Images of Ego Death: results from a survey where I asked people to rank images by how much they represented 'ego death'
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The painting which women rated the highest, the man in space, strongly reminds me of Kubrick's 2001
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A fun thing to try is to train a linear classifier on top of CLIP's image embed to get an "ego death score" as was done here to get an "aesthetic score".
github.com/crowsonkb/simu
Maybe there's an "ego death direction" in latent space.
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I'd have found it helpful to start the post with a definition of "ego death".
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"And the one everybody agreed on the most (smallest standard deviation) was:"
I'm curious what the average score was.
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Very cool analysis. Especially the difference between psychedelic & meditation images is interesting, albeit not too surprising. To me, the former clearly mirror the actual visuals you get on higher doses of psychs, while the meditative ones are a lot more...serene & calm.
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