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Biotech in Saint Louis. Complex systems.

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2025-06-30 12:27:16 UTC

grinky with extra slice for me please
https://blossom.primal.net/bb10089e530bfee27266d562b5b9c1e4a8b1119353c4f672166f7ab433bb14a2.jpg

2025-06-30 08:52:49 UTC

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yes and no but this is for sure
https://image.nostr.build/6758c740491fc2552b7ec2cfa496c03b3e4d0d44115f9be70b4678ff26c8b780.jpg

2025-06-26 15:09:30 UTC

just copped. two kinds of institutional oppression, masculine/aggressive, feminine/subtle.
https://blossom.primal.net/ad301eba32aacae08517cdb0a788db01dccd176fb1087e27e3d47939994566cc.jpg

2025-06-26 07:58:09 UTC

During the soviet era, this church was converted to a museum for atheism. Now it is a museum for religion
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2025-06-25 12:16:46 UTC

this beer is called ‘Putin is Shit’
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2025-06-24 11:21:25 UTC

This building combines Baroque Revival and Viennese Secession styles, typical of the Austro-Hungarian period around 1900.
https://blossom.primal.net/dda33ea1d92e90dc718dd9cc3746087ded01a94ae656d7ea7c6acf89fad8ec93.jpg

2025-06-18 17:49:33 UTC

mimetic desire
https://blossom.primal.net/b3227e777077c58f5712620d12606ba2156d9f80bbfef0b949c87a139e5c83e4.jpg

2025-06-17 17:51:49 UTC

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an ai that misinterprets Christianity might!

2025-06-17 17:04:40 UTC

Maximally aligned ai is Christian insofar as Christianity is the philosophy of being as much like Christ as you can

2025-06-17 12:44:19 UTC

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unless maybe finite becomes infinite

2025-06-17 12:44:04 UTC

finite cant compute infinite

2025-06-17 12:34:45 UTC

coolest logo ive seen in a while
https://blossom.primal.net/29649eb1f3938cc3a32f4c28bb3f54548fe1a55572b1f545ab9fe6f6973f2a35.jpg

2025-06-08 20:22:02 UTC

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1923*
The inscription on the back reads satirically:
He holds in his hands the promising money / Glowing upon it from old times and the world / Many proud images of emperors.
#nevent1q…uew3

2025-06-08 20:21:12 UTC

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Shoot- yes

2025-06-08 20:16:24 UTC

Notgeld (emergency money) printed in the city of Spayer in 2023.
Notgeld was issued by municipalities and companies when the Reichsbank couldn’t print money fast enough during hyperinflation.
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2025-06-08 14:41:01 UTC

important task
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2025-06-04 22:00:23 UTC

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new project was wrecked by tornado :(
https://blossom.primal.net/f0a2cc39fb5d29296019e33444e656e172531d8cd391d2707557721d60a86072.jpg
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2025-06-04 21:59:27 UTC

physiognomy is real
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2025-05-30 23:16:55 UTC

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The collective intelligence that is your body starts out with a single goal:
Lets say this goal is the morphology of ‘you’ at peak reproductive fitness. When this goal is achieved, it never sets a new goal.
What happens to an agent when it continues to exist in the absence of a goal more specific than ‘persist’?
This is the intuitive argument for the body’s slow drift from peak health/reproductive health/target morphology.

2025-05-30 22:49:54 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/103e7b90b51381b2b1eb3662122e70d7fe038460e0919ee9ab2f8b641e367fb4.jpg

2025-05-15 23:04:30 UTC

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for sure. I appreciate it

2025-05-15 22:48:56 UTC

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shoot, youre right. next time i am walking into the gas station with a ski mask on

2025-05-15 22:42:32 UTC

no kyc btc at the corner of kingshighway and delmar
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2025-05-15 22:41:49 UTC

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just zapped you 42

2025-05-13 17:43:13 UTC

the universal one, walter russell
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2025-05-12 23:07:21 UTC

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Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

2025-05-12 23:06:57 UTC

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2025-05-12 14:08:03 UTC

there is virtue in leaving the 7th chakra closed

2025-05-10 16:44:50 UTC

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nikola***

2025-05-10 15:42:45 UTC

Nicola Tesla on Walter Russell:
>You are so hopelessly ahead of your time that I believe the only way your knowledge can be saved is to write it down and diagram it, then seal it in a sepulcher with instructions that it be opened in a thousand years.
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2025-05-03 22:40:42 UTC

more social, less media

2025-05-03 22:04:28 UTC

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which one

2025-05-03 14:56:12 UTC

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i do! i use amethyst there since it is android and primal on my iphone. this one isn’t 100% ready for prime time but got a prototype from their indigogo campaign

2025-05-03 14:55:11 UTC

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thank you, like btc the longer your time horizon the better (:
https://blossom.primal.net/286e0a6d32904bc6c28993f8e0c8adf224193591e27f527f36f928973bbe1ff8.jpg

2025-05-03 14:51:00 UTC

starting a new project soon
https://blossom.primal.net/bddb084249141d7a0a61cdd1c288055024329a69eb9e489a821415162c3e3ecf.jpg
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2025-04-30 02:50:00 UTC

senescence isn’t a response to damage. it’s a thermodynamic surrender.
it’s the system cashing out, admitting that the cost of recovery outweighs the cost of replacement.

2025-04-22 03:51:54 UTC

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minimal-
https://minimalcompany.com/

2025-04-22 03:37:46 UTC

this is a good rectangle
https://m.primal.net/QYwX.jpg
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2025-04-14 19:04:33 UTC

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Not yet

2025-04-14 15:00:33 UTC

Everyone thinks they would do better with power than those who already have it

2025-04-13 20:44:44 UTC

For the generation having grown up amidst doomerism, the ultimate act of rebellion is delusional optimism.

2025-04-12 17:28:22 UTC

Bitcoin mining provides an incentive to capture power that would be a waste to everyone else

2025-04-08 21:16:37 UTC

at dmv, interfacing with govt in any capacity is always bad. so so bad. i feel rage sitting here being serviced by sloths. i feel contempt this is the best public service available. arregrhhgrggrgr

2025-04-08 02:56:01 UTC

if you take 20 planks from Theseus’s ship and put them on a different ship with millions of other planks, does that make the other ship Theseus’s ship?
No. So to say taking 20 dire wolf genes and putting them in a normal wolf makes it a dire world is a bit of an overstatement.
https://m.primal.net/QIBz.jpg

2025-04-08 02:52:54 UTC

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the ray peat subculture follows the late biologist’s views on nutrition and health. they focus on pro-metabolic foods like sugar, dairy, butter, and coconut oil to boost metabolism, moving away from mainstream low-fat dietary advice for a high-energy approach.

2025-04-08 02:51:47 UTC

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the ray peat subculture follows the late biologist ray peat’s unique views on nutrition and health. they focus on pro-metabolic foods like sugar, dairy, butter, and coconut oil to boost metabolism, often moving away from mainstream low-fat dietary advice for a high-energy approach.

2025-04-08 02:47:11 UTC

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ive been on honey diet for ~two months. so far so good. what should i be looking out for? feels better than prior fasting routine. Anecdotally feel more energized. Blood glucose stable. weight has remained stable. Again, anecdotally feel more lean. eating a pound of beef in the evening which is also new behavior. typically eggs and salad for dinner

2025-04-08 02:18:30 UTC

#peatstr
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2025-04-07 04:19:30 UTC

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I have not- worth a watch?

2025-04-04 16:13:28 UTC

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funny you ask there is a subset playing in tower grove this sunday but i will not make it

2025-04-04 13:29:30 UTC

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Been on a rock climbing kick recently! Will do that with some of our people here sometimes. Another subset will do the gym together sometimes

2025-04-03 14:23:14 UTC

i have found with minor tweaks, 4.5 passes ai or human tests as human when copy lasting text into these apps.
#note17fh…gf2w

2025-04-03 14:21:32 UTC

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it actually advises against strenuous exercise. encourages activity based, eg tennis, basketball, climbing, hiking etc but overall unclear, not exactly rigorous, giving it a try

2025-04-03 13:03:56 UTC

gm
https://m.primal.net/QCsT.jpg

2025-04-03 03:02:06 UTC

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listened to this today. rock solid.
@nprofile…dg4z podcasts are the only economic content my fiance consumes

2025-04-03 02:59:29 UTC

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feel better during the day than in a fasted state. sharper. no 2-3pm hunger slump.
#nevent1q…f73l

2025-04-01 12:40:10 UTC

new blog on why membrane pumps theory may be wrong or at best incomplete https://www.consciousrepository.com/p/a-fundamental-error-in-biology

2025-04-01 03:09:40 UTC

i am going on the fairy prince diet, will report back
https://fairyprincessdiet.gumroad.com/l/fpd

2025-03-27 15:55:48 UTC

Antwerp
https://m.primal.net/PvMe.jpg

2025-03-27 14:00:29 UTC

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Chatgpt studio gibli style edit

2025-03-27 10:16:45 UTC

gm
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2025-03-27 10:15:59 UTC

Membrane Theory might be false. In Belgium to figure it out.
Will blog about this next week here:
https://www.consciousrepository.com/

2025-03-27 10:08:44 UTC

tl;dr: Schizophrenia might not just be a disorder of waking reality—it could be rooted in a dysfunction of dreaming.
Dream enhancement may become the penicillin of psychiatry: cheap, scalable, and profoundly transformative.
#nevent1q…cmye

2025-03-27 10:08:11 UTC

Could schizophrenia be fundamentally a dream deficiency?
Dreaming is more than random noise—it combats cognitive 'overfitting' by injecting nightly stochastic disruptions into our neural networks, enhancing generalization.
But what if this mechanism fails?
Erik Hoel’s Overfitted Brain Hypothesis proposes dreams evolved to combat 'overfitting'—a common neural network issue where systems learn patterns too well, becoming incapable of generalizing.
No dreams, no generalization.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389921000647
Imagine training an AI on pictures of dogs, but you only show it Labrador Retrievers. Later, it mislabels a deer as a dog because it overly learned narrow features (brown fur, four legs). The brain can similarly over-learn daily experiences.
Now, apply this to human cognition. Without dreams—our brain's way of adding noise and randomness—our neural patterns become rigid. We risk misclassifying new experiences, creating distorted realities.
Hoel argues dreaming provides nightly exposure to corrupted, hallucinated, and sparse sensory inputs.
These unusual, story-like disruptions recalibrate our brain's models, promoting adaptability & generalization.
Dreams therefore act as natural neural regularizers.
Schizophrenia often involves hallucinations, disrupted narratives, and a blurred line between perception and imagination.
Schizophrenia could be what happens when this regularizing dream mechanism fails.
Without adequate dreaming, neural networks may dangerously overfit waking experiences, distorting reality models.
This would result in increased hallucinations during wakefulness, as the brain attempts spontaneous self-regularization.
Studies already link reduced or disrupted REM sleep (the primary dreaming state) with increased risk and symptom severity in schizophrenia. This aligns with Erik Hoel's OBH.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8446088/
Dreams seem to buffer our mental models from becoming too narrow or too certain. When dreams fail, mental flexibility suffers, possibly manifesting as psychosis or delusion—hallmarks of schizophrenia.
Michael Johnson's Symmetry Theory of Valence suggests mental health thrives on balanced neural patterns. Dreams might help maintain this cognitive-emotional symmetry. Without dreams, asymmetry emerges, possibly manifesting as schizophrenia’s emotional dysregulation.
https://opentheory.net/2021/07/a-primer-on-the-symmetry-theory-of-valence/
Johnson's Vasocomputation theory highlights vascular states as cognitive 'latches.' Dreams may regulate these tensions nightly w/ dream deprivation leading to chronically clenched cognitive states—fueling schizophrenia’s hallucinatory episodes.
A testable idea is that dream-deprived individuals should display heightened cognitive rigidity and elevated hallucination potential when awake, which is already mostly known to be the case.
Known schizophrenics may have dream disorders.
With tech like portable EEG and dream journaling apps, assessing dream frequency, vividness, and content in individuals with schizophrenia vs. controls would be pretty feasible.
I record dreams nightly in Obsidian.
If true, enhancing dream activity (via REM-inducing pharmaceuticals or neurostimulation techniques) could offer novel therapeutic pathways.
We might treat schizophrenia by amplifying dream function, promoting neural generalization.

2025-03-26 13:23:16 UTC

Kabane Coffee shop in Paris.
Would recommend.
are there any nostr location signing services?
https://m.primal.net/Ptlf.jpg

2025-03-26 07:50:05 UTC

gm
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2025-03-25 14:59:31 UTC

gm, this is where is post from this week
https://image.nostr.build/6ad73d61a56c1b7a5a5c7a7dbceb1e62bc7d6ae841425a23321037cfb126d3c4.jpg

2025-03-25 14:53:47 UTC

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well if thats the case and you like to read i definitely recommend going straight to the source. mike publishes prolifically. that said not everything is high signal bc of the publish or parish incentive.
this is one of my all time favorites, a good foundation for what underlies alot of the other work:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02688/full
from there I would recommend mike’s blog, he has been publishing writeups of his best stuff as it comes out recently and linking to the primary paper if you want to dive deeper:
https://thoughtforms.life/
from there you could browse the lab website by topic and just bookmark what jumps out at you:
https://drmichaellevin.org/publications/topics.html

2025-03-25 14:43:26 UTC

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whats your preferred modality and how deep are you trying to go?
self plugs in the meantime:
- a paper i wrote on this a while back: https://www.thebenjam.in/bioelectricityaging.pdf

2025-03-25 14:19:39 UTC

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hi - currently operating one of probably less than a dozen biotechs in this space.
the tools we have now from neuroscience are making this paradigm much more approachable than it ever was before. eg- voltage reporting dyes, genetically encoded voltage indicators and more to make playing with electricity in the body smarter than it has ever been before.
still very hard to image in vivo in complex organisms. In any case- we can still identify patterns corresponding to certain cell states in specific tissues and see how these translate similar to how we do now with drug discovery, eg bind this molecule with this protein and see how effective it is in the body

2025-03-25 14:13:52 UTC

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@npub1xts…kk5s i work on this via https://www.aion.bio/
tldr we are applying this paradigm to reprogramming cells.
eg- take a somatic/differentiated cell type like a skin cell, kidney cell, blood cell and turn them into pluripotent stem cells.
this has been possible since 2006 with soldering iron based interventions and as far as I know i am the only one doing this by writing new machine code.
aka bioelectric interventions vs protein based.
this is valuable bc current approaches are only ~1% effective in terms of iPSC yield and take 4-6 weeks.
everything we do now is in cell cultures.
our long term goal is to apply this tech to develop rejuvenation therapies in vivo.

2025-03-21 09:07:22 UTC

gm
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2025-03-21 07:00:07 UTC

this should be more common
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2025-03-20 05:57:21 UTC

headed to geneva tomorrow who should i meet

2025-03-18 15:04:16 UTC

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science folk wya

2025-03-18 15:04:09 UTC

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science folk wya
#nevent1q…ksc0