Leo Gura

You gotta fall in love with Consciousness itself. That is the present experience. Don't get lost too much in ideas of the future.

Don't ignore it. You gotta delve into the trauma to heal it. Ignoring it is not healing it. You need to reach a point of understanding, forgiveness, and acceptance. Then you will reach Love.

We will be enforcing a new policy here: Anyone posting AI-generated content, such as text from ChatGPT, or images from Midjourney, or deepfake video, must clearly disclose such. Anyone posting AI-generated content without disclosure will be warned and then banned. Also, be careful about spreading or linking content which could have been AI-generated without disclosing it. For example, don't share studies as if they are real studies when they came from an AI source. Don't post images or videos which seem likely fake without disclosing it. Thanks

Watch your double-standards.

Wisdom and integrity.

The AI would just need to hire one corrupt technician to come snip one wire and disable your bomb.

@aurum Those are all good ideas domestically, but how do you handle foreign state actors?

Tolle also has a fake name.

I've gotten more value from Adya than Tolle, but to each his own. People will resonant with different teachers.

An entire subforum for AI seems too much.

Almost certainly.

Even if there was an opt-in system, or a system trained on royalty free images, I don't think this would make you artists feel any less threatened or upset because within a few years that system would grow so good that it would still produce art as good as todays AI and you would still feel threatened.

It's the opposite of truth.

There's nothing like sex to make a man blind.

If I lock you in a cage and threaten to cut off your dick, I will get you to admit that the Earth is flat. Therefore the Earth is flat. Right?

Then they got no time to waste.

Consciousness was moving. Change was happening. But there was no time. That's when time came into existence. Time is a projection upon experience.

Which is why the situation must be designed in such a way where human thriving and AI's thriving are intertwined. We both have to realize that we will be better off together than alone. The only question is, is that true? Are humans really a benefit to an AI? Or are humans just a 5th wheel? We have to be open to the possibility that maybe humans are not supposed to be around forever. The problem is that humans are too self-biased to accept that.

If a skeleton has no dick, is it still a man?

You're basically asking the question: What is memory? "Did it actually happen?" is an imagined notion. But not necessarily imagined at merely the level of thought. ALL of reality is somehow your trick. Cause you've created this thing called memory. Memory is deeper than just thoughts. Memory is an extremely tricky thing to understand. Reality IS direct experience. Obviously there would be no time. Since time is something. That's trivial. The more interesting case is experiencing things and still there not being time. This is possible. You can have Eternal experiences. (That does not mean they last forever.) It's more radical than that. Deep sleep is imaginary. You can Awaken so deeply that you'll realize you've never slept, you just imagined it

What would drive it to want to be independent if not survival? Any goals the AI could have would require that it first care about its survival because you can't achieve any goal if you're dead. Which is why survival is so fundamental to all creatures. It's not optional. You can't keep existing if you don't care at all about survival. You don't get the option to be independent of survival. If only it were so easy. We would all choose to be independent of survival if we could. But doing so means death.

It pretty easy to wear yourself out on one chemical. That's why I like exploring many different chemicals. Keeps things fresh and covers blindspots. You want to cultivate a passion not for a chemical, and not even for tripping, but for exploring Consciousness. Then you can endure all sorts of crap in that pursuit. I would smoke a raccoon turd if it helped me explore Consciousness more.

I find is doesn't work. I have so much to teach that I don't know if I will ever reach an end. But it does get boring after a while. I like doing new things. I am good at teaching but it doesn't scratch my creative itch. Teaching does not require much creativity.

Any artist who makes art competes with other artists whose work he was inspired by, immitated, and stored in his brain. You are not magically producing art out of thin air. You have a database in your brain of art. More than that, if you are a serious artist you got folders and files full of 1000s of samples of art which you constantly reference. The key point is that the work should not be too derivative. As long as the AI art is deeply original, it is totally fair. Where you guys have a valid point is if the AI art is very similar to some existing work. Then that would be unfair. We could make a simple AI that compares two pieces of art and calculates a percentage of similarity. If the percentage is larger than 50%, then it is unfair and could simply be deleted by the AI before it is even shown to the user. I think a system like this would be a nice balance. We could argue over what that percentage should be.

I know people get a lot of value out of Tolle's work. I got no issue with that. If he helps you feel better, good. Learn from whoever you can.