It’s not for the cognitive performance.

Stilmulants have a very profound effect in neurotypicals.

Hahaha.

Well, I’m glad that information is public. Way back when, I found out that most air force pilots get a stimulant supply.

Then I found out most special forces are also likely given a supply (unable to confirm, but apparently the numbers were allocated sufficiently), and, maybe more surprisingly and least verifiable, almost all forward operating bases will have a supply on hand as well.

This goes back as long as amphetamine has been around too.

It never ended. It just went cold.

I’m so confused

I didn’t grow up in the 60s or watching the show so maybe I just don’t remember seeing her twitch her nose ever. I always thought it was some sort of a quick smirk she did when using her power.

Something is telling me that really don’t want to turn those all on at the same time.

I love how just how shitty the posts get here.

Why? Because fuck you, that’s why.

I think you fell for the trick they’re trying to sell that the LLMs are capable of “reasoning.”

They are not. They are gigantic matricies of numbers that are applied to text after the text has been assigned numbers.

For example, if we stick a fork in an outlet, we will not do it again. If you don’t believe me, try it yourself.

An LLM has no means of testing whether or not it is a bad idea.

Additionally, an LLM doesn’t have the capability to observe others who test an action.

If LLMs could test their outputs to find the real consequences of their statements, then we would be talking about actual intelligence. For now, they’re just number maps.

Gestures broadly to all recorded history.

It’s like their thing.

It’s actually kind of mind boggling. Lenin knew this was a thing and took all sorts of steps to correct it, but his mistake was demanding it to improve by force. “We’re making your lives better now, or else.”

I mean, shit, a big ass group of armed dudes on horses show up in my cold ass disconnected village and they say we need to do x, y, and z to improve our lives or else? Yeah that’s sus.

And the benefit of using the harassment of women against you in the future if you step out of line.

It’s *consequences for thee and not for me" at the finest.

Goddamnit

Two morons arguing moron talking points calling each other morons. What the fuck is going on anymore.

IDK he might be a little aware. His constant “deer-in-the-headlights” stare might be that awareness just beginning to form and it generates something remotely similar to fear.

Actually that’s a really good post. I didn’t know that salt without potassium would make you sick, as the products I used always had an amount of potassium in them.

And listening to our bodies shouldn’t be that hard, but here we are lol

I was in a miserable puddle of sensory overload. 15 years after the test I started learning that yeah I’m probably ASD, and there’s a strange correlation with ASD and POTS. Neuron magic.

And no problem with that yeah.

The sweat test was awful. You basically wear your underwear, lie down in what amounts to a glass oven, then they spread sand all over your and you sit still for an hour and bake. Then they take a picture at the end.

And purple means sweat, yellow means no sweat. It shows what sweat glands activated by the autonomic nervous system. Then you have to shower it off and it takes forever.

They were very professional about it though, it was a nurse, a doc, and technician. I guess they were doing multiple tests at the same time, but I never saw other people doing it. Which was a relief I didn’t really want to see other purple people

It does help me keep volume, definitely. I found ones called “vitassium”. They have 500mg of sodium, 100mg of potassium per pill. That seems to work ok with 3L, so it should help reduce your intake.

It’s kind of weird to think about though. All my life I had to listen to my family having too high blood pressure so I got used to not eating salt.

Well that backfired.

Oh, I probably responded to that one someone else’s comment and forgot to bring it along with me.

My mother has tried to convince me of that. The “and then it got worse” is part of the core of their culture. I don’t want to believe that’s true, mostly because things DID get better after Stalin died.

I get that 500 years of state-subsidized alcoholism can greatly impact a nation, but surely they are capable of trying for something better.

Well, bro, I got some bad news on that front.

I’ve been to two of the best hospitals in the world (not on purpose, just coincidentally and they wanted to check it out in their specialty clinics) and went through some unpleasant testing (one is called a thermoregulation sweat test that they cover you in color changing sand), and that’s the exact same thing I have to do.

I take 4 salt pills, drink 3 liters of water, Gatorade or Pedialyte and a beta blocker. I do cardio. The one thing I am starting to get better at now is lower body strength - my legs are pretty dinky and along with increased blood volume, bigger leg muscles can help ease the symptoms.

The beta blocker thing I got unlucky with though, there’s a few of them that are better for pots but I can’t metabolize them (or maybe I rapidly metabolize them so they don’t work at all, I cant remember).

Does really hot weather seem to cause it?

Do you seem to eat less salt than other people?

Do you have persistently low blood pressure but a heart rate that is easy to spike?

If you stretch just right will it happen?

I don’t want to just say “go see a doctor” but having collapsed at very bad opportunities, it is not worth finding out until it’s too late that you have to make some lifestyle changes to function.

I want to point out that Orthostatic Hypotension is normal to some degree.

If you experience it changing positions while sitting, or notice exercise and heat intolerance, talk to a doctor. In the short term drink enough fluids and get a bunch of sodium and potassium in you.

Edit: Im going to step out here and say that I am personally familiar with a condition called Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. It’s somewhat uncommon, and has a lot of potential causes. COVID-19, specifically, can trigger it because of the way it attacks the nervous system. However, the symptoms of POTS are also the symptoms of a BUNCH of other much more serious conditions. It’s a diagnosis by ruling out other things. When they get to the step of testing for POTS it’s hilariously easy. They monitor your heart rate and blood pressure, stick you on a moving table, and tilt you.

On the downside, POTS itself is incurable unless the underlying cause changes or improves. This happens in many people, I was unfortunate enough that they discovered I had unexplainable neuropathies. Either the nerves were damaged when I was young, or they didn’t grow correctly.

The upside is that we can manage POTS symptoms. Avoid heat. Build lower body muscle, increase electrolyte intake, and drink a lot of non-caffinated and non-alcoholic liquids. I take salt pills, drink Pedialyte daily, and have a prescribed (and extremely cheap) medication. It still happens, but it’s manageable, and I won’t die from a head injury anymore.