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@LifeEnjoyer All there is. I to some extent believe consciousness is received by the brain, instead of the brain generating consciousness. This partially solves "the hard problem of consciousness" (the sphere of consciousness of the observer collapsing infinity into finite outcomes).
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I'm sure there's going to be a massive response to this. It'll be interesting how it plays out. Basically, this is a huge pressure campaign to change voting laws before the midterms.
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@Schizophonia It is the correlation vs causation thing at play - you haven't established causation. Merely observed a pattern.
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I'm not being sarcastic in any way whatsover. If you don't appreciate having your views challenged and see it as condescencion then I don't know what to tell you, I'm engaging in your points in good faith and putting effort into a conversation. We have varying viewpoints, that's fine. I've just listed plenty of ways that he has already positively impacted the healthcare industry and the world as a whole, if you need him to personally cure cancer then as I said we can talk back in 10 years and see if it happened. I see heroic people that put their energy, time and money towards more than themselves but for helping others and even moreso if it's ambitious in scale enough to affect our whole species. I don't think you reducing his reducing multi-million dollar clinical protocol that measures over hundreds of active biomarkers (kidney function, cardiovascular output, DNA methylation, etc) as "fertilizing his farts with eucalyptus" is very intellectually honest though. It's valuable because you and I don't have the resources to do the same thing and thus couldn't get those results and he just puts that all out for free. It's also incredibly vulnerable of him. If there are other people in healthcare right now that you feel are doing more to contribute to the field feel free to share, Bryan is one of many that I personally like. David Sinclair is another. Even doctors sharing their knowledge for free on Youtube I would call heroic, although not in the same degree as they don't have stated public missions to permanently cure diseases as a whole. I'm sure some do, I just don't know of them.
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@Inliytened1 Thank you
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Who are the main relevant democrats right now? It should be handled by other people with resources to not let him get away with it. Otherwise yeah probably he will.
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AI simplifies workflows and allows for business models that were not viable previously to now be so. It allows you to create bigger systems than you usually would've been able to. As an entrepreneur you think in systems so it's easy to see how increasing efficiency in what you do is monetizable. I've made money off of AI already in how it helps me edit videos and photos. I can easily foresee how it's gonna allow me to become rich someday by increasing the capabilities of what I was already doing. @Natasha Tori Maru I'm sure there are some cases where that's true but in general it disproportionately favors the creators vs the platforms. There is a massive ceiling to what one person can manage in terms of creating a product/service, marketing it, messaging leads, doing sales calls, doing customer service, developping new features/product lines, doing market research against competitors, understanding future market trends and macroeconomic factors, etc. AI allows one creator/artist/entrepreneur to manage all of that, it's insane the potential that it already has let alone in 5-10 years.
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Luke’s been caught scamming people and a lot of his stuff is just lifted from his mentor
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LifeEnjoyer replied to Pure's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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Charm is totally separate from attraction for me.
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Natasha Tori Maru replied to Andrey's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
It isn't about AI's ability to generate art. It's that companies can use AI to commercialize value derived from artists' work. Often without meaningful consent or compensation. This moves economic power from creators to platform owners. Discern that this is about the economics / ethics surrounding AI rather than the technology in isolation -
You gotta download Claude Code CLI and then just send it that. It will build it for you.
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lol, the solution to your problem.
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I'm god dawg. Tf is this 😂
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I signed up to get notifications from Trump. Just got this: Live now.
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Commercial data scraping is almost always illegal in the Netherlands due to strict data laws, but there are yet no laws on AI specifically. Just because it's publically available doesn't mean you consent to it being used commercially. Laws on AI will probably need multinational cooperation to be effective. It's kind of toothless if it's illegal one place but legal everywhere else as you access the same web.
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Inliytened1 replied to Pure's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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Sometime during the summer of 2017, I woke up in the middle of the night because I couldn't breathe in my sleep. I had been suffering from what I believed was sleep apnea for many years, most likely due to my poor diet and years of weekend partying with alcohol, during which I often blacked out. Although I had quit drinking after my 3-gram magic mushroom ceremony, about a year and a half ago, where I experienced Divine Love, the damage to my body still remained. By that time, I had already heard of Ayahuasca and had watched several documentaries about it. I also remembered a woman at a psychedelic meetup saying that Ayahuasca was far more powerful than magic mushrooms. Having already experienced heroic doses of mushrooms, I was surprised to hear that there could be something even more powerful. I was deeply frustrated with my sleep apnea. I knew I wasn't getting proper rest because I still felt exhausted even after sleeping for twelve hours. I had also heard that Ayahuasca had the potential to heal people. So, when I woke up gasping for air that night, I went straight to my computer and typed "Ayahuasca ceremonies in San Diego" into Google. The very first result was Origen Sagrada, a group of Colombian shamans who were coming to San Diego to facilitate a three-night Ayahuasca retreat in collaboration with Danielle de Kiserre. The retreat was being held in a Girl Scout camp nestled in the forests of Julian, California. Without hesitation, I signed up. The retreat was scheduled for August 25 through August 28, 2017, and included three nights of Ayahuasca ceremonies. I often think of that night as the night when Madrecita Ayahuasca called me. The ceremonies took place inside a large Girl Scout lodge surrounded by the beautiful forests of Julian. There were about fifty participants in total. Nothing happened for me on the first night. The entire building remained almost completely silent, with hardly anyone making a sound. By the end of the ceremony, I actually began wondering whether Ayahuasca was a sham and whether magic mushrooms were the real medicine after all. Before the second ceremony, I remember one of the shamans telling us that the medicine would become much stronger that night and that it would truly begin to open us. He was right. The second night was when everything changed. The ceremony was incredibly visual. I felt that my previous spiritual practices, including Vipassana meditation, self-inquiry, contemplation, and my experiences with magic mushrooms, had prepared me to navigate the experience with greater awareness and skill. At one point, I found myself immersed in breathtaking, colorful visions. Then a large Black man appeared, swirling within those visions. He radiated Divine Love and beauty, wearing sparkling golden sunglasses. Bursting into ecstatic laughter, he looked at me and exclaimed, "You've made it, Vladimir!" For a brief moment, I felt as though I had caught a glimpse of a higher dimension, a Paradise of Divine Love. Soon afterward, I felt as though I had become enlightened. I opened my eyes and looked up, and the roof of the building seemed to disappear, revealing a magnificent sky filled with countless stars. Although I was already deep in the experience, the facilitators announced that anyone who wished could receive a second cup of medicine. I eagerly got up and joined the line. Filled with excitement over the profound insights that were pouring into my awareness, I began talking with another participant standing near me. I shared my experience of the roof disappearing. A moment later, a blonde woman standing directly in front of us turned around and said something like, "I saw the roof disappear too." She spoke with a distinct Russian accent, so I asked her if she spoke Russian. She smiled and said yes. I introduced myself: "Меня зовут Владимир." ("My name is Vladimir.") She replied: "Меня зовут Виктория." ("My name is Victoria.") That was how I met Victoria during an Ayahuasca ceremony, while we were standing in line for a second cup of Ayahuasca. Not long afterward, Victoria and I began dating, and with that, our shamanic journey of love began. photos: September 12, 2017
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Microdosing cyanide is truly non-conformist.
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I would also include an instruction to have it run OCR on all the scraped images so you could search the image posts as well.
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“There is not one person on Earth who can argue against life being a hallucination. Because, of course, it is. What else would life be?“ That’s a poetic line because it’s doing more emotional heavy lifting than logical work. Saying that life is a hallucination sounds profound until you ask what evidence distinguishes it from reality. A statement isn’t true just because it’s impossible to disprove. If that’s the standard..then we’re equally justified in saying life is a simulation or a dream or a giant cosmic nightmare ..Beautiful metaphor? Maybe. Solid argument? No. And besides why are you emotionally attached to defending the notion that life is a hallucination? I can only imagine because it implies life is unreal then you can relax and take the stick out of your arse . But you’re hallucinating anyways . There is no real difference between a hallucination and reality so long as you are hallucinating. Just like inside a dream you live it as complete reality . So the only utility of claiming life is a hallucination is if you are doing serious work to literally wake up from the hallucination entirely. So long as you decide to keep hallucinating what’s the point of blabbering about life being a hallucination ?
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Just have Claude Code do it for you. Here's a prompt that should get you an app to fetch the blog daily and let you search it, all hosted locally: # Build prompt: Actualized.org blog reader Build me a GUI app that lets me read and search every blog post from https://actualized.org/insights — a local, offline archive with full-text search that stays current on its own. Start with the backend: getting all the posts off the site, stored durably, OCR'd where the content is locked inside images, and kept up to date via a daily automated check. The GUI comes after. You own the architecture. Everything below is reconnaissance and constraints, not instructions — make your own engineering calls, and tell me if you disagree with any framing here. I'm not a developer, so flag tradeoffs in plain terms. ## What I already checked (verified 2026-07-16 — don't repeat these dead ends) Every convenient structured-data route is closed: - **WordPress REST API: unavailable, and WordPress doesn't render these pages anyway.** A WordPress install *does* exist at `/wordpress/` — it serves the blog's images — but the public site is not WordPress-rendered. Evidence: `/wp-json/wp/v2/posts` 404s at the root; `/wordpress/wp-json/wp/v2/posts` 404s; the permalink-independent fallback `/?rest_route=/wp/v2/posts` returns the homepage HTML rather than JSON or a JSON error, meaning nothing WordPress-shaped handles requests at the root; and a sample post page carries no WordPress fingerprints (no generator meta, no `wp-includes` scripts, no `api.w.org` REST link, no `wp-block-*` or `postid-N` classes). Don't burn time looking for a WordPress-shaped door — there isn't one. - **RSS: useless.** `https://actualized.org/rss` is a valid feed but only carries 10 items, description excerpts only — no `pubDate`, no `content:encoded`, no post bodies. - **No sitemap anywhere.** `/sitemap.xml`, `/sitemap_index.xml`, `/wp-sitemap.xml`, and `/sitemap-index.xml` all 404. `robots.txt` contains no `Sitemap:` directive. So HTML scraping is genuinely the only path. Post URLs must be enumerated by walking the pagination at `/insights`, which runs to roughly 274 pages. ## Site structure - Index with numbered pagination at `/insights`, ~274 pages. - Individual posts at `/insights/[slug]`. - **Canonical host is `www.actualized.org`.** Post links on the index are absolute and include the `www.`, though the site also answers without it. Pick one form and normalize, or you'll end up with duplicate records for one post. - Each post has a title, a publication date, body content, and social share buttons (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Email) that are chrome, not content. **The site's age matters.** `robots.txt` disallows `/includes/`, `/Templates/` (capital T), `/flash/`, `/downloads/`, `/wordpress/`, and several hand-listed `.php` files under `/pages/misc/`. Combined with the total absence of WordPress markup on the public pages, this reads as an old hand-built PHP site with a WordPress install sitting in a subdirectory doing something behind the scenes — plausibly the media library and/or an authoring back-office — while custom code renders the front-end. I never established what WordPress's actual role is, and it doesn't matter for this build: you're parsing hand-rolled HTML either way. The implication is what matters — assume post markup varies across eras, and verify that early rather than trusting page 1 to represent page 274. ## Content characteristics - Posts are short and structurally simple: usually a single headline followed by rich text. - YouTube embeds appear throughout, sometimes several per post. These need to survive into the archive and be playable/visible in the app. - **Roughly 30–40% of posts are just an image, and the image is almost always text.** Not a photo or a diagram — an image containing the actual written content of the post. For these, the HTML body is nearly empty and everything I care about is pixels. That's a large minority, not the majority — most posts are ordinary rich text — but it's far too many to treat as an edge case or handle by hand. See "OCR" below; this is core scope. - Images are hosted under `/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/`. ## Constraints - **Respect `robots.txt`, with one decided exception.** `/insights` and `/insights/[slug]` are not disallowed — that's the content, and it's fair game. `/wordpress/` is disallowed, so don't crawl or enumerate it. However, post images live under `/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/`, and OCR requires downloading them. I've decided that's fine: those are assets embedded in pages I'm permitted to read, and fetching them is the same request my browser makes when I read the post normally. Fetch images **only** by following `src` URLs found in posts I've already legitimately retrieved. Never traverse, enumerate, or spider `/wordpress/` itself. - **Be a good citizen.** Personal-use archive of one site I read. Throttle politely; there's no reason to hit the server hard. A slow crawl is fine — run it in the background. - **Fetch each post once.** The initial crawl should be a one-time cost. See "Keeping it current" below. - **Fail loudly, not silently.** A post that doesn't parse should be recorded as a failure with its URL, not written as an empty or half-empty record. I'd rather see a list of 40 problems than discover hollow posts in six months. - Windows. Assume nothing else about the stack — recommend what fits. ## OCR For roughly a third of posts, the image *is* the article. If the archive only stores the HTML body for those, it stores nothing, and they're invisible to search — a third of my archive would be a hole, which defeats the point of the whole app. So: **Size this properly before choosing an approach.** If the archive turns out to be ~2,700 posts, 30–40% means somewhere around 800–1,100 images to OCR — and every one gets re-processed if I later want a better pass. That's enough volume that per-image cost and total runtime are real design inputs, not rounding errors. Tell me what your approach would cost me in both, and if it's a paid service, what the bill looks like for one full pass. - Text extracted from post images must land in the database and be **searchable on equal footing** with regular post text. If I search a phrase that only ever appeared inside an image, that post has to come back. - **Track which text came from OCR.** I need to know whether a given post's text is authored HTML or machine-read pixels — it affects how much I trust it, how it should be presented, and whether it's worth re-processing later. Don't blend the two into one indistinguishable blob. - **Assume the first OCR pass won't be good enough.** OCR engines vary a lot on this kind of content, and I may want to re-run everything with a better one later. Re-processing must not require re-downloading anything from the site. - **Bad OCR must be visible, not silent.** An image that yields zero text, or obvious garbage, should be flagged as a problem I can review — not written to the database as if it were a legitimately empty post. - **These are quote cards, which is good news.** Confirmed image filenames follow the pattern `leo-quote-<slug>-01.png`, e.g. `leo-quote-life-is-not-a-physical-process-01.png`, `leo-quote-my-work-is-10-percent-wrong-01.png`, served from `/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/`. So these are machine-rendered text on a background — clean, high-contrast, probably consistent typography — not photographs or scans. That's the easy case for OCR and should push accuracy expectations up. Verify the consistency holds across the archive's full history before relying on it. - **The filename is a free sanity check.** The slug in each filename is a human-readable rendering of the quote itself. It's not a substitute for OCR — it's truncated and lossy — but it's an independent signal you can compare OCR output against to catch a pass that's silently producing garbage. Worth storing regardless. - Still sample real examples across the archive before committing to an approach. The `-01` suffix hints at multi-image posts or variants; I don't know what that means. ## Keeping it current The archive needs to check for new posts **daily**, unattended, and pull anything it finds into the archive without me doing anything. Constraints that make this harder than it looks: - **The machine is a personal Windows desktop.** It sleeps, it gets shut down, it won't be on at any predictable hour. A schedule that silently skips its window and waits for tomorrow is not acceptable — missed runs need to catch up on the next opportunity. Days may pass between runs, and the archive still needs to be complete afterward. - **The daily check must be cheap.** Re-walking all ~274 pagination pages every day to find the zero-to-two posts that are new is wasteful and rude to the server. The daily path should cost far less than the initial crawl. - **New posts need the full treatment**, including image download and OCR. A daily sync that grabs an image-only post but never OCRs it has archived an empty post and won't tell me. - **Silent failure is the main risk.** This runs unattended, so the realistic bad outcome isn't a crash — it's the site changing its markup, the scraper quietly finding nothing, and me not noticing for months while believing the archive is current. I need to be able to tell at a glance whether the sync is actually working. Surfacing "last successful sync" and "last error" somewhere I'll see matters more than clever recovery logic. - Don't let a failed or interrupted run corrupt the existing archive. A bad sync should leave yesterday's good data intact. ## Things I don't know - Whether I want to be **notified** when new posts arrive, or just have them appear silently in the app next time I open it. Raise this with me — don't assume either way. - Whether the daily check should also catch **edits to existing posts**, or only genuinely new ones. Same — ask me, and tell me what it costs to do both. - The real post count. ~274 pagination pages; posts-per-page unconfirmed. - How many distinct markup variants exist across the site's history. - Whether publication dates are reliably present and parseable on every post. - Whether pagination is stable enough to enumerate cleanly (new posts shift it). - The 30–40% image-post figure is my rough estimate from reading the site, not a count. Confirm it while you're sampling. - Whether the quote-card format is consistent all the way back. I only saw recent ones; the oldest posts may look nothing like them. - What WordPress is actually doing at `/wordpress/`, beyond serving images. I didn't establish this and don't think it affects the build — but if you find a legitimate, robots-respecting structured route into the content that I missed, I'd rather use it than parse HTML. - Whether OCR'd text should be **shown to me as readable text**, or only used behind the scenes to make image posts findable by search. These have very different accuracy bars. Show me sample OCR output before I decide. ## What I want from you first Before writing the full scraper, show me what you actually found: what the markup looks like at both ends of the archive's date range, how many variants you're dealing with, and what your storage plan is. Then build it once we agree.
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No one likes to be exploited by the same thing that threatens their livelihood and at the same time kills the incentive. AI bros need to chill. Sounds about right that AI bros are always drop out "entrepreneurs". It's easy accessible low effort shit. But if AI can do it it's pretty much worthless. You're not going to get rich of AI. Even the AI companies haven't made a profit. There's no replacing having a valuable skillset.
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Natasha Tori Maru replied to enchanted's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
No - maybe I wasn't clear. I am talking about his health related works. I am explicitly speaking about his impacts (changes) to the medical system and how the average person has benefit through usage of said system. He hasn't done anything to impact that space yet. He isn't doing science. There isn't anything heroic about making what he does public. His experiment is flawed because we won't know if fertilizing his farts with eucalyptus was what caused a result, or ripping up his astroturf because it is plastic poison. Fundamentally I suspect I have different definition of what a hero is, and mine is probably more tight than yours. I don't appreciate this condescending, sarcastic tone. Why do you always do that? Do you not comprehend it just makes the receipt of your words more difficult? This is interaction 101. I actually cannot believe you just defaulted back to that, like some sort of weird instinct. You do it to almost all others who disagree with you. Multiple topics. Multiple posts. All users. And others express this isn't appreciated. I don't have time for it, have a good one. -
I can parrot some theory to you regarding this. But i only have one date where I've tried this so far. Went well though. But was just being more 'I love' 'i hate' when talking about my hobbies. Essentially, this is a third-party topic. (Isn't connected to you or the girl), and that isn't great. But you can connect it to you by talking about your emotions in relation to it. Firstly, can engage her by making strong emotional statements that use with words like 'love' 'hate'. For example, "I love thinking about how the world really works", or "I hate the idea of living my life without satisfying my curiosity about how the world works". (This i reckon could definitely be an upgrade for you, where you both get a better experience). Secondly, you can convey your views on the topic through a story. The basics of a good story are situation, interruption, change, and you want to include the character's inner experiences. - For example, When i was a kid I was always fascinated by how reality worked. I loved watching films with my dad about sci films where people would be teleporting or time travelling, and i would always ask why that happened. As I grew up those films didn't scratch that same itch anymore. And I found my interests moved more towards philosophy. I hated the idea of not knowing how the reality around me functioned, and my curiosity about what reality is and the nature of why we are here, were on my mind all the time. And still now, philosophy is a real love of mine.
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