Leo Gura

It means that people who speak about nonduality are in lower states of consciousness than what is possible. You are getting too pedantic about words. Words are irrelevant. The only thing that matters is that you understand that there exist much higher states of consciousness than your current state. Stop acting like what I am saying is so paradoxical and confusing. It isn't. It is so clear a child could understand me. Ant >> rat >> chimp >> human >> nondual human >> alien >> God level 1 >> God level 2 >> God level 3 >> etc When you make any argument to me, that is coming from your existing state of consciousness. Your arguments have zero validity in higher states. This includes all arguments made by nondualists and Buddhists and enlightened people. Literally nothing you say matters because none of it exists at a higher state. If you do not understand this, I don't know how to help you.

I don't think that is necessary. Self-preservation seems pretty easy to program in. Self-preservation exists in systems without complex sense organs. There are much deeper challenges here like genuine creativity and intelligence. Can such things be had without consciousness?

@Breakingthewall But why are you acting like it's okay to annex part of another country? Especially when you know the annexation will result in a million deaths. If you are against the Iraq war you should also be against the Putin war.

Even if it had agency it would still not be AGI because it is incapable of true creativity. It can't do general reasoning. It is faking general reasoning by aping human writings. But reasoning is not aping. A child can ape like he is doing math by memorizing things, but that's not real math.

First time seeing it.

If Putin could take all of Ukraine he would. He tried to take Kiev and failed comically. He is like the fox and the sour grapes. After he failed to take Kiev he now says the grapes were sour anyway. Putin is a pragmatic opportunist. He will do whatever people let him get away with. Which is why pushback is important. A bully keeps bullying until he is punched in the face.

Yes! You got a nice intro to Infinity. It will reveal itself more explicitly as you do more trips. You did good.

It's because the full answer is infinitely deep. You are pulling on the tail of INFINITY. It is like you are a fisherman who hooked some really monster fish and you're struggling to reel it in, not realizing that you hooked the entire Earth. So the deeper you Awaken the more you realize that your question hooked the Universe. You're reeling in the Universe.

It is not a norm. It is Consciousness. No matter how many times you guys speak of "absolute", there ARE many degrees to Consciousness. Not because Leo says so, but because that is the nature of Consciousness. You accept that there are degrees of light. You don't regard the sun as in some kind of "hierarchy" with a lightbulb. You know the sun is brighter than a lightbulb. Whether you accept it or not, you ARE more conscious than a rat. And if that is true, Consciousness has many degrees. Degrees of Consciousness is NOT relative! You are absolutely more conscious than a rat. I hope. As for the matter of how to determine who is more conscious than whom, well, there is no solution to that problem. You will know when you are more conscious than others only once you reach those levels of consciousness. Once you have a deep grasp of God it becomes quite clear when people speak of God from much lower levels. For example, it is obvious that Christians have no clue what God is even though they can't stop speaking about it. The problem with God is that only God can know God. You cannot use any external measure to test knowing of God. God is totally internal. The higher degrees of consciousness are unimaginable to the lower. The lower does not even know they exist. Like a rat does not know that math exists.

Of course I would hate being non-special. The point though is that's an illusion. The truth is I am infinitely special. Do I make strides to increase my specialness? Yes. I hate human conformity and mediocrity. That's why I am who I am in the relative human sense. I would rather be dead. This is like me asking you: could you accept your children put in a Nazi gas oven? You have your biases and I got mine.

The answer to that question is so profound that if you took bufo 100 times you would still not reach the bottom of it. It will be revealed to you one degree at a time. After like 500 trips I still don't have the full answer.

That is just your introduction to these chems. It takes hundreds of trips to reach the really awesome stuff. Each trip takes you deeper. So don't just a chemical based on a few trips. This is like judging the globe from 3 trips to 3 cities.

@zurew There's just no pretty way of communucating to you how far away humans are from truly grasping God. This has nothing to so with me. All the nondual teachings are not it. You have to seriously question all the teachings. That's all.

Simply by being openminded, questioning everything, and the right chemicals. Don't overlook how closedminded most people are about chemicals. Ralston is a perfect example of that. He could have helped people awaken with chemicals but instead he ridicules them. So... don't be that guy.

God is already infinitely special. There is no need to try to be special, only to realize God. The best thing you can do to be special is just realize God.

@AerisVahnEphelia That is cool but you are providing the novelty there. AI is good for refining your own creative work, polishing it up. I am not saying AI isn't useful. It is. I use AI to polish up my work. But AI cannot replace my work.

Share perspectives here about the American economic situation under Trump.

I don't know that 5-MeO caused that. I think I would be as sensitive without the 5-MeO. It's not just the chemical, it's also my depth of understanding of the ontology and epistemology at play here. But, sure, some people could be as sensitive as me. I just haven't seen it. I've seen the opposite: people take powerful chems and don't realize jack shit. Like shooting an elephant with a BB gun. We'll see how sensitive you guys are at the retreat.

I have the most experience with AI image gen. It is incapable of making images of things it wasn't already trained with. So, no, image gen is very creatively bankrupt and limited.

That's tough for them to admit to themsleves because they need the money train to keep pulling into the station. The real question is, will their scientists actually invent some new architecture, because if not they are fucked. Their AGI dreams will turn into a dry fart. Anyone talking about AGI at this point is full of crap.

It is impossible to get novel intelligence from AI using the LLM architecture. Some very new achitecture is required which is independent of human data or knowledge. If AI was truly intelligent it would not need mountains of human data, it could derive it itself. A child does not need to memorize 1,000,000 books to be intelligent. Current LLMs do. This is their main problem. When you require 1,000,000 books it means you got no creative ability.

Well, it is everywhere. God is Omnipresent. But this technically even transcends space. "Everywhere" is said loosely since "where" is a metaphysically loaded notion.

It is more intelligent than most humans simply because it has unlimited memory for dry factual information. This creates an illusion of intelligence in the context of saying factually known things, like historical facts or technical scientfic knowledge. But it cannot think truly novel ideas. Only recombitions of existing ideas. It can quote science to you, but it can't do new science. It can quote philosophy to you but it can't actually do philosophical work.

@Karmadhi Your points are so unserious that I don't even want to seriously respond.

Space is imagined by Infinity, so space does not apply to it. Infinity is not in space, space is in Infinity.