One is eternity compressed into five minutes; the other is relatively mild even at higher doses in comparison (though of course a powerful experience in its own right).
Suspect that for many 5-MEO is something you do once in a lifetime. It's not necessary to do it on a regular basis, and you'll know why after you try it for the first time :)
A comparison might be (for me at least) mushrooms is akin to going to an art gallery, and 5-meo is like going very deep (instantly) into a sensory-deprivation flotation tank.
An art gallery in the sense that there's a lot going on, there's a lot to interpret and you're very aware of the things that are around you. Those things have a strong ability to move you, provide insight, "downloads", intepretations. It can also be (not necessarily) very social as well. It's not a perfect metaphor because it doesn't capture all the other ways mushrooms can influence you, but for the sake of this analogy haha.
A flotation tank because… well for me everything ceased to exist. There was no time, no self, no light, no thought, no sensations. Nothing. Just an experience that merged with darkness and then there was simply just an awareness. I remember "being" in a place of complete darkness (darkness isn't even the right word because it's beyond the idea of darkness even existing). Beyond concepts and words and thoughts. And the darkness was truly "beautiful". It felt like it was silently humming, vibrating even. It felt primordial, as if it was pregnant with all possible creation. And yet utterly void.
Truly a surreal experience and not at ALL the same thing!
You do that enough and I bet you'll be labelled "the slow one" in certain circles, so before attempting that as a junior make sure you have some measure of protection.
>I suspect the people facing rising electricity cost and air-noise pollution beg to differ.
Pulling myself together here to be as polite as possible but could you perhaps read the quoted text and your own post again and try and square that circle?
Otherwise, are you perhaps in the running for some kind of internet non sequitur award I am unaware of? I would vote for your comment if you simply make me aware of how to do so.
Residential users' water bills aren't (currently) affected by datacenter-related demand, unlike their power bills which are.
The resource contention for water is between datacenters and agribusiness (or other industrial users), not residential users.
Instead of being sarcastic to GP's post, we could try to find a succinct explanation of how water rights are owned/sold/taxed in the US. This seems to be a patchwork quilt by state, county, seniority and related legislation. But anyway, datacenter usage of water isn't impacting residential users' water bills.
I think you are interpreting his claim in the most extreme possible way. You are doing the equivalent of asking a civil engineer what if his bridge needs to support flying cars, or weight half as much while carrying ten times the load. Of course there are architecture breaking requirements, but his point still stands for reasonable and foreseeable changes. If it doesn't survive that, then it wasn't a good design begin with.
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