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Nice post Leo. It's going to be interesting how it plays out. I suspect one facet of this will be that centrists double down even further in their refusal to make a decision about which side to support because it will be harder for the average person to discern which side is less evil. Trust will degrade even further, which is a big reason we're in the situation we're in now. So it will come down to who can bullshit the best. And how do the centrists decide who is most likely correct? Whoever the majority sides with. And which side has the most money and is most gullible and corruptible? The right. So based on my spur of keystroke logic, it looks as though we're fucked.

Look, there's an argument that full-grown, experienced adults should be berated and/or humiliated for such behavior, but don't knock a goddamn youngster who's doing his best and means no harm. At least soften the criticism to something like @theleelajoker did. Don't call youngsters cringe or make fun of them. It's not good for them or anyone. This sort of behavior should only be used as a last resort. If you wanted to critique, I'm sure OP would have accepted it if it were respectful. So is your aim to correct or belittle? If it's to correct, you fucked up. If it's to belittle, you succeeded.

It depends on the task and what you need it for. If you want to do academic or STEM type research, apparently Grok is the leader. But if you need creativity, Grok ain't got shit on Claude or ChatGPT. If you wanted to research market opportunities or something like that, Gemini or ChatGPT would perform much better than Grok. Same applies if you wanted to research the best tech stack to use for your app idea. Also, when it comes to getting accurate up-to-date answers on something, Perplexity AI's search engine is often best. If you go to each AI and ask it "what is the best AI out right now", Perplexity outperforms all the top AIs. Also, cost comes into play, especially if you want to use the AIs programmatically via their APIs. Gemini is cheap as hell and Grok is insanely expensive. I just asked perplexity what is the API token cost of the top AIs and I'd trust this data more than I would the others: There's not a single AI that is best all around. I often combine them. One really cool thing is you can install Claude Code, Gemini CLI, or ChatGPT's "Codex" on your operating system, which gives the AI access to your file system. This is insane because you can have it analyze or edit your files, create new ones, run custom commands, fix computer problems, build custom apps, etc. My fav is currently Claude Code. I pay $200/mo to have maximum usage. Well worth it. Although I fear they're giving away more than they're generating, so the costs of these badass tools is probably going to skyrocket at some point. Best to max out what you can now. I'm currently using Claude Code to do about 75% of the work on a website project I'm working on. You just tell it to do shit and it does it:

Mirror effect. Lol. Some people just like projecting their own humiliation onto others.

If so, that very well could be the part I missed.

Lol, damn bro, this is some funny shit.

That's nothing. I'm surrounded by more than one neighbor that burns misc shit in barrels a few times a week. "Fuck these hillbilly retards" The stoners probably have their own forum where they're saying "fuck squares who get all in a tizzy about some weed smell". lol

I concur. It's funny you thought of the meditating tech CEO. So did I. I thought of those high-functioning guys from that show "Billions".

Maybe I half-assed it, lol. Didn't go far enough. Nah, I had to stop because I wasn't ready to surrender it all. I knew that I was about to take it too far. I saw the path and what I would would become if I didn't stop. Now, I'm having suppress spiritual development. Everyone around here is trying their best to attain it, and I'm fighting to keep it at bay. lol. It used to be all I wanted, now it's a hinderance. Really cool that it worked out for you like that though.

Yes

There's a good lesson to learn from your experience. Notice how attached you became and how much it hurt you to detach. Experiences like this can facilitate you becoming mentally stronger, or they can just as easily facilitate the opposite. It's nothing to shrug off. Contemplating what was going on with you internally is a great growth opportunity.

Not if you see the futility or absurdity of your goals. You sort of lose a lot of drive once that is seen, and it can't really be unseen once it's seen. Ever hear "ignorance is bliss"? In a way, it is, because it allows you to run on specific programs that can be very beneficial for worldly attainment. But once you see those programs for what they are, you can't as easily run on them, and eventually, awareness of them makes it very difficult for them to run at all. This is the main reason why I think spirituality should not be pursued until near the end of life - when one is actually ready to surrender everything. I'm convinced meditation and spiritual practices will only fuck you up in terms of wordly productivity. At least, this has been the case for me. Can't speak to others, but I'd bet it largely applies to most.

Those practices will show you how silly the pursuit of things you want are, thus decreasing effectiveness to attain them. So, if you can't unsee, you have to create something new.

The degree of monkey-see monkey-do seems to correlate with the degree of consciousness or metacognition.

Alter ego construction. The idea is that you intentionally construct an ego with a full-fledged identity, worldview, values, etc, and learn to fully embody it on command.

A few years back, a company called Kitu or something like that made these caffeine + L-Theanine drinks. I would mix one of those with some modafinil and consciousness opened up like crazy. I wouldn't consider this a productivity boost though. Just a boost in consciousness. Aside from that, I haven't noticed any benefit of just L-Theanine and coffee.

Yes, you will end up neglecting one or the other, which is good for neither. Both endeavors can easily devour the other, and both endeavors have their own risks and usually involve many setbacks, any of which can be the catalyst for the destruction of the other - or worse - both. That said, you see men successfully manage both all the time. But I get the sense most of them don't strategize on how to do it, so maybe that's a big part of it. You might just need a particular psychic makeup to do both at the same time.

So in other words.... Let's hear your pure, unfiltered response. Let it rip bro. lol

And what is it according to you? It seems that you're pointing at objective things that can permeate the consciousness of multiple agents, and you're intuiting there's potentially something more profound about those objective things than we realize. Is that what you're getting at? If so, it's an interesting idea.

What do you mean? I would say it’s the perception of each conscious agent that feels the wind.

It’s not different. A sense perception is shared in the same way physical space is. Everything gets shared the same way. That includes sights, sounds, time, and physical space.

Different conscious agents coming together to focus their consciousness upon the same thing. Your question seem akin to “how does the sky allow for birds to fly in it”. The answer is it just does - it’s how reality is.

Yes, I don’t take credit for anything that might be good about myself.

I'm open to being wrong, but all things evolve, including the human psyche. I'm not big on spiral dynamics but if humans used to largely be stage red and now they're largely blue/orange, does it not make sense they will continue to move up the spiral? On a long enough timeline, we either self-destruct or transcend. When I consider advanced aliens, it's seems unlikely they haven't transcended this dog eat dog, law of the jungle mentality.

It makes you feel good to hate trans. Most people here don’t get off on shit like that.