srinivasvivek

e/acc - Human Performance. Business & Tech. Co-Founder @ Pytheos Health. // //

[srinivasvivek @srinivasvivek]

A pharmacological arsenal without measurement is guesswork. A technological one without intervention is surveillance. The self-enhancer insists on both & that insistence is the whole shift now !

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Armed with pharmacological levers and technological feedback, self-enhancers have collapsed the distance between how they feel and what is actually happening inside them

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“an idiot in motion goes much further than a genius at rest”

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Every drug is approved against a disease, so every drug is measured against disease endpoints.

The effects that matter to a healthy person - body composition, cognition, sleep etc. sit in secondary endpoints. Underpowered, exploratory, honest about their own limits.

That's a real epistemic risk. It's also where most of the optimisation signal lives.

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Ambiguity in intention is the principal engine of anxiety

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Put enough money at risk that failing to act & succeeding would really bother You

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Androgens are magic !

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Wow! Pentagon is officially testing soldiers above 30 for low testosterone.

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Hedonic engineering is the application of bioscience towards raising standards of mental health in the general population
 
Creative psychopharmacology can boost both drive and the capacity for incisive, goal-directed thought, in addition to sharpening, intensifying and diversifying our states of consciousness, hardly a proscription for a boring or incompetent life.

- David Pearce

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it's experience. it's the price paid in losses and pain that converts into wisdom - Citadel Boss

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On Risk vs Uncertainty

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Chaos is not dangerous until it begins to look orderly

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Weak minds react. Strong minds respond. Elite minds route.
Emotion becomes signal, signal becomes decision, decision becomes motion.
Nothing loops. Nothing lingers. Nothing leaks.

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Emotions are capital.
Feel everything. Fund nothing that doesn't compound.
That's the whole discipline.

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call your friends for no reason

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Your thymus, the organ that trains your immune system starts shrinking after late 20's.

Chronic stress, bad sleep, and metabolic disease speed it up. India runs on all three.

We're not just getting sick. We're aging our immunity early.

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Luck isn’t a single force.
It’s an outcome, emerging from the interaction of preparation, motion, and chance.

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You were born alone in your head and you’ll die alone in your head. Everything in between is a single-player game with really good graphics.

[arw @arthextic]

poetry in motion.

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Deep empathy, world-transforming creative energy, euphoric peak experiences and sublime states of blissful well-being can become the new norm of mental health
- David Pearce