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Anthropic just released a groundbreaking paper on their discoveries of how AI thinks. Basically, it works much like the human mind does. The similarities are striking. They proved that if you tell an AI to not think about X, it can't help but think about it, lol. This stuff just came out - all new information. A new concept called the "J-space" is the main idea. https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace It feels like this research is going to speed things up quiet a bit and allow labs to make much more efficient and accurate models, because now, they can actually control what the model thinks. This is insane. Massive implications.

I've been in many lakes and never been swept up by any currents. What lake are you referring to where people drown every year? I've mostly only been in southern lakes, so maybe they're different elsewhere. It is true though that swimming in freshwater is more demanding than a relatively calm ocean. Takes a lot more work to stay afloat.

His drowning may have been intentional. I could see him engulfing the water because he seemed to have some insatiable hunger or deep urge to not be vulnerable to reality. Almost like he saw reality as his enemy because it imposed upon him. "Reality telling me I can't do this? Death trying to impose itself on me? Humiliation trying to impose itself on me? I'll meet them head on." IDK.

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Can you share the link?

Might need to use a Thailand VPN.

I'm more mocking the idea than your intuition. But I do think it's a mistake to lean towards this being true. Connor's friends are not rational actors, lol. It would be easy to get the friend to go along with this. All the friend has to do is say he was fooled and then play victim and his channel potentially blows up from a 100-1000x algo boost. Yes, of course it's very likely one of these days Connor's recklessness will wind him up dead, and that may be the case now. Actually, I just checked again and it appears there are legit reports from authorities, so it appears to be true. Although I still wouldn't be at 100% with this guy, lol.

No statement from the family and no confirmation from law enforcement? And the idea that he couldn't get his friend in on it is laughable. Connor is on video admitting that he tried to get his family to play along with his first hoax. And now you're gonna trust the friend of Connor Murphy??? lol. Fool me once. I'll wait for law enforcement confirmation. I think these hoaxes are a way of dealing with the shame of his psychosis. A hope for some kind of reset more so than a stunt for attention, but he bills it as a ploy for attention because the shame of "I'm a total psycho and I've humiliated myself to the max and I need a reset" is too much to bear.

Ok, so, your position seems to be: he's just an ambitious guy and as far as high ambition goes, he's normal for that ambition tier. He's sometimes abusive and wrong because hey, we're all human. For you, these cover the elevation, the denigration, and the absurd claims, and that's about all there is to it? If these things were only once in a while, then I'd agree that this is just a normal ambitious human with normal human faults, but the patterns suggest otherwise. It's possible to be highly ambitious and not be an asshole and to think you're better than everyone else. And it's possible to admit when you're wrong. We all naturally want and expect these things from our day-to-day relations with those we interact with. When someone fails at one, we don't like it. When they fail at all 3, we really don't like it. If someone were demonstrating this pattern in your personal life, you probably wouldn't like them very much. This just led me to an interesting inquiry. Maybe some people are just more sensitive to such things:

Oh, fuck yeah. They just extended it to July 12.

We got until July 7 before they move it to API pricing. You got 6 days to get as much from it as you can.

Peas in a pod

I think my read is more accurate. Too charitable. He's not merely acting from some "I refuse to engage reactive critics" principle. Why couldn't someone just come out and say they were wrong if the critic was reactive or not? Are they denying their audience that to spite the reactive critics? Leo doesn't have an "inability to entertain reactive criticism". He has a defense mechanism that skirts accountability by telling him his standards are too high to be engaging with the likes of the critic. It's a double-duty defense mechanism that 1, dodges accountability that would threaten his elevation, and 2, affirms his "high standards", which affirms his idealized self, which reminds him that he is above and the other is below.

No problem. Not if you've done "the work", lol. Isn't this what "deconstructing" is about? To see your invisible structures and to transcend or drop them? Or do we consider that not fundamental to "the work"? For me, it's fundamental. Leo's denigration is structural. The need to be above others is structural. The inability to own error and fallibility is structural. The "high standards" masquerading as instruments for a cosmic trajectory is structural. You can say "but this is normal and it's the way your life energy activates and sustains a pursuit". And that's true, but what I'm doing is deconstructing it. I've deconstructed my own shit, and as a result, lost a lot. I'm no longer ambitious because I found the unconscious root from which ambition grew. I don't like that I no longer have much ambition. Seeing the truth cost me that. I consider this kind of work fundamental, not something you can just put on the back burner and go looking for God, although I may be wrong. You can't build a brand on "doing the work of deconstructing the ego" and then not deconstruct your own. Or maybe at some point "transcending the ego" got put on the back burner and exotic states took front and center. But my main point is not how Leo wants to live and run his business. If everyone here showed self-respect, didn't let Leo get away with denigrating them and if 5-10 people routinely chimed in with "not cool" when Leo denigrates someone, as opposed to just staying silent, and if the sycophants were rightly mocked, then Leo's behavior wouldn't be as big of a deal to point out IMO. Although it would still warrant some light mocking, lol.

Hard disagree. Leo denigrates everything, all the way down to music. He once said he and his gf were listening to some "cheap pop music", lol. The Expansive type develops so-called "standards" not from benign ambition, but from the need to be better than others. You can look into Karen Horney's work on the Expansive solution if you'd like to bring Leo into focus. I saw the shape of the Expansive type in Leo before discovering Horney, which is what led me to discovering her work. Type this into your AI: In Karen Horney's work, what purpose does "high standards" serve for the Expansive solution? And this: In Karen Horney's work, why does the Expansive type denigrate things and people? This is the root: Remember, Leo's favorite book is/was "Mastery" That's just a taste. Again, I saw these shapes in Leo before I ever found Horney. Her work largely converged on everything I was tracking. It comes down to being able to track what's actually happening in reality. Look into the "idealized self" if you want to understand these types who think they're "all about the work".

When I watch Leo denigrate people and then when I watch people ignore it like nothing wrong is happening, that’s what triggers me. I don’t want anything from Leo - he is what he is. Just like I don’t want anything from Trump. I just want the people to wake the fuck up and see who their leaders really are. What I want is for the community to stop just watching the abuse and sweeping it under the rug like you’re doing here. It should be called out. And one should keep a running tally of how many times Leo denigrates someone else or another group. His messaging seems a 45-45-10 split between denigration, grandiosity, and some semblance of caring about something other than himself. You’re free to ignore these patterns and you’re free to turn them into things they’re not because you’re biased, but if you track reality, you don’t easily ignore it. When you realize the absurdity of some of Leo’s position and his immaturity, he comes down off your pedestal. He’s no longer worth “looking up to” and you lose your ability to simply trust what he’s saying. You become less biased and stop taking him at his word. Again, I don’t want anything from Leo. He can be an ambitious asshole like Michael Jordan or whatever, don’t care, lost cause. What I want is for people to have some goddamn self-respect and every time Leo denigrates someone, he should be denigrated himself, mocked, and ridiculed for it rather than people sweeping it under the rug and apologizing and being subservient. Because that’s how you correct bad behavior. But I’m aware that’s adjacent to asking Trump supporters to see what they refuse to. What do you think is the reason for all these negative Leo threads? Could it be Leo’s karma coming back to bite him in the ass? Could it be that you don’t just get to denigrate people freely without it coming back around?

Just a few hours left. Better max out what you can. Still not even at 50% usage. Gonna be a late night.

Crank these up: "likes people to admire him" -> "Needs people to admire him" "overconfident" -> "claims to be the best in the world" "sometimes abusive" -> "nearly always abusive in contexts where someone disagrees with him about something he cares about" You could argue the first one but those last two are demonstrable, and real problems. Regarding the cult accusation, I'm not sure where I land on that. I do think there's a selection effect that happens where if a user validates or positively engages with Leo's pet ideas, they get his approval. But if they're critical of them, which is necessary to evaluate them, then they're almost always denigrated. The only way to be in the good graces is to be servile. That selection effect is mostly what contributes to the cult vibe IMO.

lol, that was great. 100% something Donald would say.

lol. Probably.

Online is a pipe dream but live games are easy. I haven’t played in several years but since the dream of being a pro has died down, I’m betting the games are easier. Play loose and aggressive against tight players, tight against loose-agro and see as many flops as you can in cheap and loose passive games. With that, being perceptive, and bankroll management, I think this is sufficient to win 1-2 and 2-5 live. Full exploitative, no GTO crazy stuff like you need online. Only thing is you need to be close to a casino and it’ll be a grind.

If the pollster thinks the margin of error on this question is 3%, you can’t trust them. The “social desirability bias” on this question, ESPECIALLY on the 250th anniversary, would be through the ruff.

That’s badass.

That’s where I’ve arrived as well, thanks for articulating this. Seeking god or truth is a meaning-making activity and people fail to understand you find that which you seek. Seek meaning in truth/god, and you will find it. Or more accurately, construct it the same way any meaning is constructed. No matter your collection of insights or truths and your conviction of them based on how they make you feel or what logic you’ve put together, they’ll never cash out to more than experiences that give you meaning, pass the time, and if you’re lucky, make you feel good. I see it mostly a hedonistic pursuit that simultaneously attempts to manage terror. Put in AO terms: survival. AO is quick to put other unconscious survival mechanisms under the microscope, but never its own. Maybe deep spirituality is just a pursuit for meaning and terror management. Consciousness is like a canvas. The floor is total stillness. Those painting on the canvas are trying to paint pictures that allow them to penetrate beneath the floor because the stillness isn’t exciting enough, no opportunity for something interesting and novel. So they spend years constructing their own elaborate creations and eventually claim they have the proof that their construction has penetrated the floor, all the while oblivious that their so-called truth is a construction, a figment painted on the canvas of consciousness.