Comments on Dark Roasted Blend: Three Tips for Hacking Reality

quote-jenjen: whether or not the hackuracy of the ...

2009-07-04T10:51:13.026-07:00

quote-jenjen:
whether or not the hackuracy of the post is all it's hacked up to be, the art is gorgeous.

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I agree with you completely.

Some fresh view on all of this - thank you, Modabi...

2009-05-29T20:42:00.708-07:00

Some fresh view on all of this - thank you, Modabid

Lisa Bruder is actually onto something. The proble...

2009-05-29T20:39:23.150-07:00

Lisa Bruder is actually onto something. The problem is that she's too busy trying to make money to realize what she has in her hand.

But like in the Matrix, "Nobody makes the first jump." Lisa Bruder needs to take a second leap and look again. Perhaps she will learn something. Anyone claiming a hold on reality manipulation who needs to sell to make money, is missing the boat.

Neo learned he did not need to dodge bullets. He simply altered their existence and gave them a new behavior.

Lisa Bruder doesn't know it yet, but that what reality hacking is really all about: Consciously and deliberately giving Reality a new behavior.

The beauty about this things is that no one can sa...

2009-05-27T23:11:10.132-07:00

The beauty about this things is that no one can say for sure if its true or not. The curious thing about them is that everybody thinks that he or she has the truth. Human being, being of contradictions.

This is the biggest peice of.....I've ever seen.ho...

2009-01-16T13:18:00.000-08:00

This is the biggest peice of.....
I've ever seen.

honestly though, I do beleive it is possible to get your own mind to beleive you're "Hacking reality."

But this lady is trying to make you beleive you actually can change reality, which is crap.

By the way, if you'd be so kind,
Take a look at my fractal and surreal art AVI, if you think it's good enough you might perhapse post it here on DRB (heh heh :)

ok maybe not post it, but please take a look http://www.flickr.com/photos/professor_enigmas_incredible_fractal_gallery

about the 'floating oragami'. That video was not s...

2008-12-31T00:47:00.000-08:00

about the 'floating oragami'. That video was not showing floating oragami. She was showing how the energy exuded from her palms could make the object spin, not hover. You need more background before you can point out more than a false flaw.

the reality hacker site was the biggest bunch of b...

2008-08-22T00:55:00.000-07:00

the reality hacker site was the biggest bunch of bs ever. and it looked like the website had been put together in 10 minutes. the videos were pointless too.

watch video 5. the onee where the origami is supposedly hovering in mid air: if you look closely, especially at the end when she takes her hand away, you can see its balancing on a tiny post, kinda like a tooth pick.

also, the source code for the site, despite being the most basic site on the web is filled with completely unnecessary code, perhaps to make people think more effort was put into it than really was.

Right on!I'm a skeptical scientist and an Asperger...

2008-08-19T19:50:00.000-07:00

Right on!
I'm a skeptical scientist and an Asperger who tends to fall outside of time, there have been great mornings when I've experienced 6 impossible things before breakfast.

Conventional reality is a flimsy kludge. This woman is pointing intelligently at the gaps between our flashing neon signs. Her hints are right on.

Many of you are right to run away.
Self meta-programming is risky stuff, and you don't ever really recover.

I'm glad I didn't... recover.

Dogstoyevski

Anonymous is very correct in his/her response. Br...

2008-08-05T17:52:00.000-07:00

Anonymous is very correct in his/her response. Bravo! In short though. The mind is just a lens of sorts. The world around you is filled with infinite possibilities. How ever small/opaque you allow your lens to be is your choice. But the visionary is the one that steps beyond the "hard sciences" and such to see into the beyond. The beyond being where previous people's lenses have yet to see. And for those hanging onto the logic of various sciences. Science just reflects the knowledge of the time in question. It evolves. So what seems true today may not be tomorrow with further discoveries. So it isn't wise to make the foundation of your argument in something that is in constant flux. Capiche?

These "reality hackers" are putting themselves in ...

2008-08-02T10:52:00.000-07:00

These "reality hackers" are putting themselves in great danger because they are opening themselves up to control by demons.

Tikhon.

Oh, where to start in all this crazy?Let's concede...

2008-07-16T08:12:00.000-07:00

Oh, where to start in all this crazy?

Let's concede that this is slightly plausible; Loop quantum gravity posits something like a Penrose spin network at Plank scale, which is potentially hackable. This puts the "information density" of the universe at about 10^600 bits per square centimeter. The human brain seems capable of processing around 10^14 bits at any one time. If we ignore the huge 10^44 difference between human processing times and Plank time, then the amount of space a human brain could 'hack' is still vastly less than the size of a single proton, assuming the holographic principle.

Hippies love quantum mechanics, until it shows precisely how wrong they are, at which point it's dismissed as an artifact of useless human logic.

The universe has already come up with a perfectly amazing way of allowing you to move things around with your mind. It's called your "body".

You guy have obviously never done any serious medi...

2008-07-13T10:02:00.000-07:00

You guy have obviously never done any serious meditation or read very much into some deep hardcore buddhism ancient hinduism, physics philosophy, any other medium that questions our rather strong grip on reality. That and and you seem to be missing the point about using ideas from every medium to explore our own reality, or lack there of.

Buddha would have been considered insane by a lot of people in his time if it weren't for his incredible common sense intelligence. He believed in life on other planets before people believed there were other planets. He believed that everything was made up of sub-atomic particles that continually recreate themselves as science has only proven recently. He like Einstein believed that time is not linear. He believed that you shouldn't believe what anyone says and find things out for yourselves.

I think that we can all agree that sci-fi and comics tend to bend ideas about reality further then almost any other medium and time and again their ideas are used with success within our reality framework. There are so many undiscovered secrets in our universe that have yet to be found yet you simply write off someones ideas as idiotic and move on just like others did to DiVince, Einstein, Jesus, Buddha anyone who didn't believe in the Catholic version of Christianity, countless tinkerers and experimenters throughout time. And no I'm not putting this chick on the same level and some of the great minds of our time only pointing out that she is trying to understand things in her own way and shouldn't be persecuted for it by some nerds spinning their psychology beanies calling her a wackjob while studying great people that were once called wackjobs themselves. Try reading some Jung, talk about some messed up stuff that works. I'm simply saying that lack of an open mind and thinking you know all the answers using only modern science and ideas only serves to leave you fighting for scraps of knowledge once the dust all settles.

In short, get over yourselves. She may be barking up the wrong tree at times but I'm sure that if she's looking with honesty she'll see with honesty.

One final note. You will never get there with drugs. They give you hints and point you in the right direction at times, but that direction will always be way more blurry then if you get there without.

Namaste motherf$#@ers ;)

As an epileptic, I can assure you all that reality...

2008-07-06T09:18:00.000-07:00

As an epileptic, I can assure you all that reality has some thin spots.
The natural reaction to these events is to run the other way, or to hang on for dear life in hope of maintaining things long enough to get to a safe place.
The brain is very soft.

actually, its abra kadabrahttp://en.wikipedia.org/...

2008-07-05T01:45:00.000-07:00

actually, its abra kadabra

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abra_Kadabra_(comics)

that melded science and magic.

my english is'nt so good:But i did understand.You ...

2008-07-04T05:45:00.000-07:00

my english is'nt so good:

But i did understand.
You never be able to Hack reality but Your Brain... All senses ar illusions of your brain and iff you think you feel somthing it is an imagination.

So iff you hack your brain, you can manipulate the illusion of senses.
"Your" reality is changing but only yours. and sometimes you get lost.

This act can be assisted of druguse.
Or insanity...

Good luck in hacking.

Reg. Pillum

All in good fun, Commander. Comments were getting ...

2008-07-03T17:32:00.000-07:00

All in good fun, Commander. Comments were getting nasty toward the hacker girl.

"Avi Abrams said... Don't take it too seriously...

2008-07-03T17:26:00.000-07:00

"Avi Abrams said...

Don't take it too seriously, folks. These are just means to shake things up a little :)"

Avi, why do you feel the need to defend your entries/articles? It's your blog, isn't it?

I hack reality all the time, it's called Psychedel...

2008-07-03T16:31:00.000-07:00

I hack reality all the time, it's called Psychedelic drugs: LSD, Psylocibin, DMT

The fact that a psych PhD felt this was worth a "C...

2008-07-03T11:05:00.000-07:00

The fact that a psych PhD felt this was worth a "C" exposes more about psychology than the article...

I'd have to agree that this was the worst post tha...

2008-07-03T09:38:00.000-07:00

I'd have to agree that this was the worst post that I have ever seen on Dark Roasted Blend... But I won't fault you... Hitting home runs 99.99999% of the time is perfectly OK by me :D

"you can mix hard science and ancient spirituality...

2008-07-03T07:21:00.000-07:00

"you can mix hard science and ancient spirituality with comic books and video games to make something happen."

Yup, I call it 'my life'. Science, religion, comic books, video games... Wheeee!

I think this post needs a follow-up post dedicated to Happy Mutants, the culture hackers. (And as culture is made up of information, it is 'hackable', either for information or for malice.)

I have a PhD in psychology and this is a crock. ...

2008-07-03T06:24:00.000-07:00

I have a PhD in psychology and this *is* a crock. If a spotty undergraduate came up with it I'd giove it a C at best.

Don't take it too seriously, folks. These are just...

2008-07-03T03:21:00.000-07:00

Don't take it too seriously, folks. These are just means to shake things up a little :)

Here's a link to the hidden site for Reality Hacke...

2008-07-03T02:52:00.000-07:00

Here's a link to the hidden site for Reality Hacker. It's pretty sad.

For a good laugh, take a look at the HTML source for that page. It's got hundreds of unnecessary nested font tags. Must have been from a hyper-dimensional vibration in the quantum matrix causing a glitch in the reality hackstack.

This is a first for Dark Roasted Blend - a bad pos...

2008-07-03T02:23:00.000-07:00

This is a first for Dark Roasted Blend - a bad post. Not much more than new age spiritual mumbo jumbo combined with science-y sounding buzzwords. I surely hope this was a joke! How much ya wanna bet that behind that very skinny Reality Hacker website frontend is a pitch for sending them money, probably for 'secret methods' and such.

It was all worth reading though just for David Byrden's Cow/Coffee Machine analogy. That was just awesome!