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Using the same logic, shouldn't a proclaimed top-notch company be able to embrace engineers w/ less than stellar skills? Who may have some "messiness" in how they work?

While I get why asking to view a codebase could come across as sounding like someone only wants to work on neat and tidy solutions, I don't hear it this way.

It's very normal and human to have preferences. It's OK for a prospective employee to ask questions about the working environment. There are a number of valid reasons to try and gain more in-depth signal on technical aspects of the company that don't mean someone is a snowflake.

There are a lot of ways to gauge this kind of signal without viewing a proprietary codebase, as others have mentioned in this thread. The questions posed in the comment you replied to are some great examples of how to do this - I think these get to the core of the matter more effectively than looking at code.

I just came across this -

https://neurosciencenews.com/psychedelics-consciousness-2028...

kinda fascinating…

My apologies, I thought there was an edit where you said you firmly believed this.

Interesting point re: GA.

I hear that you are surprised.

I understand there is data that supports this theory; I wasn’t aware that it is definitive nor how easily it could be reproduced.

Before it was edited, your original statement framed certainty about cognition originating in chemistry as a personal belief. Which isn’t a scientific statement.

Have met and worked with many male chronic apologizers. I am a recovering one myself!

Interesting idea re: NPD/BPD in parents as a possible correlate. Connecting the dots in existing clinical research may agree.

While I completely agree with the point about exploring psychedelic medicine with support, I need to counter by naming that a lot of medical professionals may not be well informed and many are categorically mis-informed.

Please find a guide or therapist who has been formally trained in working with psychedelics, and who works closely with medical doctor if you have any medical concerns or questions. Or work directly with an MD if and only if that MD has had formal training with psychedelics.

The conventional career tracks in western mental health (MFT, Psy.D, licensed psychiatrist or psychologist) do not give someone authority about psychedelic therapy. These backgrounds can be a part of a facilitators work, but they also need formal training in psychedelic therapy.

These people exist and our numbers are growing steadily.

so well said.

there’s absolutely no reason, for example, as to why unitive consciousness as described in some Hindu philosophies would be in contradiction with our experience of cognition originating entirely within a chemical framework of understanding reality.

please share sources that definitively prove that all cognition is the product of chemical reactions?

It’s repeated for lots of medications where it could never happen. SS is widely misunderstood even in the medical community.

I trust specific doctors who specialize in psychedelic medicine and psychiatry who have deep understanding of the metabolic pathways and pharmacokinetics of these substances.

https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/serotonin-syndrome-myths-...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8820588/

everything on my apple computer is also backed up in the cloud. if something untoward were to happen to the machine, I would also be up and running in 5 mins or so after purchasing a new one. so I am not personally sure what you mean by saying that google shines in this dept. I don’t see any difference.

also, not sure if you meant this literally — would you please consider taking any destroyed computers to electronics recycling instead of throwing in the trash, if at all possible based on your location? these things contain stuff that’s not really desirable to go into landfills - heavy metals, batteries, etc

closed eye fractals can happen with either MDMA or ketamine alone, and they synergize with each other to create stronger effects.

so the presence of closed eye visuals on a mixture containing at least MDMA and ketamine would not in any way suggest that it necessarily contains any 2C-B.

> there are absolutely zero studies that show that these compounds are either safe or dangerous.

there are many studies about these medicines - curious where this statement that there are none is coming from?

here's a tip of the iceberg, a good place to start --

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01336-3

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/00952990.2016.11...

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/...

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/hallucin...

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/magic_mu...

This is very likely false; a myth perpetuated from the war on drugs combined with people taking unknown, untested substances in recreational settings.

If they experienced serotonin syndrome it was quite easy to just point at the reported seratonergic substance that had been ingested (and which also may not have been present at all, depending on the source).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5931730/

what? dancesafe uses reagent-based testing. which, if used carefully, can identify many kinds of compounds with high accuracy.

it wouldn’t make any sense to compare it to an existing sample. not to mention the legality of that, depending on where the festival is happening.

if you are curious, all of their tests are available on their website

https://dancesafe.org

Curious why you feel that the overlap between this audience and people receiving these treatments (or facilitators / therapists) would be zero?

I can state with complete certainty that trained, professional guides and clients in this kind of work are reading this article and this comment thread.

happy to chat more about this - please send a DM

Absolutely agree.

If you can't find a trained guide, having close trusted friends sit for you can be of tremendous therapeutic and healing value. And, yes, working with a trained guide can be of huge benefit -- they support you in creating a safe and powerful set and setting. The work can definitely be shamanic - one of the things these substances have the potential to do is to teach us how to shamanically journey within ourselves. The safer our psyche feels, the deeper we can go.

I want to mention that there are many professions other than psychologist that are a natural fit for safely guiding people in states of expanded consciousness.

Many people who provide this kind of service are trained and apprenticed specifically in this kind of work after education and work experience in other healing and service oriented fields like therapy, counseling, ministry, medicine, nursing, bodywork, music therapy, etc. And they have lots of personal experience being in expanded states themselves, working with a guide (that's part of the apprenticeship).