazy. I actually miss both of them, they were very cathartic.
I did distill the lesson that LSD basically short-circuits the "true"... (read more)
I'd like to present myself as a plus-plus result to this same phenomenon. I've became sensitized to coffee and had to drop it completely, because the results started becoming calamitous.
I have celiac disease, have some sort of intolerance to milk, even lactose free, and have strong hay fever in the late summer. An overreactive immune system, in short.
By sensitization I do not mean an exceptionally strong stimulant effect, but the sort of sensitization that develops upon repeated chronic exposure to a specific pollutant, often familiar to industrial workers. Some examples are the dust of many exotic woods, many harsh chemicals and other stuff.
When I consume coffee, I get the normal stimulating effects... (read 379 more words →)
T1 diabetic here
What you call "The swamp" is one half well known to me
I cannot attest to any weight gain, as it's near impossible for me to "just gain weight".
The key I believe is that a definite craving for high-fat high-sugar food appears when the blood sugars are high, in quite a paradoxical fashion.
If I eat too much carbs and forget to take enough insulin for it, my BG can go from by preferred 4-5 to around 10 or above.
High blood sugars cause tiredness , confusion and exhaustion, clogged sinuses, dehydration, lack of joy, plus junk food cravings. Having "sweet piss" levels of blood glucose (>10 mmol) is comparable to a heavy... (read more)