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May be, but does it have to be produced under those circumstances? On the other hand there's certainly an issue of overconsumption.

How so?

@Majed This is such a great post. Thanks for giving that perspective. I agree, Leo seems hellbent on The Truth™ lately. But Truth is beyond any human concepts and Truth without Love isn't true. Maybe this has something to do with the US collective consciousness. They're going through some dark times right now. Then again, we all are in some way.

Look where we are now.

Violence begets violence. Violence is at the core of our planetary problem. Revolutions never worked for a reason. It would just exchange a system based on abuse and violence with another one. Violence will never solve our issues but create new ones. Whatever new thing we create, it has to be radically non-violent while being incredibly powerful at the same time. Riddle me that. There's one thing nobody can ever take away from you: Your freedom. So reclaim that first. Taking away one's freedom is the definition of violence.

Assuming that the predictor is some kind of mythic super-intelligence and the goal was to maximize money, I just would pick the million dollar box anticipating that the robot would have predicted exactly that. If I'm trying to be clever and rational by picking both boxes and using gaming theory, the predictor would have predicted that, too. So why make it complicated? I take the million dollar box and give the robot its win.

By creating something so unbelievable that it just blows their fucking minds.

Of course it's all temporary. Which doesn't make our limited time here any less valuable, rather the contrary.

But it's not about fighting against something, but about bringing something new into the world. It's about redefining what Humanity means.

I don't think so, because the other half would destroy it. Which is already the case. So all the the all-alone-in-a-room-all-day people should join together. It's not going to get better by watching the world burn to the ground.

Resonates deeply. Thanks for sharing.

Me too, in my own way. I'm creating an event that's about going through a musical journey together; a story about Life & Death, Truth & Love, Doom & Hope. An invitation to look at our darkest aspects & overcoming them by integrating our shadow individually & as a community that arises through those moments. It's a religious experience, but we all *know* that it's just a story. Which doesn't make it any less true. It will become alive through our collective effort. There are roles to play and everyone is invited to create their own character to play; an ideal to aspire to in real life. It's about Awakening as Humanity. Because I deeply believe that real change happens neither as merely part of a group, nor completely alone. To solve this paradox we have to synthesize a new way to interact with each other that integrates both individuality & the collective. Because Truth&Love always unites both sides of every opposite.

Well, he's more concrete than I am a lot of the time But I think the first priority has to be to create consciousness for those issues. This goes a lot deeper than geo-political stuff and discrimination. Collectively, we're still at the stage of denial.

It's our responsibility to find out how. With 'our' I mean everyone who is conscious enough to begin to see the predicament we've got ourselves into.

We're in for some rough awakenings as Humanity.

How?

But don't think you'd know what Truth is. Whatever you think you know is not the Truth. That's why this is so delicate and potentially misleading. Notice I don't say you shouldn't look for the Truth. I agree with it being the highest Value BESIDES LOVE(!!). Love can't be number 2. The whole approach of a numbered list is a very human way to think about it. @Leo Gura You said you can't have Love as the highest value because you don't know what Love is. That's true. But that doesn't mean you can just forget about Love and make Truth all-there-is. This is very delicate. You don't know what Love is but you don't know what Truth is, either! This doesn't mean I'm disagreeing with you, but it is (must be!) incomplete. This is where language must collapse.

Christ is alive & asleep. That story isn't finished yet. Nobody knows what happened after his death, except Himself.

The way to the Highest Heavens leads through the Deepest Hell. In fact the Highest Heavens ARE the Deepest Hell. It's a matter of perspective. But you have to go there to see for yourself. It ain't easy, I'll tell you that. But that's the pain of a God being born. The buddhist's solution to repudiate Life, for life would be suffering, is wrong. It's not about escaping the cycle of death & rebirth, it's about the Process of being BORN. True Hope lies in accepting what is instead of naively hoping for it to pass. It's a plunge into the deepest darkness without knowing where it'll lead. Until then it's an endless cycle of the same.

There are many layers to Eternity. Most of which not even God is aware of—because there are many layers to God as well.

Maybe our own dumbness will be what saves us from AI apocalypse in the end. It's quite hilarious.

Creating religions is the future. But it will be a collaborative effort instead of resulting in wars. It's a beautiful possibility. Forget game design. What about Religion Design? That's ART.

Thank you. Contains some genuine insight.

Definitely! Check this out: https://www.reddit.com/r/raining/

@Davino You can practice listening to rain. Because it's not about hearing what the rain has to say, but about dropping all concepts and opening your mind to the unpredictability of the raindrops.