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I would hazard a guess that some readers of this blog might already be familiar with the delightful Scott Alexander story, Universal Love, Said The Cactus Person – in which the unnamed protagonist asks a couple of DMT entities to factorise a large integer: “Universal love”, said the cactus person. “Transcendent joy”, said the big green bat. “Right”, I said. “I’m absolutely in favor of both those things. But before we go any further, could you tell me the two prime factors of 1,522,605,027,922,533,360,535,618,378,132,637,429,718,068,114,961,380,688,657,908,494,580,122,963,258,952,897,654,000,350,692,006,139?” “Universal love”, said the cactus person. “Transcendent joy”, said the big green bat. Supposedly, this would demonstrate the reality of DMT entities, or at least that they are capable of extraordinary feats of computation, or somesuch: “I want to advance psychedelic research. If you can factor that number, then it will convince people back in the real – back in my world that this p

Hypercomputation without bothering the cactus people: Software development for the DMT headspace Posted on 26 September 2024 by Cube Flipper I would hazard a guess that some readers of this blog might already be familiar with the delightful Scott Alexander story, Universal Love, Said The Cactus Person – in which the unnamed protagonist asks a couple of DMT entities to factorise a large integer: “Universal love”, said the cactus person. “Transcendent joy”, said the big green bat. “Right”, I said. “I’m absolutely in favor of both those things. But before we go any further, could you tell me the

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