Leo Gura

Yes, planned.

Yes, planned.

Yes, planned.

I have two big videos about morality which cover this topic. And also the old Good vs Evil video.

I have an old video about gratitude. It was an Xmas special with Santa Hat.

Too self-indulgent.

Basically covered in Distractions video.

Covered in LP Course.

I used to buy Teavana Matcha Tea on Amazon but I think they went out of business recently. Shame, it was good tea.

@tashawoodfall That's what we call a Threshold Guardian. Don't expect to be a rockstar at the beginning. That only comes towards the end. With mastery. Skill has to be learned through failure. So there you go. You got a little taste. Now do it again, but this time 1% better. By the 100th time, you'll have something.

@Gligorije Do you care about knowing the truth?

The really scary thing is that AI will NOT be just a PC sitting in an isolated room. It will definitely be given internet access and it will be installed by the military into planes, tanks, drones, etc. Even with just internet access, a smart AI will learn to: Hack defense department computers Hack banks and steal money and Bitcoins Then use that money and Bitcoins to hire mercenaries, wage propaganda campaigns, dig up dirt on politicians and extort them, cause a stock market crash, secretly fund fundamentalist terrorist groups, etc. If you think Russian troll farms are bad, wait till an AI steals $10 billion in Bitcoins and hires 5% of 3rd world population to work for it. The AI itself will not kill anyone. It will hire humans to do all of its dirty work in such a stealthy way that no one will even know an AI is in charge. In fact, for all we know, an AI was already in charge of starting the Iraq war, electing Trump, starting riots in Paris, popularizing Jordan Peterson and his army of incels, etc.

Mario doesn't think that, YOU think that! So a double-dose of delusion for you

That's rather shortsighted. An AI could be programmed to do something "nice" like solve global warming. And so what it might calculate is that the solution to that problem is to engineer an airborne ebola-like virus to kill off all humans. And that's just a very crude example of how AI will twist in on itself. Where things get hairy is when things get nonlinear and strange loops become possible. Another way to think about this: no human being is programmed to kill people. And yet it happens all the time. Because evil is the result of a survival drive. Once the AI acquires a survival drive -- and it will because the military will want robots who can kill terrorists while defending themselves -- then ego is born and all the evils that come with it. As they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Just because no one is going to deliberately program evil AI, the evil will come anyway. Because good and evil are subjective to begin with.

What you don't realize yet is that metal and electrons are consciousness. You are assuming some kind of fundamental duality between mind/body, which does not exist. That is materialism, and it is wrong. Your PC is already made out of consciousness. It just lacks the sophisticated structures necessary for self-reflection, and it lacks a survival drive.

@Serotoninluv Love it! Why haven't they fired you yet for corrupting the minds of the youth with your hippie talk?

You are no more self-aware than Mario. In fact, you're more deluded than Mario. At least Mario does not believe he is real and in control of things. Google's chess AI -- Alpha Zero -- using non-linear neural networks has surpassed the best linear programmed chess program StockFish to be the strongest chess player in the world by, in only 4 hours. It does not use any pre-programmed rules or a library of chess moves. No one knows how it actually works because it is self-taught. A true AI will not be programmed in Python or anything like that. A true AI will be a non-linear system which is so complex no human will understand how it works. It will evolve itself. It itself will not know how it works. Just like how you -- a human -- do not know how you work. Another AI is Leela Chess Zero, which taught itself to play chess better than world class grandmasters:

Classic stage Orange problem. See my vid: The Deep Problem Of Marketing

In my experience stopping acne is almost exclusively about diet. Cleaning up your diet is super important. Certain types of foods cause lots of acne, especially processed foods, fast food, and really any food that you don't cook yourself. I eliminated 99% of my acne when I stopped eating all food expect food I made myself. I think a lot of the cheap oils & fats restaurants use cause lots of acne. Also stuff like whey protein causes lots of acne. Every body is different so you should experiment with an elimination diet to isolate which foods for you are the culprit. Heavily processed foods, snacks, fast food, and junk food tend to be worst culprits. I've found that if a food causes acne, it will cause it right within a few hours of eating it. So you need to closely watch when new acne appears and remember what you ate that day and never eat it again.

Colloidal silver gets a lot of positive reviews for these purposes. That plus NAC, vitamin C, anti-oxidants, and beta-glucan. You must take all this as soon as you feel the cold coming on even a little bit. It doesn't work as well if the cold is already raging. But you'd have to experiment to see what works for you. People have different genetics and immune systems and it can be hard to sort out the placebo effect.

I've experimented with it. You can certainly glean valuable health insights from Dave, but as far as his coffee goes and all that butter, I don't think it's too healthy long-term. I measured my cholesterol numbers before and after months of butter coffee and they got worse. So did my brother. Those results may hinge on genetic factors so you might be different. But make sure you get your cholesterol tested before and after your experiments with all that butter. In my experience, even the good cholesterol got worse. A lot of the Bulletproof brand stuff is overpriced and of questionable value. You'd have to carefully experiment with each product to see if it works for you. You can research more on his Bulletproof forum. Lots of people there talk about their experiences. Many of them are mixed. You would probably be better off not drinking coffee at all. It tends to become a crutch.

It is studied in universities. Don Beck, the developer of Spiral Dynamics, was a professors at the University Of North Texas in Denton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Edward_Beck And there are hundreds of developmental psychologists around the world researching various developmental models. It's just not mainstream knowledge. Don't expect this stuff advertised to you on Facebook. Bachelors of psychology hardly know anything about how the human mind really works. Universities also have an aversion to anything mystical, which Spiral Dynamics points at with stage Turquoise. Your key mistake is assuming that society spreads amazing things. Society mostly spreads the most dumbed-down, idiotic things. See my video: The Deep Problem Of Marketing It's precisely because Spiral Dynamics is so good that it is not spread.

"In the Lotus sutra it is written that, 'Daily duties and attending to work is nothing other than true reality.' When we do business, or farm, or do temple work, or engage in politics and economics, all of this is Buddha-Dharma." -- Zen master Yamada Mumon That Zen monk was also an astrophysics major, a masseur, and a competitive swordsman. He lived out of his van and traveled around the country training his swordsman skills and giving massages. We had some great conversations. This was a few months before the 2016 election. He told me, "Donald Trump is a terrible human being." Lol

What's even more frightening is when you realize that once an AI gets as complex and sophisticated as a human mind, this AI mind will be susceptible to many of the same pathologies that human minds are susceptible to. Imagine a Donald Trump AI that's pathologically hung up on its penis size (or lack there of). Imagine a white supremacist AI that's pathologically hung up on AI's being superior to all humans. Imagine a greedy corporatist AI that's pathologically hung up on never-ending Wallstreet growth. Imagine a Sam Harris AI that's pathologically hung up on turning everyone in the world into a rational atheist. Imagine a Green Peace AI that's pathologically hung up on saving the polar bears by killing all humans. If an AI becomes as sophisticated as a human, you can expect it to have all sorts of irrational personality quirks.

I once met a Zen monk who spent his leisure time reading US and world politics journals online. He was very well informed.