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Finished Altered States (1980) and it's a cool movie, but I can't get over how ridiculous it is to suggest tripping and using a sensory deprivation tank would cause genetic changes 😂 Definitely has the feel of some almost paranormal type stuff. The worst part might be how badly he treats his wife 😒
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Altered States (1980)
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.

He totally lost his mind! #Antifa
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terroris…

"Trump & Vance can destroy what others have built. They can push…United States past…breaking point. But they lack…alternative…They want fascism, &…don’t mind death of others…To get what they want, on…fascist model, they will have to…fight a major foreign war in which they manage to send off young people who oppose them to die, or…have to use government forces to kill Americans. I don’t think…these will…work; Vietnam &…Kent State shootings had…opposite effect."

Look on my works, ye Mighty
Labors of Destruction and Creation

When Researchers Say Mental Model/Theory of Mind of AI, What Are They Really Talking About?
Xiaoyun Yin, Elmira Zahmat Doost, Shiwen Zhou, Garima Arya Yadav, Jamie C. Gorman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02660

When Researchers Say Mental Model/Theory of Mind of AI, What Are They Really Talking About?
When researchers claim AI systems possess ToM or mental models, they are fundamentally dis- cussing behavioral predictions and bias corrections rather than genuine mental states. This position paper argues that the current discourse conflates sophisticated pattern matching with authentic cog- nition, missing a crucial distinction between simulation and experience. While recent studies show LLMs achieving human-level performance on ToM laboratory tasks, these results are based only on behavioral…

"I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head," Bob Dylan howls toward the middle of his epiphanic 1965 album, Highway 61 Revisited, shooting out of a ragged harmonica solo during the rollicking "From a Buick 6" to diagnose his own condition. At that moment, the twenty-something Dylan-the unofficial youth poet laureate of the United States, as well as the sneering voice of an emergent counterculture-had a lot on his mind, and perhaps more on his professional plate.
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LLMs and their Limited Theory of Mind: Evaluating Mental State Annotations in Situated Dialogue
Katharine Kowalyshyn, Matthias Scheutz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02292 https://

LLMs and their Limited Theory of Mind: Evaluating Mental State Annotations in Situated Dialogue
What if large language models could not only infer human mindsets but also expose every blind spot in team dialogue such as discrepancies in the team members' joint understanding? We present a novel, two-step framework that leverages large language models (LLMs) both as human-style annotators of team dialogues to track the team's shared mental models (SMMs) and as automated discrepancy detectors among individuals' mental states. In the first step, an LLM generates annotations by identifying SMM…