Paulus Amadeus

You used logic in this post! Can't take it serious I'm sorry. Your ' logically' reasoning about the consequences of logic not being grounded in anything. So all the stuff you just said is meaningless nonesense according to your own interpretation.

@Key ElementsI wanted to know what your specific problems were! Not what you think other people's problems are.

@egoless I really like your skepticism and I totally agree with that most people on this forum are just repeating believes when it comes to the enlightenment stuff. If you want to read a really good book about how consciousness and reality are related read: Why materialism is baloney, from Bernardo kalstrup. Really genius book explaining why it makes sense for consciousness to be the foundation of everything. It also goes into why we are not experiencing everything all the time. made all this spiritual stuff a lot more tangable for the rational part of my psyche. It's an epic book! Really really recomend it

@brovakhiin yes, I think this is excellent advise! Game is an awesome first 'hero's journey'. Achievable but still very hard and scary. And if done correctly it will bring about profound change in you. Just be carefull of becomming a pick up creep! this happens to quiet a few people unfortunately.

So I just watched a video in which Mo Gawdat said that AI will be smarter than us by 2029. If this is really true than this would totally disrupt most of our long-term planning ofcourse. All of your career capital means nothing. AI is better at it then you. Does anyone have any thoughts about this? I'm especially interested in what @Leo Gura has to say about this. Because you he has not really talked about AI much in his video's and he talks about the state of science and humanity for the next 100/200 years. If this AI business is true than it would seem that humanity might not have that long any more. Love to hear everyone's thoughts on this stuff!

@Star Net, yes ofcourse. I've been the lucky owner of a calculator before so I am aware of this . But you get the question that I'm asking.

Yeah but that's still different from an AI that is actually smarter than us. This is still specific tasks that the AI will be able to do better or more cheeply. This would still just be sophisticated technology in my eyes. I'm actually amazed how many jobs still exist now. You wouldn't think there would be enough work for all these billions of people. Quite a mindfuck actually. But what got me thinking is can AI actually become creative, self-reflective, have a vision for the future, start a business etc. Cause then all of us could be truly major league fucked. You get singularity and all that fun stuff(when AI can make itself smarter). I mean than we would be just stupid animals in the AI zoo best case scenario. Or maybe there are limits to logical intelligence, I mean @Leo Gura talks about tapping into infinite intelligence through mediation and spirituality. Anyway, it's actually super fascinating stuff. Too bad our lives depend on the outcome .

@aurum yeah I think that's a very good idea. Provided you have the actual knowledge ;). I actually followed a business course here in Amsterdam that was supossed to be for conscious entrepeneurs. However it became clear to me that the people giving the course where not really conscious. They were just very good at marketing themselves as conscious and spiritual etc. Still they had some pretty valuable business insights that were good. But yeah, it was kind of painfull to see how cynically these people used their image as being conscious and spiritual just to make money.

@Gligorijeyeah I wouldn't start a podcast or a youtube channel if you have nothing to say yet. First get some life experience/expertise. Become really good at socializing would be my advice. Super critical skill and really fun to learn. Also good to get the whole 'getting laid' thing out of the way as quickly as possible. BTW super awesome that you are meditating at your age already. Really really good stuff!

@Leo Gura here you seem to break with Buddhist philosophies right. According to which enlightenment would be the end of all this suffering? But yeah it makes a lot of sense that if everything is one than you are always still in some way experiencing being 20 million cows slaughtered who are suffering etc. Because there is only that one thing, so if a point of view within that thing got enlightened it wouldn't matter at all from the absolute point of view. Still that begs the question why enlightenment would do us any good then? Especially if your current point of view is better than most of the point of views within reality. Better stick with your point of view and ride it out right? But I'm sure I'm missing some understanding here.

I am Friends with both my exes. It just requires some real love and lack of jealousy from the both of you

Are you still doing visualization? And have your idea's about this topic changed over the years?