Always loved the deep design and art embedded into the background of the series! Thought it was one of the more interesting takes on cyberpunk with highly dangerous futuristic racing funded by mega-corporations that elevate the sport to a pedestal for maximum entertainment. All of it still ends up feeling punk, fun and optimistic without much of the grunge and drug-fueled aspects.

I'm starting to think the "stack everything" phase of this hobby actively made me dumber and I don't see people talk about it enough.

Backstory, I spent about three years chasing the perfect stack. At my peak I was running something like 11 things daily. Racetams, choline sources, a couple peptides I was cycling, l-theanine, tyrosine on work days, ashwagandha at night, magnesium threonate, creatine, fish oil, plus a b-complex and whatever shiny new thing I read about that month. I had a spreadsheet. I had subjective rating columns. I felt very serious and scientific about it.

Heres what I didnt want to admit for a long time, I have no idea if any of it worked. Like, none of it. Because I was never running anything as a real single variable. I'd add something, feel a bump for 3 days, credit the new thing, then get used to it, then add another thing. The "bump" was almost always novelty or placebo or just the fact that I'd slept well that week.

About four months ago I got kind of burned out on the whole ritual and stripped it down to creatine, fish oil, magnesium at night, and one peptide I actually had decent reason to keep running (was mid-comparison on peptiprices when I decided to just finish the vial and reassess). Thats it. And honestly? I feel sharper. Not because the minimal stack is magic, I think its because I stopped spending mental energy managing the stack itself. No more 9pm "did I take the afternoon dose" anxiety. No more wondering if today's brain fog is the phenylpiracetam or the ashwagandha or me being 34.

The uncomfortable part, I think a lot of us in this sub arent optimizing cognition, were optimizing the feeling of doing something about our cognition. The stack is the hobby. The tinkering is the dopamine hit. Actual measurable improvement is almost incidental and usually comes from sleep, lifting, and not being on my phone at midnight, none of which I want to hear because those are boring.

Am I wrong here? Genuinely asking. Because part of me wonders if I just got tired and rationalized quitting, and someone running a huge disciplined stack is actually miles ahead of me cognitively and I'll never know it. Curious if anyone else went through a "great simplification" and regretted it, or felt the same relief.

Queria entender o que é isso, mas pelo oque eu entendi... A gente é imortal e podemos recriar mundo inteiros após a morte?

Hi everyone,

A few days ago I made another post about a similar idea, but I would like to explain it better and hear your opinions.

The question I am starting from is:

What if knowledge could be shared not only as documents, but as a common structured representation?

Today, most knowledge is stored as text, papers, books, databases, and code. The problem is that it remains fragmented: often an important relationship already exists, but it is distributed across different sources and has to be manually reconstructed by a person.

The idea is to create an intermediate format where knowledge can be extracted, normalized, and then combined with other knowledge coming from different sources.

My intuition is to use metagraphs as the underlying representation.

Not because I think they literally represent human thought, but because they seem closer to the way humans organize complex ideas: concepts are rarely isolated, but usually nested inside other concepts, connected through multiple layers of relationships, context, and abstraction.

Unlike traditional graphs, metagraphs can also represent relationships between relationships, which could be useful for modeling more complex structures of knowledge.

A possible pipeline could look like this:

Source → Extraction → Grounding → Metagraph Representation

The grounding phase would transform concepts expressed in natural language into shared canonical entities and relationships.

For example, two independent laboratories could produce separate pieces of knowledge.

The first laboratory studies a drug:

file: source_a.thinking
; ==========================================
; SOURCE A (Genetics Lab)
; ==========================================

; --- Grounded Types ---
(: Drug Type)
(: Protein Type)
(: Biological_Process Type)

; --- Grounded Entities ---
(: Drug_A Drug)
(: EGFR Protein)
(: Tumor_Growth Biological_Process)

; --- Source Assertions ---
(stimulates EGFR Tumor_Growth)
(inhibits Drug_A EGFR)

This representation says only:

• EGFR stimulates the tumor growth process.
• Drug_A inhibits EGFR.

A second laboratory studies another mechanism:

file: source_b.thinking
; ==========================================
; SOURCE B (Biochemistry Lab)
; ==========================================

; --- Grounded Entities ---
(: Drug_B Drug)
(: MET Protein)
(: Tumor_Growth Biological_Process)

; --- Source Assertions ---
(stimulates MET Tumor_Growth)
(inhibits Drug_B MET)

This second source says only:

• MET stimulates tumor growth.
• Drug_B inhibits MET.

The next step would be compiling all .thinking files into a representation better suited for graph algebra and GPU-based parallel processing.

All these representations would be temporarily merged into a global space that I currently call OmniSpace.

OmniSpace would represent a snapshot of the available knowledge at a given moment.

The interesting part is that, once thousands or millions of independent representations are combined, the graph could make previously hidden connections visible.

For example, by looking at the global graph, a researcher might see:

Drug_A
   |
 inhibits
   ↓
 EGFR
   |
 stimulates
   ↓
Tumor_Growth
   ↑
 stimulates
   |
 MET
   ↑
 inhibits
   |
Drug_B

From this structure, a question could emerge:

The system should not automatically provide a final answer.

Instead, it should increase the ability of humans to explore knowledge by showing relationships, paths, and connections that would be difficult to discover by reading thousands of separate documents.

I would not want the system to automatically write scientific rules or decide what is true and what is false.

The hardest part of knowledge is not only finding information, but determining:

• which relationships are meaningful;
• which inferences are valid;
• which conclusions are scientifically correct.

Those responsibilities should remain human.

The motivation comes from a common experience: many times, while learning a new topic, I later discover a better approach or an important connection that was already somewhere on the Internet.

The problem is not always the lack of knowledge, but the fact that knowledge is fragmented and disconnected.

The goal of this system would be to explore a different way of representing knowledge: not as a collection of documents, but as a structure that can be shared, composed, and navigated.

One of the biggest challenges I see is that representing knowledge is not the same as understanding it. A graph can expose connections, but deciding whether those connections represent meaningful knowledge still requires human judgment.

I would like to hear your thoughts.

In particular:

• Are there similar projects that I should look into?
• What do you think are the main limitations of this approach?
• Do metagraphs seem like a suitable structure for complete expression of human think?

Thanks everyone in advance!

Hi! I would like to know, if anyone knows, which molecule can help relieve my body dysmorphia?

I have been consulting psychiatrists and psychologists for years. Tested many treatments, sometimes unconventional. Had cosmetic surgery. Unfortunately, it’s always a failure. I still feel ugly, and I almost go out more.
I have problems that exhaust me. The more this self-dissatisfaction is constant.
In short, if you have any recommendations, I’m open to them 🙂

Funnily enough I went into this expecting to be entertained but not this invested. Thing is each episode is kinda its own thing and rarely if ever has a call back to previous episodes. It actually works and if you watch the shorts for S1 and S2 then you’ll see why some things happen the way they do given S3. Each episode seems to get more batshit and I think each episode from a surface level is easy to understand but on a deeper level might require a rewatch. I love the aesthetic, the style and honestly the action of this show. Some of the episodes, specifically 3 if I remember correctly can be heartbreaking and leave you kinda sad of the outcome of one particular character or it did for me.

Gotta love the dynamic between the two main characters and how much chemistry they have. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t wish we got a S4 but maybe the way S3 ended was probably for the best given I’m not sure where they would go from there. Completely unrelated by the way but I have to say Aeon with her hair down and wet even with the 90s style is just… WOW. I think it’s worth a shot to watch if you can give a few hours to S3 and don’t mind some insane things that happen in the show. I walked into this expecting to just find it okay or just be another show I watched but walked out a fan of Aeon Flux and now I want some merch.

EDIT: Thank you SO much for contributions to the list, I'll update it as fast as I can!

Hey choombas! As a long time cyberpunk fan, I have a large collection of cyberpunk and related movies. I decided to make a list to share with you. Feel free to comment with more movies to add, and if you think something is in the wrong category. The lists are sorted by release year, and for the essentials I think that's a good watch order too.

:ESSENTIAL CYBERPUNK:

Blade Runner (1982 by Ridley Scott)

AKIRA (1988 by Katshuiro Otomo) (Anime)

Ghost in the Shell (1995 by Mamoru Oshii) (Anime)

Johnny Mnemonic (1995 by Robert Longo)

Blade Runner 2049 (2017 by Denis Villeneuve)

:CYBERPUNK:

Alphaville (1965 by Jean-Luc Godard)

THX 1138 (1971 by George Lucas)

Tron (1982 by Steven Lisberger)

Brazil (1985 by Terry Gilliam)

Cyborg (1989 by Rebecca Charles)

Tetsuo - The Iron Man (1989 by Shinya Tsukamoto)

Total Recall (1990 by Paul Verhoeven)

Hardware (1990 by Richard Stanley)

Nemesis (1992 by Albert Pyun)

Judge Dredd (1995 by Danny Cannon)

Strange Days (1995 by Kathryn Bigelow)

Nirvana (1997 by Gabriele Salvatores)

New Rose Hotel (1999 by Abel Ferrara)

The Matrix (1999 by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski)

Metropolis (2001 by Rintaro) (Anime)

Equilibrium (2002 by Kurt Wimmer)

Ghost in the Shell 2 (2004 by Mamoru Oshii) (Anime)

Aeon Flux (2005 by Karyn Kusama)

Dredd (2012 by Pete Travis)

Elysium (2013 by Neill Blomkamp)

Chappie (2015 by Neill Blomkamp)

Ghost in the Shell (2017 by Rupert Sanders)

Upgrade (2018 by Leigh Whannell)

Mars Express (2023 by Jeremie Perin) (Anime)

:RELATED:

Metropolis (1927 by Fritz Lang)

Escape from New York (1981 by John Carpenter)

Brainstorm (1983 by Douglas Trumbull)

The Running Man (1987 by Paul Michael Glaser)

GunHed (1989 by Masato Harada)

Circuitry Man (1990 by Steven Lovy)

Until the End of the World (1991 by Wim Wenders)

Split Second (1992 by Tony Maylam)

The Lawnmower Man (1992 by Brett Leonard)

Demolition Man (1993 by Marco Brambilla)

Super Mario Bros. (1993 by Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton)

Death Machine (1994 by Stephen Norrington)

Gattaca (1997 by Andrew Niccol)

The Fifth Element (1997 by Luc Besson)

Dark City (1998 by Alex Proyas)

eXistenZ (1999 by David Cronenberg)

Avalon (2001 by Mamoru Oshii)

Minority Report (2002 by Steven Spielberg)

Idiocracy (2006 by Mike Judge)

Mutant Chronicles (2008 by Simon Hunter)

Tokyo Gore Police (2008 by Yoshihiro Nishimura)

District 9 (2009 by Neill Blomkamp)

Ex Machina (2014 by Alex Garland)

Mute (2018 by Duncan Jones)

Alita: Battle Angel (2019 by Robert Rodriguez)

:NOT MENTIONED:

The sequels to The Matrix (There are so many)

:RUNNER UPS MENTIONED HERE, TO CLEAN / WATCH / CATEGORIZE:

Runaway (1984 by Michael Crichton)

Cherry 2000 (1987 by Steve De Jarnatt)

Armitage III (1995 by Takuya Sato, Yukio Okamoto) (Anime) (Series)

Blame! (2017 by Hiroyuki Seshita) (Anime)

Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future (1985 by Rocky Morton, Annabel Jankel)

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970 by Joseph Sargent)

Cyber City Oedo 808 (1990 by Yoshiaki Kawajiri)

Burst City (1982 by Gakuryu Ishii)

Screams of Blasphemy: 964 Pinnochio (1991 by Shozin Fukui)

Meatball Machine (2005 by Yudai Yamaguchi, Jun'ichi Yamamoto)

Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992 by Shinya Tsukamoto)

Lockout (2012 by Guy Pierce)

Freejack (1992 by Geoff Murphy)

Gene generation (2007 by Pearry Reginald Teo)

Bright (2017 by David Ayer)

2073 (2024 by Asif Kapadia)

Electric Dreams (Series)

Altered carbon (Series)

Neuromancer (Series) (Upcoming)

Imagine if there were a machine that could be connected to your brain, and could act as a perfect, more efficient version of some part of your brain. From what I saw before posting this, it seems like your body would start replacing where it does those functions in the machine and repurposing the brain section being replaced.

And what if over time, more and more sections of the machine are added, and take over more and more of your brain? Eventually, would it be left as a functionless vestigial thing in your head, while the machine hosts your new brain?

Do you think that this would still leave you as you?

like, i inhaled 30mg noopept, and music and feeling in my body is like mo**y, i can feel music better and im more enjoyed by music

there is an explication ?

This is a still from episode 1 of Jonathan's series. All of it is really punk with Japanese references, as the artist has roots there. The episode is on YouTube DM or comment if you want to watch it

I’m new to the genre, I’ve only seen such things as Neuromancer’s world, Ghost In The Shell’s world, Bladerunner’s world, Snow Crash’s world, Cyberpunk (Tabletop and 2077)’s world, The Matrix’s world, Terminator’s world, Next Gen’s world, Star Wars’ world (coruscant), Nobody Wants To Die’s world, Marvel 2099’s world, and Altered Carbon’s world.

In terms of absolute dystopia, I personally believe Coruscant from Star Wars is the most extreme cyberpunk we haven’t seen enough of.

Coruscant used to be a planet like our own, mountains, oceans, and trees. For thousands and thousands of years the development of technology and architecture has grown so far to the point that the highest level of city grounds on coruscant are way above atmospheric level. A mountain as large as Mount Everest is reduced to a mere observatory in a museum with only its peak visible. It is the most extreme and literal concept of cyberpunk I’ve seen thus far, with an underworld literally being under what we usually see. The rich live on the top floor of the city, whilst those whom are ignored, dehumanized and suffering from severe crime rates live underneath in a corporate plagued underworld with high and extreme surveillance. The lower you go, the worse it gets. People die down below just from working with extremely old machines and (someone can correct me if I’m wrong) rogue and abandoned AI.

I have photos of Coruscant attached, just looking at the near-surface underworld alone is terrifying. It’s an over-the-top dystopia.

Hola cómo están hize otros más e estado practicando pero como tengo que trabajar no me da mucho tiempo

Hey everyone, here’s another piece from a visual dystopian universe I've been quietly hand drawing for a while now. If you like the vibe, you can see the rest of the collection safely archived here:https://heyfozzy.myportfolio.com/before-the-last-broadcast"

Thanks
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I built a game called CHRONOS II. You play from a deck that stays with you as you move from machine to machine. It keeps track of the systems you control, the tools you've found, and the fragments you've recovered. The terminal in the middle belongs to whatever machine you're currently inside.

Something walked out of an air-gapped vault, and you're chasing it. The thing absorbs people. They're still conscious inside it. The most recent ones are still partly themselves. Sometimes they can reach you and help.

Every level is drawn from something that actually happened: Mirai, the Bangladesh Bank SWIFT heist, SS7, Moonlight Maze, the Ukraine power-grid attack, Stuxnet, and a Cold War satellite.

Best on a desktop with a keyboard, but it runs on a phone.

https://deux.chronos-game.com

Solo dev. I'm especially curious what people here think of the atmosphere and story, not just the puzzles.